Re: Newsweek switch on Quran story
Faisal, you are wrong on a number of those counts, but we will argue those another day.
Here is an article on the beliefs of the Catholic Church:
Vatican unease over outreach surfaced in 2003 when La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine whose articles have to be approved by the Vatican secretary of state, published a downbeat assessment of Christian-Muslim relations. It said the Vatican’s professions of tolerance for Muslims had not been displayed equally by Muslims for Christians.
La Civilta Cattolica noted that Saudi Arabia refused to permit churches to be built on its territory but financed construction of mosques and schools in Europe, including Rome, “the very heart of Christianity.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A55208-2005Apr14?language=printer
The Islamocentric view of the world is that the desecration of a single Quran is an important event. However the persecution of minority religions under Muslim rule is far more heinous, but invisible to Muslims. The cult of victimology of Muslims ignores the plight of other religions in Muslim lands.
If we ACTUALLY treated Muslims as badly as Muslims treat minority religions, THEN you could protest!