Posted on 08/20/2005 11:56:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
JEDDAH, 21 August 2005 — The funeral of King Fahd, which was conducted in a simple manner in Riyadh earlier this month, has encouraged a well-known Christian priest in Italy to embrace Islam, press reports said.
The priest, who watched the late king’s funeral on satellite television, was impressed by the lack of pomp and pageantry in the royal funeral, Al-Riyadh Arabic daily reported without mentioning his name.
King Fahd was buried in Al-Oud graveyard the next day of his death after a solemn funeral ceremony attended by world leaders.
Islamic preacher Dr. Abdullah Al-Malik said the simple funeral of the king had a dramatic effect on the priest’s mind, which led him to Islam. “Although he had read several Islamic books before, they didn’t have the same impact.”
This is the second high-profile reversion to Islam by an Italian involving Saudi Arabia. Four years ago, Italian Ambassador to Riyadh Torquato Cardilli embraced Islam.
“The priest watched the funeral of King Fahd and another person on television and did not find any difference,” Malik said. “There was only a single funeral prayer for the two and both were buried in similar graves. This great example of equality influenced the priest and prompted him to embrace Islam,” Malik said.
Muslim preachers in Italy had given the priest Islamic books and cassettes in the past 15 years, but what moved him was the simplicity of the royal funeral.
“I had read several Islamic books and heard many Islamic cassettes over the past years, they never moved me. But the simple royal funeral shook me and changed my mind,” Malik quoted the priest as saying.
He said he believed the king’s funeral would change the mind of many others. He urged Muslim media to focus on stories related to Islam’s tolerance and equality in order to attract more people to the religion.
“I will work the rest of my life for the propagation of Islam,” the 62-year-old former priest said.
Badr Al-Olayan, director of the Islamic Education Foundation in Jeddah, said the priest’s reversion to Islam was “very good news.” He narrated the story of another Italian who came to IEF office to embrace Islam after being impressed by the large and orderly congregation of Muslims at the Grand Mosque in Makkah to perform prayers.
“How can you assemble such a large number of people by just making a call. It’s impossible. Only God can do that,” he quoted the Italian as saying.
Olayan urged Muslims to do more in order to take the message of Islam to other people.
Ambassador Cardilli, 60, embraced Islam on Nov. 15, 2001. “I am fully convinced of the truth of Islam through my regular reading of God’s final revelation, the Holy Qur’an,” Cardilli was quoted as saying at the time.
We were a lot friendlier before your co-religionists started committing mass murder on behalf of your "religion". You'll find that civilized people in the west are like that. Regardless if we are Christians, Jews, Scientologist, Animists, atheists or a thousand other religions accepted equallly in our world - we get pissed at folks who kill us.
Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, a Saudi journalist in London said: “It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists,” he writes, “but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. … We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women.”
"Only one ambition is worthy of Islam, to save the world from the curse of democracy: to teach men that they cannot rule themselves on the basis of man-made laws. Mankind has strayed from the path of God, we must return to that path or face certain annihilation." -- Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Jubair
the above is one of the MANY reasons your death-cult is despised in the civilized world...
Find out the truth about the abomination known as islam in The Flanstein: http://flanstein.blogspot.com/
I'm sorry but r u really that dumb or r u just pretending? I write my response to u and ask q-s and u never respond to them. instead, u make more ridiculous statements. I explain to u again and ask u another q-n and in ur next response u go and copy my message that was written abt a week ago and start talking abt that. hello-ooooooo!!! I told u all here a hundred times before and I will say again but this will be the last time: leave other countries alone and they will leave u alone. stop killing people in those countries and they will stop killing u. u quoted this phrase from a Saudi journalist twice already, well if u want me to comment on that, I can say that he made a very superficial statement. he only talks abt the consequence and doesn't talk abt the root cause that caused this terrorism. in addition, he doesn't analyse terrorist acts of "peace-loving" reps of other religions. as for Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim al-Jubair's statement I totally agree with him. exactly, if we as mankind returned to path of God, the world would be a perfect place to live in. at least, if some countries did that, the world would become a better place to live in.
u keep sending a link to me and others to this flanstein's site. I think I told u before as well what I think abt this site and its "truthfulness". did u not get that again? instead of keep calling Islam a "death-cult" can u give me some proofs why Christianity or Judaism or any other religion is a "truthful" and "peaceful" religion? before u do that, first answer all the q-s that I asked of Antoninus. since I did, he's just disappeared. probably studying all the versions of Bibles and looking for the answers which he's never going to find. Then give me proofs that representatives of those religions I mentioned above NEVER kill (ed) and torture(d) their enemies or who they consider enemies. but, if in ur next message u again will deviate from answering my q-s and commenting on my very last message, I will not respond to u at all. I refuse to continue to debate with brainless people.
Perhaps the reason people haven’t answered your questions is because the questions themselves are so idiotic. Or it may be that people find it difficult to read your posts since they bare only a passing resemblance to the English language.
You’re not the first muzzie to claim that the reason your fellow jihadis butcher innocent people is the fault of the innocent people themselves. If you think anyone other than your fellow islamic slime are going to believe that nonsense, then you need a head-transplant.
As far as other religions are concerned, the next time some Hindu or Mormon flies a plane into a tall building and uses his religion to justify the carnage – give me a call. ‘till then we both know that terrorism is “an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women. Other religions are not out terrorizing the world with their backwards thinking – that is the exclusive domain of Islamic filth that seeks to kill or convert.
