{"id":10726,"date":"2017-01-15T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T22:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2017-01-15T22:33:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T22:33:16","slug":"bishop-condemns-islamophobia-after-scottish-churchs-quran-recital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/bishop-condemns-islamophobia-after-scottish-churchs-quran-recital\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop condemns Islamophobia after Scottish church\u2019s Qur\u2019an recital"},"content":{"rendered":"

The head of a UK church in Scotland has condemned Islamophobic attacks following the recital of the Qur\u2019an at a cathedral in Glasgow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Most Reverend David Chillingworth, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, wrote in his blog on Sunday that the church \u201cregretted\u201d the abuse received by St. Mary’s Cathedral.<\/p>\n

Last week, it was reported that a verse from the Qur\u2019an was read at a service to mark the feast of the Epiphany at the church.<\/p>\n

The recital led to a row, where some church goers said while Muslims revere Jesus as a prophet, they do not view him as the son of God and therefore their holy book should not be read at the service.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe decisions which have led to the situation in St Mary’s Cathedral are a matter for the provost and the cathedral community but the Scottish Episcopal Church is deeply distressed at the widespread offense which has been caused,\u201d Chillingsworth\u2019s online post read.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also deeply regret the widespread abuse which has been received by the cathedral community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn response to what has happened at the cathedral, the Scottish Episcopal Church will bring together all those who are involved in the development of interfaith relations,\u201d the bishop went on.<\/p>\n

“Our intention will be as a church to explore how, particularly in the area of worship, this work can be carried forward in ways which will command respect,\u201d he continued. \u201cOur desire is that this should be a worthy expression of the reconciliation to which all Christians are called.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cathedral\u2019s provost, the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, defended the decision to include the passage and said the move was aimed at promoting understanding between Islam and Christianity.<\/p>\n

He also said during his Sunday sermon that the church was targeted by a \u201cstorm of abuse\u201d from \u201c10,000 Christian voices.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot believe that moderate churches in the West should follow a policy of appeasement towards those who are Islamophobic and particularly not towards the recently invigorated far-right media,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Source: Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The head of a UK church in Scotland has condemned Islamophobic attacks following the recital of the Qur\u2019an at a cathedral in Glasgow. The Most Reverend David Chillingworth, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, wrote in his blog on Sunday that the church \u201cregretted\u201d the abuse received by St. Mary’s Cathedral. Last week, it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[524,865,1418,1310,37,201,760,99,1417],"class_list":["post-10726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-christianity","tag-england","tag-episcopal","tag-interfaith","tag-islam","tag-islamophobia","tag-jesus","tag-quran","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10729,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions\/10729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}