I sincerely doubt that I could consider myself a sister of a person who has beheaded my child. There may be a few saints out there that could but I am not one of them.So the Church teaches that we are “brothers and sisters” to only certain people and not all people because everyone was created by God? Please do tell.
Also, pretty sure the OP didn’t mention anything about Heaven.
I don’t think about Muslims at all. When I used to live in California I saw a few Muslim women. Five of them walked by my friends and I calling us some names. We did nothing in return because as Caucasian girls we would have been prejudice to respond like these Muslim women.In the wake of ISIS and other instances of radical Islam, how can Catholics make sure we don’t develop Islamaphobia toward our Muslim brothers and sisters? And I mean genuine Islamaphobia, not the kind that the secular culture rattles on about that amounts to anything that isn’t unquestionable acceptance of anything different.
This forum even has rules against posts that incite this kind of thing.
Though in a scan of the World News subforum, there are often threads reporting on things various men of the Catholic cloth have said on Islam being a dangerous threat to the entire world and such things aren’t considered Islamaphobic. Sure they’re often said by priests and bishops who have seen such terrorism firsthand like in Mosul, but justification is a tricky thing. I’m sure similar feelings about, say, the Japanese sprung up after the Imperialistic conquest of the Pacific and the Attack on Pearl Harbor. And look at how Japanese-American were treated after that.
The Cathechism also says there’s a special place in God’s Plan of Salvation for Muslims, that they too claim to worship the God of Abraham as we do and that God loves them with His Unconditional Everlasting Love as their Creator.
How can we know when the Enemy is starting to sew seeds of hate within us and trying to justify it as “They hate you, why not return the sentiment?” Because that’s just evil and not Christlike at all.
Thank you, I stand corrected. I would have assumed it was closer to 1-3%.
I sincerely doubt any parent would have any easy time considering themselves a brother or sister of someone who murders their child, regardless of the murderer’s faith. But, that still doesn’t change Church teachings regarding how we are to view and treat everyone.
Thank you oldcatholicguy. I used that figure because it seemed logical.
And yet so many people engage in mental gymnastics to deny a link between the Muslim extremist’s beliefs and their violence. They label acts of terrorism as “workplace violence”. The media will sometimes refer to recent Muslim converts who commit violence by their old name, not their new Muslim legal name. They try to say that “all religions have their extremists”, yet deny the sheer numbers of those within Islam who preach violence. A lot of people have their heads buried in the sand on this subject.
I agree.
Placing it in context also needs to include the comparison on how each faith handles the issue of the just and unjust application of violence, just and unjust discrimination, the secular world, and how to deal with people of other faiths. When using a comparison of what one individual or group of people of one faith did to what one individual or group of people of another faith did, one needs to also examine the theological foundations of their actions.
How shall we name this movement extremist movement? Jihadist - radical Islamists?
-Islamic extremists works just fine since they are extremists who justify their actions by their faith.
