"Terrorism is ‘mature fruit of Islam’"

[rpp]

The title of this thread is from this news article.

I started this on another forum, but many people on this forum do not go to the news forums and vice-versa. So I decided to start it here as well in an effort to get a different audience.

The author of this letter, and the man quoted in the title, Magdi Allam, is an Egyptian convert from Islam who was baptized by Pope Benedict this past Easter.

Magdi Allam, the Muslim journalist who converted to Catholicism and was baptized by Pope Benedict during the Easter Vigil, has issued an open letter to the pontiff in which he criticizes recent comments about Islam made by Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Cardinal Tauran said in August that Muslims who engage in violence have ‘betrayed their faith.’

Allam, the vice editor of Italy’s leading national newspaper, replies that ‘Islamic extremism and terrorism are the mature fruit’ of ‘the sayings of the Quran and the thought and action of Mohammed.’ In his open letter, Mr. Allam asks Pope Benedict to rule definitively on whether Islam is a valid religion, saying that a papal statement on the question is ‘vital for the common good of the Catholic Church, the general interest of Christianity and of Western civilization itself.’

And here is a related article from the Catholic News Service.

As the Vatican was preparing to host the first meeting of the Catholic-Muslim Forum Nov. 4-6, Magdi Allam, a longtime critic of the Muslim faith of his parents, issued an open letter to Pope Benedict that included criticism of Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

In the letter, posted on his Web site Oct. 20, Allam said he wanted to tell the pope of his concern for “the serious religious and ethical straying that has infiltrated and spread within the heart of the church.”

He told the pope that it “is vital for the common good of the Catholic Church, the general interest of Christianity and of Western civilization itself” that the pope make a pronouncement in “a clear and binding way” on the question of whether Islam is a valid religion.

See that article here.

 

[Muslim_Woman]

Salaam/peace

… Terrorism is ‘mature fruit of Islam’"…

looks like a pious Christian already posted this & some other Christians join him/her there. Did not open that thread , u can check

 

[Contarini]

The title of this thread is from this news article.

I started this on another forum, but many people on this forum do not go to the news forums and vice-versa. So I decided to start it here as well in an effort to get a different audience.

The author of this letter, and the man quoted in the title, Magdi Allam, is an Egyptian convert from Islam who was baptized by Pope Benedict this past Easter.

And here is a related article from the Catholic News Service.

See that article here.

This gentleman should learn a little more humility and respect for the Church to which he has so recently converted. What on earth does it mean for the Pope to rule on whether Islam is a “valid religion” or not? Insofar as there is such a category, only Christianity is a “valid” (as in true) religion. Other religions have elements of truth, of course. Mr. Allam seems very confused.

Edwin

 

[ralphinal]

This gentleman should learn a little more humility and respect for the Church to which he has so recently converted. What on earth does it mean for the Pope to rule on whether Islam is a “valid religion” or not? Insofar as there is such a category, only Christianity is a “valid” (as in true) religion. Other religions have elements of truth, of course. Mr. Allam seems very confused.

Edwin

I see the same thing you did. I wonder how much of it is an Islamic superiority mindset verses his own lack of humility verses the whole issue with the death threats against him.