Great post at Salon.com by Glenn Greenwald critiquing Ross Douthat's Op-Ed piece in the New York Times this Sunday.
The New York Times today, in the form of Ross Douthat's column, has published what could fairly be described as a call for a Christian religious war -- certainly metaphorical and perhaps literal -- against Islam. Douthat praises recent efforts by Pope Benedict to recruit disaffected Anglicans back into the Catholic Church by dispensing with the last half-century's practice of religions "being exquisitely polite to one another." Douthat claims -- approvingly -- that Benedict's current recruitment efforts are grounded in "Christianity’s global encounter with a resurgent Islam." Declaring Islam to be "Christianity's most enduring and impressive foe," Douthat says that many Christians want confrontation -- not accommodation, "conciliation," or "appeasement" -- with Islam, and thus may flock to the Catholic Church to get behind Benedict's forceful denunciations of the faith of 25% of the world's population:
Thanks to Wajahat Ali for this
Ya know...you know a little about where you stand by looking at those who stand against you. I for one feel better about where "we" stand, given the stance of the Catholic church against "us".
ReplyDeleteHere I was thinkin we had everything wrong, but it seems we must have somethin right!