It doesn’t surprise me that a backwards muslime like yourself would rather be ruled by a stupid religion instead of democracy – but take careful note – if anyone of you pedophile worshippers should try to impose this stupidity on us, be prepared to enjoy your 72 virgins sooner rather than later.
Why don’t you do us all a favor, run along to the jihadi Web sites that mental morons like yourself enjoy and leave the debate to adults with IQs above room temperature...
p.s. I pointed out the anti-jihadi site The Flanstein (http://flanstein.blogspot.com) to you because I thought you needed to be instructed in the truth about your mohammedan death-cult. I’m sorry you weren’t smart enough to figure that out...
ohhh it sounds like ur awfully mad... so many words aimed to insult me: idiotic q-s, posts that bare a passing resemblance to English, Islamic slime, head-transplant, moron, backward Muslim,not smart enough etc. I wonder what made u so mad Dr.Hate? oh, I'm sorry Dr."Luv". why don't u or any other member on this site do me a favour too and answer my "idiotic" q-s. have mercy to a "not smart enough Muslim moron" and clarify all the confusion in ur religion. who knows, perhaps after u give me clear and logical answers to all of my q-s, I may even become a Christian! but, I'm afraid, ur never going to do that and the simple reason is that u DON'T HAVE the answers. and u know all I said is true so u'll just keep sputtering ur insults as u have nothing else to say. it's just a natural people's behaviour, when one feels helpless in an argument and can't say anything reasonable in response, he/she gets mad and resorts to insults. thank God, ur not Muslim , if u were I'd be really ashamed for u.
to be honest, I even feel a bit embarrassed before all the forum participants that read my and ur postings. our religious debate, thanks to u, has turned into a commonplace fight. I request that u should do me a favour and leave this site and run along to more sites like flanstein's to feed ur hatred. or leave me alone FOR GOOD and stop ur "debate" with me, whatever u choose as I'm starting to get really bored from u. ok???
Don't be deceived by my intentions, I am angry at arrogant muslimes like yourself for wanting to justify the world-wide slaughter of innocents perpetrated by fellow islamic filth. I also like to laugh at idiot little girls who have yet mastered the art of communication.
As far as your "questions" are concerned, they are not really questions at all but rather outrageous lies too stupid to ponder. Your hatred of other religions, especially Christianity is astounding in its ignorance. You also assume all of us in the west are Christians or Jews when in fact we make up many belief systems (I, for one, am an agnostic - look it up).
You also don't seem to understand that Christianity had a Reformation many hundreds of years ago and they left the barbarism of the past - in the past. Islam still wants to stone women to death for adultery. Which is precisely why we want to ensure islamic puss-bags like yourself don't leave the third-world hell-holes that you live in. Live your short lives full of misery and poverty - just don't infect us with your stupidity.
I think you used every known lie about the west (including the hilarious koran in the toilet tale that was long ago shown to be nonsense) in one of your rambling posts (paragraph breaks are a lovely invention by the way).
Frankly, it's hard to believe that someone as simple as yourself could even operate a computer (p.s. you can thank the Jews and Christians who invented the technology you use)
Finally, I just wanted to provide you with some concluding advice; take your flaccid, evil, hateful religion and stuff it sideways up your fetid bung-hole (and please, use your right hand to do it)
"The Prophet never urinated in a standing position" (Hanbel 6/136,192,213).
No, like other women, he sat down to piss...
oh boy, ur hopeless...
see I was right again in my previous 2 postings when I predicted what u'd write next: 1. that u won't comment and respond to even a single q-n as u just r not able to and 2. that u'll sputter more insults. that's exactly what u did. the reason for that is that ur quite primitive and ur actions can be predicted well in advance, besdies I've seen many of ur breed who can do nothing but spread hatred and throw up insults when they feel helpless. again, thank God ur not Muslim, otherwise u'd put all of us, followers of most truthful and humane religion of God to disgrace. however, I'm not going to go down to ur level and exchange more swearing with u. instead, I'll do what I said I'd do and that is ignore ur posts as like I said I refuse with debate with brainless and moreover, baleful people. I do hope ur super-high IQ will let u understand that at last.
as u've started this, I suppose I should address u now and I believe everybody else will read this too. I think my mission here is finished and I have nobody else to debate with as none of u have been able to provide any logical, clear and sensible arguments to me. besides, I'm flying out to Europe tomorrow morning InshaAllah and I don't think I'll be able to check Internet there for the next 3 weeks as I am scheduled to be quite busy. however, if anybody wants to offer their arguments or to confute mine, I'll be glad to continue talking to more or less intelligent people in a decent manner when I come back in 3 weeks. just give me a shout. Assalamu Aleikum (peace to u) and bye-byeeee!
Well, as the one who started this thread I do find what you have to say interesting and hope you come back to this web site.
"that u won't comment and respond to even a single q-n"
Honey, I responded to all your idiotic questions. Your problem is that you have no understanding of how life in civilization works. You think that when individual human beings in the west break laws or act badly, it reflects on the west, yet when muslims slaughter children and innocents - and say they're doing it on behalf of islam - we should ignore that.
At some point civilization is going to have to completely crush islam and send it to the dustbin of history. I'd start building a fallout shelter if I were you...
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