Sharia professor invites Pope to public debate

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Muhammad Ayash al-Kubaisi, a Sharia professor at Qatar University, has invited Pope Benedict XVI to participate in a public debate to challenge his recent comments about Islam. The professor sent the invitation in a letter to the pope on Thursday, reported Aljazeera.

It described the pope’s statements as evidence of ignorance of Islamic teachings. It said such statements could allow the United States to justify their military operations in the Middle East and trigger cultural and religious clashes between the east and west.
The letter expressed shock at the Pope’s statement and said everyone expects the pontiff to join the efforts to bridge the gap between east and west.

Al-Kubaisi said that the Pope should take a look at verse 2: 256 of the Quran, which says there is to be “no force in religion.” Pope Benedict actually quoted that exact verse, even citing the paragraph number, at the beginning of his remarks.

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Considering Islamic teachings are ignorant to everybody but them the outcome woudl be this the whole world declares the Pope the winner except the Muslims who decalare Mr Sharia Law the winner. You can’t win in the Islamic world because even to question Islam is to invite violence and death upon the inquirer its an irrational religion incapable of faith and reason. The very point the Pope was making in the larger context regarding any religion which requires one to throw away reason in exchange for the sword.
 
A very clever trap. Why not have the two of them wrestle two out of three falls? The outcome would be as indicative of what is, and is not, factual and truthful.

I guess it is assumed that the Holy Father is stupid, and might accept? :rolleyes:

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Gerry
 
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I guess it is assumed that the Holy Father is stupid, and might accept? :rolleyes:
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Yeah, I’m imaging the Pope at the podium in a tight shot and in the background you can hear the Sharia professor over by his mike sharpening his sword.
 
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Considering Islamic teachings are ignorant to everybody but them the outcome woudl be this the whole world declares the Pope the winner except the Muslims who decalare Mr Sharia Law the winner. You can’t win in the Islamic world because even to question Islam is to invite violence and death upon the inquirer its an irrational religion incapable of faith and reason. The very point the Pope was making in the larger context regarding any religion which requires one to throw away reason in exchange for the sword.
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I agree. All this “open” debate (and with Islam you have to use the term “open” very loosly) would do is declare open season on the Pope. Mainly because Pope Benedict XVI will say it like it is. He is gentle but he is strong. The Holy Spirit is very strong in this one.
 
No compulsion in religion?

Not what the hadith say:

Bukhari, volume 9, #17

"Narrated Abdullah: Allah’s Messenger said, “The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that I am His Messenger, cannot be shed except in three cases: in Qisas (equality in punishment) for murder, a married person who commits illegal sexual intercourse and the one who reverts from Islam (Apostate) and leaves the Muslims.”

Bukhari, volume 9, #57

Narrated Ikrima, "Some atheists were brought to Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah’s messenger forbade it, saying, “Do not punish anybody with Allah’s punishment (fire).” I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah’s Messenger, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.”
 
Actually, the didn’t say such a thing, but he simply quoted someone without agreeing with him. The Western press, delighted to try to show the Pope in a bad light, took the statement out of context and made it seem as if as if this were the Pope’s own words and view. This would be a strange debate, because likely enough they would both go in agreeing.
When the Pope recently visited Turkey, the Turkish press took a dim view of this coming visit, because of this misqote produced in the Western press. But by the time he left, the Turks saw him with great favor, understanding then that these were not the Pope’s own words and view.
 
Well, then I guess a lot of Muslims must also be ignorant of that teaching, clerics too. In Pakistan they sentenced a reporter to death for questioning an Islamic teaching. They also sentenced a man to death for converting to Christianity, but he escaped and was given asylum in Italy. And we all remember how many Islamic leaders called for the pope’s head after he quoted someone saying that Muhammad was violent, which is completely true.

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Rand
 
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