Bill Maher: I Wish Liberals Would Have Same Intolerance For Muslims That They Do For Christians
Posted on 01/28/2016 9:05:19 PM PST by marshmallow
ROME (RNS) Controversy over Italy's decision to cover nude statues during the visit of Iran's president continued to spark debate as the leader of the Syrian Catholic Church criticized the episode, saying it pains persecuted Christians in Syria who feel forgotten.
"This is our culture. If you don't want to see it, close your eyes!" an exasperated Patriarch Youssef III Younan told journalists in Rome on Thursday (Jan. 28).
The head of the Syriac Catholic Church was speaking two days after ancient nude statues were covered by staff at Rome's Capitoline Museums in a bid to avoid offending the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani.
Rouhani was visiting Italy and France this week as part of a trip aimed at thawing Tehran's relations with the West after the historic deal with the U.S. and other world powers that would limit Iran’s nuclear capabilities in return for ending many sanctions.
The Iranian president also met with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Tuesday.
The move by officials in Rome to cover the statues during Rouhani's visit sparked an outcry in Italy and was viewed as a step too far to accommodate the leader of Shiite-majority Iran.
The Syrian patriarch's criticism took on a religious and international dimension as he argued the decision by officials in heavily Catholic Italy troubled Christians trying to survive in war-torn Syria.
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I remember that, I lived in LA at the time. We did not see it as an early warning sign that our culture was being purposefully destroyed.
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