Will this course discuss how the term “Islamophobia” was chosen by Muslim Brotherhood organizations as a weapon to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others? Will it explore the 1,400-year history of jihad warfare against Christians, and investigate the role of Islamic texts and teachings in inciting that warfare? Will it discuss the status of the subjugated dhimmis under Islamic law? Will it explore the industry of faked anti-Muslim hate crimes? Will it show how those who are accused of being part of the fictional “Islamophobia industry” are vilified with ad hominem attacks, but never actually shown to be making false statements?
No to all questions.
Will there be a course at any Islamic theological school, teaching about Muslim hatred of Christians, “the most vile of created beings” according to Qur’an 98:6?
No again.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Summer @CTU,” Catholic Theological Union (scroll down):
Islam, Muslims & Islamophobia: A Catholic Response
Scott Alexander
This course will cover the epidemic of Islamophobia in contemporary U.S. American society. Its aim is: to assess the extent of the problem, including statistics regarding anti-Muslim hate crimes and an analysis of the so-called “Islamophobia industry”; to explore and deconstruct negative and harmful anti-Muslim stereotypes, particularly as key elements of dominant mainstream media, “alt-right” media, and social media narratives; and to articulate a ‘Catholic response’ based on Catholic social teaching, theology of interreligious dialogue, and the longstanding praxis of Catholic-Muslim dialogue in the U.S. in which Catholic Theological Union has played a significant role.
Terry Gain says
Will this course include an examination of Islamic supremacism, Islamic xenophobia, Islamic totalitarianism, Islamic violence, the Islamic doctrine of conquest and the irrationality of a religion which promises a carnal paradise.
m says
“Islamophobia” is a word whose aim is to stop people from thinking analytically about jihad terrorism.
‘Islamophobia’ is a FALLACY IN REASONING … a TROJAN-HORSE term, a Strawman Fallacy or a Frankenword or a ‘Cheap Shot’ or a Conflation of the Legitimate Dislike of an Ideology with an Unfair Prejudice against People or the Self-Righteousness Fallacy or a Question-begging Strategy or a Definist Fallacy to Declare Victory prior to Discussion in order to Prevent all Reasoned Debate about Islamic Ideology.
Islam is primarily political, so criticism of Islam is primarily political science.
CRUSADER says
‘Islamophobia’ —
A control word used by Muslims and the Left to try and silence and shout down any criticism of Islam by inferring that there is something wrong with you.
A phobia is an irrational hatred or fear. There is nothing irrational about fearing or hating or rejecting Islam which is a violent, divisive, backward, supremacist and intolerant ideology.
It wants complete control over your life, including punishment for challenging or rejecting its authority.
Women, Jews, gays and non-believers have good reason to fear islam, it has a track record of actual violence, and threats of violence to anyone who dares to challenge or criticise it.
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J D.S says
Correct!…The answers to these questions is a big NO! The word “catholic” means universal and I don’t think there is a UNIVERSAL belief in this fiasco of a course on the muslim brotherhood made up word “islamophobic …Now the words “Roman Catholic” are a different bird altogether..and the Roman Catholic Church with it’s present leader is going down a rocky path with many of their programs in tow.
Emilie Green says
Course to be conducted by Scott Alexander,
Professor of Islamic Studies at Catholic Theo Union
Director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
Chair, Department of Intercultural Studies and Ministry
Here’s his own write-up,
https://ctu.edu/faculty/scott-alexander/
He seems incredibly Islamophilic to the point almost being one of them given how much he’s an apologist from Islam. Certainly not for Christianity.
From his link-in page,
“I am Roman Catholic Christian whose life has been immeasurably blessed and enriched by Islam and Muslims.”
Odd that he would say such a thing. Christians find their blessing and their salvation from Jesus.
mortimer says
Nonsense to say he is a “Christian whose life has been immeasurably blessed and enriched by Islam”.
Islam IMPOVERISHES Christians … the most important ways this is done are the JIZZYA TAX and the PACT OF OMAR.
