The Ruling on Consoling Christians and Praising Them

Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, this is Sami. He says: One of the senior muftis appeared on Al-Jazeera channel and said that it is obligatory for Muslims to console Christians, and that among the virtues of Christians is their sincerity in spreading their religion and conveying their call, and so on, until he said: “So we ask Allah to have mercy on him and forgive him, and to replace the Christians with good.” What is the ruling on this statement?

Answer:
This is like the other side I mentioned to you, who do not want loyalty and disavowal (al-wala' wa al-bara'). They want people to be equal—Christians, Muslims, and Jews. In fact, they do not even want them to be equal; they want Judaism and Christianity, not Islam. But this is a matter of social courtesy. Islam is the most hated thing to them. They love Judaism and Christianity, but they do not love Islam. So, such a person’s words are of no account, neither on satellite channels nor elsewhere. His words must be rejected and one must stay away from them. Yes.