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CATHOLIC CARDINAL MCCARRICK EMBRACES ISLAM
Daily Caller
Sept 11 2014
Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick offered Islamic religious phrases
and insisted that Islam shares foundational rules with Christianity,
during a Sept. 10 press conference in D.C.
"In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate," McCarrick said
as he introduced himself to the audience at a meeting arranged by
the Muslim Public Affairs Council. That praise of the Islamic deity
is an important phrase in Islam, is found more than 100 times in the
Koran, and is akin to the Catholic prayer, "In the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
McCarrick next claimed that "Catholic social teaching is based on the
dignity of the human person... [and] as you study the holy Koran,
as you study Islam, basically, this is what Muhammad the prophet,
peace be upon him, has been teaching."
McCarrick was 71 when 19 Muslims brought Islam to the public eye by
murdering 3,000 Americans on 9/11. He is one of the 213 Cardinals of
the Catholic church, but is too old to vote in church debates.
"Either the cardinal has studied the whole thing and does not know what
he's talking about, or he is making a somewhat misleading statement,"
said Michael Meunier, head of the U.S. Copts Association.
"The practice of the Muslim majority people that adhere to the Koran...
have proven that [claim of equivalence] is not correct," he told The
Daily Caller during a Sept. 11 trip to Jordan.
"Has Cardinal McCarrick converted to Islam?" asked a scornful critic,
Robert Spencer, the best-selling author of many books on Islam.
"'Peace be upon him' is a phrase Muslims utter after they say the
name of [their reputed] prophet... [so] probably he is unaware of the
unintended Islamic confession of faith he has just made,"said Spencer,
who runs the Jihadwatch.org website.
McCarrick is wrong to say "that Islam teaches the dignity of every
human person," Spencer said. "Actually it teaches a sharp dichotomy
between the Muslims, [who are called] 'the best of people' and the
unbelievers [are called] 'the most vile of created beings,'" Spencer
told TheDC.
"The Koran also says: 'Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who
follow him are merciful to one another, harsh to the unbelievers,'"
Spencer said.
The same warning came from Archbishop Amel Nona, who was head of
Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul in Iraq. In a August comment
made to Europeans, he said that "You think all men are equal, but
that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal [and]
your values are not their values."
"If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims
of the [immigrant] enemy you have welcomed in your home," said Nona,
who is now exiled -- along with surviving Chaldean Catholics --
in the Kurdish city of Erbil.
Islamic societies have routinely persecuted non-Muslims, including
Christian Armenians in Turkey and Christian Copts in Egypt, said
Taniel Koushakjian, a spokesman for the Armenian National Committee
of America.
During the First World War, more that 1.5 million Armenians were
deliberately killed by Turkey's Islamic government, he said.
In Egypt, Copts "seem to bear the brunt of the persecution... [which]
comes from the religious divide [and] is an interpretation of the
theology in which people who are not of the same [Islamic] belief
are cast out as infidels, as unrighteous," he said.
The Islamic Society of North America says Islam "recognize[s] plurality
in human societies, including religious plurality." The section of the
Koran that endorses plurality, it is claimed, include verses 10:19,
11:118 and 11.19.
"Mankind was not but one community [united in religion], but [then]
they differed. And if not for a word that preceded from your Lord,
it would have been judged between them [immediately] concerning that
over which they differ," says verse 10:19, which ISNA says shows
Islam's tolerance for other religions.
The Koran has some welcoming messages, but they're from Islam's early
period, Meunier said. "When Islam became strong and had a strong army,
the tougher verses came down from heaven -- apparently -- and according
to Islamic teaching, those later verses abrogate the earlier verses
[so] moderate Muslims have an uphill battle saying Islam is tolerant."
"We have to encourage moderate Muslims to present a more moderate
version of Islam and the Koran," but they're outgunned by Saudi clerics
who have used petrodollars to make Islam tougher and less tolerant,
he said.
But the Saudi clerics "won't do it [because] they don't believe in it,"
he added.
For Muslims, the Koran is the unimpeachable transcript of commands
from Allah, the single and all-powerful deity. Muslims believe that
the Koran was dictated by an angel to Islam's final prophet, Mohammad,
1,400 years ago. This rigidity sharply constrains Muslims' use of
alternative ideas, including elements of Christianity, or secular
ethics and philosophy.
The Koran also include many passage urging the use of violence. "The
penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and
strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be
killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from
opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land," says Verse 33
of the Koran's fifth book.
In contrast, the Christian Bible, including the almost-2,000 year-old
New Testament, is based on the statements of witnesses. For example,
Matthew the disciple provide the main account of the Beatitudes sermon,
which includes the famous lines, "Blessed are the merciful, for they
shall be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will
see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the
sons of God."
