One of the lead articles linked on the Drudge Report today is a story by Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon on a recent statement by top Saudi cleric Salman al-Odeh declaring the Holocaust was “exaggerated” and that Jews make their Passover matzos with the blood of Christian children:
But before we begin wagging our fingers at such outrageous stone-age beliefs it bears worth mentioning that the same blood libel views have been preached by top US Islamic clerics as well.
For example, take this appearance by Fiqh Council of North American member Salah Sultan in March 2010 saying the exact same thing:
Oh, did I mention that Dr. Sultan is my former neighbor, and that this signatory to the Fiqh Council’s 2005 “anti-terrorism” fatwa has recently appeared with several designated terrorists?
HT: Both videos were translated by the indispensable MEMRITV.
At least they are using Christian children. Imagine the impurities they be eating if they used muslim children. All that hatred running through their veins can’t taste very good.
Supposedly in the 13th century the Mongol Horde offered to convert to Christianity and then join Christian Europe in crushing the Muslim lands between them. The Pope turned them down or something. Stupid, stupid Pope.
That version sounds spurious, but it’s true that the Mongols were relatively open-minded about religion.
The Mongols did turn south and under Hugalu destroyed Baghdad and infamously burned its libraries, dumping the remaining books into the Tigris. Later the Golden Horde that ruled Russia converted to Islam, and their descendants remain Moslem to this day. In India, Afghan Muslims founded the Mogul (Mongol) empire that ruled India until the British arrived. Today India is one of the world’s largest Muslim countries. Indian Muslims are India’s poorest and most backward group.
And Petraeus, in a 56 page command position paper to congress, basically said that Israel is to blame for the ‘problems’ in the middle east.
– start in September.
Fee, fi, fiq, foom,
The Sultan’s pipe is fulla Choom.
He changed to smoke the stuff in Matsos,
And now has tremors like Von Ratzos’.
Fee, fi, fiq, foom,
The Sultan’s pipe is fulla Choom.
P.S. Will send him some “Shrooms” for his next rant. “Fresh” Psilocybes from the N.M. desert. That should *really* turn him on. He looks so funny when he gets riled.
Now, did ya really have this jerk for a next-door neighbor? Musta been Hillarious! /sarc off/
What is so depressing is to witness this 7th century mind spouting 12th century garbage while dressed in 20th century clothing made by 21st century equipment which our 21st century engineering minds have had to build for him, all while showing us that his only true desire in life is to return us all back to his ugly 7th century by the time we will have reached the 22cnd century, at the very latest. BTW, what IS the subject of his doctorate deg.? Hard to believe that such a garbage-mouth could pass the oral defense of his dissertation before intelligent “peers”.
And, we consider ourselves civilized and tolerant for putting up with this moron, who clearly belongs more in a 15th century insane asylum than on a 21st cent. TV screen?
Aren’t WE doing something wrong, even a lot? IMO, it’s time to stop immigration of these “Abu Driveldrips”, but with a vengeance! If we do not, then soon we will have the “µSlime Botherhood” commanding us to “now, y’all sing after me …” Not even ALL of the shrooms south of the border will make THAT sound bearable!
The pagan religion of Islam is full of hate, but it is of the world, and the world loves Islam.
Now all they need to do is accuse the Christians of drowning and eating babies and they’ll have brought back all the ancient blood libels. Of course, it’s not like most Protestants would ever be accused of being cannibals. If your communion couldn’t be mistaken for cannibalism when describing it to an unbeliever for the first time, you’re doing it wrong.
Isn’t that the Universal Church’s lie? That the bread really does turn into flesh, and the wine really becomes blood?
I could be wrong, but the Protestant idea of communion is symbolic of Christ’s flesh, and blood
Cheers,
It is the position of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, but it’s no lie. It is the sound doctrine taught by every theologian and apologist in the early Church. Interpreting Communion as anything other than the Body and Blood of Christ was condemned by the same as heresy, as was using things other than wheat bread and grape wine (such as water, or in modern times, sterilized grape juice) for consecration. What was the first thing Ignatius of Antioch noted and condemned about the Gnostics? “They abstain from Communion and from prayer, because they do not confess It to be the Flesh of Christ, that was crucified and raised for our sake.”
Christ died, and rose from the dead once. Not over, and over again.
Indeed, and I would never deny that fact. The Eucharist is alive- the Flesh and Blood of the Risen Christ. The Eucharist is Christ’s perpetual presentation of His Sacrifice on the Cross. Having offered Himself once, He now presents His Blood to the Father forever and gives us His Flesh for food and His Blood for drink.
Verily, I say to you, if you would not get on your knees and worship Communion, do not partake of Communion, lest you commit sacrilege! For Scripture says, “If anyone eats this Bread or drinks this Cup without discerning the Body, he is guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord.”
“Communion” for remembrance only is a dead work, in contrast to Christ’s clear and unequivocal command WHICH HE ALLOWED PEOPLE TO LEAVE HIM AND PERISH OVER that we eat His Flesh and drink His Blood. If you cannot accept this, why are a Christian? You have no trouble whatsoever accepting that God created the world in six days and that that same God became an embryo conceived in a Virgin’s womb, was born and grew up into a perfect Man, died for your sins and rose from dead, yet you stumble over this? What do you think He meant by, “Unless you eat My Flesh and drink My Blood, you have no life within you?” You readily accept that you must be born again and become a new creature, but how can you take that seriously if you reject the no less adamant command to eat Christ’s Flesh and drink His Blood? Is a man in Christ a new creature or not? Whatever your answer is to that question must be the same answer you give to, “Is valid Communion the Body and Blood of Christ or not?”