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Where Jerusalem and Mecca Meet

One Baptist college's social (and evangelistic) experiment in having Muslim students on campus.

Gregg Chenoweth and Caleb Benoit | posted 7/15/2009 10:17AM

College freshman Nida Hassan, 18, walks between buildings to a campus lawn where students routinely fall prone across mats, praying toward Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the most sacred site of Islam.

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dt2.0

Posted: July 20, 2009 4:11 PM

Wow, these comments are incredibly immature and show a very shallow faith and complete misunderstanding of both the teachings of Christ and what it means to live out your faith within community and the broader world. Respecting and loving those who choose not to follow Christ does not make you a lesser Christian. Our call is to love those individuals, not stand in judgment of them and share the truth with them so that they might come to know the power of the Gospel and the love of Christ. I won't bother to address the absurdity of the comments made by the person who has taken his views from his local "Christian" radio station.

Crusher

Posted: July 20, 2009 2:18 AM


How would you learn more about what it means to follow Christ frm muslims? That is simply an absurd statement.

John	Posted: July 17, 2009 4:05 PM

Atilla, here are some things I learned recently on my local Christian radio station: 1. Judges should not have empathy,2. a judge who recognizes one’s ethnic identity may play a role in thought processes and decision making is racist, 3. there is no such thing as a hate crime and hate crime legislation is a demonic attempt to force Christians to accept “the homosexual agenda” or be persecuted. . 4. the only god ordained economic system is free market capitalism-the fact that Obama is a socialist is one of the proofs that he is a fore-runner of the Anti-Christ.

Atilla

Posted: July 17, 2009 3:02 PM


Muslims are not our brothers and sisters as far as Christianity. They will have to stand judgment. They will go to hell unless accept Christ as Lord & Savior and live accordingly. . Remember what happened to the frog crossing the river with the scorpion... . But, now I am talking 'hate speech' in a dozen states, aren't I?

BH	Posted: July 16, 2009 10:34 PM


Interesting, I guess. Hopefully the Christian students will also seek to learn something from their Muslim brothers and sisters rather than just seeking to convert them. personally, I know I have learned more about what it means to follow Christ from my muslim friends than from most American Christians.

Ephrem Hagos

Posted: July 16, 2009 3:12 AM


Here is something worth exploring at any price (theologically) and with all the means at our disposal. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross, defined "according to the Scriptures", i.e., the books of Moses, the writings of the prophets, the Gospel and the Koran, is the one and only Forum for meeting of Jews, Christians and Muslims!

M	Posted: July 15, 2009 7:27 PM


"Muslims choose to enroll at Christian schools for pragmatic reasons, not theological ones ...." Hmmm..... Apparantly, these Christian colleges do not have enough "salt" to either -- repel the Mohommedans; or, convert the Mohommedans.

Rev Dwayne Morgan

Posted: July 15, 2009 6:05 PM


Sounds great. Do they / Will they also welcome gay Christian students?

Joseph

Posted: July 15, 2009 4:40 PM

"Where Jerusalem and Mecca meet"? That's the title for a Baptist university in Houston that has Muslim students. CT is all about redefinitions these days. Or if that is not a clumsy co-option of a reference (Jerusalem has always referred first to Judaism and the Jewish people) is it just unintended emergent illiteracy that sounds good but isn't accurate? Here's a few more of those kind of redefinitions: "Islam is an Abrahamic faith." It is not -- theologically, historically, Biblically, culturally, ethnically, logically or otherwise. If the mere assertion of a religious association with Abraham is the only measure, we should also include Bahai, LDS, Joseph Campbell-ogy, and many more. Another: "Muslims are social conservatives." Really? So submission to Sharia toward an absolute collectivism is anything close to the principles and practice of "ordered liberty?" (BTW -- perhaps thats why 90 plus % of American Muslims voted Obama and Democrat the last election). Please think.

Omar Omland

Posted: July 15, 2009 3:54 PM