Vatican: Muslims Must Renounce Violence and Respect Other Faiths…
They’re just asking bloody riots! This man must not be too familiar with the current state of Islam…
Muslims must respect people of all faiths and not exclude them on the grounds of religion, race or any other personal characteristic, a senior Vatican official said this week. In a message to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the festival marking the end of Ramadan, the Pope’s interfaith expert has called for a "culture of peace and solidarity" between different religious communities and to spread a teaching "which honours all human creatures".
Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran, the newly-appointed president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, the Vatican’s main liaison agency with the Muslim world, has previously expressed concern about the treatment of Christians in Muslim-majority countries.
In one interview he highlighted 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".
Instead, he 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 said.
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Posted by WeaselZipper on October 9, 2007 10:36 am
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“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 said.
ISN’T Bush Doing that? with Vatican Officials Approval ???
Please BE SPECIFIC AND NAME ALL TERRORISTS From the White House