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Dear Religion Moderator,

The poster calumnied Catholics and the Catholic Church by stating that we worship the daughter of Mohammed, Fatima.

“Catholics and Muslims both worship the false prophetess Fatima and Mary.”

The poster has utterly failed in his/her posts to demonstrate that even MUSLIMS worship Fatima. The rest of the poster’s arguments also fail to show:

- that Catholics worship Mary;
- that Catholics take particular notice of Mohammed’s daughter, Fatima

The poster has confused, for all to see, the fact that one of our Lady’s appearances happened at a TOWN named “Fatima” with the idea that Catholics worship the PERSON named “Fatima.”

I speculate that the poster makes this confusion because he/she sees that Catholics see that this tie could draw MUSLIMS closer to Catholicism. This doesn’t actually say anything about Catholic belief.

Of course, the whole falsehood is even more laughable when one considers the absolute monism of Islam. As a result of the influence of Arianism, Muslims deny that man is made in the image and likeness of God. Rather, they believe that God is wholly other from man, entirely and completely transcendant. Thus, for them, the worship of ANY human being (including Jesus) is considered blasphemy and idolatry. It is not possible, in Islam, for ANY human being to have a divine nature.

That’s kinda one of the reasons they like to cut our heads off - that we worship a man in the person of Jesus.

Thus, although Muslims revere their prophets, including Mohammed and Jesus, and although they look highly on Mary, the mother of Jesus, and highly (though not quite as highly) on Fatima, to accuse them of worship of any of these folks is to entirely misunderstand the whole point of Islam.

Yet, these vile, anti-Catholic, Chick-like posts haven’t been pulled down, and the poster continues to post the falsehoods with impunity.

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Evidently there was a misunderstanding between the place called "Fatima" and the daughter of Mohammad named "Fatima" and an apparition of Mary called "Lady of Fatima" and that people of various beliefs come to the same location by that name to worship.

The claim that Catholics worship Mohammad's daughter, Fatima has been debunked and should not be repeated again on this forum. It would be considered as inflammatory as the false Jesuit Oath which is also not allowed here.