Catholics and Muslims

“…it is now of such transcendent importance, so necessary and so urgent, that all of us in the Church energetically support the Holy Father himself, right now, in eliminating that terrible impression, and in restoring the image and reality of the Church as the Muslim world's respectful friend and partner in dialogue "about God and about all things in relation to God.”
David-Maria A. Jaeger, ofm

Suggestions that the Western media, the British media , the BBC, Guardian et al have deliberately gone out of their way to emphasise only the Manuel II extract of the Regensburg Address, rather than his call to peace and reason, this is perhaps taking conspiracy theories to an extreme. I am sure it is a ridiculous suggestion.

The Truth is that these organs are really secularist and everything they see is through the tainted glass of secularism. All the great religions have many things in common that are directly opposed to Western Liberal Secularism.
Together we value so much; first of all a vision of humanity, that is not based on self indulgence but on service of a God who is always beyond and above, who calls us to transcend ourselves, to move from Self to Other. We see ourselves at the service of God, and at the service of one another.

This vision of what we are, forms a vision of family and human sexuality, of the dignity given us from the moment of conception, to the moment of natural death. We share together an understanding that sexuality is there to fill a divine plan, rather than merely for gratification or indulgence. Together we stand opposed to the hedonistic self-indulgence that has become for many that which degenerate western culture has slithered into.

Men and women of faith have a shared understanding of what the purpose of the state is: it is there to serve humanity, to enable human beings to live in peace and harmony, to promote just laws, to ensure religious liberty, to safeguard the “Good”.

Catholics know what it is to be outsiders in the UK, to be treated with suspicion or even hatred; to have unjust laws aimed against us. Now is the time for us join together wherever possible to combat the anti-theism that is becoming so much part of our society. Now is the time to defend goodness and truth and morality.