It's not Islamic doctrine driving jihadists, oh no, it's the hatred from non-Muslims and their misunderstanding of the religion of peace. We Islamophobes are responsible for the feelings of Muslims, and our actions over the past few years are the basis for this resolution. It is as if the church wants nothing to do with the truth, refusing to give even a cursory nod at Islamic texts or tenets and how Islam is defined today.
To paraphrase an old kids rhyme ":..here is the church...open the door and see all the sheeple"
From World Faith News July 3 by Eric Anderson
UCC Committee recommends adoption of resolution opposing hostility to Islam
Working in a consensus model, Committee 12 recommended that General Synod 28 adopt the resolution "On Actions of Hostility Against Islam and the Muslim Community" submitted by Wider Church Ministries.
Committee members universally supported the direction of the resolution and its call to the church to declare its "clear support for neighbors in the Muslim community," in response to highly visible anti-Muslim statements and actions in the United States over the last year.
As opposed to the anti-American and anti-Israeli statements made over the past three decades by Islamist and jihadists?
Delegates and visitors to the committee deliberations told story after story, both about anti-Muslim activities in their home regions and actions taken by UCC churches in response. Matt Davis of La Crosse, Wisc., said the resolution is very timely for his community. A local Muslim congregation has been growing, and looks now to purchase land to build a mosque.
"We can already feel stirrings against it," he said. With Davis' encouragement, the committee added language to the resolution calling for documentation and publicity of actions taken "in support of Muslims and people of other faiths."
Margaret Johnston, a laywoman from the Gainesville, Fla. area, offered a sign of hope from the very center of the Quran burning controversy. After the desecration, UCC pastors the Revs. Lawrence and Sandra Reimer joined with clergy of several confessions in the Gainesville Interfaith Forum to speak against hateful acts with one clear voice. They have chosen to act together as well, and the group will undertake a Habitat for Humanity building project together.
Minnie Montgomery, who works in the public schools in Bethesda, Md., may have said it best. "In my seventy-some years," she told the delegates, "I am finding we are more alike than we are different."
Minnie, don't fall for it, don't get sucked in by the taqiyya. The ways you think you are alike will quickly change once your friends gain the power to dictate to you what your life should be like.
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To paraphrase an old kids rhyme ":..here is the church...open the door and see all the sheeple"
From World Faith News July 3 by Eric Anderson
UCC Committee recommends adoption of resolution opposing hostility to Islam
Working in a consensus model, Committee 12 recommended that General Synod 28 adopt the resolution "On Actions of Hostility Against Islam and the Muslim Community" submitted by Wider Church Ministries.
Committee members universally supported the direction of the resolution and its call to the church to declare its "clear support for neighbors in the Muslim community," in response to highly visible anti-Muslim statements and actions in the United States over the last year.
As opposed to the anti-American and anti-Israeli statements made over the past three decades by Islamist and jihadists?
Delegates and visitors to the committee deliberations told story after story, both about anti-Muslim activities in their home regions and actions taken by UCC churches in response. Matt Davis of La Crosse, Wisc., said the resolution is very timely for his community. A local Muslim congregation has been growing, and looks now to purchase land to build a mosque.
"We can already feel stirrings against it," he said. With Davis' encouragement, the committee added language to the resolution calling for documentation and publicity of actions taken "in support of Muslims and people of other faiths."
Margaret Johnston, a laywoman from the Gainesville, Fla. area, offered a sign of hope from the very center of the Quran burning controversy. After the desecration, UCC pastors the Revs. Lawrence and Sandra Reimer joined with clergy of several confessions in the Gainesville Interfaith Forum to speak against hateful acts with one clear voice. They have chosen to act together as well, and the group will undertake a Habitat for Humanity building project together.
Minnie Montgomery, who works in the public schools in Bethesda, Md., may have said it best. "In my seventy-some years," she told the delegates, "I am finding we are more alike than we are different."
Minnie, don't fall for it, don't get sucked in by the taqiyya. The ways you think you are alike will quickly change once your friends gain the power to dictate to you what your life should be like.
Read it all
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