Muslim leaders from across America will gather in Texas this weekend to hold the annual Stand With the Prophet in Honor and Respect conference, a weekend forum that is being billed as a “movement to defend Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message,” according to event information.
Organizers of the event place the blame for Islam’s bad reputation on the media and so-called American Islamophobes who have “invested at least $160 million dollars to attack our Prophet and Islam,” according to the conference web page.
Keynote speakers at the event will include Georgetown University professor John Esposito, founding director of the school’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which has come under fire for, among other things, hosting 9/11 Truthers and a member of Egypt’s Nazi Party.
Also scheduled to attend the forum is controversial New York-based Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings trial. Wahhaj has called the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists” and expressed a desire for all Americans to become Muslim, according to the New York Post.
I’m sure we will be paying the bill for their security there too.
The odd thing about this sis they are almost taunting someone to make a bad move on them, asking to be hit, wanting the 15 minutes on TV.
I hope everyone ignores them.
Thank you. I had no idea but your comment is most helpful.
Protected speech? Of course, but that doesn’t mean that I have to like the fact that a bunch of dirt bags will be spewing feces out of their mouth in a nice little get together not all that far from me. The same goes for people like the Westbero tards.
I’m thinking of marketing some “Je Suis Charles Martel” with “It’s Hammer Time” printed on the back.
Just pull up across the street and sell them by the gross.
Just another Peaceful display of the Freedom of Speech,…
but I would imagine those folks waiting for free Community College might miss the joke.
It’s funny that they have things like this. Muslim-Christian Understanding. I’ve had dialogs with enough Muslims to know that there is a huge divide that will never be filled or compromised upon between practicing Christians and practicing Muslims. Muslims with whom I’ve spoken will often try to give me the idea that we have basically the same beliefs by insisting just how high in regard Muslims hold Jesus. They will say how they accept that He was born of a virgin, He a miracle worker and a great prophet and how they share our belief that He will come again at the end of this age. They then insist that if Christians just came to accept that Mohammad was also a prophet, we would all be on the same page. They also claim that the Bible is inspired by God.
The problem is, that shows just how little they understand Christianity. We Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God, not a mortal prophet. We believe that He died on the cross whereas the Muslims insist that God would never let such a thing happen to one of His prophets. Also, Christians believe that Jesus will return to rule. The Muslims insist He will return to correct all the Christians in their erroneous belief that He is the Son of God and tell them to follow the teachings of Mohammad, who is greater than Him. Also, while they claim the Bible is inspired by God and true, they also add the caveat that has been corrupted and the Quran offers the corrections. Finally, they’ll insist that Christianity as we believe it was true for its time, so we’re technically not holding a false belief. It’s just that Islam superseded and replaced Christianity and we need to get with the program.
I’m sorry, but though Christianity and Islam have some shared roots, there will never be an understanding on foundational principals. The best we can do is agree to disagree.
Yup. Not anywhere even close to the same. Hard to say it’s all the same when it is believed Jesus, Christian’s Lord and savior, will be at Mohammed’s right hand to slaughter the Christian infidels, opponents of Islam in the end of days.
What gets me with all of this pathetic whining is how deflecting it is. The media and islamophobia are the problem, they say, disseminating negativity about the prophet and Islam. NO fool! The freaking jihadis chopping heads off and murdering cartoonist and Jews are the problem. Rather than clean their own house of jihadism they just continue whining to the people getting there heads severed that they are biased, all the while enjoying the protections of our free society. Clean your own house, so called Muslim moderates! Then talk to the west about islamophobia and bias.
Oh and another thing, welcome to the secular age, pansies. I garuntee more money has been spent on scholarship, media, history channel documentaries, etc. that seek to disprove, discredit and spead outright lies and slander about the Bible and Chist Jesus than has ever or will ever be spent in the west on bias against Islam. What a joke! But the left eats it up, and that is their play. This is conquering via political expediency.
I have no respect for zealots on either side, but on saying that, just how many radical Christians and Jews behead their enemies or strap on a bomb and get on a Bus?
The problem with Islam is they refuse to address the radicals. I would think the House of Saud should stand up and take action to stop the radicals, or at least address the issues. They are the keepers of Mecca and Medina and hold the role of the protectors of Islam.
I have no Islamaphobia, but I also have no respect for those who wont get off their collective butts to fix their problem that for the most part they created and sat back and watched spin out of control.
The time will come to fix the issue, they have had the chance to take a stand.