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Abuse After Cathedral's Quran Reading Prompts Police Investigation
Christian Today ^ | 1/13/17 | Harry Farley

Posted on 01/13/2017 6:05:08 PM PST by marshmallow

Offensive comments directed at clergy at St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, have prompted a police investigation after the Quran was read at a service last week.

Police Scotland confirmed it is investigating remarks after the Epiphany service contained a recitation from the Islamic holy book denying Jesus was the son of God – a key Christian doctrine.

"Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of hate crime and encourages all communities to continue working together to ensure no one feels threatened or marginalised," a spokesman told Christian Today.

Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth invited the reading from Madinah Javed, a law student from Glasgow, at the January 6 service to celebrate Epiphany, the coming of the Magi to worship Jesus.

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1 posted on 01/13/2017 6:05:08 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

The Koran is a hate crime


2 posted on 01/13/2017 6:07:07 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: marshmallow

What about the “marginalised” Christians?


3 posted on 01/13/2017 6:07:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

Reading the Koran in a Christian church is like going into a synagogue and reading Mein Kampf.


4 posted on 01/13/2017 6:08:29 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

+1


5 posted on 01/13/2017 6:09:58 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (GET OUT OF DONALD'S HOUSE!)
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To: marshmallow
Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth invited the reading from Madinah Javed, a law student from Glasgow, at the January 6 service to celebrate Epiphany, the coming of the Magi to worship Jesus.

the Epiphany service contained a recitation from the Islamic holy book denying Jesus was the son of God – a key Christian doctrine.

So this priest or minister invited a Muslim to recite from a heretical book denying Jesus during the Epiphany mass

WHY would anybody be surprised that someone would take offence to this outrage?

6 posted on 01/13/2017 6:14:39 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: 2banana

The Koran is Mohammed’s “Mein Kampf.”


7 posted on 01/13/2017 6:15:02 PM PST by PGR88
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To: marshmallow

Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth has abused and committed a “hate crime” against parishioners.


8 posted on 01/13/2017 6:17:35 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

That’s a fantastic analogy.


9 posted on 01/13/2017 6:18:29 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: marshmallow

If our minister had pulled a PC stunt like this, he would have been sent packing. But the Episcopal Church glories in their tolerance of ungodly ideas and practice, thinking it makes them superior to those who are steadfast in the teachings of God’s Word.


10 posted on 01/13/2017 6:24:17 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: marshmallow
"Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of hate crime and encourages all communities to continue working together to ensure no one feels threatened or marginalised," a spokesman told Christian Today.


These Scottish police are acting like modern Nazis.
11 posted on 01/13/2017 6:33:44 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: marshmallow
"Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of hate crime and encourages all communities to continue working together to ensure no one feels threatened or marginalised,"

I'm sure the brainless libtard who made that statement, didn't note its crushing irony.

Can you imagine the boiling outrage, if a Christian had read something similar in a Muslim mosque? The streets would already be running with infidel blood.

12 posted on 01/13/2017 7:06:02 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: marshmallow

So in other words, no freedom of speech to criticize the clergy who did this blasphemous travesty.


13 posted on 01/13/2017 7:14:05 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Windflier

Well, no.
Any one Christian who began reading the Gospel in a mosque would end her reading tied up, throat slit, raped, and bleeding into the street. And the democrat-liberal-socialist atheists would be cursing HER for HER hate crime.


14 posted on 01/13/2017 7:14:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: marshmallow
St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow

Episcopal, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary's_Cathedral,_Glasgow

15 posted on 01/13/2017 7:17:20 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Windflier

“Police Scotland will not tolerate any form of hate crime and encourages all communities to continue working together to ensure no one feels threatened or marginalised,”
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The acceptance of islam makes me feel both threatened and marginalized. All Scotland police must now arrest themselves for accessory to hate crime.


16 posted on 01/13/2017 7:25:49 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: marshmallow

What would happen if someone goes into a mosque and reads John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Probably get arrested for a hate crime......


17 posted on 01/13/2017 8:02:36 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

“These Scottish police are acting like modern Nazis.”
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They’re afraid. They’re all afraid.


18 posted on 01/13/2017 8:50:02 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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