Woman interrupts Muslim service at National Cathedral: 'Jesus Christ is
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American Muslims were invited to offer prayers to Allah inside the nation’s
most iconic Christian church Friday in Washington, D.C., but the intended
message of peace, harmony and tolerance isn’t so well received in Muslim
countries, according to Christian leaders contacted by WND.
The Washington National Cathedral, which earned the title “America’s House
of Prayer” for its hosting of presidential funerals and
inauguration-related prayer services, was turned into a virtual mosque in
which Muslims bowed toward Mecca and shielded their eyes from the Christian
cross.
Prayer carpets were arranged diagonally, to the side of the sanctuary, so
worshipers could face in the direction of Mecca without seeing crosses or
other Christian symbols. Muslims are not supposed to pray in view of sacred
symbols “alien to their faith,” the Voice of America reported
<http://www.voanews.com/content/muslim-friday-prayers-to-be-held-for-the-first-time-at-washington-national-cathedral/2520095.html>
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The Episcopal cathedral becomes the first church in America to host a
Muslim-led prayer service. And this isn’t just any church. Famous people
are buried there, including President Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller and
Admiral George Dewey, and it is perhaps the most recognizable Christian
sanctuary in the nation with its soaring Gothic architecture and grand
entrance hall.
A receptionist at the cathedral told WND Friday the event was not open to
the public but it was live-streamed on the cathedral’s website. Attendance
was by invitation only, and the invite list came from the South African
ambassador, who helped plan the event. She said she did not know if any
Christians were invited to the service or how many may have attended.
*Christian woman stands up, speaks out*
The cathedral has hosted Muslims at interfaith services in the past. But
this is the first time the cathedral has invited Muslims to come and lead
their own prayers there.
But just as the Imam was about to give the Muslim call to prayer, a
Christian woman, who apparently sneaked into the service, stood up, pointed
to the cross and shouted “Jesus Christ died on that cross. He is the reason
we are to worship only Him. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. We have
built enough of your mosques in this country. Why don’t you worship in your
mosques and leave our churches alone? …America was founded on Christian
principles…Leave our church alone!”
She was immediately grabbed by the arms and forcibly led out of the church
by two men. The unidentified woman’s interruption of the service was
captured on video by one of the attendees and posted online at
PamelaGeller.com
<http://pamelageller.com/2014/11/christian-woman-praying-to-christ-ejected-from-muslim-prayers-at-national-cathedral.html/>
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Planners of the event said in a news release
<http://www.nationalcathedral.org/press/PR-6UA7A-8S001J.shtml> that they
hoped “people around the world will take note of this service and the
welcome extended by the Cathedral so that Muslims everywhere will adopt a
reciprocal welcome of Christians by Muslims.”
WND asked for and was provided a recorded video of the service (see below).
But the cathedral’s video of the event did not show the Christian woman
standing up, walking to the front of the church and proclaiming the name of
Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, then rebuking the Muslims.
*Christian leaders react*
The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, said in a
Facebook post Thursday that the Muslim prayer service at the National
Cathedral is “sad to see” because the church should only open its doors for
worship of “the One True God of the Bible.”
Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s
Purse, said, “Tomorrow, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. – one of
the most prominent Episcopal churches in America – will host a Muslim
prayer service to Allah.”
“It’s sad to see a church open its doors to the worship of anything other
than the One True God of the Bible who sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ,
to earth to save us from our sins,” said Graham. “Jesus was clear when He
said, ‘I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me’ (John 14:6).”
The cathedral’s press release
<http://www.nationalcathedral.org/press/PR-6UA7A-8S001J.shtml> said the
goal was to encourage greater acceptance between Christians and Muslims,
calling the Islamic Jumma prayers a “powerful symbolic gesture.”
“Leaders believe offering Muslim prayers at the Christian cathedral shows
more than hospitality,” representatives for the National Cathedral said
about the event. “It demonstrates an appreciation of one another’s prayer
traditions and is a powerful symbolic gesture toward a deeper relationship
between the two Abrahamic traditions.”
The event was planned by the Rev. Gina Campbell, the cathedral’s director
of liturgy, and South African Ambassador to the United States Ebrahim
Rasool, who is a Muslim.
Campbell spoke at the service and said a prayer “in the name of God” but
did not mention Jesus Christ. She told her Muslim guests that “we approach
the same God.”
*Watch video of Friday’s entire Muslim prayer service below:*
A statement by Rasool called the service “a dramatic moment in the world
and in Muslim-Christian relations.”
“This needs to be a world in which all are free to believe and practice and
in which we avoid bigotry, Islamaphobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and
anti-Christianity and to embrace our humanity and to embrace faith,” Rasool
added.
But Christian convert and former Muslim Dr. Mark Christian said the gesture
will never be reciprocated by Muslims. They would never allow Christians
into a mosque sanctuary to hold a Christian-led prayer service.
