I noticed that myself. Yet at the same time, as previously linked to by scvw, a mention by one Michelle Arnold at Catholic Answers To Explain and Defend The Faith
Full QuestionPope Benedict XVI has stated that Muslims worship the same God as Christians do. Is this just his private opinion?
Answer
No. The Second Vatican Council taught that Muslims worship the one true God:
The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even his inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. (Nostra Aetate 3)
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The recent papal comments, and along with the above, suggest that the head honchos of the RCC are saying they consider that Muslims (at least some of them?) do worship the same God. (or maybe they are points for good intentions, I dunno...)
As far as I do know, they get Jesus all wrong, saying all sorts of things about Him, not understanding in the slightest...
Coming to mind as I write that last...is Jesus having said "Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." Matthew 12:32
He can forgive Muslims(too) for speaking ill of Him, or not getting details concerning Himself straight. We must do the same.
But I remember too, scenes like this, which tell the tale of what some of their nations and cultures can be like...what is normal enough, what sort of mindset is exhibited, showing a significant portion of them to be among the foulest of men. What else could be expected? Without Christ as Light of the world, bringing light to even the interior recesses of the human soul, what can be the result, but darkness? They may make big noises about the immorality of the West (not entirely unfounded complaint), but what Islam produces in civilizations where it holds sway, isn't as "godly" & glorious as it's cracked up to be. There can be struggle there, for basic decency.
You're probably aware of this sort of thing;
Guys like the denistry student, Kandily are fighting an uphill battle. If he is still alive(?).
http://uncut.indexoncensorship.org/2013/02/the-battle-to-keep-women-in-tahrir-square/
however, the facts are that Islam started off as an offshoot of one heresy -- Arianism, mixed with Judaic ideas and pre-Islamic arabic religion and bedouin nationalism
Taking it logically, it is a very smart plan to unite people to create an empire and it still works -- people in Pakistan and Indonesia like to believe they are Arabs and Arabs are the true "master Race" -- why truly speaking even Egyptians and Syrians are not "Arabs" -- only the Nejdi Bedos are really arabs