Places of worship are under protection as stated in the Qur’an. It is forbidden in Islam to cause any harm to priests or Christians. Therefore, trying to incite hostility against Christians or a fight between the Crescent and the Cross is in total opposition to the Qur’an. Yet sadly, fanaticism that has developed within Islam causes such crimes of hate. Therefore, it is important to put a distinction between Islam based solely on the Qur’an and fanaticism that misinterprets the Qur’an by appealing to sayings falsely attributed to the Prophet and other additional Islamic books that consist of fatwas (decrees) made by religious scholars. The Scheme Against Christians and Muslims The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) indicates how the true approach of Muslims towards Christians should be. In 628 A.D. when a delegation from St. Catherine’s Monastery came to him to ask for protection, he granted them a charter of rights known as the Ahtiname and ordered Muslims to obey it until the Day of Judgment. Regrettably, in the contemporary world, some Western thinkers have encouraged the idea of extremism to create a miserable Islamic model that is fully opposed to science, art, beauty,…
