Historic new national guidelines to build co-operation between Christians and Muslims are due to be unveiled.
They have been drawn up by the Deobandi Association of Muslim Scholars of Britain (JUB) and Church of England working party.
They acknowledge that the faiths' mutual perceptions of each other are often built on ignorance and a difficult international situation.
And they state: "We are determined not to allow international relations - over which we have no direct control - to dictate how we relate to each other in our cities as British citizens.
"British Muslims are no more responsible collectively for such terrorist atrocities as those committed in London on July 7, 2005, than British Christians are for the excesses of western foreign policy."
Dr Philip Lewis, interfaith adviser to the Bishop of Bradford, described the guidelines as a milestone between the two religions.
He said: "This is an historic first, and it's very encouraging that these guidelines have been produced in the present climate. We've long had relations at city-wide level, but relations have to move to local areas, where we live together."
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"British Muslims are no more responsible collectively for such terrorist atrocities as those committed in London on July 7, 2005, than British Christians are for the excesses of western foreign policy."
Ah, there it is, the moral inversion at the heart of any "interfaith" interaction: the misunderstood Muslims are absolved of any connection to or responsibility for terrorism, while Christians must fall on their sword (or scimitar) for causing Islamic terrorism in the first place through their foreign policy "excesses."
Interfaith "dialogue" is a disgusting exercise in self-humiliation and surrender, in which appeasers of the Christian West come crawling to Islam on their knees, begging forgiveness for their cultural ignorance, religious inferiority, and imperialist excesses, while seeking guidance as to how to right their many wrongs against the Muslim world.
There is never a word about Islamist excesses or cultural supremacism, never an acknowledgement of Muslim responsibility for any cultural or political conflict, never an effort on the part of Muslims to meet Christians on equal footing and with mutual religious respect.
The process is ALWAYS about how we in the West can come to a better "understanding" of Islam (funny how we don't seem to misunderstand Buddhism or Judaism or atheism or Satanism, etc.) so that we can further bend over backward to dismantle our laws, abrogate our rights, and jettison our languages and cultural pride, in order to embrace our Islamist conquerors.
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