Vatican dengan rasminya mengajak umat Islam mengubah isi al-Quran. Walaupun isunya berkisar pada masalah jihad, Vatican langsung tidak menghormati hak orang Islam untuk mengimani sepenuhnya bahawa al-Quran adalah wahyu dari Allah. Apakah pendapat Vatican jika umat Islam meminta agar mereka membuang ayat-ayat tertentu dalam Bible atau menukar penafsirannya atas nama toleransi agama.
Seruan ini sekaligus adalah perang saraf untuk mengelirukan umat Islam dan umat manusia lainnya agar kefahaman sebenar jihad tidak lagi difahami mengikut konteksnya.
Sebagai umat Islam, ini adalah cabaran kepada kita agar kita tidak mudah merasa selesa dalam kejahilan kita sendiri terhadap agama ini.
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Cardinal urges Muslim leaders to oppose violent jihad
Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent
The Guardian,
Thursday May 29 2008
Muslim leaders must be more outspoken about violence in the name of religion, a senior Vatican official urged yesterday.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Pope's principal adviser on Islam, said that while the majority of Muslim clerics condemned acts of terrorism, they needed to be more vocal about jihad, especially because of its frequent appearances in the Qur'an.
The cardinal made the remarks after a lecture, given in London to an audience of students, Catholic clerics and figures from other religions. It was one of several public appearances during a rare visit to the UK.
He said: "In the Qur'an you have several interpretations of jihad - violent and holy. Most Muslims are condemning war made in the name of religion. The problem is that in the Qur'an you have good and bad jihad, so you choose.
"There is no worldwide authority who can interpret the Qur'an, so it depends on the person you have in front of you. Sometimes you should like religious authorities to be more outspoken about violence in the name of religion. But Muslims believe the Qur'an is the divine word of God, so it is a problem."
He said it would be "easier" if there were a single Islamic authority to negotiate with. "It's a great difficulty there are many voices of living Islam."
The cardinal is president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and has been tasked with improving relations between the Vatican and Islam.
Tauran, the former Vatican foreign minister, has not shied away from difficult issues since his 2007 appointment. He has criticised countries, notably Saudi Arabia, which do not allow freedom of religion.
He expressed hope, however, that a summit of Islamic scholars and Catholic officials, to be held in November, would yield positive results.
The meeting, organised following an appeal from hundreds of Muslim scholars for closer ties with Christianity, will not be attended by representatives from Saudi Arabia or Iran, two regimes that place severe restrictions on religious freedom. "Of course we would like to see someone from Saudi Arabia. But we will meet them in another context. We talk to the interlocutors who come, we do not choose them."
His remarks came as the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, said that radical Islam threatened to fill a "moral vacuum" in Britain arisen as a result of a decline of Christian values. Writing in the newly launched political and cultural magazine Standpoint, the bishop claims that the church dissolved its influence over the country's morals during the social and sexual revolution of the 1960s.
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Pemberitaan dari sumber Islam
Vatican demands that Muslims remove references to Jihad from Koran
Publication time: 31 May 2008, 10:24
Pope Benedict's adviser "on Islam" (yes, there is such a position) believes that the Koran talks about the "negative Jihad". He stated that Muslim leaders must speak against Jihad, as The Guardian reported.
"The problem is that in the Kuran you have good and bad Jihad, so you choose", said French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran after lecturing to the students and catholic clergy in London, where he apparently decided to interpret the Koran the "correct" way in order to "correct" the words of Allah (Subhana va Taala).
He added that "in the Kuran you have several interpretations of Jihad - violent and holy".
Mr. Tauran, who on the top of all that occupies the post of President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue in Vatican but nonetheless has no knowledge of Tafsir (interpretation of the Koran), all of a sudden announced "there is no worldwide authority who can interpret the Kuran, so it depends on the person you have in front of you".
Tauran also announced that Jihad is "violence" and insisted that Muslim leaders speak against the Jihad.
"Sometimes you should like religious authorities to be more outspoken about violence in the name of religion", the Pope's adviser said.
Last year Tauran complained that "theological debate with Muslims was difficult as they saw the Qur'an as the literal word of Allah and would not discuss it in depth".
In Christianity there is no problem with the word of God. Dozens of versions of the Bible are printed. And even the same version may be subjected to additional correction for any reason. The Christians are correcting the word of "their" God depending on the circumstances or their worldviews.
