Posted on 02/20/2018 6:40:59 PM PST by marshmallow
WASHINGTON (CNS) — If Christians in the Middle East are going to be “honest” with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Irbil, Iraq, Muslims will have to acknowledge that the persecution of Christians in the region did not start with the Islamic State’s rise to power in 2014.
“We experienced this not for the last four years, but 1,400 years,” Archbishop Warda said during a Feb. 15 speech at Georgetown University in Washington, sponsored by the Religious Freedom Research Project of the university’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.
Christians are partly to blame, too, in the dialogue, according to Archbishop Warda. “We did not push back against the recurring periods of terrorism that inflicted cruel pain upon our ancestors,” he said. He added that Christianity also needs to return to a “pre-Constantine vision” of the church, recalling Jesus’ words shortly before his crucifixion: “My kingdom is not of this world.”
Given the scope of the Islamic State’s campaign to erase Christians and all non-Muslims from the territories it had controlled prior to a counteroffensive that decimated its ranks and holdings, “there is nothing left but to speak plainly,” he said. “When there is nothing left to lose, it is very liberating.”
Archbishop Warda added, “We object that one faith has now the right to kill another. There needs to be a change and a correction within Islam.”
He said the typical Muslim response to Islamic State’s atrocities — declared genocide by the U.S. Department of State in 2016 — falls along the line of “ISIS does not represent Islam,” but rarely goes further, with no acknowledgment of past mistreatment of Christians or an expression of remorse for them.
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That’s great. Can we swear too?
He mean’s Obama, Brennan and the Saudi’s ISIS, right?
Okey-dokey. I’m all for being honest.
They are a satanic political entity, disguised as a ‘religion’. They are evil to the nth degree. The only hope they have is to repent of their sins through faith in Jesus. Even so, you cannot trust any of them from what they say due to their doctrine of ‘taquiyya’, which instructs them that they can lie to ‘infidels’ without consequence.
How can you dialogue with servants of Satan? Muslims know nothing except force and might makes right. Dialogue is a fool’s errand
Middle-eastern Christians are a world treasure. Had it not been for the Coptics and their preservation of ancient Egyptian language, Jean-Francois Champollion might never have decoded the Rosetta stone, and we would never have learned much of Egyptian pharaohs, or developed the curiosity that led to discovery of the Chinese alabaster sarcophagus of Seti.
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