Re: Interfaith Dialogue (Scriptures) - Islam and Christianity
Asking for intersssion is most indeed a form of worship, at least acording to the Islamic doctorine. For example, exlaiming "help me Jesus", as many Christians I know do, is exactly the kind of thing the Quran is exhorting against. Muslims would never cry out "help me Rasool!", or anything like it. Needless to say, I could just as well argue that the Trinity is not mentioned either in that particular verse. By your standards, then, you would have to abandon your interpretation.
This is the point the Quran is trying to make, if you disagree that is a different matter. But what I say is cannonical interpretation, unless you sugges tat Muslims should abandon their theology in favor of anti-Islamic polemics.
This practice of anti-theology fascinates me, though.