Let us see that it does not start a new controversy…
Vatican urges Muslims to respect all faiths
LONDON: The Vatican has urged Muslims to respect people of all faiths and not exclude them on grounds of religion, race and other personal characteristic.
“They (the Muslims) must ensure culture of peace and solidarity between different religious communities and spread a teaching which honours all human creatures,” The Guardian reported on Tuesday, quoting Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran as saying.
Cardinal Tauran is the newly appointed President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, the Vatican’s main liaison agency with the Muslim world.
He has also expressed concern about the treatment of Christians in Muslim-majority countries, highlighting the “extreme” case of Saudi Arabia where freedom of religion was “violated absolutely” with “no Christian churches and a ban on celebrating Mass, even in a private home”.
Though he did not make a direct link between Islam and violence, Cardinal Tauran described it as the duty of believers to “reject, denounce and refuse every recourse to violence, which can never be motivated by religion, since it wounds the very image of God in man”.
“Violence, especially terrorism which strikes blindly and claims countless innocent victims, is incapable of resolving conflicts and leads only to a deadly chain of destructive hatred,” he was quoted as saying.
It may be mentioned that relations between the Vatican and Muslims soured after Pope Benedict XVI quoted a 14th century Byzantine Emperor and triggered a wave of condemnation and violence. At least two people – an Iraqi priest and a Somali nun – were killed in the ensuing unrest.
The bold part, this itself is a controversy a non-sensical, irrational guy who has done no analysis of his own and has no evidence for it. I cant believe it ofcourse.
I respect the first paragraph of the article muslims have to be tolerant towards other religion, insteady of showing supremacy
Before the Vatican starts preaching to others it should consider it's own history (pro-Nazi pope, persecution of Muslims/Protestants/Orthodox-Christians/Jews etc. etc.)..
Even today on Catholic websites these cross-worshippers are praying to "their Lady" to crush the heads of them evil evil Mozlems..
I guess vatican should practice what it is preaching now....before pointing fingers at others. Going by their past and perhaps even present doings, this doesn't sound good.
He has also expressed concern about the treatment of Christians in Muslim-majority countries, highlighting the "extreme" case of Saudi Arabia where freedom of religion was "violated absolutely" with "no Christian churches and a ban on celebrating Mass, even in a private home".
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...fair enough...
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Though he did not make a direct link between Islam and violence, Cardinal Tauran described it as the duty of believers to "reject, denounce and refuse every recourse to violence, which can never be motivated by religion, since it wounds the very image of God in man".
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Can't be taken seriously. The vatican espouses a just war doctrine, so can hardly be considered pacifist. Given that modern warfare often results in civilian casualties (which are more often than not taken for granted, and calculated as an acceptable loss), much more needs to be said against Western nations and their willingness to use brutal force on an unparalleled scale to pursue arcane foreign policy.
Until that day arrives, the good cardinal can stow it. And that should be the response of Muslim leaders....if they had any bloody backbone.
I guess vatican should practice what it is preaching now....before pointing fingers at others. Going by their past and perhaps even present doings, this doesn't sound good.
Just a statement for the sake of it. Past is past and things have changed a lot. Very few Christian majority countries flaunt their religions...
Just a statement for the sake of it. Past is past and things have changed a lot. Very few Christian majority countries flaunt their religions...
i didn't speak about ordinary/90% of christians.They have kept religion out of state and have given complete freedom with regard to religion or perhaps everything else.
Just a statement for the sake of it. Past is past and things have changed a lot. Very few Christian majority countries flaunt their religions...
First it were out in the open, now it's all subtle, but it doesn't mean they don't do what they do in the name of their religion...
Why do you think redneck Christians/USA are so pro-Israel despite it's evil crimes aginst humanity? It's because extremist preachers like Jerry Falwell tell them the Bible says Jews are God's chosen people whilst they've not got such nice words about them sandnigger Aey-rabs/Mozlems...
Leaders like George Bush and Tony Blair are quite professed Christians, they've referred to these wars they like to go to over imaginary WMD "crusades", in case you didn't know crusades were Christian holy wars led by guess who? The Catholic Church which massacred innocent Muslim men, women and children of Jerusalem together with the local Orthodox Christians and Jews for land and wealth... That's why we need to learn from the past and keep remembering it because history is repeating itself, just like in those days they lied that Muslims were persecuting the local Christians they make up lies today too to back up their imperialistic agendas, when they entered Jerusalem they found that mass was going on as usual in the local Orthodox tradition but they didn't even spare their co-religionists because they were swarthy heretics according to them so they murdered them in cold blood in the holiest of Christian shrines, the same people they'd gone to "liberate" from the infidel Muslims..
The Catholic Church is a materialistic organisation so it can't be as messed up as it use to be so openly anymore becuase those things are less acceptable now so it's going to loose a following..
Witch burnings based on mere suspicion can't happen so openly anymore but you still hear about women getting killed because some depraved-celibate priest was satisfying his sado-masochist fanatsies on a nun in the name of exorcism.
we want a mosque to be built in vatican....
This type of fatuousness comment displays intellectual dishonesty (or at minimum a lack of understanding of the situation.) The legitimate comparison here is that you want to be able to practice your religion and build mosques in Italy - which you can. No one is suggesting building a church on holy ground in Mecca.
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Before the Vatican starts preaching to others it should consider it's own history (pro-Nazi pope, persecution of Muslims/Protestants/Orthodox-Christians/Jews etc. etc.)..
Even today on Catholic websites these cross-worshippers are praying to "their Lady" to crush the heads of them evil evil Mozlems..
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The key word, of course, is HISTORY. The church has tried to learn from its past mistakes and has apologized for it. The problem is that others are not learning from past events as well. Others could well learn from the church's past. Its kind of like how Germany and Japan should be peacemakers... They've committed heinous crimes in the past, now they are the perfect ones to say "look here guys, we've tried that before and it doesn't turn out well..."
Also, I'm guessing that anything you see on crazy "Catholic" websites like that is not sanctioned by the church... kind of like how crazy "muslim" websites urging destruction probably are not sanctioned either.
Quoting a 14th century Byzantine despot in no way shape or form convinces one that the Vatican has divorced itself from a past of sanctioning violence for what it considers 'just' reasons.