Alexander has probably not read a manual of Reliance of the Traveller, the Pact of Omar, Islamic history, Bukhari, the tafsirs, the Sira and would know that those are the primary sources of Islam. Anyone who has not read those items are UNSTUDIED and thus UNQUALIFIED to define what Islam is.
Scott Alexander is fraudulent. He does not know that Islam is primarily political. The purpose of Islam is to IMPOVERISH all religious communities while enriching Islam.
mgoldberg says
He wouldn’t read R Spencer, a catholic. Someone send him this recommendation:
Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to Action, Doubleday, 2007, ISBN 978-0-385-52378-3.
mgoldberg says
This is a book by the Catholic professor, George Weigel
mortimer says
Yes, Goldberg, members of that church have no excuse for following the hot, steaming TWADDLE that Alexander is shovelling. There are many excellent theologians in the RCC who have analyzed and continue to analyze Islam according to an IN-DEPTH study of Islam, rather than a petulant VIRTUE SIGNALLING about the conflation of a VICIOUS IDEOLOGY with individuals who are Muslims IN NAME ONLY.
60% of Islam or more CANNOT be practiced in the modern world due to HUMAN RIGHTS CODES that forbid most of Islam’s important activities.
Islam is incompatible with modernity.
gravenimage says
What a useful idiot Scott Alexander is–thanks for that information, Emilie.
Here’s more stupidity, from his Catholic Theological Union page:
Scott has been studying, teaching, and writing about Islam and Muslim-Christian relations for over 35 years. The focus of his life’s ministry is building bridges of reconciliation, mutual understanding, and solidarity for justice between Muslims and Christians in the U.S. and abroad. As a self-described “scholar-activist,” Scott devotes considerable energy to challenging structures of Islamophobia and other forms of systemic bigotry and marginalization. His most recent scholarly research focuses on the role of triumphalism in Christian-Muslim relations and deals with the inherent contradiction between religious claims to universal truth and the religiously motivated desire to impose this truth on others as a means of political and cultural domination.
https://ctu.edu/faculty/scott-alexander/
Note that last bit–where he doesn’t say that Christians are not imposing their views on Muslims, but Muslims constantly and violently impose their views on Christians and all other Infidels.
mortimer says
Thanks for that research, GI. As for Islam NOT being ‘supremacist’, try the KORAN on for size, Alexander.
K.9.33 Mohsin Khan: It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad SAW) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it SUPERIOR OVER ALL RELIGIONS even though the Mushrikun (polytheists, disbelievers) hate (it).”
Islam is BY DEFINITION completely ‘SUPREMACIST’.
gravenimage says
+1
Rufolino says
These Christian hyper-exponents of Islam are off their head, deranged, and certainly delusional.
CRUSADER says
“Islamophobia” is a term bandied about with much matter-of-fact conduct. But what is the definition of this much ballyhooed word? And is it over-used and thereby does an injustice to critical thought?
Phobia is a fear, but an irrational fear. Take arachno-phobia for instance. There is this definition: an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
So who is it that makes the determination that this fear is “extreme”? And isn’t alright to have an aversion toward something which one deems potentially dangerous?
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CRUSADER says
Signs and symptoms
People with arachnophobia tend to feel uneasy in any area they believe could harbor spiders or that has visible signs of their presence, such as webs.
Reasons
Arachnophobia may be an exaggerated form of an instinctive response that helped early humans to survive,[4] or a cultural phenomenon that is most common in predominantly European societies.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnophobia
keith Oades says
I must ask if the Catholic church will also own up to similar behaviors throughout history.
For instance, the witch trials in Europe, the inquisition in Spain (which is still going under the name of “the office of the Holy See”)
Child abductions in Both Canada and Australia.
Child rapes across the world.
And of course the extermination of any races or countries who refused to convert to Catholicism.
I’M NOT trying to defend Islam, I am just pointing out the FACT that others throughout history have tried the world dominance route without success.
