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.
What proportion of Conservative Christians support for Israel is based on prophecy versus morality?
60 Minutes made it sound like prophecy drove the support. Is that true?
Please advise. Hard-right-wing Jews want to know....
A distinction that may not be very clear to them -- much as most Americans have little idea what the differences between Shi'ites and Sunnis are -- and how you can tell whether somebody's one or the other.
In the Bible prophecy is there and its from God and it will come true no matter who beleives it or not. The Christians and everyone else should be supporting Israel because of Jewish/Christians values (Morality)
No one in their right mind can beleive the Muslims have have any values that are accepted by God.
One large group of people who claim to be Christians have a Human leader who has already said they worship the same God as the Muslims. If that is true then it want be long before the Rapture and the Fireworks that follow.
I'm sure I will get blowed out about this but thats OK. I'll survive.
Hope I have helped in some way.
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And Clinton never had sex with that woman.
Being hated isn't all that bad, if you're hated by the right people?
The sooner we realize that the enemy is not muslim terrorists, but MUSLIMS, period, the sooner we can get down to business and get rid of the threat.
I wouldn't call Moses a terrorist or a pedophile....
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