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Hartford, CT, City Council to Open with Muslim Prayers
Dorothy Boyette response to story via NBC Connecticut with foreword by Rev Flip Benham • 9/8/2010
Why is everyone in the free world staying awake nights thinking of ways they can coddle, appease, accommodate and otherwise bow down to Islam? Why all the fuss when a small church plans to burn a Koran -as if Bibles have not been burned by Islamic followers (see recent VOM newsletter)? It has been said that this will put soldiers in harms way. They are in harms way everyday because they are soldiers - it's the nature of their business. Why are mission groups saying it will put Christians in Muslim countries in harms way? They have always been in harms way - their Bibles are burnt, they are sent to prison, their houses are burnt, that has been the nature of their business since they began to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. The news media has widely circulated this story and fanned the flames. They are the ones inciting retaliation - as if those that actually believe what Mohammed had to say need an excuse. Then I ask, why are "Christian pastors, congregations and Christian denominations" appeasing Islam by having joint services with Moslems? But most of all I ask why are Christians who care about the souls of followers of a false religion castigated, and even arrested, when they go out on the street to witness to Moslems? Some one please explain! The Council announced Tuesday that it has invited local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council meetings in September. Though meetings don't regularly begin with any form of prayer, an email from the Common Council called it "an act of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters." The email even referenced the ongoing issue in New York. "One of the goals of the Council is to give a voice to the many diverse peoples of the City, which is especially important given the recent anti-Islam events throughout the country." Council President Jo Winch called it an important move for the Council. "I feel it is very important that, as a Council, we project a culture of inclusiveness in the City of Hartford. Too often it is our differences that divide us. In my opinion, it is our combination of differences that makes us strong," Winch said. |
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