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Dangerous Comment from Pope: Islam Preaches Violence (added)
By: Timofey Nesitov + Aljazeera on: 14.09.2006 [16:20 ] (960 reads)
Dangerous Comment from Pope: Islam Preaches Violence
By Timofey Nesitov, Munich
Thursday, September 14, 2006
zaman.com
During a visit to his home country Germany, Pope Benedict XVI made some dangerous comments regarding Islam.
The Pope gave a speech at Regensburg University in Bavaria, where he lectured between 1969 and 1977, and said that Islam justified violence. The explanation of the Pope, who is expected to visit Turkey in November, left many Muslims disappointed as it hardened the existing prejudices in German society against Islam.
Vatican spokesperson Federico Lombardi later clarified that Benedict did not mean to portray Islam as a religion of violence. Lombardi said, “There are many different positions within the Islamic world, both pro-violence and anti-violence,” and added the Pope did not want to portray Islam as a pro-violence religion.
The Pope began his 45 minute-speech by talking about the differences between Christianity and Islam, He avoided criticizing Islam directly, instead referring to the studies of Lebanese-origin German researcher Adel Theodore Khoury.
The German press neglected to cover the Pope’s portrayal of Islam as a religion of violence; however, the International Herald Tribune ran the headline “Pope Criticizes Western Secularism and Islam’s Jihad.”
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Pope criticised over Islam remarks
Thursday 14 September 2006, 17:15 Makka Time, 14:15 GMT
Pope Benedict XVI implicitly linked jihad with terrorism
Muslim scholars and religious leaders in Kuwait, Turkey and Pakistan have criticised Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks critical of Islam and urged him to play a positive role in bringing Islam and Christianity closer.
Ali Bardakoglu, head of the state-run religious affairs directorate in Turkey, said on Thursday that Pope Benedict XVI as "full of enmity and grudge" against Islam. He opposed the pontiff's planned visit to Turkey in November.
Bardakoglu also demanded that the pope immediately retract and issue an apology for his remarks about Islam and his criticism of the concept of Holy War.
The pontiff's remarks "reflect the hatred in his heart. It is a statement full of enmity and grudge", Bardakoglu told the NTV news channel on Thursday.
"It is a prejudiced and biased approach."
The controversy
During a six-day visit to his native Germany this week, the pope hit out at Islam and its concept of jihad or holy war, citing a 14th-century Christian emperor who said that Prophet Muhammad had brought the world "evil and inhuman" things.
"Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul," he said on Tuesday in an address at Regensburg University.
"Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul"
Pope Benedict XVI
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi later said he did not believe the pope's words were meant as a harsh criticism of Islam.
Bardakoglu, however, described them as unacceptable.
"The pope's approach is a spoilt and cocksure point of view that looks down on the other. At times, we also criticise the Christian world for its wrongs, but we never defame either Christ or the Bible or the holiness of Christianity," he said.
In comments to the Anatolia news agency, Bardakoglu said the pope carried the same mindset as that "of the Crusades" which arose from the Church view that Islam is the enemy.
Kuwait
In Kuwait, two high-ranking Islamist officials also called on Thursday on Pope Benedict XVI to apologise for his remarks.
Haken al-Mutairi, secretary-general of the emirate's Umma Islamic Nation party, urged the pope to to apologise immediately "to the Muslim world for his calumnies against the Prophet Muhammad and Islam".
Al-Mutairi hit out at the pope's "unaccustomed and unprecedented" remarks, and linked the Catholic Church leader's comments to "new Western wars currently under way in the Muslim world in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon".
The pope criticised the growing
secularisation of Western society
The pope's statements amounted to "the pursuit of Crusades", he said.
"I call on all Arab and Islamic states to recall their ambassadors from the Vatican and expel those from the Vatican until the pope says he is sorry for the wrong done to the Prophet and to Islam, which preaches peace, tolerance, justice and equality," al-Mutairi said.
Sayed Baqer al-Mohri, head of the assembly of Shia ulemas, or theologians, in Kuwait, labelled the pope's comments "unrealistic and unjustified", and also called on him to apologise.
"His unjustified attack on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad clearly contradicts his call for dialogue between civilisations," Mohri said. "It opens the way to animosity between religions.
"We demand that the pope make a public apology" to help bring an end to animosity.
Pakistan
The pope was also criticised by Muslim scholars and religious leaders in Pakistan who urged him to play a positive role in bringing Islam and Christianity closer.
Khurshid Ahmed, head of the Institute of Policy Studies in Islamabad, said: "It is very unfortunate that a religious leader of his stature is issuing statements which can fan religious disharmony.
"The Pope is a respected personality not only for Christians but for Muslims also. He should not lower his stature by giving Bush-like statements"
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed,
a leader of the Pakistani Jammiat Ulema-e-Islam party
"The Pope's attitude is very different from his predecessor. Instead of bringing Islam and Christianity closer, he is straining relations between the two religions," Ahmed said.
