VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Senior Vatican and Islamic scholars launched their first Catholic-Muslim Forum on Tuesday to improve relations between the world's two largest faiths by discussing what unites and divides them.
The three-day meeting comes two years after Pope Benedict angered the Muslim world with a speech implying Islam was violent and irrational. In response, 138 Muslim scholars invited Christian churchesto a new dialogue to foster mutual respect through a better understanding of each other's beliefs.
In their manifesto, "A Common Word," the Muslims argued that both faiths shared the core principles of love of God and neighbor. The talks focus on what this means for the religions and how it can foster harmony between them.
The meeting, including an audience with Pope Benedict, is the group's third conference with Christians after talks with United States Protestants in July and Anglicans last month.
Delegation leaders Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric opened the session with a moment of silence so delegations, each comprising 28 members and advisers, could say their own prayers for its success.
"It was a very cordial atmosphere," one delegate said.
3 comments:
Surrender, Dorothy!
From comment at JW:
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to the 11 year old son of one of my associates who attends a VERY conservative Christian Church. The boy is in the choir there.
The boy told me that the choir was visited by one of the missionaries that had been in Niger for sometime and regaled the group with stories of other children from that country all of whom were muslim.
The Christian missionary told the choir boys that most everybody in Niger worships "allah" and that "allah" was merely the Arabic word for "god."
Therefore, the missionary explained - it was okay to sing songs to "allah" because after all, everyone understands that they worship the same "god."
The boy then told me that his choir was directed to sing a songs to alla during their choir practice so that they could "experience" that it was acceptable to do so.
In other words, a Christian boy's choir in the US, in an apparently VERY traditional, VERY conservative organization, is being taught to sing to allah by Christian missionaries.
Consider the implications of that will you in terms of stealth jihad?
I don't believe this to be mere ignorance -- it is a deliberate to blend islam and Christianity in an attempt to reinvent the later.
Posted by: witness [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 5, 2008 6:56 AM
That's horrific.
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