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September 16, 2006
The Grand Ayatollah demands apologies! (And "peace"!)
One of the most prominent of the Pope's chief critics to be demanding apologies in the various news reports is the Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. This Inquirer report is typical: Muslim leaders said outreach efforts by papal emissaries were not enough.Who is this man who demands that the Pope grovel for daring to quote from a Byzantine leader in a discussion about the worthiness of religious violence? In this interview, Newsweek decribed Fadlallah as a "leading" cleric, accepted uncritically his "peace" advocacy (and didn't quibble with his insistence that Bush "regards himself as the second coming of Christ," and that "we should send him to a psychiatrist.") I'd like to know whether the Grand Ayatollah is in fact the champion of peace he claims to be, and whether he has the moral authority to condemn the Pope for suggesting that religious violence is not good. Here's a quote from Fadlallah on religious martyrdom: What martyrdom is greater than making yourself a human bomb detonating it among the enemy? What spiritualism is greater than this spiritualism in which a person loses all feeling of his body and life for the sake of his cause and mission?If the above isn't a self-fisking statement, I don't know what is. And the Pope has to apologize to this man? Would it be insensitive to suggest that the Grand Ayatollah is being unreasonable? MORE: Speaking of insensitivity, consider the following remark by the Grand Ayatollah, on the nature of the "Qu'ran": "In the vocabulary of the Qur'an," he says, "Islamists have much of what they need to awaken the consciousness of Muslims, relying on the literal text of the Qur'an, because the Qur'an speaks about the Jews in a negative way, concerning both their historical conduct and future schemes."Why is it that if an American spoke of the "Qu'ran" in exactly the same way, he'd be accused of "distorting Islam" -- by people who would call Fadlallah a "respected cleric" who "seeks peace"? posted by Eric on 09.16.06 at 09:19 AM
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Pope Benedict XVI was very courageous in saying what needs to be said in regards to Islamo-Fascism. And he hasn’t apologized for what he said. He just said he is sorry that the Muslims were offended. But, I guess the Muslims can’t handle the truth. By the way, leftists have come out and renounced the Pope’s comments. Here is what one liberal blogger posted. http://melt212.livejournal.com/171321.html “I feel empathy for the muslims who just got bitch slapped by the pope because I had a boyfriend like that once. ” Spoken like a true member of the Democratic Party base. Treats foreign affairs like it was the Jerry Springer show. Jeff · September 16, 2006 02:47 PM |
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But Eric, they do seek peace. The peace that comes after destroying us.
Islam is a religion of war.