O ye who believe! Take not into your intimacy those outside your ranks: They will not fail to corrupt you. They only desire your ruin: Rank hatred has already appeared from their mouths: What their hearts conceal is far worse. We have made plain to you the Signs, if ye have wisdom.
(Al-Qur' an, 3:118 Aal-E-Imran [The Family of Imran])
Muslims Fume at Pope' s Islam Jibe
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-09/14/04.shtml
WORLD CAPITALS Pope Benedict XVI' s criticism of Islam and the Islamic concept of Jihad as unreasonable and against God' s nature has sparked furor in the Muslim world on Thursday, September 14, amid calls
for the pontiff to retract his remarks.
"These remarks are unacceptable and demonstrate ignorance of the Muslim faith," Mohamed Kanaan, the chief judge of the Supreme Shari`ah Courts in Lebanon
In what some Vatican watchers see as a watershed speech to academics on Tuesday, September 12, Benedict had portrayed Islam as a religion which endorses violence, where faith is "spread by the sword". Using the words, "Jihad" and "Holy War" in lecture at the University of Regensburg
"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," Benedict quoted Manuel II.
In Morocco ' hui said the pope' s remarks have upset a million Muslims around the globe. "The global outcry over the calamitous cartoons (of Prophet Muhammad) has only just died down and now the pontiff, in all his holiness, is launching an attack against Islam," it said.
Last September, a series of lampooning cartoons of
Prophet Muhammad printed by a Danish daily and republished by European newspapers sparked a global outcry. The daily urged the pope, as political leader of the Roman Catholic Church, to "quickly prove that his ambition is not to spark a war of religions."
Hatred
Chief judge Kanaan asked Pope Benedict to retract his insulting remarks. "He must apologize," he told the Doha-based broadcaster. The remarks have also drawn fire from Turkey ' s highest religious authority, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"The remarks reflect the hatred in his heart. It is a statement full of enmity and grudge," Ali Bardakoglu, the head of Turkey ' s religious affairs directorate, told the NTV news channel. "It is a prejudiced and biased approach," he added. Bardakoglu said the pope was not welcome in Turkey
"I do not think any good will come from the visit to the Muslim world of a person who has such ideas about Islam' s prophet. He should first of all replace the grudge in his heart with moral values and respect for the other."
Pope Benedict is expected in Turkey Istanbul
In 2004, the pontiff caused a stir by opposing Turkey ' s accession into the European Union. He said Turkey
Bloody History
Ejaz Ahmed, a member of an Italian governmental consultative committee on Islam, also criticized the Vatican pope, reported Italy ' s ANSA news agency.
"In his speech the pope overlooks the fact that Islam was the cradle of science and that Muslims were the first to translate Greek philosophers before they became part of European history," he said. "The Muslim world is currently undergoing a deep crisis and any attack from the West can aggravate this crisis," he said.
Aiman Mazyek, the
president of Germany ' s Central Council of Muslims, said the history of the Roman Catholic Church had violent chapters.
"After the bloodstained conversions in South America, the crusades in the Muslim world, the coercion of the Church by Hitler' s regime, and even the coining of the phrase ' holy war' by Pope Urban II, I do not think the Church should point a finger at extremist activities in other religions," he told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Haken
al-Mutairi, Secretary General of Kuwait ' s Umma party asked Pope Benedict to immediately apologize "to the Muslim world for his calumnies against the Prophet Muhammed and Islam". Mutairi hit out at the pope' s "unaccustomed and unprecedented" remarks, and linked the Catholic Church leader' s comments to "new Western wars currently under way in the Muslim world in places such as Afghanistan Iraq Lebanon
The pope' s statements amounted to "the pursuit of crusades", he told AFP. "I call on all Arab and Islamic states to recall their ambassadors from the Vatican Vatican
Mutairi urged Christian and Muslim religious leaders to "spread the values of tolerance and clemency preached by the prophets Jesus and Muhammed".
"For to us will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account." (Holy Quran 88:25-26)
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{Invite (mankind, O Muhammad ) to the Way of your Lord (i.e. Islam) with wisdom (i.e. with the Divine Inspiration and the Qur'an) and fair preaching, and argue with them in a way that is better. Truly, your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Path, and He is the Best Aware of those who are guided.} (Holy Quran-16:125)
{And who is better in speech than he who [says: "My Lord is Allah (believes in His Oneness)," and then stands straight (acts upon His Order), and] invites (men) to Allah's (Islamic Monotheism), and does righteous deeds, and says: "I am one of the Muslims."} (Holy Quran-41:33)
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The prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) also said, "Whoever calls to guidance will have a reward similar to the reward of the one who follows him, without the reward of either of them being lessened at all." [Muslim, Ahmad, Aboo Daawood, an-Nasaa'ee, at-Tirmidhee, Ibn Maajah]
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