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Sojourn
Peace be with you Abz,
This is not the type of spotlight a Muslim should want. Islam is being portrayed as a violent religion and Muslims as a dangerous subversive minority that will kill to get there way. If there is any fear, it is over violence that Muslims may cause and this is unfortunate because most Muslims don't condone these actions. Even Muslims who believe that in an *Islamic* state there should punishment for mocking Muhammad do not condone vigilantism in secular nations. Unfortunately these types of acts have a polarizing affect and the propaganda machine that is the Media will use it against Muslims. And believe me, as a Catholic I know all too well just how the Media bashes and distorts truths, so I completely sympathize with my Muslim friends who have been facing bombardment by the propaganda mills. The difference I would say is that Catholics do pose an *intellectual* threat to the secular West, being that we call back our people to faith in God and following the natural law which the secularists detest, and this is the type of "threat" you want to pose to the West, and not a threat of physical harm. So I disagree with you that this type of spotlight is good for the Muslim community or that it will help people approach Islam in accurate and non distorted way.
Peace to those who repent, submit, and believe in God and All of His Messengers.
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POLISH TV: ''Guerilla-killed Paris blasphemers of Christianity are not triumph of freedom of speech. It is disgusting pathology''
Publication time: 9 January 2015, 09:36*
According to Poland's news portal*W Polityce, Tomasz Terlikowski, head of the Polish mainstream TV station Telewizija Republika, called the people who attacked the Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo, guerillas (partyzantami).
He also referred to them as "fighters inspired by the belief in eternal life, which the Europeans no longer have (bojownikami wyposażonymi w wiarę w życie wieczne, której Europejczykom już brak)".
He recalled that the cleaned-up Parisian magazin published blasphemous cartoons against the Christian Holy Trinity.
Mr. Terlikowski in particular writes:"I just can not understand the people in the West which write today: "Je suis Charlie, I am Charlie" (name of the magazine, published by Paris blasphemers - KC)". You can not fall into such nonsense as to agree with their methods, and their system of values that are harmful to others.
World War III or IV surrounds all kinds of squaring the circle. Leftist and liberal circles were in favor of multiculturalism, which explains the presence of Muslims in Europe, and then they become the main victims of this presence. Some people in their community abandon "tolerance for the enemies of tolerance".
The conservatives, especially Christians, have to fight against such phenomena as Charlie Hebdo, together with the followers of Muhammad (may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him - KC). But Muslims do not recognize us as partners. In extreme cases, we are also to be destroyed, along with liberals and leftists.
As a result, both worlds - conservative and leftist liberal - experience cognitive dissonance.
And there are no Christian commandos so far.
The leftists convened on Monday in a demonstration in defense of Islam, and on Tuesday against it.
Probably, the same people participated in both of them, indicating a split of their personalities.
Christians now killed in the Middle East a lot more people than those killed in Charlie Hebdo. I have to say that Charlie Hebdo is not a triumph of freedom of speech. It is a random disgusting pathology.
Muslims have a civilization much more complicated and possibly more effective. But after all, papacy lost its divisions. This is perhaps a consequence of the Gospel, but it is always possible to discuss details and limitations ..."
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