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U.S. Catholic Reveals ‘What Catholics Can Learn from Islam About the Pursuit of Happiness’ May 25, 2025 7:00 am By Robert Spencer 5 Comments New in PJ Media: U.S. Catholic says that it has a million readers, and those who don’t use each issue to line their bird cages are getting a bracing dose of leftist religion, as the magazine itself proudly boasts: “U.S. Catholic puts faith in the context of everyday life, with a strong focus on social justice. Since 1935, U.S. Catholic has been a courageous, forward-thinking forum for discussion among a broad range of voices.” Hey, if there’s anything we need, it’s more folks who are willing to be stunning and brave, and U.S. Catholic is happy to oblige with a new article about how much we can learn from the religion that leftists of all creeds seem to love best: Islam. In “What Catholics can learn from Islam about the pursuit of happiness,” which U.S. Catholic published Thursday, a practicing Muslim named Zeyneb Sayilgan asserts that “Islam teaches that it is a sacred obligation to build trust and respect by nurturing human relationships.” She informs us that “as Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursi put it, while solitude can be healthy, we are social creatures who fundamentally need each other.” This is all swell, but the immediate question that springs to mind is why the top dogs at U.S. Catholic, in their wisdom, decided that they needed to go outside the Roman Catholic tradition, and indeed outside of the Christian tradition as a whole, in order to find someone who would remind their readers that we should be building trust and nurturing relationships with other people, and that it’s not wise to be alone all the time. The answer, of course, is that they didn’t, as any number of Roman Catholic thinkers, as well as sages from other Christian traditions, and others as well, could have been found who would have said essentially the same thing. U.S. Catholic, however, is featuring it all as coming from a Muslim and the Islamic tradition in the spirit of outreach, to demonstrate how much Muslims and Roman Catholics have in common, and to emphasize how they should regard one another with love and kindness rather than suspicion. And so Zeyneb Sayilgan insists in due course that Islam and Catholicism see eye to eye on the need for human fellowship: Catholic traditions similarly emphasize the need for human connection and the sacredness of communal life. In fact, in both Islam and Catholicism, as well as many other world religions, we find shared values around hospitality, communal meals, spiritual gatherings, and service to others. These are not just cultural customs; they are pathways to joy and healing in an increasingly disconnected world. There is more. Read the rest here.