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by Douglas Murray
• January 25, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The section of
the Quran that a Muslim student recited at the church service points
out the Islamic belief that Jesus was not the Son of God. Even in
today's Britain, this does not seem quite the view that leaders of the
national church are supposed to propagate.
- "The
justification offered that it engages some kind of reciprocity founders
on the understandable refusal of Islamic communities to read passages
from the Gospel in Muslim prayers announcing the Lordship of Christ.
It never happens.... apologies may be due to the Christians suffering
dreadful persecution at the hands of Muslims in the Middle East and
elsewhere. To have the core of a faith for which they have suffered
deeply treated so casually by senior western clergy such as the
Provost of Glasgow is unlikely to have a positive outcome." —
Reverend Gavin Ashenden, The Times.
- "I resigned
in order to be able to speak more freely about the struggle that
Christianity is facing in our culture. I had no idea that there were
plans afoot by a Scottish Cathedral to 'reach out to Muslims' by
scrapping a Bible reading from their worship on the Feast of the
Epiphany (when Christ's Lordship is celebrated as the Light of the
World) and replacing it with a part of the Koran that denied Jesus was
the Son of God.... it represented one more step along a road, which if
the Church continues to follow, will speed up the destruction of
Christianity in our country." — Reverend Gavin Ashenden, The
Times.
- In a nation much
in need of heroes, an Anglican Reverend has stepped forward, putting
his sincere and serious beliefs ahead of the unserious and insincere
pieties of our time. Everybody -- secular or religious -- has cause to
feel enormous gratitude.
Reverend Gavin Ashenden. (Image source: Anglican TV
video screenshot)
Very occasionally -- even in contemporary Britain -- some good news
arrives. No single piece of news has been more invigorating than the
discovery that a member of the clergy of the Church of England has found a
vertebra.
In recent years, the British public have become used to a steady
succession of bad-news stories from the purveyors of the Good News. This has
taken every imaginable form, from the former Bishop of Oxford suggesting in
the House of Lords that the Quran could be recited at the next coronation
service, to the former Archbishop of Canterbury -- Rowan Williams --
notoriously suggesting that a place should be found for Islamic sharia in
the law of the land.
by Diliman Abdulkader
• January 25, 2017 at 4:00 am
- Many of the Kurds
affected by these ruling powers did not want to separate, but simply
to be able to live a peaceful and stable life; the push for a state
was the creation of the states themselves, through their oppression of
the Kurds.
- Kurdistan offers
an opportunity for all its citizens to look towards an inclusive,
pluralistic society where religious freedom is not only tolerated, but
encouraged.
- Kurds respect
both the Sunnis and the Shiites within their territories and have
strong ties with the only Jewish state in the Middle East. A Kurdish
state has the potential to bring amity to an otherwise unstable
region.
(Image source: Joaoleitao/Wikimedia Commons)
Many international bodies including the United Nations, the European
Union, and the Arab League continue to push for a Palestinian state, while
ignoring calls for a Kurdish one. For far too long, the Arab, Turkish and
Iranian peoples and leaderships have used the Israeli-Palestinian issue as
justification for their own problems.
Without acknowledging the "Kurdish question," which spans
four major states -- Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey -- the Middle East will
have trouble achieving stability.
The goal of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been
used by Arabs, Turks and Iranians in the Middle East as a cover to deflect
criticism away from their own indifferent leadership. The 22 existing Arab
States, along with Turkey and Iran, can easily establish a homeland for the
Palestinians, but they are not interested in doing so. The goal of these
states is not to create another Arab state, but to eradicate an only Jewish
state.
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