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Archdruidbishop to mark 9/11 at mosque
THE head of the worldwide Anglican Church, the archdruidbishop of Canterbury, will reportedly mark the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks by praising Islam in an address from the pulpit of an Egyptian mosque.
Bet you couldn't have guessed it's the Anglican church that would be "praising Islam" on the 9-11 atrocity's anniversary.
Rowan Williams had accepted an invitation to speak at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, considered by many to be the Muslim world's most important centre of learning, Britain's Sunday Times said today. He would speak of the common ground between Christianity and Islam with their shared inheritance as "children of Abraham", the report said.
Memo to Rowan Williams: GO F&%K A RAKE, SIDEWAYS!
"It is a very significant moment in the history of our two faiths and especially coming from a man of his stature and learning," Zaki Badawi, the founder of the Muslim College in London, told the newspaper. "This will cement the relationship between Christianity and Islam because he will point out those aspects which unite the two religions. "The Muslims throughout the world feel beleaguered and a comforting of the enemy word from Archdruidbishop Williams will assure our people they are not alone." Al-Azhar is considered the most important religious uiniversity in the Muslim world and is attended by 90,000 students.
Until all Muslims rise up and genuinely renounce terrorism by visibly expelling every stripe of violent jihadist from their ranks, they d@mn well better "feel beleaguered." That emotion is a direct result of having brought upon themselves justifiably intense scrutiny and equally great suspicion as fellow believers commit the most heinous atrocities in recent history.

However vital rapproachment between Islam and other religions might be, it is the height of insensitivity for Archdruidbishop Williams to make such a gesture on the 9-11 atrocity's anniversary. There are limits and this is one of them. A large number of prominent Imams requesting to speak to Christian audiences would be far more appropriate. I fail to notice any reporting of such a thing. And that is the exact reason why I am so incensed by Williams' act.

Without significant and authentic outreach from Islam, no amount of Western bridge-building will do any good. The ball is in Islam's court, regardless of how much they try and ignore that plain fact. The conspicuous lack of priority being placed upon repairing Islam's image from within signifies only one thing; Satisfaction with Islam's current predilection for genocide, terrorism, misogyny, theocracy and monoculturalism.

Any one of those tyrannies is a deal-breaker. All of them combined represent one of the most poisonous memes since Nazism. Running about trying to coax such a violent entity into changing is entirely inappropriate. Confronted with its own perfidy, Islam must unilaterally seek reformation or be exposed for the bloodthirsty political demon it is.
Posted by: Zenster 2004-07-26
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