Iraqi Archbishop Sends Message to Muslim Leaders for Ramadan

[MakeUpArtist]

Expecting someone to not eat in public during a religious holiday they do not celebrate seems like a violation of religious and personal freedom. I respect the fact that it is against their religion and I would never ask a muslim friend to eat with me during that time, but they can’t expect me to follow their religious customs. I respect Jews, but I’m not going to have my son circumcised. Most Jews wouldn’t expect me too. I would hope Muslims would have the same respect for the fact that I do not fast during Ramadan the same way I would not expect them to refrain from eating meat on Good Friday.

 

[ASimpleSinner]

RE: “Holy Month”

I wouldn’t read much more into this (especially not an endoresement) than I would non-Catholics who have the courtesy and respect to refer to the Pope and the “Holy Father”…

Chances are good, in a Muslim country where every other sentence is finished off with “If Allah permits”… That it is just a cultural thing to refer to the month of Ramadan as “The Holy Month of Ramadan”… To do otherwise might well invite (as though invitation were needed!) further distress and persecution.

For pity sake, look at how the tiny Euro Nation of Denmark has suffered for merely being home to a nespaper that published a cartoon of Muhammed that was less than flattering! Just for being a nation that has a free press and the country where a nespaper with free speech is published, embassies of Denmark througout the Islamic world have been attacked and protested…

In the end, the Muslims WELL KNOW where the Chaldeans and other Christians stand.