For the pessimist, the current Islamic situation is what Hershey, Pennsylvania is to the chocoholic: the "Mecca" of their addiction.
It's really that bad folks, and it's going to get worse.
It seems to have of late reached some sort of critical mass since two very different priests in central Ohio mentioned it over the weekend, and I don't recall a local Catholic priest ever mentioning Islam or Muslims in a sermon before. (Terrorists, yes. Al Qaida, yes. But never the religion and its adherents.) Our Byzantine pastor says, "Please pray for the Muslims. God loves them too. And we Eastern Christians have much to offer since we lived side-by-side with them for centuries, mostly peacefully."
Our RC pastor says that
"you can tell a lot about a religion by what happens when you show disrespect towards their founder. Christians wear crucifixes and crosses, an emblem of the disrespect shown to their founder. We remember it and we identify ourselves as the cause of it, or at least we should."He went on to say that the Resurrection was proof that God is more powerful than our sin. Islamists don't have that proof so they are mired in a religion that
"still thinks the way to overcome sin is through power, through violence. Thus they take up arms against those who would insult the Prophet Mohammed."
UPDATE: In going over the archives, it appears I was wrong about no priest giving a sermon dealing with Islam. See this:
Our pastor gave a sermon on the Feast of the Ascension...the gist of it is how Christianity differs from, say, Islam. Christ, naturally. But also there is a core
difference in the concept of God. We don't much understand the Trinity, he
says, so we don't emphasize it. But the idea is that Three Persons are so in
love that their boundaries become blurred. The concept of the Trinity is of
a "relational" God. He said that anytime we begin to view God as being other
than relational, we end up in tyranny, with a desire to force our views on
others.
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