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PolWatch (12-14-2015)
Muslims & Christians have married, and not all of the results are as disastrous.......check it out.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-8348954.html
Christian pastors and Muslim imams have come together to draw up guidelines detailing advice on how to deal with inter-faith marriages.
Although marrying between faiths is entirely legal in Britain, couples often face resistance and hostility, both from family members and religious leaders. Occasionally both Muslims and Christians feel pressure to convert to another's faith in order to avoid fallouts and ostracism.
The new guidelines by the Christian-Muslim forum reinforce the need for religious leaders to accept inter-faith marriages and warn that no one should ever feel forced to convert. The publication of the document, which will receive a high-profile launch at Westminster Abbey today, is significant because those supporting it include imams from the more orthodox Islamic schools of thought and evangelical Christians.
Among those who have signed up to the document include Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, a prominent Leicester-based imam from the conservative Deobandi school, the Right Rev Paul Hendricks, associate bishop of Southwark Catholic Archdiocese, and Amra Bone, one of the only women in the country to sit in a Sharia court.
Estimating the number of people in mixed-faith marriages is difficult. The 2001 census suggests 21,000 but demographers believe the figure is considerably higher.
The document, called When Two Faiths Meet, is the product of months of painstaking negotiations between Christian and Muslim leaders and emphasises the need for tolerance and acceptance of mixed-faith marriages.
Among the recommendations are speaking out against forced conversions, recognising the legality of inter-faith marriages in British law, non-judgemental pastoral care and a complete rejection of any violence.
"It might sound a little like we are stating the obvious but it does need to be said," Sheikh Ibrahim told The Independent. "In reality Christian and Muslim couples often face very challenging scenarios where there is not enough tolerance or the right pastoral care and that can lead to a very damaging and negative experience for them."
The Leicester-based imam said clerics were motivated to come up with the guidelines because they were seeing increasing numbers of inter-faith marriages over the years.
"It's clearly already an issue and something that will become more and more common," he said. "It makes sense for pastors and imams to be ready for such situations rather than be left without help of guidelines when they get approached by couples seeking their advice."
Those with experience of inter-faith marriages say couples often face a variety of difficulties. In Islam, men are allowed to marry "people of the book", Christians and Jews. But Muslim women are not allowed to marry outside their faith. Many of the more conservative or evangelical Christian denominations, meanwhile, insist spouses convert or promise to bring their children up as Christians.
Heather al-Yousef, a counsellor with Relate who married a Shia Muslim man, was one of those asked by the Christian Muslim Forum to give advice for the guidelines.
"There are, of , a whole range of Muslims and Christians. Some groups are liberal about mixed marriages, others much more proprietorial. The good news is that Christians and Muslims are increasingly recognising the need to talk about these things. The very fact we've got so many people talking is in itself a success."
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Common Sense (12-15-2015),William (12-15-2015)
Oh, I wish I were a glow worm,
for a glow worm's never glum,
'cause how can you be grumpy
when the sun shines out your bum!
Then there's the Sharia scaremongering, despite stat like this:
It's hard to read, but suffice to say, none of the countries on the list are in Europe or the Americas.
News: Rich people paying rich people to tell middle class people to blame poor people.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Your very welcome...
I grew up in Jersey in a little town next to New Brunswick where Rutgers college is called Franklin/Somerset and we used to constantly skip school, take the Path trains up through Metuchen, Rahway, Linden, Elizabeth, into Newark to shop for clothes on Market or Broad street.
Back then in the late 70's, early 80's Muslims weren't as heavily populated as they are now in those areas but they were there........and they were crazy cool.
I got to know a lot of them and became friends with many of them. I shopped in their stores, went to their homes, and broke bread with them & their parents. I never attended any services at the Mosque's but I talked to them about it in great detail.
I witnessed how they all got along with everybody else in the neighborhood, and for the most part, everybody got along fine. I also got to know a lot of the Portuguese people that lived in the Iron Bound section of Newark, and they were also crazy cool. The food in the Portuguese restaurants was to die for.
My entire family is a collection of immigrants from all over the world, and we are all more or less situated here in the upper North East, so when I hear things from Mr. Trump like "he saw thousands of Muslims cheering as the World Trade Towers fell", I just want to find him & give him what we call "A Brooklyn Beat Down".
I understand his shtick, and I get his game but all of the negative comments about everybody that he's been making is tearing the country apart.
Just in the short time he's been on the campaign trail I can see how the attitudes from many people in many states has turned dark, and it's gotten very ugly out there. (this is how a leader leads?)
I understand that there are people in our world that are empty vessels capable of doing despicable things, but I also understand that at the end of the day - we all pretty much want the same things. And I've circumnavigated this globe enough to have seen that for myself firsthand.
The dangers of lying about a peoples culture for "self promoting" is that others tend to believe those lies, and tragedy & chaos usually ensues, so lets hope Donald and other's like him fade away quickly so we can all get back to some semblance of sanity.
Some of the OP comments remind me how often the misinterpretations of the Koran by Westerners match those of terrorists. Some don't like to hear that.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
MisterVeritis (12-15-2015)
What a bunch of nonsense.
Truth Detector (12-20-2015)
This place could use the sanity of the OP. The post above mine illustrates that well...
Captain Obvious (12-15-2015)