Posted on 10/06/2002 4:00:17 PM PDT by knighthawk
TEHRAN, Oct 6 (AFP) - Controversial US Baptist minister Jerry Falwell on Sunday drew the wrath of Iran after he labelled the Muslim Prophet Mohammed "a terrorist".
"This insult of the holy Prophet Mohammed by a Christian priest is part of a propaganda war by the US mass media and the Zionists," state media quoted Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi as saying.
Speaking during a meeting with visiting Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Abdul Wahed Belqeziz, Kharazi said Falwell's comments were "proof that the US wants political, cultural and military domination of the world."
"Islamic countries, and above all the OIC, must not stay silent in the face of such unashamed accusations, and must not permit this clash of religions and civilisations sought by the expansionist and aggressive Zionists," he added.
In an interview to be broadcast Sunday on the CBS television network's "60 Minutes" news programme, Falwell calls the prophet "a terrorist".
"I think Mohammed was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, (to decide) that he was a violent man, a man of war," Falwell said according to an advance transcript of the interview released by CBS.
"In my opinion, Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses, and I think Mohammed set an opposite example," he added.
Falwell, a leader of the US Evangelical Christian right, has also previously labelled Mohammed a pedophile possessed by the devil.
In 1989, Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious decree, ordering the death of British author Salman Rushdie over his book "The Satanic Verses", which was deemed to be blasphemous.
However there was no immediate reaction to Falwell's comments from Iran's Shitte clergy or the office of Khomeini's successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The head of the 57-member Islamic body reportedly told Kharrazi that the OIC would seek an apology for Falwell's remarks.
It isn't an insult if it is the truth.
Boy they sure hate it when someone actually figures them out huh?
I'm w/ you; they want to say what's wrong with what Falwell said, rather than what he said that was wrong.
However there was no immediate reaction to Falwell's comments from Iran's Shitte clergy or the office of Khomeini's successor, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Me thinks Khamenei has his hands full with other more pertinent issuses in Iran right now.
Psssssssssst. the Zionists are behind everthing.
It was the zionists that convinced the CIA to sell heroin to black chilren to finance the Bay of Pigs. It was Zionists that invaded Kuwait wearing Iraqi uniforms.
It was Zionists dressed as Palestinians that blew up that Pizza parlor.
It was Phillippine zionists that beheaded that missionary.
Hitler? Secret zionist.
Stalin? Secret zionist.
Pol Pot? Secret zionist.
Bill Clinton? Just evil.
Yassir Arafat? Secret zionist. See, it's all sooooooo simple.
Well, I hope you're not holding your breath because it ain't gonna happen because they CAN'T refute it.
I thought President Bush was behind everything. I am so confused.
Fatwas ordering death for blasphemy but not for murder???
Murder in the name of God is the ultimate blasphemy!!!
Don't try this at home.
George Bush? Plain American.
Care to expound on this?
Now what's your beef with Reverend Falwell?
Your boss may be fat and ugly, but that doesn't mean that it's a good idea to announce it. We'll be much more effective at destroying international terrorist organizations if we try not to turn this in to a holly war. That's what Osama wanted.
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