An attempt to silence or at least mute Christian anti-jihadist activities. Will the dhimmis in the Vatican urge the Pope to accept? From Lebanon's Daily Star, with thanks to Anthony:
BEIRUT: Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah called on the Vatican Wednesday to join forces with Muslims in facing the "war on terrorism," saying that the campaign was harmful to both Christians and Muslims.In his weekly seminar, Fadlallah denounced the Sept. 11 2001, attacks, saying they were being used as an opportunity to stir hatred against Islam, especially in the West.
According to Fadlallah, the Sept. 11 attacks had been planned to be used later as an excuse to initiate a war against Muslims and launch a harmful propaganda campaign against Islam in the West.
"This campaign against Islam is part of a prefabricated plan to create an enemy for Westerners, following the collapse of the Soviet Union."
Fadlallah condemned the countries supporting the West in its campaign, or those who "look the other way and thus indirectly encourage practices against Muslims, especially in third-world countries or countries rich in natural resources."
How bout-NO
[["This campaign against Islam is part of a prefabricated plan to create an enemy for Westerners, following the collapse of the Soviet Union."]]
How does the Sheikh account for the way Islam views the non Muslim world as its enemy? Was all that pre-fabricated in the Koran?
That is the question that needs to be asked.
Well, let's hope JP 2 mentions that he is too sick and old and will pass on this one. The Vatican better have a more discerning Pope Urban-type waiting in the wings.
That cleric seems a complete shiite to me
Maybe this cleric Sayyed Fiddle Allah could try and persuade Islamic militants in the Philippines to lay off attacking Catholics there before he goes crying to the Pope for sympathy.
What made me sick was a picture of the Pope french kissing the koran. Is he trying to promote unity with islam? Mixing Catholism and islam is a deadly combination.
"In his weekly seminar, Fadlallah denounced the Sept. 11 2001, attacks, saying they were being used as an opportunity to stir hatred against Islam, especially in the West."
Sure.
Once again the perpetrator cries "victim"!
No need to wake the Pope...
If anything, they are certainly good at PR!!
You'd be surprised how many simpletons fall for this ' US need's a new enemy since the fall of the Sowjet Union...'
I definitiely want to see how this one turns out...
Please John-Paul, don't!!!! And please let's make a small prayer to God that the next pope is properly discerning re the death cult of Satan, Islam.
Fadlallah now calls on the Vatican, which has been so appreciative of his efforts to help the Maronites of Lebanon, to reciprocate by helping Muslims oppose those carrying on what he calls a "campaign" against them, and further declares that
"This campaign against Islam is part of a prefabricated plan to create an enemy for Westerners, following the collapse of the Soviet Union."
It has come down to this: when the Fadlallahs of this world have learned to prate fashionably about the "creation of the Other" ("to create an enemy for Westerners"), the whole wide world has gone off its rails.
But why, really, should anyone be surprised by anything anymore? The distance, morally and intellectually, from Fadlallah to many of the members of MESA (the Middle Eastern Studies Association of America) is not very far. And apparently, when not sending rockets Israel-wards, Fadlallah likes nothing better than to sit down with a little Foucauld or Derrida, and one French agent reported back to headquarters that Fadlallah was once caught furtively reading through Emmanual Levinas' "De l'existant à l'existence" after he had first seen it mentioned in Le Figaro Litteraire, and then read soon after a glowing omnium-gatherum review of Levinas’ works in the TLS – which, by the way, happens to be Fadlallah's favorite weekly.
When Fadlallah is eventually invited to the United States to deliver his inaugural address as the president of MESA (rumor has it that he is even now the clear front-runner to succeed Laurie Brand as head of that association of disinterested scholars), one good way to share his travel costs between two proud sponsors would be to invite him, at roughly the same time, to speak at the annual meeting of the MLA. Fadlallah has been known to galvanize audiences, especially in Lebanon, with his well-known observations, which might so easily be recycled for an American audience, on the subject of, as his last talk was called, "When Demonizing the Other is a Duty: Paul de Man and Roger Garaudy on Speaking Truth to Power."
As his spoken English is not perfect, possibly Rashid Khalidi or Rami Khoury or Fawaz Gerges can render Fadlallah’s words into passable English, and then those words can be rendered back into something appropriately incomprehensible for the MLA by the inimitable Hamid Dabashi.
A spectacle not to be missed.
Rather than call for Muslims to stop attacking Christians (Catholic or otherwise) in the Philippines, Fadlallah would be more credible if he called for the restoration of Christian liberties and de-dhimmification in Lebanon.