i love_my_prophet
09-20-2006, 02:13 AM
لضم أصواتكم معنا تجاه تهجم البابا
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته:
تهجم بابا الفاتيكان على الإسلام وعلى سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم
لضم أصواتكم معنا تجاه تهجم البابا، نرجو إرسال أحد النموذجين إلى بريد الفاتيكان الالكتروني:
On the 16th of September, one of the Vatican spokespeople related to the press that the Pope was sorry for any offence caused to us as Muslims. However, this did not adequately address why the original offence took place and, as a Muslim, I remain sincerely disappointed and concerned by the Pope’s original speech. At a time when Islamophobia is recognized as a profound problem by both the United Nations and the European Union, the Pope should recall that any concept of the future of Europe must take Islam into account as a European religion, not as an alien threat.
The Pope has made it clear that his primary anxiety remains the future of Europe at a time when ethical relativism threatens to weaken its moral compass. Islam, as the religion of ‘the middle way’, celebrates diversity, within a definite ethical core. In a time when the world is searching for balance in this regard, Islam has profound lessons to teach.
In expressing his opposition to the abuse of religion for wanton violence, the Pope should have made it clear that Muslims around the world reject such acts on the basis of their own religious tradition, irrespective of sect, notwithstanding the actions of a tiny minority of illegitimate renegades who exploit Islam for their unholy ends.
As a Muslim, I am greatly sympathetic to these concerns, but I am deeply disappointed in how he responded to them. The Pope raised the right questions, but gave inadequate answers, choosing instead to allow the words of a medieval bigot to speak for him. That this extremist derided the Prophet, known as ‘a mercy to all the worlds’ by all Muslims, is particularly disconcerting.
Such statements are not befitting of his office or of his person. As a Muslim, I am well-disposed to the office of the Pope, and to this Pope in particular. He opposed the unjust war in Iraq, rejected the bigoted cartoons that emanated from Denmark, and recently supported peace in Lebanon; these were honorable political positions that Muslims will not forget.
However, instead of entertaining relative half-truths of misunderstandings and lies, he should bear witness to the absolute truth that Muslim Europeans as citizens, and Islam as a religion, are not obstacles to his mission for Europe renewal. Rather, Muslim Europeans and Islam are integral partners in that quest.
Email: benedictxvi@vatican.va
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All praise is to God and all of His blessings upon the Prophets,
Peace and serenity to those who follow right guidance,
I would like to take this opportunity to register my disappointment in the statements made by the Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI in his address of Tuesday September 12, 2006. In that statement he assumed the truth of claims that (1) Islam is a faith without reason; (2) that violence is intrinsic to Islam; (3) that the Prophet Muhammad (God bless him) advocated forcible conversion; and (4) that all of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (God bless him) can be reduced to nothing more than evil and inhumanness. Contradictions such as these, lacking any grounding in the reality of the message of Islam are not befitting the stature of the Pontifical Head of the Christian World. We have always seen the Catholic Community as a brilliant partner in maintaining as well as strengthening a moral and ethical society both in Europe and the Global Village in general. Is this a reversal to all that has been built of good relations between both communities over the past one hundred years?
I would like to add to this my grave concern over such irresponsible actions in times of such tension as these. Times when a great many of the worlds Muslims feel that a crusade is being waged against them. Can we expect to be jettisoned back to a time of narrow-minded perspectives, where the “other” .
Email: benedictxvi@vatican.va
from the site of al habib ali al jafri jazaho llaho 3ana kola khayr:www.alhabibali.com
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته:
تهجم بابا الفاتيكان على الإسلام وعلى سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم
لضم أصواتكم معنا تجاه تهجم البابا، نرجو إرسال أحد النموذجين إلى بريد الفاتيكان الالكتروني:
On the 16th of September, one of the Vatican spokespeople related to the press that the Pope was sorry for any offence caused to us as Muslims. However, this did not adequately address why the original offence took place and, as a Muslim, I remain sincerely disappointed and concerned by the Pope’s original speech. At a time when Islamophobia is recognized as a profound problem by both the United Nations and the European Union, the Pope should recall that any concept of the future of Europe must take Islam into account as a European religion, not as an alien threat.
The Pope has made it clear that his primary anxiety remains the future of Europe at a time when ethical relativism threatens to weaken its moral compass. Islam, as the religion of ‘the middle way’, celebrates diversity, within a definite ethical core. In a time when the world is searching for balance in this regard, Islam has profound lessons to teach.
In expressing his opposition to the abuse of religion for wanton violence, the Pope should have made it clear that Muslims around the world reject such acts on the basis of their own religious tradition, irrespective of sect, notwithstanding the actions of a tiny minority of illegitimate renegades who exploit Islam for their unholy ends.
As a Muslim, I am greatly sympathetic to these concerns, but I am deeply disappointed in how he responded to them. The Pope raised the right questions, but gave inadequate answers, choosing instead to allow the words of a medieval bigot to speak for him. That this extremist derided the Prophet, known as ‘a mercy to all the worlds’ by all Muslims, is particularly disconcerting.
Such statements are not befitting of his office or of his person. As a Muslim, I am well-disposed to the office of the Pope, and to this Pope in particular. He opposed the unjust war in Iraq, rejected the bigoted cartoons that emanated from Denmark, and recently supported peace in Lebanon; these were honorable political positions that Muslims will not forget.
However, instead of entertaining relative half-truths of misunderstandings and lies, he should bear witness to the absolute truth that Muslim Europeans as citizens, and Islam as a religion, are not obstacles to his mission for Europe renewal. Rather, Muslim Europeans and Islam are integral partners in that quest.
Email: benedictxvi@vatican.va
_________________________________________
All praise is to God and all of His blessings upon the Prophets,
Peace and serenity to those who follow right guidance,
I would like to take this opportunity to register my disappointment in the statements made by the Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI in his address of Tuesday September 12, 2006. In that statement he assumed the truth of claims that (1) Islam is a faith without reason; (2) that violence is intrinsic to Islam; (3) that the Prophet Muhammad (God bless him) advocated forcible conversion; and (4) that all of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (God bless him) can be reduced to nothing more than evil and inhumanness. Contradictions such as these, lacking any grounding in the reality of the message of Islam are not befitting the stature of the Pontifical Head of the Christian World. We have always seen the Catholic Community as a brilliant partner in maintaining as well as strengthening a moral and ethical society both in Europe and the Global Village in general. Is this a reversal to all that has been built of good relations between both communities over the past one hundred years?
I would like to add to this my grave concern over such irresponsible actions in times of such tension as these. Times when a great many of the worlds Muslims feel that a crusade is being waged against them. Can we expect to be jettisoned back to a time of narrow-minded perspectives, where the “other” .
Email: benedictxvi@vatican.va
from the site of al habib ali al jafri jazaho llaho 3ana kola khayr:www.alhabibali.com