Islam needs to be relegated to the pages of a history book, just like the dying influence of the Vatican.
Terry Gain says
Oades
You are engaging in ridiculous false equivalencies. You are dishonest and unhinged. Our civilization owes its enlightenment to Christianity.
keith Oades says
Really? I gain my information from the accepted histories of the world.
If you are unable to understand that concept then, perhaps you can read my comment again.
At no point did I mention Christianity, which in it’s purest form is a beautiful concept and practice/religion.
I SPOKE ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE VATICAN.
You know, the organisation that only now is being held to account for the endemic sexual assaults of children and the cover up that has been going on for centuries!
An organisation so backward that the Vatican only admitted in the last few years that the earth is indeed round!
Wellington says
Well, keith Oades, you are gaining your information from bogus sources, which you have characterized as “accepted histories,” and I write this as one who is not religious in the least.
First of all, per your initial post, the burning of witches (ridiculous to be sure) occurred just as much in Protestant controlled areas post-1517 as in Catholic areas. Think the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials of 1692 as an example of Protestant extremism.
Second, the Spanish Inquisition ceased to exist in 1834. Or didn’t you know this? Besides, in the entire history of this religious judicial body (respecting which I am no fan of), from the late 15th century to the early 19th century, fewer people were put to death in the over 300 year duration of this ecclesiastical body than the number of people put to death by Muslims acting in the name of their profoundly warped religion in any SINGLE entire year (2002-2018) since 9/11. Or didn’t you know this? Here I am with Terry Gain who has rightly accused you of “false equivalencies.”
Third, though the Catholic Church has had its share of sinners, including its clergy, the same could be said of the Protestant world. Per capita, I know of no evidence that Catholics have engaged in outrageous moral behavior (and thus betraying their faith) more so than have Protestants.
I sense a rank bias against the Catholic Church by you. Have you no knowledge respecting the Church’s many achievements, for instance, Gregorian Chant, Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque architecture, the intellectual architecture of such sterling minds as Erigena, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham and Duns Scotus, Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture, the opening of untold numbers of schools and hospitals in Europe, North America and elsewhere which have done so much good (I myself went through 12 years of Catholic education which greatly benefited me in such areas as English grammar, Latin and biology even though I became invincibly ignorant respecting any religious belief).
Your turn if you care. If you can.
gravenimage says
Good post, Wellington.
abad says
Deflect much?
CRUSADER says
Let’s step away from this brief analysis of arachnophobia; let’s turn to the notion of Islamo-phobia. This would mean more of an ideological concern rather than something biological. Thus we can think and determine for ourselves when it comes to this issue.
But fear can become a similar thing, regardless of the topic of concern: Fear is an aid for survival; at the least, an aid to becoming more highly alert to warnings. Being cautious is a very good thing to undertake.
So, when does an “Islamophobe” become just someone who is cautious about Islam?
When does someone who is cautious about Islam become an “Islamophobe”?
Can someone who cites the perceived trouble with Islam be deemed “phobic”?
If there is clear and consistent doctrine within Islam which is incompatible with certain societies and which poses potential dangers due to doctrinal ideology, then how is it not relevant to be cautious about Islam? Is it not more irrational to be sliming people who are cautious about Islam with a smear about being “phobic”, when this very caution might aid society in widening contemplation and thereby providing more chance to defend against ills that are promoted within Islam itself?
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somehistory says
I question his “Christianity.” “By their fruits you will recognize them (Jesus Christ).”
This is the ‘teacher’s’ statement, among many above, that demonstrates, or reveals his “fruit.” : “Catholic Theological Union has played a significant role.”
And their “role” is: Help spread lies about islam and moslims and get more people to accept the evils of islam as “normal” in their everyday existence, so that when they hear the Truth about the subject, they react with horror and accusations against the one telling the Truth.
And that is fairly “rotten fruit.”
