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| Vatican: Koran encourages 'killing Christians' |
| 2010-10-24 |
| The Koran is a text that encourages Islam to impose itself with force and permits the killing of Christians, said Lebanon's Catholic Patriarch of Antioch Archbishop Raboula Beylouni, addressing a Vatican meeting of Middle East bishops. "The Koran gives Muslims the right to judge Christians and kill them with Jihad," he said. "It gives orders to impose religion with force, with the sword. For this reason, Muslims don't recognise the freedom of religion among themselves or others." Pope Benedict XVI on 11 Oct. the opened the two-week-long meeting of 246 Middle East bishops and other religious leaders by lashing out against violence "in God's name". The pontiff warned delegates to guard against the spread of "terrorist ideology" in the modern world. Among clerics attending the meeting were Muhammad al-Sammak, political counsellor to the Grand Mufti of Lebanon, representing Sunni Islam; and Ayatollah Seyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Ahmadabadi, a law professor at the Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran and member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences, representing Shia Islam. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #10 Meanwhile, BAT FANS ... To wit, * ISRAEL NN > [Pope Benedict + ME Synod of Bishops] VATICAN TELLS UN: REMOVE ISRAEL FROM {Middle East = Arab-Muslim] HEARTLAND. Israel should accept those pesky UN Rsolutions suppor "Peace-in-our-Time" + unilateral Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-24 23:15 |
| #9 They listed the "occupation" of Palestinian lands, Former Silesian and Prussian Germans could not be reached for comment about the occupation and ethnic cleansing of their ancestral lands. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-24 22:18 |
| #8 According to Ay Pee, in their final communique issued Saturday, the bishops also demanded ...Israel accept UN resolutions calling for an end to its "occupation" of Arab lands, and told Israel it should not use the Bible to justify "injustices" against the Palestinians. While the bishops condemned terrorism and anti-Semitism, they laid much of the blame for the conflict squarely on Israel. They listed the "occupation" of Palestinian lands, West Bank security barrier, its military checkpoints, "political prisoners," demolition of homes and disturbance of Palestinians' socio-economic lives as factors that have made life increasingly difficult for Palestinians. There has been a strain of antisemitism in the Church since the beginning. Even in these modern times there are those who cling to that. Pope Benedict still has some work to do to clean out his stable. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-24 18:37 |
| #7 Islam has been at war with the west almost from its inception. All that is new is the unwillingness of many contemporary westerners to accept that fact. How refreshing to have an Archbishop state the truth. |
| Posted by: kcs 2010-10-24 18:03 |
| #6 Another article from the Catholic Culture website. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2010-10-24 12:14 |
| #5 He won't be allowed on NPR. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-10-24 11:20 |
| #4 T.W. Maybe the left in the U.S. will get the message some day. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-10-24 10:04 |
| #3 This is a big deal. Up to now it's been warmongers and ministers of hole-in-the-wall tiny churches saying this, and they could be discounted as fringe elements who lacked proper understanding... if they weren't just speaking out of bigotry. But this time it's the princes of the Catholic Church, and the pope, known for his vast knowledge and subtlety of understanding (not a thing true of all recent popes) led off with the danger of the observed phenomenon. Counsellor al-Sammak and Ayatollah Admadabadi must be thinking very interesting thoughts about the recent epiphany experienced by a number of former theologians of terror jihad.* *Y'all remember, where they concluded the jihadis would end up with intestines roasted in Hell rather than eating grapes from the fingers of 72 virgins and a number of pearl-faced boys with bottoms like peaches. Because the current jihad has resulted in considerably more death and destruction to Dar al Islam than to the targets in Dar al Harb -- we were supposed to have surrendered by now instead of continuing to rain down death and destruction in what were supposed to be their safe places far behind the lines. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-24 09:44 |
| #2 Yup! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-10-24 09:24 |
| #1 aha, the man speaks the truth! good on him |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-10-24 08:05 |