Walker sent a link to this Seattle Catholic article, seeking refutations. I’ll forward them along if you send them to me here.

It is disturbing that many Catholics have adopted a philosophical preference for Islam over Judaism. Furthermore, in some instances, some prominent Catholics have even made the unfortunate suggestion that there is much commonality between the true Faith and the religion of Islam.

I have to believe that in doing so, they have little or no idea what Islam preaches or how its followers manifest their faith in the real world. It’s time for an expose of what the Koran and Islamic Law actually teach, and how that teaching is applied by its proponents.

It is not enough to simply say that life for Moslem girls is harsh and leave it at that. Catholics must come to some understanding of what life is really like for young girls in Islamic countries, so no reputable Catholic may ever again make the absurd claim of commonality between the Mohammedan religion and the one, true Catholic Faith.

The article goes on to characterize Islam as supporting forced genital mutilation of women, protection of men who violate women, ‘institutionalized pedophilia’ and ‘slavery’. [As contrasted with American Catholicism’s institutionalized pedophilia and protection of men who violate boys?] The logical fallacy of condemning Islam for what happens in Islamic nations goes entirely unexamined…