The bishop is well meaning but naive. Thousands of other well meaning bishops tried similar approaches in the formerly 100% Christian (and some Jewish) countries of Eygpt, Syria, Algeria, Libya, etc, etc. Christians in these nations were all murdered until essentially extinct over 1400 years of Islam. The ancestors of most muslims today were once Christians.
Agreed. My Maronite Catholic pastor, who speaks 8 languages fluently, including Arabic, recently attended one of these 'feel good' Muslim/Catholic sessions. He quickly ascertained that its purpose was to assuage catholics that muslims were of a similar bent. When the Q & A session commenced, he raised his hand and was given the floor. He opened the English language version of the Koran and quoted from it the excerpt where 'all non Muslims are infidels' deserving death. The eyes of all assembled riveted on my pastor, then turned towards the presenter.
The Arabic speaking moderator smiled and suggested that he had 'misunderstood' the passage. Father then opened the Arabic Language version of the Koran and quoted the same citation. He assured the speaker that he understood perfectly and asked that she give the body of catholics assembled, an explanation of this passage. She turned visibly red in the face, mumbled something unintelligible and moved on to the next question. Thereafter, she ignored his raised hand completely.
Anticipating such a response, he brought along one of our Arabic speaking parishioners to pose another question. By the end of the evening, he was sufficiently satisfied that enough pearla of doubt were cast into the minds of the 'catholic sheeples' assembled.
What a blessing to have a middle-eastern, catholic pastor who is very familiar with the Koran and its lies.