An interesting debate on the topic - "Is the Bible True Word of God?" - between Ahmed Deedat and Christian preacher Pastor Stanley Sjoberg can be viewed at this link.
As far as the Muslims go, they really firmly believe that each word of the Koran is sacred, and not a single word or a single letter can ever be removed from the holy text.
Meanwhile Tauran advised Muslims to establish "their own Vatican", a "united center of Islamic religious authority", with whom one could do negotiate.
We would like to mention in this regard that religion and life are inseparable in Islam. Islam is a comprehensive law and way of life which does not imply division into secularism and religious. While in the Christian (or Western) way of thinking reigns the formula of "Render unto Ceasar... render unto God...", in Islam other formula is approved - "all render unto God".
Regarding the anti-Islamic information and psychological warfare and propaganda, it sometimes takes a rather bizarre form, which, however, clearly indicates the primary objective of the enemies of Islam - to separate the religion from secular life at any cost.
As a part of this war, for example, the Zionists opened a pseudo-Muslim website - "Muslims against Sharia", which has declared the need to "correct" the word of Allah (Subhana va Taala), and remove from the Koran all that the enemies of Islam view as "incompatible with norms of modern society". In an editorial appeal the Zionists write:
"Sharia Law must be abolished, because it is incompatible with norms of modern society. We need to remove outdated verses from the Koran". And according to the Zionists, who declared themselves as "Muslim reformers", such verses are contained in almost half of the Koran. Here you can read the list of verses that are not liked by the enemies of Islam and which, in their opinion, should be removed from the Koran.
According to their squalid views, the Most High did not take some things into consideration and turned out to be wrong on certain points (subhanulLah).
In their squalid kafir notion, the Almighty did not take into account everything and in some cases was wrong (subhanulLah).
Besides, some Chechen Democrats publicly express solidarity with the enemies of Islam and actively play into their hands.
Thus, former Foreign Minister of former CRI (Chechen Republic of Ichkeria) Ahmed Zakayev, who lives in London, works closely with the most odious Zionist anti-Islamic periodicals. On March 19 he gave an interview to Front Page Magazine, as well as to the already mentioned website "Muslims against Sharia", which are waging frenzied informational war against Islam, calling the religion of Allah "Islamo-Fascism", demanding to ban Jihad, to reduce the Koran, to abandon the Sharia and to demonstratively publish offensive cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
Ruslan Sinbarigov,
Kavkaz Center
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/2008/05/021212print.html
May 29, 2008
Cardinal Tauran: "Sometimes you should like religious authorities to be more outspoken about violence in the name of religion. But Muslims believe the Qur'an is the divine word of God, so it is a problem"
The Cardinal's point is well-taken, and one we have made many times here: violent jihad and Islamic supremacism are deeply rooted in the Qur'an, so the only way Muslims could possibly reject them would be to reject Qur'anic literalism -- and that is extremely unlikely. And unfortunately, when he says, "There is no worldwide authority who can interpret the Qur'an, so it depends on the person you have in front of you," he is perhaps unaware that there is a broad consensus (ijma, إجماع, which is a very important concept in Islamic theology) among the schools of Islamic jurisprudence that it is part of the responsibility of the Islamic umma to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.
"Cardinal urges Muslim leaders to oppose violent jihad," by Riazat Butt for The Guardian, May 29 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Muslim leaders must be more outspoken about violence in the name of religion, a senior Vatican official urged yesterday.
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the Pope's principal adviser on Islam, said that while the majority of Muslim clerics condemned acts of terrorism, they needed to be more vocal about jihad, especially because of its frequent appearances in the Qur'an.
The cardinal made the remarks after a lecture, given in London to an audience of students, Catholic clerics and figures from other religions. It was one of several public appearances during a rare visit to the UK.
He said: "In the Qur'an you have several interpretations of jihad - violent and holy. Most Muslims are condemning war made in the name of religion. The problem is that in the Qur'an you have good and bad jihad, so you choose.
"There is no worldwide authority who can interpret the Qur'an, so it depends on the person you have in front of you. Sometimes you should like religious authorities to be more outspoken about violence in the name of religion. But Muslims believe the Qur'an is the divine word of God, so it is a problem."
Indeed it is.
Posted at May 29, 2008 8:18 AM
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