Christian leaders have rightly condemned (here is Bishop Peter Carrell’s statement) the horrific murders at a New Zealand mosque. Justin Welby has gone a step further and suggested Christians attend a mosque to worship Allah.
Here is the lower half Welby is retweeting:
If Jesus is really the Son of God who died for the sins of the world, surely the loving thing to do is to try to find a way to convince Muslims that this is the only way to be saved, rather than indulging in a bizarre syncretism in order to project an aura of culturally sanctioned piety?
I don’t want to make this atrocity political, I really don’t, but I can’t help noticing that the murder of 32 Christians by radical Muslims last week received almost no media coverage at all. Nor did the murder of 120 Christians by Muslim herders. I haven’t seen Justin Welby wringing his hands over them, either. Neither were committed by white Europeans and only Christians died, so I suppose they don’t count.
Nothing Justin Welby says is surprising to me. He is simply out to make himself look good in front of the civil government and the media. He clearly has no convictions with respect to the Scriptures of genuine Christianity. I too am horrified at the massacre in New Zealand but we also need to remember that the Quran clearly teaches that unbelievers – that is people who do not worship Mohammed – should be killed or be forced to make continual payments to stay alive. I had occasion to speak with a Muslim cleric shortly after one of the attacks in Paris and did so simply to see what his reaction would be. His statement was rather brief but very telling – after all they desecrated the prophet.
Christians do not worship the Muslim conception of god. We worship the God of the Bible. But it is okay to hug a Muslim to identify with his sorrow and pain.
I agree completely. We are obliged as citizens in a tolerant society to acknowledge the perfect right of Muslims to their beliefs. However, we are not obliged to share them.
We certainly should commiserate over the horror of this outrage with the Muslims of Christchurch but that does not mean we should fawningly ape Islamic practices.
It’s particularly egregious to witness the PM of New Zealand doing just this very thing right now. I wonder how she squares her commitment to same-sex marriage, abortion and gay rights with the views of her Muslim citizens on these matters?
It seems white western progressives hold Muslims and persons of colour to infinitely lower standards, making them “white supremacists” in a twisted sort of way.