[a_Turk]

A mufti is basically a bishop..

[a_Turk]

ping!

[My Identity]

the Pope's advisers on inter-religious dialogue have always found it difficult to establish new connections with the Muslim world

Inter-religious dialogue?!? What's to talk about?

From the Palestinian Violence video:

"Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are.
Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them.
Wherever you are, kill the Jews, the Americans who are like them, and those who stand by them.
They are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims.
They should be slaughtered. They should be murdered.
Such is the word of Allah."
- an Islamic mufti, broadcast on Pali TV

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From MEMRI:

Sheikh Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, top Imam of Al-Azhar University [Egypt], demanded that the Palestinian people, of all factions, intensify the martyrdom operations [i.e. suicide attacks] against the Zionist enemy, and described the martyrdom operations as the highest form of Jihad operations. He emphasized that every martyrdom operation against any Israeli, including children, women, and teenagers, is a legitimate act according to [Islamic] religious law, and an Islamic commandment, until the people of Palestine regain their land and cause the cruel Israeli aggression to retreat

and

"The solution to the Israeli terror lies in a proliferation of Fidai [martyrdom] attacks that strike horror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah. The Islamic countries, peoples and rulers alike, must support these martyrdom attacks."

- Sheikh Al-Tayyeb, Egypt’s new "moderate" mufti

and

"If it be through the death of Sharon or the death of Bush,
please brighten-up our hearts, O Lord,"

- Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, head of Iran's powerful Guardian Council

and

"We must not stand in the way of the intifada and jihad [holy war].
Rather, we must stand at their side and encourage them."

- Sheikh Akrameh Sabri, Mufti of Jerusalem

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and

"Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of other [countries] so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world...Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured [by the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to the enemy? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim."
- Ayatollah Khomeini, responding to apologists for Islam
(Taheri, Amir, Holy Terror, London 1987, pp. 226-7):

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And more:

"These suicide attacks are the weapon that God gave to this nation, and no one can take it away. We tell Palestinians, stay tough. Our martyrs’ operations are laying the grounds for the coming victory. Do not listen to those who say these types of attacks go against Muslim Sharia (law). Those who say there are civilians and soldiers in Israel are mistaken. There are no civilians in Israeli society. All of them are invaders, collaborators in crimes and massacres, and it is for this reason that you must continue on your path"

- Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah’s secretary-general

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God bless the Turks if they can guide Islam. But I'm not holding my breath.

[Shermy]

Vatican isn't getting much good press these days too. :(

[sayfer bullets]

Would that make it a crusade?

[Tasha]

I am definitely against pedophilia in any form, in any place, but at this point in time the stupidity of some people may backfire so badly they will regret it. In Europe and many other places, the Cross (the Roman Catholics) is uniting with the Crescent against the Star of David. You have to be really stupid to play this kind of media baloney, and before you know, you're going to have the Cross and the Crescent right against you. It is not the upper eschelon of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, it's the little guy in Europe and many other places who is saying 'the Star of David is trying to destroy us.' I wish some stupid people in the media would realize that the battle against the Cross and Crescent is unwinnable.

8 posted on 4/22/02 8:08 PM Pacificby Tasha

There we go. Crescent and Cross against the Star of David, and us.

[GOPcapitalist]

"The Mohammedan temper was not tolerant. It was, on the contrary, fanatical and bloodthirsty. It felt no respect for, nor even curiosity about, those from whom it differed. It was absurdly vain of itself, regarding with contempt the high Christian culture about it. It still so regards it even today." - Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies

It's truly sad how far we've come since the time when mohammedism was called what it truly is. A heresy.

[The_Reader_David]

Somehow the Vatican and the Turks being friendly does not strike me as a good thing.

Perhaps we really should move the Ecumenical Patriarchate to that tract of land outside Washington, D.C.

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