Personally, I’d *disagree* with the statement (as an atheist, of the cultural Christian variety, and secularist.)

“I’m curious. What do you view as the moral of Christianity, and is it any different than the moral of Islam?…”

@Just Stopping By

Salaam JSB, sorry for the delay. What I meant by the “moral of Christianity” are the same moral principals and ethics through God consciousness present in Islam, as well as in most religious traditions out there, that Christianity offers for its adherents. Some adherents to specific tradition believe that those principals and ethics are unique to their own tradition alone, which is not true of course, if we look deeper we can see them present in all religious traditions and are not specific to any.

England in the past was able to set a form of balance between the materialistic and spiritual, as outlined by medieval philosopher Roger Bacon.

That’s why the overall social development of England varies greatly from continental europe.

Mira,

Could you show us a story about that Israeli poll as well?

Senor

The Church of England is not like the bush version of christianity. the American Chrisitan Right is nothing like the church of England. The senior clergy in the Church of england opposed the wars, and condemned Blair. So did the Catholic Church.

Evangelicals right wing, (American) church is seen as heritical by most Christian churches.

Everyone here, please don’t confuse the American christian right with world christianity. The Crusaders of today are the american right wing Christians.

When Tony Blair went to war, the Catholic and Church of England clergy condemned it. He was rejected and booted out by the British for being a Bush poodle.

Just Stopping By

Though pauline Christianity clashes with Islam, certain moral values in Christianity are in sync with Islam as they are with Judaism. I agee with people above who say Judaism is more in sync with Islam, Sharia and Halacha are virtually identical. Nevertheless, the New Testament, does have some good morals that Christians espouse, though they exist in Islam and Judaism too.

For the record, that most Muslims would support a liberal Church ver atheism isn’t a surprise. They may oppose the American right wing Christianity, but most European churches are liberal, and not hostile to Islam or Judaism for that matter. Unlike the American Right Wing fanatic Christians, they don’t shove their religion onto the state or others.

What Muslim fool wants to see more Christianity in government? Have they not seen what goes on in America?

George Bush Jr., in leading up to the attacks in Iraq, talked about the Crusades and the clash of civilizations.

Yes, there are many good Christians out there, but, if you give them more power, there are extremists that may come to the forefront and cause a whole lot of trouble for the average Muslim.

@Géji says, “I truly believe in the moral of Christianity…”

I’m curious. What do you view as the moral of Christianity, and is it any different than the moral of Islam?

Thanks.

The headline (from the Telegraph, not written by Loonwatch) is quite misleading.

Headline: “79 Percent of Muslims say Christianity Should Have Strong Role in Britain”

Article: “People were asked to agree or disagree with the statement “Our laws should respect and be influenced by UK religious values”. The proportion of Muslims who agreed (79 per cent) …”

So, “UK religious values” equals Christianity? Couldn’t Muslims (and others) have interpreted “UK religious values” to mean values of all religious groups in the UK? Or perhaps to mean the generally shared values of religions, such as caring for the sick and poor?

I do think Islamophobes would be disappointed with the results of a reliable poll of Muslim views of other religions, but this just isn’t such a poll.

Nah they support Christianity because of their views on LBGTs/gay marriage.

@Emperor

I’m glad I’m able to repeatedly find things that are of use to you guys. Anything I can do at this point to help the cause of fighting anti Muslim bigotry.

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How will Islamophobes explain these figures? Muslims actually want Christianity to have a strong role in Britain? These statistics would be mindboggling to the average Islamophobe
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unfortunately I think @bboyblue on twitter (the person who first alerted me to this) had the right answer, at in many if not most cases. Most of them will probably just claim it was taqiyya, or if I think if they’re a tiny bit more sophisticated they may claim that ComRes poll was biased somehow. That of course assumes they don’t just ignore it. However, if they are starting to have genuine doubts, or were too skeptical to believe every single Islamophobic claim, this maybe enough to get some of them to realize how wrong they were. Hopefully this will help change some peoples minds for the better.