Salaam Alaikum and Merry Christmas
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4.5 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:45.4 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, December 25th, 2020. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm Caleb Brown. The relationship between Jesus and Islam is |
| 0:56.1 | one that isn't much appreciated in a large part of the Western world. Mustafa |
| 1:00.8 | Achiol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of the Islamic Jesus. |
| 1:05.6 | He discusses the place of Jesus in Islam and why it should be no problem to hear Salamulacum |
| 1:11.2 | in the same breath as Merry Christmas. |
| 1:14.1 | I think a lot of Americans who are not familiar with Islam would be surprised to hear someone |
| 1:20.4 | like you say, it is totally okay to wish Muslims a Merry Christmas. Why is that? |
| 1:26.4 | Well first of all I think people should be respectful to different faith traditions and people should not be offended when people celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah. |
| 1:38.0 | So there's that general universal toleration, but I think there's a specific reasons for Muslims to be okay |
| 1:48.8 | with Christmas and even celebrate it in their own way because what is Christmas about? |
| 1:55.8 | It's about the birth of Jesus Christ. |
| 2:00.6 | And it is of course very important for Christianity. It's in the New Testament, it's in the Bible. |
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