We Don’t Kidnap Imams
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:03 PM
Father Michael Sinnott (CNS/Reuters)
One of the ongoing difficulties of dialogue with Islam is that there is a very fundamental disconnect between the behavior of people who are highly animated by their Christian faith, and the actions undertaken by a substantial number of committed Muslims.
This has been reaffirmed once again last weekend by the kidnapping in the southern Philippines of a 79-year-old Irish missionary priest,... READ MORE
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Christian Convert Update
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, August 21, 2009 12:40 PM
According to Fox News, it’s almost certain that a 17-year-old Ohio girl who converted from Islam to Christianity will be sent home from Florida to her parents — despite the girl’s fears that her father intends to kill her because of her apostasy from Islam.
Fathima Riqfa Bary, who fled to Florida in late July to obtain sanctuary in the home of a Christian pastor, is not a U.S. citizen or a... READ MORE
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Islam’s Ugly Side
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:59 PM
CNN currently is running a series of articles about Islam in America, in conjunction with an investigative feature about “Generation Islam” by Christine Amanpour that will air on CNN tonight.
So far, the articles seem to have had the general intent of challenging the stereotype that American Muslims are mostly a bunch of violent zealots.
And clearly the large majority of American Muslims... READ MORE
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Fashionable Burqas?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:23 AM
A woman wearing a niqab walks near the Eiffel Tower last month. (Reuters)
And now for something completely different, here’s a link to an article about how Parisian haute couture fashion designers regard the burqa and other Muslim garments designed to hide women from public view.
Somewhat surprisingly, given the contemporary fashion industry’s embrace of revealing clothing and given the hostility of the France’s secularized government towards burqas and other... READ MORE
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Cardinal Scola on Obama’s Muslim Speech
Posted by Tom McFeely
Thursday, June 25, 2009 8:54 AM
The president visits a Cairo mosque. (CNS/Reuters)
In an interview with John Allen published yesterday, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice, Italy, offered a brief assessment of President Barack Obama’s June 4 speech to Muslims.
Cardinal Scola’s opinion is a highly informed one; he is the sponsor of the Oasis project that seeks to promote dialogue and understanding with the Muslim world and to support Christian minorities in predominantly... READ MORE
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Will Obama Call Out Muslims?
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:07 PM
A man prays June 2 at the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. (Reuters)
President Barack Obama will make a major speech to the world’s Muslim community on Thursday in Egypt.
In advance of that speech, some are calling on the president to address the persecution of Christians that occurs on a massive scale in many Muslim countries.
“Speaking on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world, I encourage President Obama to address the issue of freedom of... READ MORE
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Benedict Nudges Muslims Again
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, March 23, 2009 2:42 PM
The Pope greets members of Cameroon's Muslim community March 19. (CNS/Reuters)
Here’s an aspect of Pope Benedict XVI’s just-concluded trip to Africa that deserves to be much more than a forgotten footnote.
Speaking March 19 to Muslim leaders at the apostolic nunciature in Yaoundé, Cameroon, the Pope reminded them that true religion rejects violence because it violates both faith and reason.
Said the Holy Father, “I believe a particularly urgent task of religion today... READ MORE
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