Rainer Woelki, the Archbishop of Cologne, is vying with Pope Francis for the much-coveted Dhimmi of the Year award. His position seems to be that since Islam and Christianity both recognize a single deity as the creator of the world and revere Abraham as an ancestor, then the two faiths must be essentially the same. We expect this sort of thing from politicians, who are not trained in theology. But an archbishop?

Many thanks to Egri Nök for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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