The Christians' reliance on witnesses allowed perpetual debate over the
meaning and purpose of words from the twinned deity of Jesus and God,
and it also allowed a Christian search for evidence of God via the
"natural sciences," that gradually created modern science.
Christianity also endorsed separate roles for church and state,
where Islam assumes that states' laws comply with Koranic rules.
McCarrick, however, blended the two distinct religions in his comments
at the press club.
"We are together on this against evil, we are against killing, we are
against destruction... God bless you in this work you do," McCarrick
said to the Muslim speakers, which included representatives from one
group -- the Islamic Society of North America -- that was implicated in
a conspiracy to smuggle funds to the Hamas terror group that recently
launched another bombardment of thousands of rockets at Israeli Jews.
"We believe that Islam is a religion which helps people, not kills
them... the Muslim community has always taught this," McCarrick said.
"I'm privileged to be able to lend my voice to the voice of many
of my friends here," he said about the Sept. 10 meeting, which was
designed to help U.S.-based Islamic groups avoid the public disgust
with The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Since early this year, the Islamic State group has killed and murdered
thousands of Iraqis that don't accept rule by the brutal Salafi
variant of Islam. The victims include Shia Muslims, Christians and
adherents of the pre-Christian Yazidi religion. Tens of thousands of
non-Muslims have also been driven from their homes and fields.
McCarrick, however, downplayed ISIS's attack on Christians in Iraq,
and expressed more concerns for Muslim victims of ISIS attacks. "The
truth of the matter is in these terrible massacres of the Islamic
state, most of the victims have been Muslims, most of them have not
been Christians," he told his Sept. 10 audience.
"Many Christians, obviously, have suffered, so I am here to say
that we stand with our brothers and sisters in the Muslim community,
who here in the United States have been giving leadership in a very
strong way," he declared.
"They are proud to be Americans... they love America," he said,
without retuning to discuss the fate of his fellow Christians under
Muslim rule.
Spencer urged McCarrick to challenge his Muslim hosts. "Cardinal
McCarrick, rather than indulge in this fond and ignorant wishful
thinking, would have done better to have challenged his Muslim friends
to match their lofty words with real action to combat the Islamic
State and other Muslim persecutors of Christians," Spencer said.
McCarrick should have "asked them to institute programs in mosques and
Islamic schools to teach against the literal meaning of the verses
I quoted above and others like them, so that they no longer incite
Muslims to violence," in the U.S. or abroad, Spencer said.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/11/catholic-cardinal-mccarrick-embraces-islam/
Daily Caller
Sept 11 2014
Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick offered Islamic religious phrases
and insisted that Islam shares foundational rules with Christianity,
during a Sept. 10 press conference in D.C.
"In the name of God, the Merciful and Compassionate," McCarrick said
as he introduced himself to the audience at a meeting arranged by
the Muslim Public Affairs Council. That praise of the Islamic deity
is an important phrase in Islam, is found more than 100 times in the
Koran, and is akin to the Catholic prayer, "In the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
McCarrick next claimed that "Catholic social teaching is based on the
dignity of the human person... [and] as you study the holy Koran,
as you study Islam, basically, this is what Muhammad the prophet,
peace be upon him, has been teaching."
McCarrick was 71 when 19 Muslims brought Islam to the public eye by
murdering 3,000 Americans on 9/11. He is one of the 213 Cardinals of
the Catholic church, but is too old to vote in church debates.
"Either the cardinal has studied the whole thing and does not know what
he's talking about, or he is making a somewhat misleading statement,"
said Michael Meunier, head of the U.S. Copts Association.
"The practice of the Muslim majority people that adhere to the Koran...
have proven that [claim of equivalence] is not correct," he told The
Daily Caller during a Sept. 11 trip to Jordan.
"Has Cardinal McCarrick converted to Islam?" asked a scornful critic,
Robert Spencer, the best-selling author of many books on Islam.
"'Peace be upon him' is a phrase Muslims utter after they say the
name of [their reputed] prophet... [so] probably he is unaware of the
unintended Islamic confession of faith he has just made,"said Spencer,
who runs the Jihadwatch.org website.
McCarrick is wrong to say "that Islam teaches the dignity of every
human person," Spencer said. "Actually it teaches a sharp dichotomy
between the Muslims, [who are called] 'the best of people' and the
unbelievers [are called] 'the most vile of created beings,'" Spencer
told TheDC.
"The Koran also says: 'Muhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who
follow him are merciful to one another, harsh to the unbelievers,'"
Spencer said.
The same warning came from Archbishop Amel Nona, who was head of
Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul in Iraq. In a August comment
made to Europeans, he said that "You think all men are equal, but
that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal [and]
your values are not their values."
"If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims
of the [immigrant] enemy you have welcomed in your home," said Nona,
who is now exiled -- along with surviving Chaldean Catholics --
in the Kurdish city of Erbil.
