WE in the West must be grateful to Muslims for bombing … er, bringing God back into the public sphere.
So says dhimmi Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Catholic Church’s department for interfaith contacts.
Cardinal Tauran: as close to bull as you can get
Dummy, more like!
According to this report, he claims that religion is now talked and written about more than ever before in today’s Europe.
In a speech reported in Friday’s L’Osservatore Romano, the official daily of the Vatican, he said:
It’s thanks to the Muslims. Muslims, having become a significant minority in Europe, were the ones who demanded space for God in society.
Now believers of different faiths have no option but to engage in interreligious dialogue.
Tauran said religions were “condemned to dialogue,” a practice he called:
The search for understanding between two subjects, with the help of reason, in view of a common interpretation of their agreement and disagreement.
Reason? Among faith groups who despise each other even more than they do atheists? The man must be on drugs.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
November 30th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I’m sorry, maybe everyone has missed the elephant in the room, but if there’s any way that muslims have brought god back to the ‘public sphere’, might it not be by, oh, i dunno, believing that their god wants them to fly planes into buildings…?
Ok, a minority, but the concept of martyrdom is supported by a significant majority of muslims, even in Europe and the US.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:24 am
…with the help of reason.. Wait,..what?
December 1st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
So maybe he thinks that they should get their own 9/11 maybe against the evil religionless chinise. Then claim that the world is treating them badly. Chrislam never supprises me. All this going on while muslims and christians are killing one another in Nigeria