{"id":3199,"date":"2009-03-12T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2009-03-12T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:55:29","slug":"roman-catholics-grovelling-before-the-altar-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/roman-catholics-grovelling-before-the-altar-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Catholics grovelling before the altar of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/damian_thompson\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/archbishop_nichols_defends_use_of_chapel_for_event_marking_mohammeds_birthday\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Catholics<\/a> competing with Anglicans who, hitherto, have been hogging the Politically Correct pottiness spotlight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Archbishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols, has defended the use of a Catholic university college chapel for an event marking the birthday of Mohammed. Unbelieveable, I know. But here it is:<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued today, Thursday 12 March, Peter Jennings, Press Secretary to the Most Reverend Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Birmingham, and the Archdiocese of Birmingham, said: &#8220;The chapel at Newman University College, Birmingham, was properly prepared for this event which consisted of two talks and a discussion of an interfaith nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jennings added: &#8220;Christian\/Muslin dialogue is an important part of the Catholic Church&#8217;s agenda. College authorities were fully aware of what was taking place.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am sure that <em>Christian\/Muslin dialogue<\/em> is an invigorating undertaking, but what does allowing Islam use of a room dedicated for Christian worship have to do with dialogue? A necessary part of being a Christian is acknowledging Jesus&#8217; divinity; unsurprisingly, no other religion is willing to do that. Therefore, from a Christian perspective, Islam is mistaken on this and all that logically follows from it.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the RC Archbishop of Birmingham is allowing a Christian chapel to be used for a celebration of Mohammed&#8217;s birthday can only mean that he thinks appeasing Muslims is more important than revealed Christian truth.<\/p>\n<p>When will Muslims invite Christians to celebrate Christmas in a mosque? I think Archbishop Vincent Nichols should ask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/dhimmiwatch\/archives\/023863.php\" target=\"_blank\">Anjem Choudary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to see Roman Catholics competing with Anglicans who, hitherto, have been hogging the Politically Correct pottiness spotlight. The Archbishop of Birmingham, Vincent Nichols, has defended the use of a Catholic university college chapel for an event marking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/roman-catholics-grovelling-before-the-altar-of-islam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,75,189],"tags":[2059,2080,2178],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bishops-gone-wild","category-christianity","category-islam","tag-bishops-gone-wild","tag-christianity","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}