Secular media wrong about meeting on dialogue with Muslims
WASHINGTON (BP)--Headlines surfacing in the secular press regarding a recent meeting of evangelical leaders to discuss Christian-Muslim dialogue imply that the group rebuked fellow evangelicals such as Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Jerry Vines for so-called inflammatory comments they have made about Muslims.
However, a copy of the three-page "Guidelines for Christian-Muslim Dialogue" written by Institute of Religion and Democracy Vice President Alan Wisdom and released at the meeting make no mention of Graham, Falwell, Robertson or Vines.
According to a news release from the Institute on Religion and Democracy, which co-sponsored the May 7 meeting in Washington with the National Association of Evangelicals, the particular purpose of the consultation was to discuss appropriate public rhetoric and to encourage greater evangelical-Muslim interaction in local communities.
