CLARE QUIRK
10 Sep, 2011
AS the 10th anniversary of September 11 approaches, a La Trobe University lecturer says the Islamic world and the Western world have no choice but to eventually get along.
Bendigo-based lecturer Rodney Blackhirst specialises in Islamic and Western relations, religion and politics and said slowly there would be progress.
“There is a historical mutual misunderstanding which dates back to the Middle Ages which is so deep,” he said.
“But we have no choice but to progress, the Islamic world is quite Westernised. You can sit in a McDonald’s in Islamabad and conversely there are 20 million Muslims living in Europe.
“The world is a small place and we have to live together.
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The great falling away from the Truth of Jesus Christ (apostasy), followed by the rule of Antichrist from the Temple of God:
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
(2 Thessalonians 2:3 and 4 - World English Bible)
