Jihadists enraged that the Pope is visiting the Mideast without apologizing
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Jihadists enraged that the Pope is visiting the Mideast without apologizing
And without condemning Israel and buying into the Palestinian propaganda about how Israel's action against Hamas, which boasted of using civilians as human shields, was somehow comparable to the Holocaust.
Let's hope he stands firm. "Islamists say Pope's Mideast visit provocative," by Suleiman al-Khalidi for Reuters, May 7 (thanks to all who sent this in):
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordanian Islamist leaders on Thursday condemned Pope
Benedict's visit to the Middle East, saying it was provocative because he has not apologized for offending comments implying Islam was violent and irrational.
They said the pope, who arrives in Jordan on Friday on the first leg of a tour including Israel and the Palestinian territories, still owed them an apology for hinting Islam was violent and irrational in a 2006 speech in Regensburg.
Jordan's Roman Catholic Church urged Islamists on Wednesday to welcome the
pope despite their earlier criticism of his visit. A senior Amman official
acknowledged some discontent but said the government would warmly welcome
Benedict.
"The present Vatican pope is the one who issued severe insults to Islam and did not offer any apology to the Muslims," Zaki Bani Rusheid, head of the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest mainstream Islamist party, told Reuters.
"Ignoring Muslim sentiments will only block the healing of wounds his statements caused," said another Islamist figure, Jamil Abu Baker.For many Arabs in the region, the pope's stated mission of peace and reconciliation is futile without a sufficient gesture to Palestinian suffering under Israeli occupation.
This was even more pressing in Jordan, a country where a large portion of its 5.6 million are of Palestinian origin, they or their parents having been expelled or fled to Jordan in the fighting that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.
"It's the same pope who apologized to the Jews about the Holocaust and now
comes to the region but says nothing about the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe),"
Bani Rusheid added. Arabs call Israel's creation the "Nakba" (catastrophe)....
Jordanian Islamists also condemned a visit to Jerusalem's memorial to
Holocaust victims, demanding a comparable gesture to "victimized Palestinians"
to prove he was even-handed.
"We ask if the Vatican pope will visit Gaza to explore how humanity is being violated," Jamil Abu Bakr said.The outlawed Hizb ut-Tahrir Party issued a statement urging Jordanian
authorities to withdraw their invitation.
"All Muslims should raise their voices high to say that any one who insults
our Prophet is not welcome on this land in any way," said the radical party,
which seeks to unite Muslims into a pan-Islamic state but says its means are
peaceful.
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