
Christ Episcopal Church (CT) Shares Its Space with Islamic Center
As controversy swirls around Al-Madany Islamic Center of Norwalk’s plan to build a mosque at 127 Fillow St., members of the congregation continue to worship in the community room of Christ Episcopal Church on Emerson Street.
“We come early to set up. It takes about 15 minutes,” said Azzeim Mahmoud, imam at Al-Madany and Norwalk resident, as he rolled out prayer mats in preparation for Friday afternoon’s prayer service. “We start about 1 o’clock and finish about 20 minutes before 2 o’clock, because people have to go back to work.”
For about a year, Christ Episcopal Church has been home to Al-Madany Islamic Center of Norwalk, whose congregation numbers about 100 families. Friday’s prayer service drew about 100 men. On Saturday afternoons, Al-Madany uses the community room for an education class for children. Before that, members of the congregation prayed in the basement of a board member. In that regard, Al-Madany members now have more room but the space is hardly ideal.
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Anathema!
[1] Posted by St. Nikao on 4-8-2012 at 03:49 AM · [top]
“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols?” 2 Cor 6:14-16
[2] Posted by Matt Kennedy on 4-8-2012 at 04:27 AM · [top]
II Corinthians 6:16, What agreement has the temple of God with idols?
What agreement indeed - here is the Fruit of the Religion of Hate, Lust, Lies, Vengeance, Misogyny, Injustice, Cruelty, Inhumanity:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501710_162-57410959/police-explosion-strikes-central-nigeria/
Episcopalians who agree with and celebrate abortion, unhealthy and unholy sexual practices and who worship of the earth, must find a great deal in common with Islam, its evil book and its fruit.
[3] Posted by St. Nikao on 4-8-2012 at 04:59 AM · [top]
Let me start with a question before addressing the most obvious concern regarding this story.
Where in the H*ll, does a congregation of 100 families get the bank for a 20000+ worship center with gym etc? How in the world do they need that much space? I think I smell Gulf Oil money and that is never good. Also the choice to put this monstrosity in a residential area also seems a bit of overreach. This is surely no accident as they constantly look for ways to force Islam into the heart of Christian America. Their goal is to make Islam inescapable. They work constantly using sneaky short cuts to leverage it into an equal position with Christianity in this land, a position it hasn’t earned and which its numbers here do not support. They want our disaffected youth to conveniently find mosques in their own neighborhoods, the larger the better to impress the impressionable.
All of this is within their rights under our Constitution but that doesnt mean that we shouldn’t use our own rights to counter these efforts.
Now for this brainless and heretical “church” that is working to help a religion that explicitly denies the central tenets of the Christian faith and calls our Apostles liars, I would point to the living (or should I say all but dead) example of those formerly Christian lands in the Middle East and in Turkey. In those lands, The Church first sought accommodation, tolerance and a lasting peace with Islam. They invited Muslims to live amongst them. They were confident that they had nothing to fear from this religion that talks about peace and yet conducts itself with the utmost aggression at its every opportunity to do so. The only reason Christianity survived the onslaught of Islam is that Christian nations finally woke up and stopped believing the empty talk of peaceful accommodation and mutual respect.
This is not to say, of course, that we should shame Christ by resorting to violence (unless our State should lawfully declare war) but neither should we shame him by being stupid and failing to vigorously assert the truth of our faith!
[4] Posted by StayinAnglican on 4-8-2012 at 01:39 PM · [top]
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ~Matt 10:16
[5] Posted by The Little Myrmidon on 4-8-2012 at 05:50 PM · [top]
At least they are in the “community room” and not the sanctuary.
[6] Posted by JustOneVoice on 4-9-2012 at 02:09 AM · [top]
@JustOneVoice
Oh they would never set up in there. Its contaminated with crosses and images. It would be too much trouble to strip it clean at this time. But just wait…
[7] Posted by StayinAnglican on 4-9-2012 at 05:57 AM · [top]
Oh, some of you just don’t get out enough. You must have missed your January 2009 issue of The Church in Hiawathaland (newsletter of the diocese of N Mich) (picture being worth 1000 words and all that)- although granted that was an “interfaith” something or other. Previous to that, of course, was the moving of the Buddhist prayer rugs from the main sanctuary to a chapel of the church building that serves as a cathedral up there (when having them in the main sanctuary proved embarrassing to 815 and the bishop-elect). All officially sanctioned by the guy they made bishop (and, of course, by the guy they tried to make bishop)- along with denials of the Nicene Creed and a variety of other “theological nuances” that are permitted in TEC nowadays. Old news up here, they have been doing such things for years. Again, all officially allowed by TEC (not a single cleric ever disciplined).
In all the nonsense to make a bishop out of somebody for what amounts to a geographically very large medium sized parish, they pulled all this stuff off the web, with the help of tech gurus from 815, but there are pdf copies floating around….
[8] Posted by tjmcmahon on 4-9-2012 at 08:17 AM · [top]
Nothing like getting into bed with the enemy, and that’s what they’ve done.
[9] Posted by cennydd13 on 4-9-2012 at 10:18 PM · [top]
What Matt+ said.
[10] Posted by MichaelA on 4-10-2012 at 06:24 AM · [top]
Here in Vancouver we don’t know much about Fr Michael Fuller, the London priest being brought in to watch over the empty St. Johns Shaughnessy building until it is sold to repay the cost of bringing him here: http://www.anglicansamizdat.net/wordpress/diocese-of-new-westminster/diocese-of-new-westminster-to-spend-4-5-million-in-an-attempt-to-revitalise-seized-parishes/
One of the few things that we do know (from this Islamic site
http://thedebateinitiative.com/2012/02/21/in-praise-of-christians-at-least-some-of-them/) is that Michael Fuller brought islamic worship to an Anglican church in Cornwall:
“Michael had the bright idea of contacting the local Church of England priest and asking if these Muslims could have their prayers in the local church.”
Can we infer that Fr. Fuller can be expected to convert the building into a mosque?
[11] Posted by Michael D on 5-17-2012 at 01:00 PM · [top]
Michael D, thanks for that information. Very interesting, and confirms something that has been frequently observed: liberals have no idea how to grow parishes.
[12] Posted by MichaelA on 5-17-2012 at 06:56 PM · [top]
Is this Fr. Fuller Rowan Williams answer to Ingram’s request for a “traditional” priest to oversee the remaining parishioners in the churches he seized from the orthodox parishes?
[13] Posted by tjmcmahon on 5-18-2012 at 02:05 PM · [top]
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