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I’m not saying Christians are more to blame than Muslims for the world’s diverse Christian-Muslim tensions. In Nigeria, for example, the intensity of Christian proselytizing comes partly from past persecution by a Muslim majority; the Christians seek safety in numbers, so the bigger their numbers, the better. (Griswold explained this to me, and confirmed that, yes, assertive Christian proselytizing exacerbates tensions in Nigeria.)
Still, even if proselytizing isn’t the prime mover, my guess is that it pretty consistently falls in the “not helpful” category from the point of view of world peace and, ultimately, American security. And some of it — e.g., the “Camel Method” — is particularly antagonistic. Which explains why I’m not a big fan of that first headline, “A Christian Overture to Muslims Has Its Critics.” Overtures, when effective, don’t heighten tensions.
I’d like to be able to report that the “critics” in this headline are Christians who worry about heightening tensions and so refrain from offensive proselytizing. Alas, they’re Christians who favor assertive proselytizing but are offended by any suggestion that Muslims and Christians might worship the same god. One of them, Ergun Caner, president of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, in Lynchburg, Va., said in a recent podcast, “There’s nothing that the two gods — the god of the Koran and the god of scripture — have in common. Nothing.”
Well, to look at the bright side: Maybe that’s a basis for interfaith rapport; Caner can sit around with Malaysian Muslims and agree that they worship different gods.
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2. Jill Woodliff wrote:
I wonder if Mr. Wright has lived in an Islamic nation. I haven’t. This author has: |
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3. StayinAnglican wrote:
What upsets me about this article is that is seems to think that the camel method is a Christian invention. Its not. Muslim proselytizers use it all the time, trying to show how the Bible supports Islam and predicts the coming of Mohammed. (Of course all the stuff in the Bible that contradicts Islam is naturally the result of a corruption of the text.) Not only do Muslims do it but Bahai’s too. In fact, I would bet that all faiths founded post Christianity do the same in their proselytization in some form or another. The reason being that Christ must be dealt with somehow. He has to be tamed and accounted for. He can’t be left on the field as he is in the Bible. But that is another subject I guess. So I don’t see what the big deal is for us to use the same quite successful tactic to win souls to Christ. In order to evangelize isn’t it a fact that some common ground must be established? March 20, 10:31 pm | [comment link] |
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4. driver8 wrote:
In other words this article comes unappealingly close to blaming the victims for their persecution. A more fitting argument would begin by acknowledging the right to religious freedom and note the catastrophic infringements of fundamental human rights that the recent religiously motivated communal violence have inflicted upon the innocent. March 21, 2:29 am | [comment link] |
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1. Allah is God in Arabic. It’s not a technical Koranic term and has been used by Christians in the Middle East as long as they have spoken Arabic (that is for about the last 1000 years).
2. Religious persuasion has as much place in a just society as any other kind of persuasion. Clearly pretending to be of another faith is profoundly unethical (though I suspect that one needn’t look to, shock horror, meddling American fundamentalists or, raise hands in alarm, crazed Nigerian pentecostals to find such a ruse. There’ve been a couple of stories in the United States about Buddhist and Islamic believers suggesting they are also faithful Christian clergy over the last couple of years that the author might have mentioned). However just as clearly, forbidding religious persuasion is a serious abuse of human rights.
3. Whilst critiquing fundamental human rights such as religious freedom isn’t the cause of the persecution of religious minorities it is depressingly “unhelpful” and particularly “antagonistic” in a week in which hundreds of Nigerian christians were murdered.
March 20, 2:42 pm | [comment link]