Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, one of the nation’s most prominent religious leaders told several thousand American Muslims over the weekend that “the two largest faiths on the planet” must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global problems, according to OneNewsNow.
“Some problems are so big you have to team tackle them,” evangelical mega-church pastor Rick Warren said as he addressed the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Warren said Muslims and Christians should be partners in working to end what he calls “the five global giants” of war, poverty, corruption, disease, and illiteracy.
Warren urged Muslims and Christians to speak out against stereotyping of any group and to respect each other even while disagreeing.
Disagreeing? The group currently uses its website to propagate violent hatred against Christians and Jews.
The Muslims who detest Christians, deny the Holocaust and have pledged to drive the tiny nation of Israel into the sea, must all have nodded in agreement as Warren blathered.
This Canada Free Press article details ISNA’s ties with Hamas and other terrorist organizations. According to the article, the group’s website is laced with quotations such as: “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him’” and “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim.”
As far back as 1996, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell stated, “One of the groups with Hamas ties is the Dallas-based Islamic Association for Palestine in North America, which, in turn, is allied with the Islamic Circle of North America in New York.”
Terrorism analyst Steven Emerson reports that ISNA has close ties to the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological forebear of all radical Islamic movements — including Hamas and al Qaeda. Documents show that Hamas officials have participated in previous ISNA events. “The ISNA’s hatred of the Jews is so fierce,” writes Emerson, “that it taunted them with a repetition of what Hitler did to them.” In his book American Jihad, Emerson expounds: “The ISNA openly supports militant Islamic fundamentalist organizations, praises terror attacks, issues incendiary attacks on western values and policies, and supports the imposition of Sharia [Islamic law].”
Warren shared the podium with Ingrid Mattson, president of ISNA and professor of Islamic Studies at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies. She is a convert from Roman Catholicism to Islam
At present, Ms. Mattson participates in ‘Live Dialogues’ on Islam Online. The website supports suicide bombings, mandates attacks against American troops, prescribes murder for homosexuals, and discusses poetic beheadings of human beings.
Rick Warren certainly has a knack for picking friends.