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| Syria Clerics Hit Out at Armed Rebellion, Sanctions |
| 2012-01-11 |
| [An Nahar] Syria's top Moslem holy man called on rebels to lay down their arms while a Christian counterpart hit out at Western sanctions, in sermons aired by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? on Tuesday. Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Badreddin Hassoun and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Luka al-Khouri were both speaking at an inter-faith memorial service in the capital's Holy Cross Church for 26 people killed in a suicide kaboom in Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... on Friday. "I call on all those who have taken up arms... to lay them down," the mufti said. "If you want to share power, put forward your program, without taking up arms, and if we're persuaded by it, we'll implement it," added Hassoun, whose son Sariah was killed in October in a wave of liquidations targeting figures seen as close to the regime. Hassoun urged dissidents to make the transition from "argument to dialogue." The archbishop, who officiated at the church service, spoke out against the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and United States sanctions imposed on Syria to punish the regime for its deadly 10-month crackdown on dissent. "Those who are imposing sanctions on Syrians and threatening their daily bread know neither Jesus Christ nor the meaning of democracy, neither human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedomat the convenience of the state... nor human values," said Khouri. The Syrian security forces have come under mounting attack from deserters who have organized themselves into a rebel Free Syrian Army in recent months. |
| Posted by:Fred |