Glasgow Christians, Muslims renovate places of worship
Posted: Friday, May 23, 2008, 8:47 (BST)
A special project is due to conclude on Friday that has not only brought two of Glasgow's faith communities together, but demonstrated that they can co-exist happily alongside one another and work together for a common cause.
The Church of Scotland, represented by inter-faith worker Iain Stewart, of Govanhill Trinity Church, has been working with Rizi Mohammed from Central Mosque on a project to 'spruce up' both of these places of worship.
Iain and Rizi have been working with the Global Volunteer Agency, a link which has brought 18 volunteers from Syria to help clean and repair both the Central Mosque and Govanhill Trinity.
The first stage of the project started in mid-April with the cleaning and painting of railings outside Central Mosque.
Friday will see the project conclude with the painting of Govanhill Trinity Church hall.
Iain Stewart, the Kirk's inter-faith worker, said: "The previous work that was undertaken at Central Mosque was only a small but significant example of how Christians and Muslims and people of other faiths can work together for the greater good. This was a great way of putting the teaching of love your neighbour into practice."
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Added: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 22:33 (BST)
Interfaith, again. Probably the of the most insidious theory of religious workings that Satan has tricked the Christian church with. Why the Christian church? Can one really see Islam saying that God has directed them to work hand-in-hand with Christians, to build bridges and commonalities,first??
I don't think so, as they deny the divinty of Jesus (Sura 5.57), despite the fact that He proved His claims, and both the Koran and the Hadith both basically call for the forceable conversion of infidels - US - to Islam, calling Christians and Jews (blasphemers and disbelievers, if they do not acknowledge Islam as the Primary Religion) 'monkeys and pigs, pagans and worse, and that the Torah did not come first to Moses, but to Mohammed some 3-4000 years later', and exhort the murder of both as non-people (Sura 5.60).
If certain moral codes and values are similar between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, then it is surely because that Islam plagarised both Old and New Testaments to suit its own purposes, in the 12th Century!
Chris Maguire, Ventnor, Iow
