Woman Who Proclaimed Jesus During Islamic Prayer Service at National Cathedral: I Love Muslims

Christine Weick, the Christian woman who snuck into the invitation-only Islamic prayer service last Friday afternoon at the Washington National Cathedral, said that although she interrupted the service to proclaim the name of Jesus and tell worshippers inside to stay away from U.S. churches, she loves Muslims.

"God has a love for them. He does, 'God so loved the world.' That includes Muslims. I have a love for them. They are a beautiful people. Most of them are very kind," Weick, 50, told The Christian Post Sunday.

The service held inside the Episcopal church was meant to promote interfaith prayer and improve global relations between Muslims and Christians, according to church and Muslim group organizers.

However, Weick, who is not a stranger to controversy, having also protested at LGBT events, said that when it comes to freedom of religion in America, there is an uneven battlefield. Weick, who wrote the book, Explain This! A Verse by Verse Explanation of the Book of Revelation, is living primarily out of her car while touring book fairs and other various events.

"For those that say this is a country of freedom of religion, then I say let's play fair," she said. "Let us have a Bible study in their mosque. Let me pass out the Bible tracts at their mosque instead of having the police called out on me. Why can't Franklin Graham go into the biggest mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, and hold a prayer vigil on Easter Sunday there? They will not allow it because they are not tolerant of us. They wanted nothing to do with Christianity."

During announcements at the beginning of the prayer service, Weick stood up and shouted, "Jesus Christ died on that cross over there. He is the reason why we are to worship only Him. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior."

She continued, "We have built, and allowed you here in mosques across this country. Why can't you worship in your mosque, and leave our churches alone?"

Weick was then escorted out of the cathedral, and despite a major concern on her part that she would be arrested, she was not. As of Sunday, she said no charges had been filed.

She told CP that as part of her "ministry" she first held signs opposed to gay marriage several years ago.

She said the issues of the legalization of gay marriage and Muslims propagating in the U.S. are similar in that both have "taking over" the country as an end game — one as a moral entity and the other as a religion. She believes one agenda is attacking at "the core of family" and the other is against "the core of American fundamental principles."

"My girlfriend last year sent me an article about the Muslims having put up a huge billboard in Ohio that said 'Jesus is a Muslim,' Weick explained. "My blood boiled again, and then I had a new issue. So I made a sign that said, 'I serve a risen Savior, Jesus Christ. Mohammed is dead' in response to their billboard and went and put it at a mosque in Cleveland."

She said that as a result of holding the sign outside the mosque she was invited to a potluck inside. Weick said that although she was reluctant to do so, she stepped inside the mosque for the potluck because she felt God was telling her to do so. Once inside, she said she shared the Gospel to four Muslim women. Since the experience, she has stood at mosques with her sign on Fridays.

However, Weick questions what some leaders in America believe about the Muslim faith. "If they are such a religion of peace, if they love America and if they profess to be a peaceful and tolerant religion, then allow us to have a Christmas service at a mosque. Let's pray. I guarantee you that will not happen because they do not tolerate it," she said.

When asked about what she would tell others about her experience on Friday, she said: "The main thing that I would tell believers is that it's a battle out there. We need to warrior-up, take on the whole armor of God, we got the helmet of salvation, we got the sword, we need to start fighting and quit compromising. When does the complacency stop? When? When they are completely taking over? When sin has completely eradicated the Bible in every aspect? When we can't even preach from the Bible anymore? That's my concern for the American church because eventually we are not going to be able to get the word out there because it's not going to be allowed and we are headed out that way.

"When are we going to stand up and fight? I don't think God meant for His people to just lay back and do nothing."

No.
Allah was a pagan moon deity worshipped in Mecca pre-Mohammed.
It does NOT mean “God”.
The root of Allah is Al-ilah which means “the god” and is NOT a “proper” direct name of reference like Elohim.
Matter of fact, said moon deity has three daughters, acknowledged by Islam to exist, and they are named: Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat.
There was some buzz awhile back in Islam about whether or not they should worship the daughters of Allah.
[The “moon rock” at Mecca has three pebbles that fell off of it, hence the three daughters.]

Sorry, but you’re just wrong.

I assume you will consider the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1917 to not be overly corrupted with modern multiculturalism.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01316a.htm

For that matter, here’s what it has to say about Elohim, which is from the same root as Allah.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05393a.htm

El, Eloah and Elohim are used in the Hebrew Bible as the common names for God, while he is also given the proper name of Yahweh, Jehovah or YHWH.

The common names for God were also used, BTW, for pagan gods, just as in English.

I am perfectly willing to concede that Muslims misapply the name of God to whatever entity, if any, they are actually worshipping. But you don’t get to make up your own etymology for words simply because they serve a convenient political or polemic purpose.

Here’s an interesting essay on the comparative etymology of Elohim and Allah.

Really?
Premohammed mecca had a complete antheon.
Allah being one of them, a moon deity “married” to the sun deity.
A little research is all you need to do to find it.

Sorry, Islam is in no way a brother religion to Christianity or Judaism.
Look up the islamic practice of abrogation.
It is quite fascinating.

Not a great deal of point in talking to someone who is absolutely positively convinced their opinion is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But I’ll make one last try.

It’s really difficult to research the subject because the interwebs are overrun with Christians loudly proclaiming your POV and Muslims as loudly refuting it. The websites of both sides are in general, shall we say, less than scholarly in their presentations.

So I finally ran across a post by Daniel Pipes, widely considered an Islamaphobe and definitely not an apologist for Islam or Islamism. He agrees that the word Allah is simply the Arabic word for God, equating to God, Dieu, Dios, Gott, Theos and Elohim.

You can of course continue to believe otherwise, but your opinion is not based on good scholarship.

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3228274,103

You have an at first glance a decent point in that the word Allah was probably used to refer to one or more pagan gods before Mohammed. The problem is that the same is true of the word for God in every other language, including Hebrew, Greek and English.

In fact, the Bible text where God commands the Israelites to not worship other gods uses the same word to refer to the other gods and to God himself.

http://biblehub.com/interlinear/exodus/20.htm

I realize you’ve been taught this and believe it, but you might want to consider the possibility that those who taught it to you were mistaken.

SL, you say linguistically speaking Allah and the word God, as used by Christians, connote the same thing. Linguistically speaking, that is not true. Usage determines the meaning of words. By God, Christians mean the Creator God who, after making man in His image, became Incarnate and died on the cross to save His creation [from their willfully committed sins]. This God is love. That is what the Bible teaches.

By Allah, Muslims mean the ‘god’ who delights in the tortured, agonized screams of men, women & children that the Muslims rape, maim and torture to death, often while yelling ‘Allah Akbar’. They are referring to a ‘god’ that doesn’t merely tolerate the most barbaric, sadistic behavior imaginable—he encourages it.

Usage determines the meaning of words. If ‘Allah’ was never used in any context except simply to denote ‘the god’, you would have a point. But Muslims have gone out of their way to define exactly what they mean by ‘Allah’, and nothing could be further than the God of Christianity.

The Bible refers to those who ‘worship demons’. Allah is a demon. Only a demonic entity could delight in the screams and agonized death cries of the innocents that Muslims torture and kill in the name of their ‘god’.

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