intolerable and intolerant words spoken by Ahmed al-Tayeb, the highest office in the Islamic University of al Azhar, demolish mercilessly through the simple thesis that attach to the terrorists of al Qaida the sole responsibility of the violence and martyrdom of hundreds Christians in the land of Islam. Words that express resentment, even rudeness, which do not tolerate that a Christian is no question of what happens in the territory inhabited by the Umma. Words steeped in falsehood, because the Pope, Benedict XVI is obviously not, but his predecessor John Paul II, has always had words of compassion and pity for the Muslims killed in Iraq by other Muslims, both wanted by the war George W. Bush unequivocally condemned by him. Who in the church, as Cardinal Fitzgerald (Head of interfaith dialogue for years and now own apostolic nuncio to Cairo), Al Azhar has always painted and its summit as moderate and reliable partner, so as to have organized even a meeting at the Vatican, then vanished, with the then rector of Al Tantawi, must now take action to have been mistaken. Al Tayeb has a reputation, deserved to be the most moderate of the moderates, but its unacceptable in this controversy with Pope Benedict XVI has shown himself to be intolerant, biased, extremist and mostly unreliable. Because his words in favor of a peaceful coexistence between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, in the light of these criticisms of the Pope, only mean that Christians should agree to submit to the Muslims. This is what I think now more and more moderate Muslims, is growing in this fertile ground of terrorism and the evil weed. For years, Christians in Egypt are killed by angry mobs who want to prevent them from building new churches, often to repair existing ones. For years, with well over one hundred Coptic Christians massacred by Muslim mob or suicide, the authors and the shouts of anti-Christian pogroms in Egypt are not pursued by the judicial authorities, but are not even affected by a hard and responsible of the Azhar fatwa which is confined to mild exhortations of peace.
that reality is that of a moderate Islam that is moderate, which is proving increasingly aggressive and intolerant towards Christians is demonstrated by what happens in the Muslim world: Algeria into a "secular" when it was a few years introduced a penalty of two year for Christians seeking to convert a Muslim, by the law in almost all Muslim countries condemned to death the Christians who proselytize, from the pogroms of Nigeria, and Indonesia, the continuing beheadings of Christian Filipinos in Saudi Arabia, the permanence of the Blasphemy Law in Pakistan that led to the conviction of hundreds of Christians to specious accusations of having offended God or the Prophet, carried out by hanging in Iran of Protestant Christians, the death sentences handed down in Afghanistan for apostasy.
intolerance, the spirit of jihad, the one and only resolution of conflicts through violence are becoming increasingly popular in the Muslim world which, moreover, shows increasingly unable to modernize, to express their own culture and declamatory not capable of fertile innovations are perfectly represented in the words of hatred toward the Pope uttered by Ahmed al-Tayeb. Take note of this fact, take note that even friends of Sant'Egidio with the Tayeb have organized many meetings, convinced of his moderation. Maybe he's right Antonio Ferrari on Courier when he explains that the Tayeb, moderate and actually graduated from the Sorbonne took this position not to break with the extremist who also feel tremendous pressure inside the Azhar. But it is an explanation that does not change anything to Tayeb, moderate or not it has expressed a position worthy of a fundamentalist Muslim, has excited the minds of Muslims against the Pope of Rome. This is the file. This is irresponsible.
A sort of "hysteria" of Islam, of unjustified superiority complex of Islam over all other faiths (and widely celebrated, however, described by the Quran), is increasingly taking hold in the umma and destroys all illusions about the effects of inter-religious dialogue. From here was born and raised in the Christian phobia finally speaks the German pontiff, who for years after the church had been silent on the persecution of Christians in the name of a misunderstood religious dialogue.
There is less and less space in the Muslim world to refer to the spirit of the measures that Muhammad dedicated to peace with Christians and Jews in his first sermon at Mecca, which for years we feel we propose Muslim leaders, but never made concrete gestures that were realized. There is only space to adhere to the spirit of invective against Christians and Jews that Muhammad dictated after the Medina, where he acted as a general armed with sword and ordered the Jews to slaughter 650 unarmed well medinense of a tribe that had accused unjustly of treason: "Fight those who do not believe in God and the Last Day, and do not consider unlawful what God and His Messenger have declared unlawful, and those which were among those given the Book who do not s'attengono the Religion of Truth. And fight them until they pay the tribute, one by one humiliated "(Koran, IX 29).
The most schematic and dogmatic Islamic theologian Ibn al Taymmyya, which in the thirteenth century preached the obligation to submit the Christians and to prevent them from repairing the churches that collapsed, is now the direct or indirect reference to the millions of Muslims.
It can not be otherwise, because Islam, this "moderate" Islam is in no way able to fight even in terms of ideal or theological qaidista to Islam or terrorist who now spreads like wildfire from Indonesia to Nigeria, also rekindled that civil war between Shiites and Sunnis who had also devastated in the seventh century, but by then it was reassembled. Thousands were murdered by Muslims in the mosques of the Muslim Umma, but at the Azhar, against this massacre, silent, more than whispers. And it's a bad show.
(Source: Carlo Panella, The West, January 3, 2011)
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