FYI says
Given that allah’s GREATEST ENEMY is a man called Malik Al Amlak{“king of kings”},a title that ONLY Jesus Christ is given Revs 19 v 16,any attempts to equate the Christian God with the islamic allah “the best of deceivers” k3:54 is not only morally wrong,but it also subverts Christianity.
And isn’t that EXACTLY what “pope” francis is doing ?
It seems many catholics are happy to assist the forces of antichrist{after all,if allah’s greatest enemy is Jesus then that means that 1 allah the “best of deceivers” is not God but a fake and 2 islam and its koran are forces for evil and in opposition to the true Judeo-Christian God ….so it is…antichrist}
The koran ,we remember,CURSES Christians simply for believing in Jesusk9:30.
Its author FALSELY claims to have given the Gospel to Jesus k 5 v 46,ludicrously ,when the infant Jesus was in a crib{k19:29-30} which is simply impossible:besides,ALL that is written in the Gospel is DENIED and CONTRADICTED in the koran showing the koran’s statement that it confirms the Bible{Torah+Gospel}in k3:3 is a lie and completely FALSE.
allah’s GREATEST ENEMY is MALIK AL AMLAK{…That’s Jesus Christ!}
It is the men who run the catholic church,including this appaling “pope” who are betraying catholics and christians.
{Sahih Muslim vol 5 Hadith #5611}
Wellington says
The Catholic Church ain’t what it used to be. Vatican II bespeaks to the origin of the rot now afflicting the Church. This ecumenical council (1962-1965) did much harm and no good. It effectively destroyed the Latin Mass, itself an aesthetic experience, it stupidly turned the altar around so instead of mystery directed towards God it is now more like Julia Child preparing a chicken, the “let us offer each other a sign of peace” in the midst of the Mass has forced virtue written all over it (it’s so damn annoying), and, worst of all, Vatican II opened the door to liberation theology which the two previous Popes did what they could to reverse (apparently unsuccessfully) and we see the result of this with Francis, who is a Latin American leftist who has no clue about the greatness of America, of Western Civilization, of capitalism and who is a rank apologist for the worst religion of all time, Islam, and who is more concerned about carbon emissions than he is about the slaughter of Christians by Muslims.
Yes, indeed, the Catholic Church is not what it used to be. Chances are fair to good it never will be again. Were I still a Christian, and brought up Catholic as I was, I would by now have left the Catholic Church. Yes indeed I would have.
Terry Gain says
You obviously never understood that the Catholic Church was founded by Christ. The sins of Popes, including this one, doesn’t change that. God does not regularly interfere in the affairs of humans or otherwise there would be no suffering.
Your refutation of the idiot Keith Oades is very good. Some might say it was divinely inspired.
keith Oades says
Spoken like true believers.
You are forgetting that the history of the churches “achievements’ is written by church lackeys.
I have witnessed first hand the evil that is behind this organisation.
Nothing anyone can say or do will dissuade people such as yourselves.
I feel nothing but compassion for yourselves.
CRUSADER says
DEUS VULT
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Wellington says
Terry: I have since boyhood understood that the Catholic Church contends it was founded by Jesus, including the papacy (Matthew 16:18-19).
Rufolino says
You may be wrong that the Catholic Church is now moribund Wellington.
Conservative Catholics are alive and well and seething with indignation at the futile outcome of the pointless “Abuse Conference”.
They want people to blame. With bared teeth they cannot wait to accuse “homosexuality” for the Church’s crimes, are already doing so. But current “political correctness” is denying them the chance to make this plain.
The next papacy is very likely to bring this influential movement to fruition with a wave of intolerant authoritarianism, in complete contrast to the confused attitudes of Francis.
Pointing the finger at “the unacceptable Other” has always been the most expedient and effective way to relieve an internal crisis.. The Church needs a scapegoat and then “health” can be restored. This scapegoat is now scheduled.
