{"id":2922,"date":"2015-01-17T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2015-01-17T06:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T11:13:00","slug":"the-2nd-commandment-is-like-it-the-us-bishops-face-their-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2015\/01\/the-2nd-commandment-is-like-it-the-us-bishops-face-their-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2nd Commandment is Like It: The US Bishops Face Their Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In thinking about the massacres in Nigeria<\/a>, my train of thought ran like this:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. How can anyone bear to be associated with this? \u00a0I was thinking about the whole Muslim world. \u00a0You want to be part of this? No.<\/li>\n
  2. Of course not.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    One of the rare pleasures of being me is that thus far every faithful Muslim I\u2019ve gotten to know has been a gentle, God-loving person. \u00a0The kind of person who would have nothing to do, ever, with the atrocities of their coreligionists.<\/p>\n

    We on the outside of the Muslim world look over at the slaughter in Nigeria and watch for denunciations. \u00a0We want to see that Muslim clerics and politicians outright condemn the unspeakable evil that is destroying whole nations.<\/p>\n

    What would I think, then, of some leader who made a display of denouncing the slaughter of innocents, but\u00a0then turned around and played nice with the killers?<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    January 22nd is a day of prayer and penance<\/a> for the end of abortion in the US. \u00a0That\u2019s an instruction, not a suggestion. \u00a0We are invited, in addition, to join the US Bishops in nine days of prayer, penance, and pilgrimage<\/a> beginning today, January 17th, and culminating on the 22nd. \u00a0If you go out to the March for Life<\/a>, which you should do if you can, you will see the bishops out there. \u00a0They are for serious about this.<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    Abortion is the exact same thing as the killing going on in Nigeria. \u00a0It is the intentional killing of an innocent person who happens to be in the way. \u00a0It is the exact same thing.<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    So how would we feel, then, if a peaceful, God-loving Muslim stood up in massive protest against the terrorists, rightly denouncing the murders as being utterly incompatible with any notion of morality, and on the following day made no objection when those same terrorists walked into the mosque and claimed a seat with their\u00a0fellows?<\/p>\n

    We on the outside would suspect the denunciations were not so very genuine.<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    Would we think it was right to accept honors and sit down to banquets with political leaders who approved, endorsed, and funded the killing of their innocent countryman?<\/p>\n

    What would we think if, say, a national leader in Nigeria, a Muslim, was repeatedly on record as explaining how he didn\u2019t approve of the slaughter himself, but he thought national law ought to allow each militant his personal choice?<\/p>\n

    What if Muslim legislators were actively voting for the protection of the \u201cright\u201d of militants to murder whom they would?<\/p>\n

    And then, what if there existed in Islam a teaching office, a clearly-defined hierarchy, whose very laws called for removing the privileges of the faithful from those who endorsed the slaughter?<\/p>\n

    What if the clerics who held that office were to explain that though they could issue press releases and even turn out at various protests, it might\u00a0turn people away from the faith<\/em> if they were seen to act in a manner that was construed as barring the terrorists from the Mosque until they repented?<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    Because Muslims of good will really feel that it\u2019s just not very\u00a0pastoral<\/em> for an Imam to tell Boko Haram they aren\u2019t welcome in the Mosque? \u00a0Because someone contemplating a conversion to Islam would be put off by such unkindness to the terrorists and their supporters?<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    Abortion is the exact same thing as the slaughter in Nigeria. \u00a0It is the exact same thing.<\/p>\n

    Whatever response it is that we Catholics would hope for from the Muslim world, that\u2019s what we need to be carrying out ourselves, here on our own killing grounds.<\/p>\n

    ***<\/p>\n

    I don\u2019t think nine days is gonna cut it.<\/p>\n

    \"File:Cristo<\/p>\n

    Artwork:By Maestro de Sigena,\u00a0<\/em>Christ Before Herod\u00a0[Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. \u00a0Yes, Our Lord dined with tax collectors and other sinners. \u00a0But he didn\u2019t eat with Herod.<\/em><\/p>\n

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