An Al-Qaeda Murderer
Al-Qaida’s front group in Iraq has threatened more attacks on Christians following a bloody siege at a Baghdad church that left 58 people dead, saying that the “killing sword will not be lifted” from their necks. The Islamic State of Iraq’s warning of further violence against Christians comes two days after the group’s assault on a Catholic church in downtown Baghdad — the deadliest attack ever recorded against Iraq’s Christians, whose numbers have plummeted since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion as the community has fled to other countries. “We will open upon them the doors of destruction and rivers of blood,” the insurgent group said in a statement posted late Tuesday on militant websites. The Islamic State of Iraq, which is an umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq and other allied Sunni insurgent factions, also said that its deadline for the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt to release Muslim women that the militant group claims are being held captive has expired. As a result, “all Christian centers, organizations and institutions, leaders and followers, are legitimate targets for the muhajedeen (holy warriors) wherever they can reach them,” the group said. The statement did not specify any one location, raising the specter of violence against Christians across the region.
Al-Qaeda are totally depraved. Inhuman, barbaric, reprehensible, and perverse. So, as Scripture requires and as God demands, we, the followers of Christ, the Prince of Peace, will pray for you, our enemies. That’s our duty. In believing your duty is to slaughter, you show that your brand of ‘Islam’ is nothing less than a lie. I for one much prefer Christ and his call to peace to a ‘faith’ bent on the destruction of others. Such a ‘faith’ is nothing but a farce utterly unworthy of the title ‘faith’.
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Zwinglius Redivivus 
While the World Council of Churches blathers on about its wonderful International Christian-Muslim consultation in Geneva permit me to share with you some comments from an address made to the Catholic Middle East Synod by two Syrian Bishops:
….the blossoming number of Catholic-Muslim dialogue projects has not and may never lead to real understanding.
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……formal Catholic-Muslim dialogues are “difficult and often ineffective,” partially because the Quran tells Muslims they belong to “the only true and complete religion.”
Muslims, he said, come “to dialogue with a sense of superiority and with the certitude of being victorious.”
In addition, the archbishop said, “The Quran allows the Muslim to hide the truth from the Christian and to speak and act contrary to how he thinks and believes.”
Islam does not recognize the equality of men and women and does not recognize the right of religious freedom.
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Bishop Flavien Melki, also a member of the Syrian curia in Lebanon, said that at a time when “fundamentalism is becoming more entrenched in the region,” the idea that dialogue could lead to Muslims accepting secular democracy “seems to be in the domain of utopia.”
“Must we wait for the disappearance of Christians in the Middle East to raise our voices and speak up with force” to call for “liberty, equality and justice for these religious minorities?” Bishop Melki asked.
The bishop said Middle East Christians need the support of the international community to press for the reform of Islamic regimes in the region.
That’s a bit nearer the mark.
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“I for one much prefer Christ and his call to peace to a ‘faith’ bent on the destruction of others. Such a ‘faith’ is nothing but a farce utterly unworthy of the title ‘faith’.”
Thanks Jim. That is just what is required of us to do. The rest is up to our Lord.
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