“The Queen’s chaplain has criticised a church that allowed a Koran reading during a service, saying that it should apologise to Christians ‘suffering dreadful persecution at the hands of Muslims’. The Rev Gavin Ashenden said that the fallout from the decision provided a lesson in the limitations of interfaith dialogue.”
At last, some common sense on this issue, and a refreshing departure from the tired Leftist multiculturalist platitudes that the cathedral offered up in its own defense.
“Queen’s chaplain condemns Koran reading in cathedral,” by David Sanderson, The Times, January 17 2017:
The Queen’s chaplain has criticised a church that allowed a Koran reading during a service, saying that it should apologise to Christians “suffering dreadful persecution at the hands of Muslims”.
The Rev Gavin Ashenden said that the fallout from the decison [sic] provided a lesson in the limitations of interfaith dialogue.
Dr Ashenden was responding to the decision by a Glasgow cathedral to allow the reading of a passage from the Koran that teaches that Jesus is not the son of God during a service to mark the feast of the Epiphany on January 6.
Muslims regard Jesus as a prophet but deny the divine nature ascribed to him in Christian teachings….