ItƵapp truly an unfortunate coincidence and couldn’t come at a worse time. In just a week and a half America and the world will mark the and Muslims in America and the World will be marking the end of This would be an awkward coincidence at the best of times and has many that traditional celebrations marking the end of a month of fasting might be seen as a Being on edge makes sense simply because so many around the globe are asking what asks this week in its provocative cover story “Is America Islamaphobic?” And what continues to drive the issue is the increasingly ugly argument over the so-called “And even though this is not strictly a Catholic Fight, Catholics are involved, enlisted and cited as examples for both sides. In a issued to mark the end of Ramadan, His Holiness obliquely touched on key tensions, some of which are on the boil throughout the United States. are big issues for the Church and other religious leaders and the confrontation with truly radical Islam is a tricky one, whether it is provoked by the , the , or simply the continuing comparisons made between the Mosque in lower Manhattan and the in Auschwitz which necessitated the intervention of John Paul II in 1993. One example of the use of the story to define the Mosque controversy is captured almost entirely in The Wall Street Journal storyƵapp headline:And for every time the Auschwitz example is used to demonstrate the wisdom of ‘discretion is the better part of valour’ then the irrational is offered as evidence of the need to fight anti-religious bigotry. As Commonweal notes, ”. This is most vivid in a that resurrects the history of the building of Church in New Haven in 1879 and the accompanying bigotry at the time. The stark similarities to the language used today is breathtaking: Catholics were the Muslims of that era, at least as far as the New York Times was concerned. This is a complicated issue withbeing tossed around and you need a clear head to try and sort out and from whatƵapp . You know just how tricky the territory is when noted feels compelled to come who want to build the Mosque.
The Tragedy of the Mosque
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