"In the present political atmosphere such views can be exploited by those who are trying to malign Muslims and Islam.
"We expect the Pope to play a positive role in promoting relations between religions and civilisations.
"The Pope's views about the role of Sharia Islamic law and jihad are at variance with Muslim beliefs."
Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a leader of the Jammiat Ulema-e-Islam party and an MP, urged the Pope not to take inspiration from George Bush, the US president.
He said: "The Pope is a respected personality not only for Christians but for Muslims also. He should not lower his stature by giving Bush-like statements."
Shahid Shamsi, spokesman for the Jamaat-i-Islami party, said:"The Pope's statement was an attempt to jeopardise a remarkable unity displayed by Christians and Muslims against recent Israeli aggression in Lebanon".
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Muslim Leaders Assail Pope’s Tough Speech on Islam
By IAN FISHER
Published: September 14, 2006
ROME, Sept. 14 ― As Pope Benedict XVI arrived back home from Germany, Muslim leaders strongly criticized a speech he gave on his trip that used unflattering language about Islam and violence.
Some of the strongest words came from Turkey, possibly putting in jeopardy Benedict’s scheduled visit there in November.
“I do not think any good will come from the visit to the Muslim world of a person who has such ideas about Islam’s prophet,” Ali Bardakoglu, a cleric who is head of the Turkish government’s directorate of religious affairs, said in a television interview there. “He should first of all replace the grudge in his heart with moral values and respect for the other.”
Muslim leaders in Pakistan, Morocco and Kuwait, in addition to those in Germany and France, also criticized the pope’s remarks, with many demanding an apology or clarification. The extent of any anger about the speech may become clearer on Friday, the Muslim day of prayer in which grievances are often vented publicly.
The Vatican did not respond today, as the pope returned from his six-day trip to his homeland, Germany, to the criticism of his speech. On Tuesday, Benedict delivered a major address ― which some church experts say was a defining speech of his pontificate ― saying that the West, and specifically Europe, had become so beholden to reason that it had closed God out of public life, science and academia.
But the pope began this speech at Regensburg University with what he conceded were “brusque” words about Islam: He quoted a 14th Century Byzantine emperor as saying, “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
Benedict also used the word “jihad,” or holy war, saying that violence was contrary to God’s nature and to reason. But, at the end of a speech that did not otherwise mention Islam, he also said that reason could be the basis for “that genuine dialogue of cultures and religions so urgently needed today.”
The pope did not intend to insult Islam, his spokesman said on Tuesday. But many experts on Islam warned that Benedict ran the risk of offense in using such strong language, with tensions between religions so high.
And today, criticism began pouring the pope’s way. The 79-year-old Benedict has taken a more skeptical, hard-nosed approach to Islam than did his predecessor, John Paul II, who died in April 2005.
“I don’t think the church should point a finger at extremist activities in other religions, Aiman Mazyek, president of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, told the newspaper S歸deutsche Zeitung, recalling the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and the Vatican’s relations with Nazi Germany.
The French Council for the Muslim Religion demanded that Benedict “clarify” his remarks. “We hope that the Church will very quickly give us its opinion and clarify its position so that it does not confuse Islam, which is a revealed religion, with Islamism, which is not a religion but a political ideology,” Dalil Boubakeur, the council’s president, told Agence France-Presse.
In Kuwait, the leader of the Islamic Nation Party, Haken al-Mutairi, demanded an apology for what he called “unaccustomed and unprecedented” remarks.
“I call on all Arab and Islamic states to recall their ambassadors from the Vatican and expel those from the Vatican until the pope says he is sorry for the wrong done to the prophet and to Islam, which preaches peace, tolerance, justice and equality,” Mr. Mutairi told Agence France-Presse.
In Pakistan, Muslim leaders and scholars said that Benedict’s words widened the gap between Islam and Christianity, and risked what one official called greater “disharmony.”
“The pope’s statement is highly irresponsible,” said another ranking Muslim, Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, an Islamic scholar. “The concept of jihad is not to spread Islam with sword.”
The criticism from the Turkish official was especially strong, and carries with it particular embarrassment if Benedict is forced to cancel or delay his visit to Turkey. Many Turks are already critical of Benedict, who as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had in 2004 opposed Turkey’s entry into the European Union.
The official, Mr. Bardakoglu, demanded an apology, saying that the remarks “reflect the hatred in his heart. It is a statement full of enmity and grudge.”
In Morocco, the newspaper Aujourd’hui questioned the good faith of Benedict’s call for a real dialogue between religions.
“Pope Benedict XVI has a strange approach to the dialogue between religions,” the paper wrote in an editorial. “He is being provocative.”
The paper also drew a comparison between the pope’s remarks and the outcry in the Muslim world over unflattering cartoons of the Prophet Muhammadpublished around Europe beginning last year.
“The global outcry over the calamitous cartoons have only just died down and now the pontiff, in all his holiness, is launching an attack against Islam,” the newspaper wrote.
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