Excerpt from my latest posting, a follow-up to this one:...From this source, quoting Tariq Ramadan:
"Only Islam can achieve the synthesis between Christianity and humanism, and fill the spiritual void that afflicts the West" ("Islam, le face à face des civilisations," Tawhid, 2001).
And again: "The Koran confirms, completes, and corrects the messages that preceded it" ("Les messages musulmans d´occident"). Some Christian personalities whose charitable works cannot be misconstrued - Mother Teresa, Sister Emanuelle, Abbé Pierre, Fr. Helder Camara - are exceptions who show only that all good people are implicitly Muslims, because true humanism is founded in Koranic revelation. Thus, both directly and through this humanism, the "Muslim City" can be founded upon the earth. "Today the Muslims who live in the West must unite themselves to the revolution of the antiestablishment groups from the moment when the neoliberal capitalist system becomes, for Islam, a theater of war..." ("Pouvoirs," 2003, n. 164).
Tariq Ramadan is the Islamic expert to whom Time Magazine turns and presents to its readers as the European voice of reformist Islam?
Read the entire posting at Always On Watch.
Please tell me Benedict is going there with adequate security. There's no question in my mind that the man would walk in there anyway even knowing he'd come out feet first if he believed it was necessary for the defense of European civilization, though I can't for the life of me think how it is. What can he accomplish by visiting a Turkey where the Christian minority has shrunk to a furtive shadow of itself? If someone assassinates him would it "wake people up" or just rob us of one of the West's real champions?
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