Translation via 10news. For more translation, newsletter and support: 10news.dk.
Where is the border between Islam and Islamism? The media says that the two are different as night and day; Islam is a religion of peace, and the Islamists have stolen the name. Others believe that Islamism represents the traditional, pure Islam, true to the Koran.
This latter view is advanced, remarkably enough, by a theologian Martin Rhonheimer from a university endorsed by the Pope. He is a professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and wrote an essay on this particular distinction in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
You do not hear many official Muslim voices condemning Islamic State, says Rhonheimer. And when it finally happens, it is usually only to condemn the bestiality because it harms Islam’s reputation. The Islamic State is no heresy, but “a recurring pattern in the history of violent expansion. The model is Muhammad himself.”
2 comments:
You do not hear many official Muslim voices condemning Islamic State, says Rhonheimer
I suspect precisely this sort of criticism is the reason that fake "letter to Baghdadi" was written and signed by Imams and the likes of CAIR and ISNA.
Now they are going to be waving that in front of everyone's face (it got a mention in the "debate" on Maher's show) knowing that no one who uses it to defend Muslims will have read or would know if what's written in it is true or not.
I have read two other senior Catholic
preachers, in the US this time, come to the same conclusion. I hope it is part of a concerted effort to force the Church to acknowledge that the crusades are called for again.
Post a Comment