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The National Cathedral will host Muslim Friday prayers
for the first time on Friday, November 14, 2014. The event is being called
"unprecedented."
The National Cathedral is an Episcopalian Church that
often hosts events like presidential funerals. The National Cathedral does
receive federal funds.
The National Cathedral and organizer Ebrahim Rasool are
selling the prayer service as a gesture against "Islamophobia."
In fact Muslim prayer in the National Cathedral has
nothing to do with any fight against Islamophobia or for freedom of religion.
Muslim prayer in the National Cathedral is a flagrant
provocation that has already increased hostility against Muslims, including the
majority of innocent Muslims who had nothing to do with this abomination.
Muslim prayer in the National Cathedral obscures the
raison d'etre of a Christian Church, and replaces that very reason for its existence
with the Politically Correct dogma that Christianity must obscure its message
and debase its mission to display fealty to Islam.
Christian houses of worship exist in order to spread the
most vital message humanity has ever received: you – no matter who you are, no
matter how much money you have, no matter how beautiful, ugly, intelligent,
powerful or weak, loved or alone – you are so beloved of the greatest single
force in the universe that that force, that God, that Word, took on human form,
suffered and died for you. For YOU. If you were the only person who had ever
existed, God – the same God who created the stars and planets, the hummingbirds
and the crickets, the waterfalls, gravity and time itself – would have lived
and died for you. Your life – no matter how painful, how dark, how muddled, how
blessed, how fleeting– your life has ultimate meaning and purpose.
Humanity needs that message. That message is what
Christian churches exist to share.
Inviting clergy of any other faith to perform services in
a Christian house of worship erases that message and puts another in its place.
The teaching honored by the Muslim Friday prayer at the National Cathedral is
not Christianity at all, nor is it Islam. Rather, it is Political Correctness.
Of all the world's faiths, Islam is exceptional in its
relationship to Christianity.
Judaism is believed to be between three and four thousand
years old. Christianity is two thousand years old. Mohammed died in the seventh
century, six hundred years after Christ died, and over a thousand years after
King David reigned. There were Jews, Christians, and Pagans in Arabia when
Mohammed lived, and garbled variations of all three traditions were
incorporated into the Koran.
Mohammed co-opted elements of Paganism. Mecca and its
Kaaba were Pagan holy places; they are now the center of Muslim worship. Arab
Pagans worshipped the moon and Islam adopted the crescent moon as its symbol.
Pagans prayed, facing Mecca, five times a day, as do Muslims today. Pagan Arabs
fasted, performed ritual circumambulation of mythological sites and ritual
ablutions adopted by Muslims.
Mohammed and his followers who composed and compiled the
Koran were not Jews themselves. They did not speak any Jewish language like
Hebrew or Aramaic. They did not study or understand Jewish or Christian
scripture. They merely appropriated word-of-mouth retellings of Jewish and Christian
folktales, the kind of popular summaries one might hear in a market or in a
long caravan, and included them in the Koran.
In the Koran, Moses, the man who liberated Jewish slaves
in Egypt, is the brother of Jesus' mother Mary, who lived over a thousand years
after Moses. In the Koran, Jesus brings clay birds to life. This was a non-Biblical
folktale circulating in the Middle East. In the Koran, Jews worship Ezra, which
they have never done. In the Koran, the trinity is God the Father, Jesus, and
Mary, which of course is a bungle of the real trinity.
The Koran's error-ridden co-option and distortion of Jewish
and Christian scripture is not always so innocent.
The Koran states that Allah turned Jews into apes and
pigs; Muslim religious leaders regularly preach today that Jews are sons of
apes and pigs. The Koran quotes its version of Jesus, "Isa ibn Maryam,"
as saying that he is not God's son. The Koranic Isa is given the title
"ibn Maryam," son of Mary, as a way of emphasizing that he was the
son of a lowly woman, not God.
Isa never died on a cross. God supplied a substitute who
died in Isa's place. In the hadith, Isa returns to destroy all crosses, kill
all pigs, and abolish Christianity.
"Allahu Akbar" does not mean "God is great."
Rather, it means "Allah (the God Muslims worship) is greatest" – that
is, superior to the Gods worshipped by non-Muslims. Mohammed was the first to
use "Allahu Akbar" as a battle cry. These words are intimately
connected with murder, looting, and dominance of non-Muslims.
Muslims pray five times a day. When doing so, they repeat
phrases asking Allah not to make them like those who anger God and those who go
astray, that is, Christians and Jews.
Muslims are ordered in the Koran not to take Christians
or Jews as friends.
Islam, alone among world faiths, fashioned itself in
direct competition with Christianity, and demands that it be treated as
Christianity's superior. In fact, Muslims cannot pray within sight of Christian
symbols like crosses, and the
Muslims who pray in the National Cathedral today have been given a carefully
chosen spot from which no cross is visible.
Many Muslims today claim that Christians and Jews
consciously corrupted the text of the Bible. Ibn Hazm, a medieval Muslim
theologian who lived in what is today Spain, made the "Bible is
corrupt" argument. The Koran tells Muslims to respect the Bible. The Bible
contradicts the Koran. Ibn Hazm reconciled these contradictory facts by arguing
that Jews and Christians altered the texts of the original Bible. Ibn Hazm's
reasoning runs as follows, "Since the Qur'an must be true, it must be the
conflicting Gospel texts that are false. But Muhammad tells us to respect the
Gospel. Therefore, the present text must have been falsified by the
Christians."