“No, not ever. They can let Christians and Jews only in the U.S. and West
sometimes into their mosques, because they have an agenda, but they will
let them in the basement or another room, not in the main sanctuary and
certainly not to say a Christian prayer. That would make it unclean. That
would defile their sanctuary in their eyes,” said Christain, who lives
under a fatwa placed on his life by Muslims in his native Egypt.
The Washington Post quoted a local Muslim spokesperson who said: “We want
the world to see the Christian community is partnering with us and is
supporting our religious freedom in the same way we are calling for
religious freedom for all minorities in Muslim countries. Let this be a
lesson to the world.”
Sponsors of the event included the Council on American-Islamic Relations,
or CAIR, and the Islamic Society of North America, also called ISNA.
CAIR and ISNA are known front groups for the Muslim Brotherhood. The groups
in question have been named as unindicted co-conspirators in the largest
terrorism funding trial in U.S history. ISNA and CAIR were directly
involved in laundering money through fake charities to fund Hamas
operations as documented in court records related to the 2009 Holy Land
Foundation trial.
This is not the first time the National Cathedral has delved head first
into controversial territory. In June, it celebrated “Gay Pride Month” by
allowing
a transgender priest to preach a sermon
<http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2014/June/Transgender-Priest-Preaches-at-National-Cathedral/>
from its pulpit.
*Making ‘tolerance a god’*
Joel Richardson, a Christian filmmaker and author of “The Islamic
Antichrist,
<http://superstore.wnd.com/books/WND-Books/The-Islamic-Antichrist-Autographed-Hardcover>”
said the hypocrisy of the Muslim world is “beyond words” when it comes to
interfaith programs like the one held Friday at the National Cathedral. The
Christians who host such events have made “tolerance” a god, he said.
“We as a Christian nation are called to love Muslims in our midst but that
does not mean we allow ourselves to be subjugated in their presence,” he
said.
Not only would such a prayer service by Christians not be allowed in a
mosque in Islam’s home country, Saudi Arabia, he said, but Christians would
not even be allowed to build a church there.
“Why don’t they allow churches in Saudi Arabia? Because that’s a sign of
subjugation,” Richardson said.
The message being sent from Washington to Muslim countries around the world
is not one of tolerance but one of subjugation, Richardson said.
“To them, they are sending a sign that they have defeated us, that they’re
conquering us. There’s conquest and occupation,” he said.
To find an example of how tolerant Muslims are of Christians and Jews in
their “holy places,” one should look at Istanbul, Turkey, and Jerusalem,
Israel, Richardson said.
In Istanbul, one of the oldest, most famous Christian churches, the Hagia
Sophia cathedral, has recently been turned into a museum by the Turkish
Islamic government and is in the process of transitioning into a mosque.
Richardson visited there last year and said Christians were not allowed to
pray overtly Christian prayers in the former church. The same is true on
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, which Arabs call al-Aqsa and guard closely for
any sign of Jews or Christians uttering prayers.
“The Temple Mount was Jewish, but Muslims conquered it so the idea of them
allowing Christian prayers was out of the question,” Richardson said. “They
view it as their conquest of us, and to them once something has been
conquered it’s considered Islamic from there on forward, and they’re
allowed to wage jihad to maintain it. The hypocrisy of the Islamic world is
beyond words on these matters.”
*Islam as the ‘perfect’ conquering religion*
Mark Christian, whose father and uncle are Muslim Brotherhood members and
whose great-uncle was one of its co-founders in Egypt during the 1960s,
also cited a “conquering mentality” that is dominant among Muslim
Brotherhood organizations.
He said Islam has a “supremacy problem” based upon the idea that Islam has
perfected the religions practiced by Jews and Christians.
“In Islamic tradition, supremacy is demonstrated to all by practicing Islam
where Christianity or Judaism once reigned,” he said. “This is what
animates the building of mosques on the holy sites of other religions. It
is a conqueror’s philosophy.”
The decision to allow a Muslim imam to conduct an Islamic service from the
altar of the National Cathedral in Washington is to Muslims the functional
equivalent of Islam standing supreme atop Christianity in America “in our
own house,” said Christian, who founded the Global Faith Institute
<http://globalfaithinstitute.org/> in Nebraska and has been confronting an
interfaith project in that city.
[image: Dr. Mark Christian grew up in a prominent Muslim family in Egypt
and converted to Christianity as an adult. He has been disowned by his
family.] <http://new.wnd.com/files/2014/09/Dr.-Mark-Christian-289x300.jpg>
Dr. Mark Christian grew up in a prominent Muslim family in Egypt and
converted to Christianity as an adult. He has been disowned by his family.
