Mayor Daley Mistakenly Welcomes Extremist Sabeel Conference to Chicago

Yahoo ^ | Oct 7, 2004 | Coalition for Responsible Peace in the Middle East

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley mistakenly welcomed a Palestinian nationalist group whose leader denies Israel's right to exist in the Holy Land by sending greetings to a Sabeel conference at the Lutheran School of Theology. "Sabeel masquerades as a peace group, but its founder, Anglican Canon Naim Ateek, has portrayed Israel as a baby- and Christ killing nation that blocks the political salvation of the Middle East," says Dexter Van Zile, Christian outreach director of the David Project Center for Jewish Leadership and member of the United Church of Christ. "He has also denied the Jews' right to live in the Holy land and encouraged his Muslim countrymen to fight the Israelis during the Second Intifada. This is not the language of peace."

[Presbyterian Reporter]

This event is co-hosted by the McCormick Theological Seminary which is a Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA)institution. Additionally, the Presbytery of Chicago representing the churches in the greater Chicago area is a co-sponsor of the event.

The Presbyterian Church USA leadership is much involved with Sabeel's anti-Israel philosophy. Later this month, Clifton Kirkpatrick will be a keynote speaker at Sabeel's next road show in Toronto, Canada.

Naim Ateek is a regular speaker at PCUSA churches throughout the USA.

[Fenris6]

Islam is a religion of peace.

Give peace a chance.

/s

[calrighty]

He is a liar, coward, giggolo. So rule out Rambo : )

[Canard]

"Mayor Daley Mistakenly Welcomes Extremist Conference to Chicago"

Who was he trying to welcome?

[claudiustg]

---at the Lutheran School of Theology.---

Score another one for the ELCA.

[diogenes ghost]

The article does NOT say Daley made mistake. It is other's belief that he did, nowhere does it say Daley thinks so.

[GadareneDemoniac]

"Mistakenly". Right.

Having this made public was a mistake.

Old Mayor Daley must be spinning in his grave. Dummy namesake isn't cagey enough to steal an election and now this. Tsk, tsk.

[Man50D]

Mistake? There is no quote from Mayor Daily apologizing in this article.

[parabellum]

daley must be be a democrat

[Alia]

Anglican Canon Naim Ateek, has portrayed Israel as a baby- and Christ killing nation that blocks the political salvation of the Middle East,"

Huh? Anglican?

[Unam Sanctam]

These supposedly "Christian" seminaries ought to be ashamed of themselves promoting such hatred.

[lilylangtree]

First the Presbyterians anoint queers as leaders and now they're welcoming murdering terrorists into their group. Yeow!

[BelegStrongbow]

Here's a link. Looks like a Palestinian who happens to be
Anglican, or at least uses that term to define himself.

http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=167

Cheers,
Beleg

[sionnsar]

Huh? Anglican?

Yes. He has appeared in FR postings before -- at least once. A quick google search turned up this:

Ateek proposes ecumenical state

A prominent Palestinian theologian says that a good starting point to achieve peace in the Middle East would be for all sides to accept that the land is God's gift to all people - Palestinians as well as Israelis.
      Canon Naim Ateek, founder and head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Theology Centre in Jerusalem, told an audience at St. Paul University that a shared land could lead to an ecumenical state embracing two nations - Palestine and Israel - and three religions - Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Canon Naim Ateek
[photo by BRIAN SARJEANT]

      "The only peace that can endure is that based on U.N. resolutions, international law, and an inclusive theology of the land," Mr. Ateek said. His presentation was one of several talks he gave during a recent tour of five Canadian cities. ...

[Alia]

Thank you. Given his recent utterings, he doesn't sound so very "non-partisan".

[Alia]

Thank you for the link.

[goldstategop]

The PCUSA is better named the Politically Correct Churches Of The United States Of America. There's no hateful leftist ideology they will not shun. They should be shunned by the majority of Americans.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)