The ‘escape clause’ is “avoid those [subjects] which lead to impasse.”

His definition of “dialogue” is “Christians talk; Muslims listen.”

Were someone to assert that the Doctrine of “resurrection” is a Doctrine of ‘Rebirth’; were someone to assert that Mohammed was Elijah and John the Baptist ‘raised from the dead’ (as implied in the Koran); were someone to assert that the “Night Journey” of Mohammed is a term used to describe the Vision of the “Son of man”…

Were *any* of these assertions to be made, it would be concluded that subjects had been broached which would “lead to an impasse”; and, thus, that all such subjects MUST be avoided.

Fundamentally, however, the focus upon *inter-religious* dialogue is a violation of the Koran, which condemns those who have *separated* the Revelations received by Moses, Isaiah and Daniel, from the Revelations received by Jesus, from the Revelations received by Mohammed; in other words, the religious ‘authorities’ whose very JOBS depend upon such separations.

Michael Cecil