Whether Muslim fundamentalist or a kill-all-the-Muslims mercernary type (or other), this provocateur has provided a ‘teachable moment’ on the murderous intrigue of interreligeous dialogue between Jews, Catholics and Muslims

The other day in an examination of a few of the search stats I made this comment about one of the entries found on the stats-page:

7. The bit about “are jews or muslims terrorists” is a provocation. You will find, dear reader, that there are some Jews and some Muslims and some Hindus and some Protestants and some agnostics and some atheists and, yes, some Catholics who are terrorists. People have free will, whatever else they are into at the time. Their misuse of free will is not to be blamed on any religious doctrine, except, as I contend in Book 1 of the Trilogy, in regard to Islam, specifically in regard to sura 37:100-113 of the Qur’an.

I guess I was on target about the provocation. Yesterday there was an entry in the extraordinarily long list of search stats which said: “muslims are terrorists”. I ignored that at the time. It’s a partial quote of the Pope in Chapter 39 of Book 1 of the Trilogy. The full citation is: “Not all Muslims are terrorists”. It makes a difference.

Today, there is a follow up, which reads: “proof that not all muslims are terrorist”. Um… Proof? Of course not all Muslims are terrorists! Anyway, here is the relevant bit of dialogue in Chapter 39:

“Not all Muslims are terrorists,” said the Pope, eliciting the answer he knew would come.

“But Islam, Muhammad and his Allah, the Qur’an, countless Imams and Islamic political leaders do push terrorism with their horrific bribe-the-deity child-sacrifices,” replied Father Alexámenos. “Of course, few Muslims know about what Muhammad really had to say in the Qur’an.”

“Yes,” said the Pontiff, turning to Father Alexámenos. “We need to instruct them – and reconfirm Catholics – about true Revelation.”

Those words about “bribe-the-deity” child-sacrifices” may seem a bit rough, but I urge the usage of the search box to find out what is said about the Qur’an, sura 37:100-113. You can start with Chapter 32, although there is so, so much more throughout Book 1 of the Trilogy.

Anyway, it would be dreadful for anyone to think that all Muslims are terrorists, for it is precisely that kind of ignorant attitude which foments wars. Even worse would be racial profiling, which, sorry to say, happened after 9-11 in New York, when anyone who looked remotely Middle-Eastern was rounded up and put in an outdoor cage.

UPDATE: Amidst many new searches, another came up with this: “surah about cartoon”, but, of course, it the cartoons are not about the Qur’an, but about the reaction against the baptism by dialoguing Muslims and, it seems, some of the media.

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