Islamic societies have routinely persecuted non-Muslims, including
Christian Armenians in Turkey and Christian Copts in Egypt, said
Taniel Koushakjian, a spokesman for the Armenian National Committee
of America.
During the First World War, more that 1.5 million Armenians were
deliberately killed by Turkey's Islamic government, he said.
In Egypt, Copts "seem to bear the brunt of the persecution... [which]
comes from the religious divide [and] is an interpretation of the
theology in which people who are not of the same [Islamic] belief
are cast out as infidels, as unrighteous," he said.
The Islamic Society of North America says Islam "recognize[s] plurality
in human societies, including religious plurality." The section of the
Koran that endorses plurality, it is claimed, include verses 10:19,
11:118 and 11.19.
"Mankind was not but one community [united in religion], but [then]
they differed. And if not for a word that preceded from your Lord,
it would have been judged between them [immediately] concerning that
over which they differ," says verse 10:19, which ISNA says shows
Islam's tolerance for other religions.
The Koran has some welcoming messages, but they're from Islam's early
period, Meunier said. "When Islam became strong and had a strong army,
the tougher verses came down from heaven -- apparently -- and according
to Islamic teaching, those later verses abrogate the earlier verses
[so] moderate Muslims have an uphill battle saying Islam is tolerant."
"We have to encourage moderate Muslims to present a more moderate
version of Islam and the Koran," but they're outgunned by Saudi clerics
who have used petrodollars to make Islam tougher and less tolerant,
he said.
But the Saudi clerics "won't do it [because] they don't believe in it,"
he added.
For Muslims, the Koran is the unimpeachable transcript of commands
from Allah, the single and all-powerful deity. Muslims believe that
the Koran was dictated by an angel to Islam's final prophet, Mohammad,
1,400 years ago. This rigidity sharply constrains Muslims' use of
alternative ideas, including elements of Christianity, or secular
ethics and philosophy.
The Koran also include many passage urging the use of violence. "The
penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and
strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be
killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from
opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land," says Verse 33
of the Koran's fifth book.
In contrast, the Christian Bible, including the almost-2,000 year-old
New Testament, is based on the statements of witnesses. For example,
Matthew the disciple provide the main account of the Beatitudes sermon,
which includes the famous lines, "Blessed are the merciful, for they
shall be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will
see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the
sons of God."
The Christians' reliance on witnesses allowed perpetual debate over the
meaning and purpose of words from the twinned deity of Jesus and God,
and it also allowed a Christian search for evidence of God via the
"natural sciences," that gradually created modern science.
Christianity also endorsed separate roles for church and state,
where Islam assumes that states' laws comply with Koranic rules.
McCarrick, however, blended the two distinct religions in his comments
at the press club.
"We are together on this against evil, we are against killing, we are
against destruction... God bless you in this work you do," McCarrick
said to the Muslim speakers, which included representatives from one
group -- the Islamic Society of North America -- that was implicated in
a conspiracy to smuggle funds to the Hamas terror group that recently
launched another bombardment of thousands of rockets at Israeli Jews.
"We believe that Islam is a religion which helps people, not kills
them... the Muslim community has always taught this," McCarrick said.
"I'm privileged to be able to lend my voice to the voice of many
of my friends here," he said about the Sept. 10 meeting, which was
designed to help U.S.-based Islamic groups avoid the public disgust
with The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Since early this year, the Islamic State group has killed and murdered
thousands of Iraqis that don't accept rule by the brutal Salafi
variant of Islam. The victims include Shia Muslims, Christians and
adherents of the pre-Christian Yazidi religion. Tens of thousands of
non-Muslims have also been driven from their homes and fields.
McCarrick, however, downplayed ISIS's attack on Christians in Iraq,
and expressed more concerns for Muslim victims of ISIS attacks. "The
truth of the matter is in these terrible massacres of the Islamic
state, most of the victims have been Muslims, most of them have not
been Christians," he told his Sept. 10 audience.
"Many Christians, obviously, have suffered, so I am here to say
that we stand with our brothers and sisters in the Muslim community,
who here in the United States have been giving leadership in a very
strong way," he declared.
"They are proud to be Americans... they love America," he said,
without retuning to discuss the fate of his fellow Christians under
Muslim rule.
Spencer urged McCarrick to challenge his Muslim hosts. "Cardinal
McCarrick, rather than indulge in this fond and ignorant wishful
thinking, would have done better to have challenged his Muslim friends
to match their lofty words with real action to combat the Islamic
State and other Muslim persecutors of Christians," Spencer said.
McCarrick should have "asked them to institute programs in mosques and
Islamic schools to teach against the literal meaning of the verses
I quoted above and others like them, so that they no longer incite
Muslims to violence," in the U.S. or abroad, Spencer said.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/11/catholic-cardinal-mccarrick-embraces-islam/