Interior of St. Patrick's Church
Posted on 04/03/2020 5:58:13 PM PDT by ebb tide
COUNTY MAYO, Ireland (ChurchMilitant.com) Muslims, invited by a Catholic priest in Ireland to pray alongside him during the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, prayed the Adhan — the Islamic call to prayer that categorically proclaims Islam's supremacy over its forebears — Judaism and Christianity.
Father Stephen Farragher, parish priest of St. Patrick's Church in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, invited two Muslims to "pray in solidarity" with him "the final blessing and prayer" at the 10 a.m. Friday Mass to be broadcast on radio, Midwest Radio Ireland reported.
Mohammed Cherbatji and Mohammed Rahmani joined Fr. Farragher to seek a blessing on all frontline health care workers and frontline workers during the pandemic and pray for the eradication of the Wuhan virus. The church was reportedly empty because of the Wuhan virus restrictions.
However, a video of the Islamic prayer released on Twitter showed one of the Muslims in the pulpit cantillating the Adhan in Arabic.
In a religious narrative where one religion denigrates another, compromise is not logically or theologically available.Tweet
Church Militant contacted a scholar in Islamic jurisprudence and Arabic expert who confirmed that the prayer was not a blessing for health care workers but the "Islamic call to prayer, which conclusively and unambiguously asserts that God's revelation to Muhammad has supplanted and superseded God's prior revelations to Moses in the Old Testament and to Jesus in the New Testament."
The Adhan asserts: "Allah is the greatest. I bear witness that there is no god except Allah. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. Come to prayer. Come to salvation." These affirmations are repeated twice.
Theologian Dr. Gavin Ashenden, who resigned his position as Chaplain to the Queen in protest against a reading from the Koran at St. Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow, Scotland, confirmed to Church Militant that "the Muslim call to prayer is a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism."
"It proclaims Islam's superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar. The Muslim god, Allah, is unknowable and has no son. Jesus was, therefore, a fraud in claiming He and the Father are one," Ashenden, who recently converted to Catholicism, said.
Interior of St. Patrick's Church
"In a religious narrative where one religion denigrates another, compromise is not logically or theologically available," he stressed.
Ashenden explained how Fr. Farragher, having invited a Muslim to end his broadcast-Mass with the Adhan prayed from the Catholic pulpit, "so far from creating a congenial interfaith event for the online world, he had given a platform to an alien prayer that invalidated the Mass, his Saviour, the authenticity of the Gospels and the legitimacy of the whole Catholic Church."
Ashenden added:
No doubt he sought to be imaginatively generous. But his profound ignorance will have caused the deepest offense to all literate and faithful Christians as well as the profoundest grief to those growing scores of thousands of Christians who suffer around the world at the hands of a brutalising Islam that makes them pay the price of loving and believing in Jesus, Son of God and Saviour, with their lives.
Former Swedish Imam Tomas Samuel explains how the Adhan is a statement of Islamic supremacy. In Islamic sources, "we discover that the prayer call states that everyone should submit to Islam and proclaims power over the area of the prayer."
The Adhan is prayed for two reasons: "It will remind people of when it is time to pray, and the prayer call will proclaim Islam over a city," he explains.
Samuel quotes Omdat Al-Ahkam, a fundamental text for Islamic law: "One can liken the Adhan to the Muslim flag. Its proclamation shows that the people of the city are Muslims."
It proclaims Islam's superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar.Tweet
In Arabic, "adhan" means "information" or "enlightenment" — signifying that people previously in darkness and ignorance are now "informed" and "enlightened" about the "true religion" of Islam, to which they must submit. Islam means submission (from the Arabic root "al-Silm" — submission or surrender).
Commentators have explained how reciting the Adhan in churches is a "power play" intended to conquer and sacralize Christian territory. Islamic scholars are engaged in an in-house discussion on whether it is haram (forbidden) or makrooh (offensive) for Muslims to enter churches.
"If your going to the church is just to show tolerance and lenience, then it is not permissible, but if it is done to call them to Islam and create opportunities for you to do so, and you will not be taking part in their worship and you are not afraid that you may be influenced by their beliefs or customs, then it is permissible," declares the Fatwa al-Lajnah al-Daa'imah.
Islamic "call to prayer" is a declaration of supremacy
Friday prayers at Ballyhaunis mosque (pictured in this article) have been canceled as a result of the virus. Over 500 Muslims attend Friday prayers regularly at the mosque — the oldest purpose-built mosque in Ireland.
Islam is poised to become Ireland's second-largest religion in the next 10 years. Ballyhaunis is Ireland's most diverse town, according to the 2011 national census, and only 40% are of Irish origin while 60% are immigrants — a significant portion of whom are Muslim.
Church Militant contacted Fr. Farragher and asked him if he was aware of the implications of the Islamic prayer. We also inquired if Pope Francis' Abu Dhabi declaration had inspired him to indulge in this act of combined Muslim-Catholic worship — but received no response as of press time.
Ummm, MoHAMmad is dead and buried out in the desert.
Mohammad was a false prophet, and is in the grave awaiting final judgment.
Whoever follows him and does not repent will be damned.
Islam is superior to nothing, not even Scientology.
Ping
Those responsible for destroying the Church will be held accountable by the Divine one.
Mohammad, is not awaiting in his grave.
He’s already awaiting in Hell.
Absolutely sick. Blasphemy.
so many people owned by false prophets....
Those who worship the murderous, warmongering, pillaging, slave-capturing, butchering, pedophilic, psychotic rapist Mohammed, have a moral duty to repudiate and condemn him, or go to Hell with him.
Mohammed was Charlie Manson without the humanity, only with more money and less musical talent. Except that Charlie Manson, as far as we know, never raped any children.
And to those who respond by saying "violence has been committed in the name of all religions through the centuries," I ask: "How many people did Jesus kill? How many slaves did Jesus own? How many women did Jesus rape?"
The Five Pillars of Islam:
Murder
Slavery
Rape
Torture
War
Sorry, liberals. There's only 1 interpretation of Islam — Muhammad's
Islamic Supremacy is baked into the Islamic cake.
It’s in their book.
Mohammad was a murderous pedophile.
Hey Father, you lie with snakes, you get bit. You associate with Satan, he takes advantage of it. You act stupid.....it will catch up with you.
And a tyrant and bandit.
Even as a member of the same family as Michael Collins Ireland is dead to me
They are sick with liberalism and deserve everything they get. They fought the British for 800 years to be Catholics and in just 100 years they have thrown that freedom away. Hey Paddy how’s your freedom now?
Unfortunately, it appears that the Faith on the Old Sod was, in many ways, nothing more than a cultural experience, and something to be tossed over one's shoulder when adhering to it became too inconvenient.
Why the @#$^%$Y&#& are these &*^%&^%%& permitted to desecrate the Mass while hundreds of thousands of people who normally would do just about anything to get to daily Mass find themselves locked out of Church?
This makes me very angry!
His body is, but he’s in hell.
So. As I understand it. Muslims believe in one God they call it Allah. It us the same God as the Jews and Christians. They think Mohamed is the Last prophet. Christ according to there believ was also a prophet but not the “son” of God and dont believe In the resurrection. Much like the Jews. However muslims believe christ will return. Dunno. I believe in Christ. Amen. Psalm 91. Comes to mind.
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