Praying For Muslims

This weekend starts the holy month of Ramadan in the Muslim world, but they won’t be the only ones praying.

When Muslims begin the holy month of Ramadan this weekend, Christians worldwide will be praying along with them. But Muslims may not welcome the support. In a campaign called the "30 Days Muslim Prayer Focus," Christians will be asking God to help Muslims accept Jesus.

The project is organized by a loose association of evangelical groups that include Youth With A Mission, which works in about 150 countries. In the U.S., the National Association of Evangelicals is asking the thousands of churches and ministries it represents to participate.

That ought to get a few turbans wrapped a little tight.

Many Muslims and others consider campaigns like these offensive in both their timing and goals, especially in light of religious tensions over the global fight against terror. Pope Benedict XVI is still trying to quell the violence that followed his recent speech citing a Byzantine emperor who called some Islamic teachings "evil and inhuman."

Of course they find them offensive because some Islamic teachings ARE “evil and inhuman”, but Christians have every right to pray for Muslims because Muslims pray that the world will be converted to Islam.

A lot of Muslims don’t see it that way, though. I’m sure, as this story gets around, some nitwit mullah will issue a fatwa and a church will get burned – just to show that they aren’t evil or inhuman.

To be fair, there are some who don’t see a problem:

Jamal Badawi, an Islamic scholar and professor emeritus at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said he cannot deny Christians the right to pray for him, since he also prays that they embrace Islam.

Pray on, Brutha!

http://www.30daysprayer.com/muslim/

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Comments

[Kelly]

Nothing will turn a born again Athiest (baptised Catholic)like me back to being a Catholic faster than a Muslim that is condeming and threatening the life of the Pope. Mass on Sunday is looking better and better... (just have to be home in time for the Seahawk game).

[canuckistani]

With both praying for each other, doesn't that cancel out anyone converting to the other's faith????

[Violence Worker]

I'm neither Catholic,Evangelical,Muslim, nor am I an atheist. I don't particularly care if it cancels them both out, so long as it cancels out the violence too.

(Odd thing to say for a guy who bills himself as "The Violence Worker", don't you think?) ;)

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