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RoP makes veiled threat over Austria’s plans for a city square named for Theodore Herzl
2004-05-10
EFL - I got this from an email from my cousin, I don’t have the URL
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Plans to name a Vienna square after Zionist Theodor Herzl drew protest Tuesday from the Arab League, which urged city fathers to reconsider for the sake of continued ``good relations’’ with the Arab world. Representatives of Vienna’s Islamic community also opposed the plan to honor the founder of Zionism, the movement to establish the state of Israel...the 22-nation Arab League sent a letter to Haeupl expressing its ``regret’’ at the decision to honor a man whose name `represents a sad memory for Arabs and Muslims.’’ The letter, which was dated April 29, also suggested the plan could lead to terrorism.
[ah yes the indirect veiled threat]
But municipal officials said Islamic opposition came late and ...
[the article says that Austria is trying to finally come to terms with its role in the Holocaust]
Carna Amina Baghajati, a spokeswoman for Vienna’s 120,000-strong Islamic community
[most of whom are not citizens],
also criticized the plan. She suggested a square be named instead for Mohammad Asad, the Austrian-born Jew
[actually he was ethnically Polish but born in a part of Poland that was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire]
who changed his name from Leopold Weiss, converted to Islam and went on to become an honored 19th century Muslim scholar
[he ended his life being very critical of Islamic backwardness and near dispair over the culture of the Arab and Islamic world]
Posted by:mhw

#14  sorry Ed I glanced at this book at a store once and I'm writing from memory.

you can get a sense of what mostly moslems think of it at the Amazon's customer review section

Link
Posted by: mhw   2004-05-10 8:10:36 AM  

#13  watta man
Posted by: Shipman   2004-05-10 6:46:24 PM  

#12  Thank you, Fred!
Posted by: Old Grouch   2004-05-10 6:44:57 PM  

#11  Better now?
Posted by: Fred   2004-05-10 4:23:35 PM  

#10  Honkin' Long URL Alert! Post #4. Danger! Danger!
(...or at least, annoyance).
Posted by: Old Grouch   2004-05-10 3:08:18 PM  

#9  Can we wrap that link, please?

It doesn't do Rantburg any favours for those browsing with Mozilla!
Posted by: Bulldog   2004-05-10 2:26:05 PM  

#8  Fairly concise and accurate bio of Weiss here:

http://www.renaissance.com.pk/maylefor2y2.html

He was critical of Islamic ridigity throughout his life. He resigned from the Pakistani government because they refused him permission to marry an American Islamic convert, and tried to publish an English translation of the Quran without "later ideological developments." He repeatedly wrote that he was initially attracted to Islam because of its emphasis on reason rather than zealotry and blind faith. In 1980, he re-issued his work "Islam at the Crossroads," adding extensive footnotes, including this:

‘Alas, the present re-awakening (is not) to the true values of the Qur’an and Sunnah but rather a confusion resulting from the readiness of so many Muslims to accept blindly the social forms and thought processes evolved in the medieval Muslim world ...'

Weiss died in 1992. He is buried in the Islamic cemetary in Granada, Spain.
Posted by: Sofia   2004-05-10 12:50:17 PM  

#7  Fairly concise and accurate bio of Weiss here:

He was critical of Islamic ridigity throughout his life. He resigned from the Pakistani government because they refused him permission to marry an American Islamic convert, and tried to publish an English translation of the Quran without "later ideological developments." He repeatedly wrote that he was initially attracted to Islam because of its emphasis on reason rather than zealotry and blind faith. In 1980, he re-issued his work "Islam at the Crossroads," adding extensive footnotes, including this:

‘Alas, the present re-awakening (is not) to the true values of the Qur’an and Sunnah but rather a confusion resulting from the readiness of so many Muslims to accept blindly the social forms and thought processes evolved in the medieval Muslim world ...'

Weiss died in 1992. He is buried in the Islamic cemetary in Granada, Spain.
Posted by: Sofia   2004-05-10 12:49:35 PM  

#6  So the late Prof Said recommended the book? (so says one of the comments at Amazon) I'm not sure that's a great endorsement of its accuracy...
Posted by: James   2004-05-10 12:06:36 PM  

#5  Can we wrap that link, please?
Posted by: mojo   2004-05-10 11:16:09 AM  

#4  [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by: mhw TROLL   2004-05-10 8:10:36 AM  

#3  mhw, please post where you found out how he ended his life?

P.S. I blogged it here.
Posted by: Edward Yee   2004-05-10 1:36:06 AM  

#2  hey if fidel didnt get upset with castro in san francisco, these guys should stay cool.
Posted by: flash91   2004-05-10 12:44:02 AM  

#1  yes--and they want to change the zionist freud's apartment in to a mosque
Posted by: SON OF TOLUI   2004-05-10 12:38:06 AM  

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