Grand Mufti Called for Destruction of Churches
March 24, 2012
DANIEL S. writes:
Recently the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, the ranking Muslim scholar in that country, announced that churches in the Arabian Peninsula should be destroyed, basing his words on a statement attributed to Mohammed, the founder of Islam. Several Catholic bishops in Europe have issued denunciations of the Mohammedan mufti for failing to properly respect religious freedom and religious co-existence, but what do they honestly expect? That Catholic Church has vainly sought dialogue with the assorted Mohammedan clerics, but at the end of the day Islam does not mandate religious freedom in any modern Western sense, but instead commands dhimmitude for Christians. The Saudi Mufti is arguably acting well within the confines of the orthodoxy of his religion and is clearly not at all interested in Western liberalism and universalism. The Mohammedans take their religion very seriously, when will the Catholic Church take Islam seriously (especially since it stands at the forefront of victims of Mohammedan persecution)?
Laura writes:
Compare the mild reaction to this story to the response to a single Christian pastor’s decision to burn the Koran.
