Posted on 04/24/2015 2:17:58 PM PDT by NYer
Imam says linen cloth believed to be the burial shroud of Jesus invites us to be "brothers"
TURIN — “We decided to come as a sign, to say that we are citizens of this country and city. The Shroud draws Christians and Muslims, and in a world marked by division, it invites us to be brothers.”
This message of peace and dialogue came Wednesday from a group of Muslims who visited the Holy Shroud of Turin now on display at northern Italian city’s Cathedral. The delegation included the President of the League of Imams and Preachers of Mosques in Italy, Mohamed Bahreddine, and the spokesman for the Intercultural Center Mecca, Amir Younes.
“We need to be strong and say ‘no’ to every form of violence and terrorism, and ‘yes’ to coexistence: today we truly need this,” the delegation explained, recalling that “representatives of the Church always attend our celebrations at the end of Ramadan.”
Bahreddine described the moments passed before the Shroud as “a journey in time and history, in which we saw the figure of Jesus in the vision of our Christian brothers,” ANSA reported.
“There is something here that touches one’s soul,” added Younes, “and when this happens it is because one is in the realm of religion. We have looked on it as a moment that brings people together towards peace, a moment which we need very much today; and this is what we hope will also happen in our own regions, where war is waged for nothing.”
“I am pleased about participation,” commented Don Augusto Negri, director and chairman of the Diocesan Centre for Christian-Islamic dialogue. It signals “a desire for integration and acceptance of religious and cultural differences.”
Translation from the Italian by Diane Montagna
Ping!
FYI ping!
Hide the silverware...and most especially, hide the linen.
As long as you know your place as filthy infidels
I wouldn’t trust any muslim to any degree.
Pray for the conversion of ALL to Christ.
Will a Christian delagation be invited to mecca? Will muslims take the sign which says muslims only on the road to mecca?
Given a chance they would destroy it. . .see ISIS and the Taliban in Afghanistan before we went into that cesspool.
Shut down your schools. Put your rebels in prison. Renounce islam....it is not a religion. It’s a political system.
"...and for their saying, 'We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, the Messenger of God' -- yet they did not slay him, neither crucified him."The only question is whether the participating "Catholic" Dhimmi clergy were dupes or co-conspirators.Quran 4:157 (Link)
I wouldn’t let the moozlums anywhere near the shroud. Maybe they’d have a “workplace violence” moment or something.
I remember that show, (Half Hour News Hour?) but I thought it was terrible, myself. I do think that they are pretty funny on “Red Eye”, though.
By your logic, the half-Jewish, half-pagan Samaritans discredit the Divinity of Yahweh.
Trust a muslim as long as you still have a full mag. If you don’t I like my SOG tomahawk or my fathers K-bar USMC WWII combat knife. If range is not your friend that day than sticky hands and cold steal are.
well, you’re probably intelligent so that would explain the difference in tastes :)
red eye was great with gutfeld, not without. And once his repulsive sidekick left, it went downhill too
casing the joint to bomb it later?
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