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Catholic cardinal opens ‘Abrahamic Family House’ with

Muslims praying prayers denouncing Jews and Christians

FEB 23, 2023 5:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

Lord, what fools these infidels be.

Cardinal Opens Francis’ Abu Dhabi Interfaith Shrine

by Jules Gomes, 

ChurchMilitant.com, 

February 22, 2023:

SAADIYAT ISLAND, Abu Dhabi (ChurchMilitant.com) – Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald hosted the first Catholic service at the Abrahamic Family House — an interfaith shrine born of Pope Francis’ Abu Dhabi concordat with Sunni leader Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb.

Speaking on behalf of Pope Francis at the inauguration of St. Francis of Assisi Church — the Catholic section of the complex housing a mosque and synagogue — Fitzgerald said the shrine could be said to fulfill Isaiah’s vision of “a house of prayer for all the peoples.”

“Worship opens us up to others, instilling in us a care for justice, encouraging us to act with integrity,” the cardinal emphasized on Sunday. “We cannot truly pray to God without remembering the other members of the Abrahamic family, and indeed of the human family.”

Islam is not an Abrahamic-based religion. Islam was born from the mind of Mohammed in the 7th century AD. Yet, they claim heritage going back to Ishmael, the illegitimate son of Abraham, born of the flesh, and rejected later by Abraham, and God Himself. 

(Genesis 22:2 "Take your son," God said, "your only son Isaac...)

“The father of the prophet John the Baptist (known to Muslims as Yahya) asks God to bless his son,” Fitzgerald said. “He is asking this of the God of Abraham, the Merciful Lord of Mercy, al-Rahman al-Rahim.”

The cardinal, a former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, told the congregation that Muslims had earlier prayed the Maghrib prayer in the mosque section of the shrine on Thursday evening.

Muslim Prayer Anathematizes Christians

“Remarkably, Cdl. Fitzgerald, an acclaimed Islamic scholar, ignored the fact that the Maghrib prayer contains Surah Al-Fatiha, which is one of the most anti-Christian and anti-Jewish texts in the Qur’an,” a Muslim jurist who converted to Christianity told Church Militant.

“The inclusion of this prayer, which is considered indispensable in Muslim worship, tells us everything we need to know about how serious Muslims are about interfaith dialogue,” the convert, who faces the death penalty for apostasy from Islam, added.

After asking Allah to guide Muslims “to the straight path,” verse 7 defines this way as the “path of those whom you have favored, not of those who have earned your anger, or of those who have gone astray,” the convert explained.

Islamic tradition and commentaries from the Hadith of Sahih Bukhari to Tafsir al-Jalalayn identify “those who have earned Allah’s anger” as the Jews and “those who have gone astray” as the Christians.

“The repetition of this identification in Bukhari is an indication of how strong the identification is of those who have earned Allah’s anger with the Jews and those who have gone astray with the Christians,” writes Robert Spencer in his bestseller The Critical Qur’an.

Some Western commentators find it inconceivable that the central prayer of Islam “anathematizes Jews and Christians,” the renowned Islamic scholar notes. “But unfortunately, this interpretation is venerable and mainstream in Islamic theology.”

“The Abrahamic Family House has not led and will not lead Muslims to abandon core Islamic doctrines regarding how Christians wrongly proclaim Christ’s divinity and are under the curse of Allah as a result (cf. Qur’an 9:30; 5:17),” Spencer told Church Militant.

Spencer, author of 23 books on Islam and the Middle East elaborated, “As in all other cases, Muslim/Christian dialogue is seen on the Muslim side as an opportunity to proselytize for Islam and intimidate Christians into fearing to discuss the rampant Muslim persecution of Christians, for fear of harming the dialogue.”

“The interfaith shrine is Pope Francis’ house of cards,” Spencer warned. “It will result in nothing lasting except the continued ignorance and complacency of Catholics regarding the threat of Islamic jihad. Liberal Catholics who think this is a positive step are being naive (at best).”…