Prayers prompt religious row | EuropeNews.
Read the last quote…honestly, but what is Islam? Is it a faith? There is but one Faith. Yes, it a tradition, but the wrong Tradition.
A row has broken out after a Christian group organised a day of prayer in Oxford about Muslims during Ramadan. The Muslim Education Centre of Oxford (Meco) accused Witney-based Open Doors UK of preaching “evangelical propaganda”, after the Christian group held a Call to Prayer day in Oxford yesterday.
But Open Doors UK, which held the event at St Aldate’s Church, insisted it had been taken out of context, although it “regretted” any offence that had been caused.
A spokesman denied the meeting targeted Muslims, and said its aim was to reduce fear of Islam.
Meco chairman Dr Taj Hargey was invited on BBC Radio Oxford yesterday to talk about the month of Ramadan, and was followed on to Phil Mercer’s show by Brother Andrew from Open Doors UK.
Dr Hargey said: “It was only then that I learned they were running a day-long Christian initiative called Call to Prayer.
“I was flabbergasted and straight away looked at their website. The innocent sounding publicity was headlined ‘A Call to Prayer’, but Open Doors goes on to call Islam an ‘ideology’. (…)
