New in PJ Media:
U.S. Catholic says that it has a million readers, and those who don’t use each issue to line their bird cages are getting a bracing dose of leftist religion, as the magazine itself proudly boasts: “U.S. Catholic puts faith in the context of everyday life, with a strong focus on social justice. Since 1935, U.S. Catholic has been a courageous, forward-thinking forum for discussion among a broad range of voices.” Hey, if there’s anything we need, it’s more folks who are willing to be stunning and brave, and U.S. Catholic is happy to oblige with a new article about how much we can learn from the religion that leftists of all creeds seem to love best: Islam.
In “What Catholics can learn from Islam about the pursuit of happiness,” which U.S. Catholic published Thursday, a practicing Muslim named Zeyneb Sayılgan asserts that “Islam teaches that it is a sacred obligation to build trust and respect by nurturing human relationships.” She informs us that “as Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi put it, while solitude can be healthy, we are social creatures who fundamentally need each other.”
This is all swell, but the immediate question that springs to mind is why the top dogs at U.S. Catholic, in their wisdom, decided that they needed to go outside the Roman Catholic tradition, and indeed outside of the Christian tradition as a whole, in order to find someone who would remind their readers that we should be building trust and nurturing relationships with other people, and that it’s not wise to be alone all the time. The answer, of course, is that they didn’t, as any number of Roman Catholic thinkers, as well as sages from other Christian traditions, and others as well, could have been found who would have said essentially the same thing.
U.S. Catholic, however, is featuring it all as coming from a Muslim and the Islamic tradition in the spirit of outreach, to demonstrate how much Muslims and Roman Catholics have in common, and to emphasize how they should regard one another with love and kindness rather than suspicion. And so Zeyneb Sayılgan insists in due course that Islam and Catholicism see eye to eye on the need for human fellowship:
Catholic traditions similarly emphasize the need for human connection and the sacredness of communal life. In fact, in both Islam and Catholicism, as well as many other world religions, we find shared values around hospitality, communal meals, spiritual gatherings, and service to others. These are not just cultural customs; they are pathways to joy and healing in an increasingly disconnected world.
There is more. Read the rest here.
mike says
if any part of Islam is a happy is like cutting off a hand
more lies to convince if BS
I don’t buy it any any level
Paul Burns says
When I was a kid at primary school in the 1970s, there was no supervised play at lunchtime. We were all let out into the playground and the teachers stayed inside. I was a timid and shy kid and I learned very fast to avoid the aggressive kids and to ally myself with kids who would help me. It taught me a lot about human nature, the true nature of the world and the necessity to look out for my own interests. I sometimes wonder if supervised playtime has anything to do with the foolishness and naivety we see nowadays.
somehistory says
One thing I find interesting, Paul, is that so many who know about the evil that is islime, who come here to share their knowledge, experience and determination to oppose that evil, grew up shy.
A shy person seems to be one who chooses friends wisely..
Paul Burns says
Yes, it was kind of a rough start in life but it saved me from making big mistakes later in life. I used to complain to my mother that some of the kids were really mean and her advice was “keep the bad dog with you, and the good one won’t bite.” That’s a bit morally dubious but I guess that’s what she was told when she was young. Obviously in the case of Jihadis, co-existence is not an option, so all the good little doggies have to band together and handle the threat in the most effective way.
somehistory says
Paul, solving problems early in life, builds character and discipline.
Your comment brings to mind elephants and wildebeests…when confronted by a lion pride….form a circle, heads facing the threat.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
somehistory says
When first reading the article titled “US Catholic,” I thought it was written by a Catholic. A Catholic who had a skewed idea.
After a word or two, I realized the reader had to be mozlum. Allowing a mozlum (did she get paid for her lying screed?) to write for those who are Catholic, seems rather perverted. Disgusting, to say the least.
I once wrote articles, short stories, novels, and poetry. To be published, I would have to look for publishers which wanted what I wrote, the kind of thing I wrote, and which was acceptable to their “values.”
Does US Catholic not have any “values” which writers must meet in order to be published? Is the only requirement avoiding the Truth? Or helping the faithful to leave the confines and join islime?
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“Is the only requirement avoiding the Truth?”
Wow, that’s a keeper!
somehistory says
As always, thank you much, James.
Westman says
The “shared” values of striking the necks of unbelievers, conquest for land and booty, half-valuing women, and eternal torture by fire, molten lead, caustic drink, and boiling water for the unbelievers.
And for the Muslim martyrs, an orgy of young women, food, drink, and a magnitude of servants with a special “channel” to watch the suffering and torture of the unbelievers for amusement.
No, thanks.
Loving those who love you is human attribute of all societies.
Jesus: “But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.” Luke 6:32
gravenimage says
+1
GE says
I learned all I need to know from 1400 years of jihad
history, and my genealogy.
If that wasn’t enough, 9/11 was a good reminder.
abu taleb says
Probably, U.S. Catholic is talking about learning from Muhammad about the happiness of raping a child. How many altar boys have been attacked by the Catholic priests?
Hank says
Was this photo taken in Sweden?
jerry glenn says
U.S. Catholic surges in the national Islamopandering derby.
Lizabee says
As a Catholic, I’m thoroughly disgusted and insulted by this magazine which I have never read.
They and the former Commie Pope and probably this new Pope want a Globalist Chrislam.
You can’t learn anything from a supremacist anti-West ideology that wants to dominate and kill you.
OLD GUY says
Agree!
Lizabee says
As a Catholic, I’m thoroughly disgusted and insulted by this magazine which I have never read.
They and the former Commie Pope and probably this new Pope want a Globalist Chrislam.
You can’t learn anything from a supremacist anti-West ideology that wants to dominate and kill you.
gravenimage says
U.S. Catholic Reveals ‘What Catholics Can Learn from Islam About the Pursuit of Happiness’
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Firstly, Islam *rejects* the earlthly pursuit of happiness–save, of course, for enslaving, raping, and mass slaughtering Infidels.
As for Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, he was enraged at Ataturk’s curbing of Islam, and wanted to see the revival of the bloody Ottoman Empire.
And this apologia for Islam is nothing new for the U.S. Catholic–here they are, in 2011, saying that 9/11 has made them sensitive to the struggles–that is, Jihad–of Muslims. No sympathy for the victims pf 9/11 or their loved ones. But why would it? It goes on to blame 9/11 on Americans’ “greed”, and laments our not changing our culture for Jihadists:
https://uscatholic.org/articles/201109/day-of-recollection-u-s-catholic-readers-share-thoughts-on-9-11/
It blames 9/11 on our caring *too much* about individual rights–including the right not to be murdered, apparrently. The article also expresses anger that only half of Catholics reported praying for the Jihad terrorists. Ugly stuff.