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On Malaysian Bibles & misguided ‘Muslims’

January 27th · 2 Comments · Bible, Christian, Extremism, Florida Conference of Muslim Americans, Islam, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Muslim, Quran

“Last November the Malaysian government refused to release 10,000 Bibles it had seized because they contained the word Allah to refer to God…A few Muslims unfortunately went further and attacked churches, badly damaging some of them. Such actions are condemnable as they contradict normative Islam.”

Appreciation to my friend Imam Enrique Rasheed of Jacksonville for alerting [...]

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How people of faith (or claiming no particular faith) can learn from one another: Exhibit #7,032,009

July 25th · 1 Comment · Chiara Lubich, Christian, Focolare, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Interfaith, Jesus, Muhammad

“We need to connect more with the history and the spirit of our brothers and sisters that preceded us in faith. Yes, I’m talking about the Christians.
“Why do you think Imam Mohammed wanted us to have a relationship —wants us to have a relationship with the Focolare? I know he wants us and wanted us [...]

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Focolare Movement: Does anyone live interreligious dialogue better?

June 26th · 2 Comments · Barack Obama, Bible, Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Catholic, Chiara Lubich, Christian, Creator, Focolare, Golden Rule, Imam W. Deen Mohammed, Interfaith, Jesus, Muslim, Quran

It’s like this, Humanity:
We’re not when we want to be.
But we ain’t where we was.
Here’s yet another exhibit of that reality.
One definition of interreligious dialogue is cooperation and positive interaction between people of different religious traditions.
Nobody does that better, in my experience, than the members of the lay Catholic movement known as the Focolare (http://www.focolare.us/).
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