While America’s interfaith community may be well-intentioned, they are more
often than not used by radical Islamists as a method of appearing
“mainstream,” he said. The Islamists gain legitimacy while the Christians
are left holding a watered down gospel message.
According to Pew Research Center, Muslims make up just under 1 percent of
the U.S. population.
“CAIR and ISNA are known fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood. Is there really
any doubt as to how they will present the National Cathedral event to their
followers?” Christian asks. “Perhaps as a reciprocal gesture, the rector of
the National Cathedral can offer communion at the al-Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem? I won’t hold my breath.”
Todd Nettleton, director of media and public relations for Voice of the
Martyrs, an organization that advocates for persecuted Christians around
the world, many of them in Islamic countries, said the event sends a
chilling message that was perhaps not intended by its Episcopal organizers.
“I can’t think of a country where Muslims would willingly and openly allow
a Christian prayer service to take place inside of a mosque,” he told WND.
“We have on occasion seen some pretty amazing things. I recall some of my
co-workers in Sudan wanted to show ‘The Jesus Film,’ and the best screen
available was the side of a mosque so it was used for that purpose, but not
a prayer service or evangelistic service inside of a mosque – that would
likely never happen.
“And this is the National Cathedral here, a national symbol of
Christianity, so you would not see something at a prominent level like a
grand mosque in Cairo opening up to a Christian prayer service. That would
never happen.”
*Sending the wrong message*
The message received by Muslims around the world will be clear, Nettleton
said.
“I think of the pictures that will be seen across the world of Muslims
praying and holding an Islamic prayer services in the National Cathedra.
People will think, ‘Wow, more people must be becoming Muslims in America,’
and, ‘They’re taking over Christian churches now in America.’ Frankly, I
wish more churches would allow Muslims in to hear the gospel message
because that is what they need to hear. It’s disappointing to see this. It
seems like a compromise that doesn’t necessarily send the right message.”
Richardson said tolerance is a Christian virtue that can be
counterproductive when taken to extremes.
“Although tolerance is a good principle that’s built into who we are, that
tolerance has become the national idol of our time and our country to the
point where issues such as freedom, liberty and really just rational
thought have been subordinated on that great altar of tolerance,” he said.
“We’ve literally become suicidal as a nation. When we welcome in those that
are foundationally opposed to who we are as a nation and our Constitution,
that’s called suicide. When someone says ‘I’ll eat anything’ and someone
hands them a gallon of antifreeze, that’s suicide. We reach out in
tolerance, but we actually welcome in that which is hyper intolerant.”
Read more at
http://new.wnd.com/2014/11/christians-muslims-conquering-washington-national-cathedral/#4EcqyZh0r1SyBhEO.99
On Sunday, November 16, 2014 7:54:33 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote:
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> burkasrugly posted: "Fellow Kafirs (remember, Kafir is the name given
> to non-Muslims by Muslims. It means filth, excrement, or any other
> disgusting, filthy thing. This is how Muslims view us): In this time in
> history, women have more guts that some men. Case(s) in point" Respond
> to this post by replying above this line
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> <http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/author/burkasrugly/> Christian
> Women Protest Muslims Taking Over Churches
> <http://actjonesboroar.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/christian-women-protest-muslims-taking-over-churches/>
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> Fellow Kafirs (remember, Kafir is the name
> <http://www.politicalislam.com/kafir/>given to non-Muslims by Muslims.
> It means filth, excrement, or any other disgusting, filthy thing. This is
> how Muslims view us):
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> In this time in history, women have more guts that some men. Case(s) in
> point: the woman who stood up yesterday in the National Cathedral to
> protest the blasphemous act that was committed in our nation's capital.
> For the first time, Muslims had a prayer service in this Christian church.
> Once that is done, according to Muslims, it becomes a Muslim mosque. Here
> is the video of this brave lady:
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> And who can forget the 'Brave German Woman" who protested an imam giving
> the Islamic call to prayer in a famous German cathedral:
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> At least one man is standing up - thank God for men like Franklin Graham
> who said this about this abomonation:
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> According to WND
> <http://new.wnd.com/2014/11/christians-muslims-conquering-washington-national-cathedral/#!>,
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> the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, said in a
> Facebook post Thursday that the Muslim prayer service at the National
> Cathedral is “sad to see” because the church should only open its doors for
> worship of “the One True God of the Bible.”
>
> Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and
> Samaritan’s Purse, said, “Tomorrow, the National Cathedral in Washington,
> D.C. – one of the most prominent Episcopal churches in America – will host
> a Muslim prayer service to Allah.”
>
> “It’s sad to see a church open its doors to the worship of anything other
> than the One True God of the Bible who sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ,
> to earth to save us from our sins,” said Graham. “Jesus was clear when He
> said, ‘I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
> except through Me’ (John 14:6).”
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> Until next time,
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