steveox
Well-Known Member
The Pope should fire him. The Catholic church should not tolerate this kind of remarks. Arabs are scaring the hell outta people in this by threaten us to convert to islam. Heres the link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_god_or_allah_1
Dutch bishop suggests calling God Allah
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_god_or_allah_1
Dutch bishop suggests calling God Allah
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch Catholic bishop who once said the hungry were entitled to steal bread and advocated condom use to prevent AIDS has made headlines again, this time by saying God should be called Allah.
"Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will call God Allah?" Bishop Tiny Muskens said in an interview broadcast this week. "God doesn't care what we call him."
In this nation where religious tolerance has been eroded in recent years by a rise in radical Islam, the comments drew little support.
Muskens, bishop of the southern Diocese of Breda, previously created a stir by suggesting the hungry could steal bread to feed themselves. He also supported the use of condoms as a way of reining in the spread of AIDS and suggested popes have term limits of 10-15 years and an age limit of 85.
In an interview broadcast on Monday's edition of current affairs show "Netwerk," Muskens said he had worked in Indonesia where God is referred to as Allah in Christian services.
But a spokesman for one of the capital's leading mosques said he was not happy with the statement.