Can a Muslim Be Ecumenical?
The answer is no.
During the solemn convocation for the Virginia Tech victims yesterday the people of the united states were treated to another occasion to be offended by the muslim mindset of conquest and anti-assimilation into the culture.
What do I mean? The religious traditions represented there were, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish and Muslim. The Muslim spoke first and invoked "Allah" in his speech. That is to be expected but I was offended nonetheless. In a service which is supposed to be ecumenical all other parties that believe in God used the English word "God" to generically designate the deity. Like the Higher Power of Alcoholics Anonymous, "God" is easy to swallow, covering nearly every idea of the Creator. "Allah", however, has too much baggage attached to it, in my view, to be mentioned at all. A god who is associated with violence should not be invoked at the memorial to victims of a violent and terroristic crime. The Imam who spoke should have been afforded what most religious are in the public arena...the right to speak without naming names...
For more opinion on this see-->"University convocation told of Allah, not Jesus" at WND.
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During the solemn convocation for the Virginia Tech victims yesterday the people of the united states were treated to another occasion to be offended by the muslim mindset of conquest and anti-assimilation into the culture.
What do I mean? The religious traditions represented there were, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish and Muslim. The Muslim spoke first and invoked "Allah" in his speech. That is to be expected but I was offended nonetheless. In a service which is supposed to be ecumenical all other parties that believe in God used the English word "God" to generically designate the deity. Like the Higher Power of Alcoholics Anonymous, "God" is easy to swallow, covering nearly every idea of the Creator. "Allah", however, has too much baggage attached to it, in my view, to be mentioned at all. A god who is associated with violence should not be invoked at the memorial to victims of a violent and terroristic crime. The Imam who spoke should have been afforded what most religious are in the public arena...the right to speak without naming names...
For more opinion on this see-->"University convocation told of Allah, not Jesus" at WND.
Labels: Imams, Islam in America
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