Wellington says
I hope I’m wrong, Rufolino, because a Catholic Church which has its act together (doesn’t now) is a positive for Western Civilization and mankind in general. Keep in mind though that the present Pope, who is a disgrace many times over, is appointing cardinals and bishops aplenty who think like him (as do a lot of priests and about-to-be priests) so he after he’s gone, his destructive legacy will live on for a long time. Leftism has made extensive inroads into Roman Catholicism and extirpating it will be deuce difficult.
gravenimage says
Catholic Theological Union offers course on “Islamophobia: A Catholic Response”
……………….
More suicidal insanity.
There was a time when the Catholic Church stood against the threat of Islam–none of us would be free today if this were not so–but that was long ago.
Terry Gain says
Sanity will return to the Church.
gravenimage says
I hope it is soon, Terry. Certainly, the last Pope was pretty savvy about Islam.
Joe says
In the 1990s Pope John Paul II said with conviction that Islam would overrun Europe within 100 years and Europe would only be a shadow of its former self. Pope Francis seems to be doing everything that he can to accelerate the process. They know what is happening, but they are unable or unwilling to stop it.
gravenimage says
When did he say that? Much as I liked Pope John Paul II in general, he seemed pretty naive about Islam.
Clive delmonte says
There is no such thing as “Islamophobia” or “Islamophobe”. There are those who wish to discuss the denial of democracy, the denial of the equal rights of women, the oppression of women, FGM, child marriage, enforced marriage, “honour killings” which only ever seem to apply to women, and suchlike. People who wish to discuss such behaviour are not committing any offence or denying the rights of “Islamists”.
gravenimage says
It’s like being a “Nazi-phobe”…
CRUSADER says
True!
the hermit says
What a load of bullshit.
After Cardinal Pell has been found guilty of child abuse in Melbourne, they have the audacity to criticize islamaphobia…how about getting their own backyard in order..
Terry Gain says
You are an idiot. The Catholic Church has some sinners in leadership positions but its doctrine does not mandate killing infidels and homosexuals.
keith Oades says
Hermit, like myself, you are trying to reason with people who have the blinkers on.
True believers will never understand that they are being deceived by themselves.
Dr. G. de Porras says
Lo primero que deberían hacer, desde el Papa hasta el último católico, es leerse el Al Coram y la Sunnaa, así como estudiar la política belicista del Islam desde Muhammad hasta nuestros días. Pero la ignorancia sobre esta materia de TODA la jerarquía eclesiástica católica es evidente. La perversa doctrina sobre el dialogo entre religiones y el ecumenismo salidas del Concilio (no dogmático) del Vaticano II esta llevando a la iglesia al desastre. Muchos católicos estamos perplejos de ven al Papa mezclándose con “Obispas” y alabando a “Lutero”. DE momento solo nos queda rezar, pero tener la seguridad que Cristo reinará
CRUSADER says
TODA
patriotliz says
Will it explore the Islamophobia of Pope Leo IV’s walls that he had built around the Vatican to protect the sacred sites of the Vatican from Muslim barbarians? How about the Islamophobia of the Crusaders or that of Charles “The Hammer” Martel at the Battle of Tours. Is it Christian for Armenians to be Islamophobic? How many cheeks do you have to turn before they are chopped off w/ the rest of your head?
dan christensen says
“Islam, Muslims & Islamophobia: A Catholic Response
Scott Alexander”
The only catholic response we have seen is : Submission.
Submission to islam is the hottest subject in the theology of interreligious dialogue, because that is what the catholic topdog, His Glorious Magnificence Pontifex Maximus Argentinicus Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is practising.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Will it mention that “islamophobia” is officially the most desired and basic goal of islam itself?
