16/3 – 2010
There are people that no one really loves, because no one really knows, and that no one really knows, because no one really loves, and this people are the Muslim people. I feel the duty to dedicate my whole life to making them known and loved by the Christians”.
Louis Massignon
Dear Madam,
Allow me to comment on the article The Cross and the Crescent on the monthly magazine of the Parish.
Your article deals with both Islam and the Islamic, (I would call them Muslims); in the case of the Muslims the header of the article could very well take up the quotation from Massignon.
As for Islam, I think some passages of the article are misleading and confusing, making Islam appear almost a derivation of Christianity. It is a strategy adopted by Islam to conquer Jerusalem as far back as 638AD. The massacres of Otranto and Rome precede the first Crusade. Even today, the strategy of setting foot in the West through Islamic enclaves and conversions based on ignorance and rain money is repeated: how many times have I heard Christians say “but we are all equal there is no difference! This is the impression that your article in the Bulletin of the Parish could provoke! (files 1-3 attached)