British Muslims Offended by Christians Praying during Ramadan

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2008-09-02 21:15

A quote from Cranmer on his blog, 2 September 2008

A Christian group in Oxford has apologised to the city’s Muslims for having the audacity to organise a day of prayer during Ramadan. Oxfords Muslims found it ‘ill-conceived and insensitive’, not to mention ‘grossly insulting and inflammatory’.

The Muslim Education Centre of Oxford (MECO) has accused the Evangelical group ‘Open Doors UK’ of preaching ‘evangelical propaganda’.

Do not Muslims preach Islamic propaganda? Do the Christians in Oxford complain about this? Would the Muslims of Oxford apologise or even care if the Christians did complain about it?

But the greatest offence was taken because the Christians had dared to refer to their event as a ‘Call to Prayer’. Apparently, only Muslims may now use this term [...]

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Interfaith appeal

Submitted by golfdad on Wed, 2008-09-03 03:08.

Oh exalted muslim, can you ever in your boundless Mohammedan magnimity find it in your heart to forgive me for breathing and, thereby, wasting precious oxygen intended solely for consumption by believers? 
Yes, Master, I will be pleased to grovel.  How low?  Shall I dig a trench -- or a grave?

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Translation & Diversions

Submitted by Akira on Wed, 2008-09-03 00:36.

Perhaps the meaning is, "Typical 'modern' schismatic pseudo-'christians' engaged in Muslim apologetics."

Interesting that this report comes from someone who's named himself after a too-clever-by-half, scheming, fornicating cleric who was an apologist for the Roman schismatics, and then was an apologist for the Zwinglian, Lutheran and Melanchthonitic (etc. a.n.) cultists, and then recanted his beliefs in order to save his life, and then recanted his recantations when he realized his recantations wouldn't save his life.

England's ruin and confusion were initiated and established many years ago. Ephemeral imperial glory has just distracted most people from that fact for a few centuries.

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The times they are a changin'

Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Tue, 2008-09-02 22:54.

"A Christian group in Oxford has apologised to the city's Muslims for having the audacity to organise a day of prayer during Ramadan".
 
I don't suppose there is any need to ask the question, in which sense of the word did these Christians "apologise"?
 
 
http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-apo1.htm
 
 
No, I didn't think so. 
 
 

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