EDITOR,
American Muslims have launched an effort to fund repairs of damaged Christian churches in the Middle East, and that is the right thing to do.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has presented a $5,000 check to the Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg as seed money for a campaign to fund the repair of churches damaged by violence in reaction to Pope Benedict’s XVI comments. This American-Muslim grassroots campaign hopes to take the effort worldwide.
Islamic teachings require Muslims to respect and protect religious institutions, not harm them. A prime example is the existence of the Vatican of Eastern Orthodox in Istanbul, Turkey. During medieval times, nowhere else could the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church find protection.
I am glad to see the efforts by CAIR and other organizations.
Riaz Hasan, Tracy
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