Differences between Islam and Christianity aren't just
about words on a page. These differences aren't just about how many angels can
dance on the head of a pin. The differences between Islam and Christianity can
be counted in dead bodies, looted churches, trails of refugees, centuries of
warfare, and shattered lives. That was true in the seventh century, and that is
true today.
Jesus ordered his followers to walk through the world
humbly, healing the sick, and telling the good news to all men. Thus
Christianity spread for three hundred years, even as it was outlawed by the
Roman Empire. Thus Christianity spreads today, even in prison nations like
North Korea. Jesus said,
"Heal the sick, raise the dead…Get you no gold, nor
silver, nor brass in your purses; no wallet for your journey, neither two coats,
nor shoes, nor staff … And into whatsoever city or village ye shall enter,
search out who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go forth. And as ye
enter into the house, salute it…And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear
your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust
of your feet…Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye
therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."
Mohammed had a totally different program. "I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight
against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped
but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah's Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly
and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform that, then they save their
lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning
(accounts) will be done by Allah."
Mohammed fought and his followers fought. Mohammed
expelled all Christians and Jews from the Arabian Peninsula; to this day,
Christians and Jews cannot live or worship in Arabia. Islam spread by the
sword, not the word. That spread continues today, under ISIS in Iraq, where
Christians and other non-Muslims like Yazidis have no right to life or
property.
No other world religion contains, in its foundational
scriptures, direct, specific attacks on and condemnation of Christianity. No
other world religion was founded by a man who made war on Christians. No other
world religion is currently making war on Christians.
Christians face theft, imprisonment, sex slavery, persecution,
restriction, and death in Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and
Malaysia. Those persecuting Christians follow and cite Muslim scripture and
history.
Given the reality of Islam's treatment of Christians, The
National Cathedral's choice to host Muslim prayer has aroused agony and outrage
among Americans. This agony and outrage is obvious in internet posts. There is
even, sadly, hatred of Muslims expressed in these posts. This hatred directly contradicts
Christian teachings.
Christians must continue to obey the command of the man
who died on a cross for us: love one another, as I have loved you. We must love
our Muslim brothers and sisters.
Christian love is nothing like the simulacrum of the
Politically Correct. Christian love must be based in truth. It is Political
Correctness, but not love, to close our eyes to the horrors that Islam imposes
on its adherents: clitoredectomy, dancing boys, imprisoned and illiterate
women, stoning, flogging, amputation, dictatorial governments, the bombing of
schools and the murder of students, imposed backwardness, suicide bombings that
are little more than child sacrifice, and constant warfare in the name of
Allah.
It is Political Correctness, but not love, to claim that
we in the West, inheritors of the Judeo-Christian tradition, must denigrate our
heritage of science, democracy, self-criticism, and human rights in order not
to cause Muslims to feel bad. It is love, real Christian love, to love our
Muslim brothers and sisters, while at the same time speaking the truth to them.
And the truth is that Muslim prayer has no place in a Christian church.
To our Muslim brothers and sisters, we must extend
welcome: welcome into our lives and into our homes and into our hearts. Welcome
into our workplaces and welcome into our nation. This welcome is warm and it is
inclusive. Our warm welcome includes this: welcome into the truth we speak.
After reading the following it should give us cause to reflect on the great differences between these two religions and the majority of their follows. Christianity is constantly degraded by many including celebrities whereas they are frightened to do so to Islam. Why? They fear for their lives and the lives of their families. Penn Jillette is a great example of this. For the record, I view that type of behavior as cowardice. I guess it's ok to mock a persons beliefs because there would be no violent repercussion. But it's a whole other matter entirely, when one is intimidated by violence.
ReplyDeleteWhat really gets to me is that the National Cathedral has invited the biggest abusers of humans rights, particularly woman’s rights into their sanctuary and embraced them under the guise of interfaith relations. Let it be noted the Pastor of this Church The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope
is a women. Noting wrong with a woman pastor mind you, I applaud that. But as a women, how can she embrace the organizations that if they had it their way would make her a second class citizen, let a lone some type of religious leader.
Sadly as mentioned by Danusha, this outreach is pure PC garbage. I wanted to use an expletive other than garbage but I felt it inappropriate. Although, bullshit did come to mind.
I would have had way less of a problem if the five Muslim groups didn't represent the worst that Islam has to offer in America. After all they do have a well documented history of wanting to usurp our Constitution. Sure they talk a good game, are a bit smoother and wear ties, but their mentality is the same. Subjugation is the key here, don't believe me? Here is just one example, in order for a women to work for CAIR she must wear a hijab. Let me ask you, why is that forced on them??
This is a well written and informative blog post and I highly recommend all read it.
Very well stated. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteIt is disconcerting, at the very least, that a Christian house of worship would allow this. Muslim prayers always begin by reciting the first chapter of the Quran, the Fatiha. As you noted, verses 6 and 7 of this chapter calls Jews and Christian those whom have incurred Allah's wrath and those who have gone astray. Some believe these verses to be a curse upon Jews and Christians. So it boggles the mind why Christian leaders would invite Muslims into their presence, inside a house of worship, to curse them!
In the largest terrorism financing trial to date, three of the invited organizations to this event were all listed by the FBI as co-conspirators in financing terrorism worldwide. Again, to invite to a Christian house of worship organizations whose stated goals include the elimination of Christianity around the world and the spread of Islam by forced compulsion is simply incomprehensible.
But it should be noted that the genesis of this hand-holding multi-culti outreach initiative of Muslim-Christian relations is a document called the Common Word letter. I have written extensively on this topic, but need to write an update, because ignorance of the deceptive nature of the Common Word must be exposed.