M
mpav
Guest
telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/14/nliv14.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/14/ixportal.html
“An Islamic scholar who has been accused of supporting suicide bombers was likened by Ken Livingstone, the London mayor, yesterday to Pope John XXIII.
He said that Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based imam who is banned from America, was “an absolutely sane Islamist engaged with the world” who believed in democracy and an increasing role for women.
“Of all the Muslim leaders in the world today, Sheikh Qaradawi is the most powerfully progressive force for change and for engaging Islam with western values,” Mr Livingstone told the Commons home affairs select committee.
“I think his is very similar to the position of Pope John XXIII.”
The pontiff, who reigned from 1958 to 1963, was one of the great reforming popes and was credited with advancing co-operation with other religions. He met Protestant leaders, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Shinto high priest.”
There is more, but I don’t want to copy the whole article here. I will end with this:
"Ann Widdecombe, the former Home Office minister who converted to Roman Catholicism after women were ordained priests in the Anglican church, said: “Ken Livingstone obviously has no idea either of the essentially holy nature of Pope John XXIII or the very dangerous nature of al-Qaradawi.” "
“An Islamic scholar who has been accused of supporting suicide bombers was likened by Ken Livingstone, the London mayor, yesterday to Pope John XXIII.
He said that Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based imam who is banned from America, was “an absolutely sane Islamist engaged with the world” who believed in democracy and an increasing role for women.
“Of all the Muslim leaders in the world today, Sheikh Qaradawi is the most powerfully progressive force for change and for engaging Islam with western values,” Mr Livingstone told the Commons home affairs select committee.
“I think his is very similar to the position of Pope John XXIII.”
The pontiff, who reigned from 1958 to 1963, was one of the great reforming popes and was credited with advancing co-operation with other religions. He met Protestant leaders, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and a Shinto high priest.”
There is more, but I don’t want to copy the whole article here. I will end with this:
"Ann Widdecombe, the former Home Office minister who converted to Roman Catholicism after women were ordained priests in the Anglican church, said: “Ken Livingstone obviously has no idea either of the essentially holy nature of Pope John XXIII or the very dangerous nature of al-Qaradawi.” "
Bring on the persecutions! We can handle it. We’ve been down that road before.