Maggy Kamal says
Mr. Robert Spencer
I contacted this man concerning this so called “course” against the so called “islamophobia”
I exchanged with him several messages , i would like to share them with you please….I’ll appreciate a lot your opinion. His last message to me answering my response was TYI Scott C. Alexander, Ph.D. I did not understand what did he mean by this
Thanks a lot
These are the messages :
A Call from Egypt
maggy maggy
10:29 AM (5 hours ago)
to scalexan
M. Alexander
My name is Maggy, i’m Coptic from Egypt, i heard that you give courses about the so called “Islamophobia”
I think when you need to know a true and whole story, any story, you have to listen to from both sides, from both witnesses, not just from one, unless your lecture is just a piece of propaganda..You have to listen to the other side which is us the direct victims of Islam…That if you really want to give a fair course based on facts not on wishful thinking and half truths, or based on a hidden agenda. That also if you really want to be a credible academian.
I’m sorry if that seems cruel to you. But i really would like to contact you, i need you listen to me..If you want to take my witness as a living survival victim who survived in the heart of Islam 27 years.
If you want to portray the other side as “victims”, you also listen to the real victims of that other side.
You can contact me via this email adress. I’ll be so glad to hear from you soon
Maggy Kamal
Scott Alexander
12:28 PM (3 hours ago)
to me
Dear Ms. Kamal:
Greetings of peace!
Thank you for your email. I admire your candor and I deeply respect your personal experience as a Coptic woman. Indeed I strive every day, with God’s help, to be transformed by the experience of all people who suffer under any kind of oppression, and who are made to endure any kind of injustice, no matter what the identity of their oppressors.
Indeed that is precisely what the course you reference is about. It focuses on the undeniable existence of systemic bigotry and hatred against Muslims here in the US, without for a moment denying the realities of the persecution of other groups—both here in the US and around the world—on the basis of their faith or anything else those with power may immorally use to cast them as convenient scapegoats in the woeful attempt to sustain fundamentally unjust economic, governmental, or other types of social structures.
Indeed in the course we spend time looking at the common neurological mechanisms that shape all human processes of “Us/Themming” and acknowledge the evil of any and all forms of “othering” that assault the fundamental and inviolable dignity of every human person.
To put it in simpler and more direct terms, the course proceeds on the premise that Islamophobia is a dark reality which must be fought against with all the non-violent commitment people of good will can muster. It also explicitly recognizes that the exact same thing is true of “Christianophobia” in Egypt and other Muslim majority societies where Christians are marginalized and their human rights infringed upon.
In your email you apologize for sounding “cruel.” I deeply appreciate your sensitivity. At the same time what you describe as sounding “cruel,” I took to be an expression of somewhat rash assumptions about the course that, with all due respect, have no basis in the facts of what the course actually is about and is trying to accomplish.
Specifically, your assumption that teaching a course on the scourge of Islamophobia in the US (and elsewhere in the world—e.g., Myanmar, China, Western Europe, etc.) must mean that such a course denies the realities that Christians suffer persecution in a number of Muslim majority societies, is deeply flawed. It is vaguely akin to suggesting that a cancer fundraiser should not be held because heart disease is killing just as many people, if not more.
I assure you that in no way does this course imply that all Muslims everywhere are the victims of Islamophobic persecution, any more than it implies that all Christians everywhere are the perpetrators of this persecution.
I hope and pray that this response satisfies some of your concerns. If not, I understand.
I also hope that, in the future, you will consider asking questions for clarification before jumping to what you may later discover are unfounded accusations. Ironically it is precisely the temptation to jump to negative conclusions and harsh accusations before making genuine attempts to understand one another, that leads to precisely the kind of unjust persecution that you and so many Copts have experienced for so many years, is it not?
In closing, I wish you all the best and ask that you keep me in your prayers, asking that God continue to guide me with (His) holy light. Be assured that I will do the same for you.
Peace and all good things,
Scott
Scott C. Alexander, Ph.D.
Professor of Islamic Studies & Christian-Muslim Relations
Founding Director, Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
Chair, Department of Intercultural Studies and Ministry
Chair, Theological Education Committee, American Academy of Religion
Co-Editor, Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society
scalexan@ctu.edu
t. +1 773.580.7239
maggy maggy
1:53 PM (2 hours ago)
to Scott
Thanks a lot Mr.Alexander for your kind message. It helped me to know you better and understand what the course is about.
