Rev. Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints Church, the church that has rented its facilities to the Muslim organization, MPAC, is astonished at the negative reaction to his cosying up to Islam, a religion that has as much in common with Christianity as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does with the Pope.
From here:
A storm cloud has swept over us and is raining down fear and intolerance. On Dec. 15, an American Muslim organization, MPAC, will hold its 12th annual convention at All Saints Church. This has caused some to vilify our community and has brought out the Islamophobes.
At All Saints, we believe that to be religious in the 21st century is to be interreligious. And to be a member of this church is to be a member of the peacemaking community. MPAC is one of our integral partners in interfaith peacemaking.
It is in the DNA of All Saints Church to stand up for justice and provide a voice for the marginalized in society.
The theme of this year’s MPAC convention is “Our Future in the Making.” Salam al-Marayati, executive director of MPAC, said, “at this moment, as we convene at All Saints Church, the future is now, where we all can take hope and encouragement from this opportunity, where we come together to glimpse what is possible and can visualize what a future of peace could look like.”
It is time to end the toxic narrative that too many of our religions have promulgated that says that in order to become a part of my religion you have to hate somebody else in another religion. We can change that dynamic. We can make the decision to stop sleepwalking, to wake up to reality, to embrace the inter-connectedness that binds us all, no matter what religion or race.
Salam al-Marayati, executive director of MPAC, is renowned for his interfaith peacemaking by endearing himself to Jews when he suggested, a few hours after the 9/11 attacks, that Israel might be to blame:
”If we’re going to look at suspects, we should look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what’s happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies.”
Also, while not busy “embrac[ing] the inter-connectedness that binds us all” he spends his time defending Hezbollah and Hamas and complaining that people will keep reminding him about the Holocaust:
For this administration to appoint to an august human rights organization Salam Al-Marayati, who has openly supported Hizbollah, claimed that the FBI has illegally incited Muslims on terrorism charges because of FBI sanctioned policies of “racial profiling,” has defended as innocent the most notorious members of Hamas who were found guilty of laundering millions of dollars to a terrorist group, and someone who has complained of ‘having the Holocaust shoved down [his] throat,’ is an outrage.
I do hope that my next comment won’t be interpreted as Islamophobic or part of a toxic narrative, let alone a reluctance to come together to glimpse what is possible, but Salam, old boy, are you sure you want to rent a building from a person whose surname is Bacon?
That last sentence is brilliant…
“We can make the decision to stop sleepwalking, to wake up to reality,”
Ed needs to follow his own advice.
Would the sheperd invite, and let in, the roaring lion to the field of lambs, and believe the lion would be persuaded to peacefully coexistence with the bleating lambs.
Of course not, for it is the lions nature to devour the lambs.
“Be sober, be vigilant, for your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”
1 Peter 5:8
“”…after My departure savage wolves will come in amoung you, not sparing the flock.” Acts 21:29
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other hand, deal only with the general relations between man and God and between man and man. Beyond that, they teach nothing and do not oblige people to believe anything. That alone, among a thousand reasons, is enough to show that Islam will not be able to hold its power long in ages of enlightenment and democracy, while Christianity is destined to reign in such ages, as in all others.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Nice quote Lisa.
What I’m seeing today is a Western world abandoning Christianity. In its place is a secular humanism that is no match for the intensity of Jihad.
My posting the link the other day to ‘Just Out Portland’s’ lgbtqqiap scholarships, available through the Pride Foundation, was meant to be sarcastic. But it got me to thinking about the money that’s behind (and driving) all the current politically correct nonsense and psuedo-science.
I’m not a regular reader, but I happened across a recent article at Seeking Alpha about how, among those who are regular readers, skeptics on the issue of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) outnumber believers 2:1. Incredibly, the article engaged in a long, windy analysis about skeptic ‘psychology’.
I was dumbfounded the author simply didn’t recognize successful capitalists tend to be tough-minded realists habituated to seeing past bunk. And AGW, whose scholarship is overwhelmingly underwritten by the US federal government as a function of its centrally-planned ‘economy’ — like gay science and hate/gender studies and the other fashionable studies ruining the universities — is a boondoggle on a vast scale.
The gay rights campaign has modeled itself after the civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Yesterday I came across Lawrence Auster’s illuminating insights into the history of that legislation, which speaks to all of the above as well.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/003436.html
Bravo, Dr Berger.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/psychiatry-expert-scientifically-there-is-no-such-thing-as-transgender