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Responding to 'A Common Word Between Us and You'In October 2007, 138 Muslim scholars combined together to write 'A Common Word between us and you' last year. It was a letter to Christians - and followed a previous letter written a year earlier in October 2006 - after they were upset at a lecture given by the Pope in Regensburg in September 2006. The letter is based on verses from the Qur'an, it assumes there is only one God and invites Christians to join them - a form of da'wa. 300 Christians responded in a statement organised by Yale. They printed the statement in a full-page ad in the New York Times. We believe that the original statement by the Muslim scholars is not something that Christians can support, as it is written on Muslim terms and denies the deity of Jesus Christ. We believe that the 'Christian response' co-ordinated by Yale University is flawed, because it also writes as God as though they are agreeing that it is the same god the Muslims worship. By acknowledging and accepting the Muslim statement, a form of dhimmitude is being undertaken. Barnabas Fund's Rev Dr Patrick Sookhdeo and Rev Dr Mark Durie have analysed the original statement and the Christian responses: Rev Dr Mark Durie: Rev Dr Patrick Sookhdeo: 24th January 2008 - Barnabas Fund Response to the |