As you, I condemn any sort and kind of violence against any people because of their religion or other….nothing justify violence…
I understand well the noble cause of educating people to avoid any kind of violence against any other group of people .
But this is not what in my mind…you said you help to fight hatred against Muslims…great we know very well that not all Muslims are bad and there is also marvelous people among them . But we can never control the internal feeling inside people, no matter how sweet talk you tell them….They will keep seeing terrorist acts and violence in the name of Islam. They’ll keep seeing people justify their acts openly and proudly from Koranic verses and hadiths. They will keep seeing women aggressed and oppressed also in the name of Islam in nearly all the Muslim societies. They will keep seeing evil perpetrated in front of them in the name of this particular religion….What do you expect from them after? Do you expect them to celebrate Islam and welcome happily this mass Islamic immigration to the west?. You ask them to deny what their eyes are seeing to believe you…you fight against logical , rational and normal human feelings…there is absolutely nothing irrational in hating Islam and fearing Muslims … exactly as someone ask people to not be scared of snakes and love them and why not taking them as pets because not all snakes are poisonous….
The best way to fight the so called ‘islamophobia’ is not by trying to make people deny evident facts as the sun light. The best way to avoid islamophobia come from Muslims themselves, the scholars, the imams etc…they are the ones who have to make programs to teach against the evil teachings within the Islamic texts , they are the ones who have to fight against these violent and evil teachings based on mosques, the Arabic media, the schools , the school books etc …they are the ones who must stop their fellow Muslims from doing evil , after that , I guarantee you that this islamophobia will disappear automatically Itself by itself … there will be no need for such courses…the phobia will disappear itself by itself because there will be no reason for this phobia….you are trying the impossible, because you cover the reason behind all this. And your courses are fated to failure, because it will be based on baseless sweet talks, not facts…your courses won’t save any life, or stop any terrorist act or stop the persecuted christians in the Middle East …your courses will change nothing as long as the evil teachings within the Islamic texts exist and live…because these teachings will continue to produce evil as a factory as it did since 1400 years till now…it’s very normal and sane for people to hate and fear evil, there is nothing phobia in that….
I have no doubt Your course will do the opposite effect, you’ll help to blind people from seeing the facts or to understand the truth … you will try to neutralize any form of normal self defense or resistance of this evil. You’ll paralyze people from understanding the cause of these so many bad acts and behavior within the Islamic societies .. you’ll simply help to enable the spread of evil more and more thinking yourself building bridges and promote the brotherhood of men. You will keep us persecuted, killed, kidnapped, discriminated against in the middle est…you do no service to us, you simply help this evil to continue and more blood to be shed.
Mr. Alexander I know you have a good heart, and your objective is noble and good, but you are using the wrong way to do that. You’ll never be able to control normal human feelings toward danger and evil.. it’s not us who must fight against the so called islamophobia, it’s muslims themselves who have to rise up and say enough to all these evil teachings and to all these terrorism in the name of Islam as they rose against cartoons or Jews.
No matter how much you give this course, believe me, it will be fated to failure.
Kindly and sincerely yours
Maggy Kamal
Scott Alexander
3:28 PM (37 minutes ago)
to me
Yeah. Just FYI…
Scott C. Alexander, Ph.D.
Professor of Islamic Studies & Christian-Muslim Relations
Founding Director, Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
Chair, Department of Intercultural Studies and Ministry
Chair, Theological Education Committee, American Academy of Religion
Co-Editor, Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society
scalexan@ctu.edu
t. +1 773.580.7239
Catholic Theological Union
5416 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
USA
gravenimage says
Thanks for that account, Maggy.
James Whitney says
“I am Roman Catholic Christian whose life has been immeasurably blessed and enriched by Islam and Muslims.”
Very interesting since Qur’an 9.30 says that those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God are cursed. I believe this would apply to Christians.
gravenimage says
+1