That sounds an awful lot like a religious slur.
Catholics "schmoozing up to Muslims"
Posted on 02/03/2010 6:38:10 AM PST by marshmallow
The cooperation between Rev. Franz Meurer and Iranian Navid Kermani illustrates how far Germany has gone in accepting its booming Muslim minority.
The recent Swiss ban on minarets reflects a climate gone sour between Muslims and non-Muslims in Europe. But here in Germany, two people have taken a stand to promote a dialogue that goes far beyond symbolics.
Not long ago, the Rev. Franz Meurer, a Roman Catholic priest in a rough Cologne neighborhood, led his parish to raise funds for the construction of a controversial mosque there, slated to be Germany’s biggest in a city most famous for its Catholic cathedral.
And when Navid Kermani, a prominent Iranian-born writer from Cologne, received a national award for his efforts to promote inter-religious dialogue in Germany recently, the Muslim writer reciprocated in kind. At the prize award ceremony, Mr. Kermani announced he would give his share of the €45,000 (US$67,738) award to Father Meurer.
“You not only had a Catholic church tolerating Muslims who want to build a mosque ... but you also had [Catholic] parishioners giving money so that people from another faith could also practice their religion in their own place of worship,” said Kermani, who shared this year’s German Culture Prize with Catholic Cardinal Karl Lehmann; Peter Steinacker, former head of the Lutheran Church in the Hessen region; and Salomon Korn, vice president of the German Jewish Council.
Unthinkable a decade ago, the cooperation between Muslims and non-Muslims illustrates just how far Germany has gone in accepting its booming Muslim minority, said Kermani when receiving the Culture Prize last fall.
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When hell freezes over.
Schmoozing up to the Muslims is a great Roman Catholic tradition.
Germany has always been buddy-buddy with Islamists, don't think otherwise for a minute.
This is called “Digging your own grave”.
Great observation and right on cue. Did you miss this article? Too busy posting that "Gospel according to Nate and John Boy" garbage?
Papal Address at the University of Regensburg
Feel free to post any Calvinist contributions to this issue.
He sounds like the idiotic P.C. Chaplain at the USAF Academy celebrating the campus wicca shrine.
That sounds an awful lot like an ethnic slur.
You should be ashamed.
That sounds an awful lot like a religious slur.
Catholics "schmoozing up to Muslims"
Pity those guys aren’t the norm nowadays.
Now we’re stuck with popes and bishops who won’t take a stand against muslim atrocities no matter where they happen, and who tell us that islam is just as much a way to salvation as Christianity.
And the truly pathetic thing is that in spite of that spinelessness they still show more spine than their protestant counterparts...
Do I hear any gratitude from our Protestant brethren for saving Europe from the Muslim onslaught in the 16th century?
Though not.
Just cheap shots.
Can I have a timeline please?
I’m serious, not being snippy.
I repeat, the references to "Nate" and "John Boy" are ethnic slurs, not legitimate criticisms. I suppose you haven't noticed that the libs think of Fundamentalist Protestants exactly as you do?
You can criticize someone without making fun of their names.
Really?
Which ethnicity?
My references to "Nate" and John Boy" were to a series of threads which Gamecock has been posting over the past several weeks concerning FAQ. The authors of these essays are Nathan Pitchford and John Hendryx.
"Nate" and "John Boy" were my abbreviations of their names.
This constitutes an "ethnic slur"?
You're way too quick on the trigger.
*lolz*
When you start rebuking that sort of garbage, your complaints about ethnic slurs might become a little more respectable.
Howsabout a Lutheran contribution?
What Benedict XVI said at Regensburg is to be commended. For example:
‘Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the “Book” and the “infidels,” he turns to his interlocutor somewhat brusquely with the central question on the relationship between religion and violence in general, in these words: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
The emperor goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of ...’
He is quite correct both historically and theologically on this point. I am glad he said it. Now, he should turn to the priest in Cologne and tell him, publicly, how confusing to the whole world what he did really is. Tolerating Muslims in a country that protects freedom of speech and religion, which Germany does - at least for now - is one thing. Encouraging disciples of the Savior of the world to give of their means to build a mosque is another thing entirely.
If someone wants to talk about ethnic slurs, perhaps they should focus on the Machenites. After all it is prominent Machenites who have promoted segregation, pushed for laws against interracial marriage and denied the Holocaust.
I didn’t hear any protests when Rabbi Dalin was dismissed as a “house Jew.”
The majority who witnessed the "house Jew" slur condemned it on sight.
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