Catholic school won't host Ramadan dinner

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Mother of Mercy, a Catholic girls high school, complied with a request from Archbishop Dennis Schnurr and backed out of hosting an interfaith Ramadan dinner at the school Friday night.
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Mother of Mercy had planned to co-host an Iftar with CAIR’s local chapter since spring, when groups of Mercy students and students linked with CAIR performed community service together.
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But recent emails and other contacts with school and Archdiocese officials changed their plans.
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The emailed complaints did not contain threats, but they were “emotionally charged” and the archdiocese was concerned about the safety of those who participated in the dinner.
 
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news.cincinnati.com/article/20110825/NEWS0102/308250094/Catholic-school-won-t-host-Ramadan-dinner?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

The emailed complaints did not contain threats, but they were “emotionally charged” and the archdiocese was concerned about the safety of those who participated in the dinner.
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I think it should be up to the school officials, based on their judgment as well as (name removed by moderator)ut from parents and students. According to the article, several parents were opposed and administrators must take that into consideration, that is, if they value their job. There were also outsiders opposed; however, I don’t think their views should have been much of a factor. I don’t know whether holding such a Ramadan dinner would violate Catholic teaching or not, or perhaps fall under a gray area of concern. I would say, though, that I can’t imagine an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva hosting such an interfaith dinner with Muslims, or a Christmas party for that matter. It just wouldn’t seem right from a religious standpoint. On the other hand, I’m all for interfaith dialog and ecumenism.
 
CAIR is the soft face of terrorist organization Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. No entity of the Catholic Church should be associating with a notorious terrorist front group regardless of what they pretend to be celebrating together. Someone at that school needs to sharpen up their awareness of how political terror groups use phoney smiles and create photo ops to lend credibility to their extreme positions. Those photos would circulate for years to prove how the Catholic Church supports Muslim extremists in their efforts to eradicate Israel. Propaganda dies a slow death. We will never be rid of the NAZI sympathy charge regardless of the evidence to the contrary.
 
Does anyone really believe that CAIR would give an honest presentation of Islam? 😦
 
Very good decision of them. There is a difference between ‘tolerance’ and ‘relativism’.
 
In other news, “Jewish community center refuses to host Saturday afternoon Philly cheesesteak and Missouri barbecue cookoff”.

CAIR—or as conservative blogs prefer to call it, “the unindicted co-conspirator”—is a front-group, people who’ve brought that up aren’t exaggerating.
 
Instead of hosting a Ramadan dinner, they could always pray a Rosary for the conversion of the Muslims.

Our Lady of Fatima,
pray for us!
 
I think that this is a good thing. Sometimes ecumenism can go a little too far and I think this is one example of that.
 
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