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present (e.g. in excesses of the ‘war on terror’) many Christians have been guilty of sinning against our Muslim neighbors,” and so “we ask forgiveness of the All-Merciful One and of the Muslim community around the world.
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Note this subtle but not less monstruous manipulation. Actually, they view the American war in Iraq and Afghanistan as somehow related to Christianity and Christians. As if it were a "Christian" war, as if the American government were composed of Christians, as if America were quintessentially Christian, as if these wars were led in the name of "Christianity".
So all Christians in the world should feel somehow ashamed and repent because of the acts of these "Christian soldiers"! So this text seems to imply.
I for myself don't feel any spiritual closeness to the murderous US mercenaries in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor do I view them as Christians, nor do I think that I as Christian should ask forgiveness, in any sense, for their deeds. They are totally alien to me.
It seems that the authors of this letter confounded religion with politics too much, as if they didn't see any difference between the temporal (worldly) and the spiritual sphere...which makes them closer to Islam than to the Christianity.
And it reeeks of masonic twaddle, definitely.
But, another thing: the author who wrote the critique of the letter of these "Christians" is no-one else than a famed American neocon Bruce Thornton who writes for many neocon publications. I saw some of his articles in which he tends to identify Christianity with the modern West. This sort of thinking makes him very akin to the authors of this letter. So it is a family dispute.