{"id":9893,"date":"2010-09-20T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9893"},"modified":"2010-09-20T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:37:47","slug":"an-anglican-priest-who-understands-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/an-anglican-priest-who-understands-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anglican priest who understands Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>, where he had this to say about those speaking out against the Islamization of the West and the ground-zero mosque:<\/p>\n

There is this idea floating around that those who are speaking up about\u00a0Islamic radicalism must be bigots and therefore they must be ignorant. Ironically the loudest critics of Islam are usually the ones who have studied the fundamentals of Islam the most rigorously. Those crying \u201cbigot\u201d can be the most ignorant, and will come up with absolute howlers, real nonsense, spoken with a poker face as it were the most serious thing in the world.\u00a0They decry accurate and reliable information about Islam as \u201cIslamophobic facts,\u201d just as the Soviet courts used to reject what they called \u201ccalumnious facts.\u201d<\/p>\n

When non-Muslims go into interfaith dialogue without a good understanding of Islam, they are severely handicapped. The dialogue can easily be manipulated to become an exercise in da\u2019wa, or proclaiming Islam. A good example is the label \u201cAbrahamic faith.\u201d This is a Koranic term, and in Islam it stands for the idea that Abraham was a Muslim. According to the Koran, the faith of Abraham is Islam. Getting Jews and Christians to speak about \u201cAbrahamic religions\u201d has been a great coup \u2013 it is a manifestation of the Islamization of our religious discourse.<\/p>\n

The problem of dialogue is especially acute if your Muslim counterpart subscribes to the doctrine of taqiyya, which favors the use of misleading impressions, or even direct lies. Everyone involved in interfaith dialogue with Muslims needs to understand that under certain circumstances \u2013 for example, if Muslims feel threatened \u2013 giving a misleading impression could be regarded as a righteous act. Not all Muslims will go down this track, but for some it is a real option, and there are plenty of clear examples of it happening all around us. In The Third Choice<\/em> I give a very clear explanation of the doctrine of taqiyya, and explain how it arises in Islamic theology, how it is being\u00a0taught by Muslims, and how it is being applied today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So perhaps the suspicion that the cultural centre cum Anglican Ladies Tea-room is really just a cover for a victory mosque isn’t so far off the mark. Shocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here, where he had this to say about those speaking out against the Islamization of the West and the ground-zero mosque: There is this idea floating around that those who are speaking up about\u00a0Islamic radicalism must be bigots and … Continue reading →<\/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":[189],"tags":[407,2159,2178],"class_list":["post-9893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-anglicanism","tag-ground-zero-mosque","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893","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=9893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}