Posted on 11/02/2010 7:46:57 AM PDT by Colofornian
Just dropping in today to share an item published last week in the St Louis Beacon. A nice piece with some sensitive reporting by Kristen Hare explores the experience of the Muslim community in St Charles, which in recent years has grown to some 100 families. The group’s leaders have encountered difficulties in securing a worship space of their own for Friday prayers, so they turned to the broader religious community for support. Here’s where the Mormons came in.
In 2007, Deborah Coffey, an LDS member, helped start the Interfaith Partnership of St. Charles County. The group has interfaith dialogue meetings once a month; and, through them, she got to know [Muslim community leader Mir] Asif. He told the group there was no community center in St. Charles, though they hoped to build one, and the Muslim community in the county needed a place for Friday prayers.
Coffey started asking around. At first, one church thought it could help, but backed out after the congregation feared a community backlash.
So Coffey went to her church and got approval. Since then, a group of Muslims in St. Charles arrives at the LDS chapel each Friday. While they offered to rent the space, Coffey says there’s no charge, though the group does make a donation. And in the LDS congregation, at least, there haven’t been any problems with the relationship.
“From what I have seen, the members of our church have been very enthusiastic about it,” she says.
Now every Friday a group of men arrive at the church, carry their prayer rugs into the basketball gym (just about every LDS meetinghouse has one), and begin their prayer. The article goes on to probe the future of the Muslim community in St Louis and the challenges and opportunities afforded by the region...
(Excerpt) Read more at interact.stltoday.com ...
Islam and the LDS church have a lot in common. They’re both cults, started on the word of one wild-eyed, pedophile fanatic.
The Catholic-Muslim Studies Program is dedicated to building bridges of mutual understanding and profound respect between Muslims and Christians. The vision of this program is to create significant opportunities for the relationship between Muslims and Christians to deepen, and to reflect only the noblest values and highest ideals of their common spiritual heritage.Our church regularly includes in our prayer time that God would turn people away from the muslim faith to a faith in Christ -- and at one time we used Muslim outreach and common meetings to acheive that goal.
Birds of a feather flock together.
So, by offering use of their meetinghouse, are you saying they are setting up a possible jihad shop?
When muslims stop screaming die you infidel at Christians and Jews then I'll respect them. Interesting however that muslims have no problem with lds - wonder why?
No M you are saying that.
lds think you are Gentile, muslim think you should die....... interesting that they are binding together and you defend them.
Silly wabbits!
Jihad is for infidels!!!
Holy taqqiya, Batmorman, the chickens have come home to roost!!!
That's true.
Not saying anything new to the informed here; The system of islam is incompatible with a free society and the freedom to worship as one chooses. To align one’s self with that system is to lend credibility to it.
I’m surprised that islam is now viewed as potentially favorable when the antis are railed against because “There’s a greater threat than those mormons, there’s them there muzzies chopping people’s head off we need to be worried about!”
Yet here the mormons are, sharing worship space and aligning themselves with an idealogy the promotes world capitulation in the name of their pedophile. (at least the two have something really in common, pedophiles created their religions)
You could actually read her posts first instead of just looking at the responses...I understand that you and the other anti-Mormons like equating Islam with LDS...it’s good sport for you...makes all conservatives look good when you do it ... magritte
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One meetinghouse becomes plural.
Tell us, Magritte, what % of the mosques here in this country & in the West advocate jihad (at least privately)? 10%? 20%? 30%? Higher%? How many groups operating among Mormon meetinghouses would it take, %-wise, before you have one or two or more that doesn't eschew jihad?
What's more...what a perfect place for Muslims to try to fit in "seamlessly" into the culture...meetings where the Mormons worship...as they worship the Muslim-Mormon god.
No mags, it's not a sport. The LdS and their "defenders" may like to think it's a game, but I don't. There have been many posts that demonstrate the mormons [JS = 2nd muhammad] equating themselves with islam, the anti's don't need to do that.
Mormons have historically and now presently, allied themselves with an idealogy/theology that is incompatible with both the Jewish and Christian idealogies/theologies, yet, insist that they are to be called/considered Christian.
2 John 7-11
7Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.
Take note of the last verse.
I'm all for dialogue and establishing relationships. (I mean how else do you share the gospel with Muslims unless you first establish relationships)
That's not the same thing as every church or every Mormon church becoming a mini-Mosque every Friday!!!
...and to reflect only the noblest values and highest ideals of their common spiritual heritage.
Well, this needs to be unpacked. Islam is not a break-off of any Judeo or Christian. Muhammad took a hodge-podge of things...gnostic writings like the Gospel of Thomas...2nd-hand stories about OT prophets...visits from a demon masquerading as Gabriel...
I mean what? If you come up with verbal sayings that others write down -- sayings that include some OT figures and mentions Jesus -- that's a "common heritage" as Christianity? (I can't believe Catholics are so duped so as to reference their heritage the same as Muslims, which started 600 years after Christ had already been resurrected).
The historic move follows three days of talks in Rome between Vatican officials and a Muslim delegation representing 138 Muslim scholars who last year wrote an open letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders calling for dialogue, a move inspired by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammed bin Talal of Jordan.
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Last week Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Pontifical Council for Inter Religious Dialogue, attended an inter-faithconference in Cairo sponsored by Al Azhar University, seen as the intellectual centre of Sunni Islam. In a gesture toward Muslim sensitivities he issued a joint statement with Sheikh Abdel Fattah Alaam, chairman of the Al-Azhar Dialogue Committee, "strongly condemning" the "re-publication of offensive cartoons and the rising number of attacks against Islam and its Prophet".
Good verse & application, CB.
I’m no fan of sharing worship space. Although my church for a time worshipped in a 7th-day adventist building.
I can’t imagine opening our church up to a non-christian religious organization for anything other than an outreach program to save the lost.
But as you know, the Mormon sunday “worship” buildings aren’t really their sacred places.
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