Assalamualaikum ww
My own comment:
Bagi kita di Malaysia, tentu sekali kita masih ingat pernyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh al-Tantawi semasa lawatannya ke Malaysia: 'malaysia negara Islam' dan 'Murtad tak perlu dihukum'. Orang² seperti inilah yang sekian lama mengelirukan minda Islam di sebalik kedudukan dan kelulusan mereka sebagai tok syeikh! (Termasuk dlm golongan ini: Muhammad Abduh (Mesir), Ali Asghar Engineer (India), Gus Dur (Indonesia), Hamid Othman (Malaysia) dan banyak lagi...)
Assalaamu alaykum
What treachery from "Shaykh al-Azhar" thanking the Pope for his honourable stand vis a vis the Palestinian people! What honourable stand? As far as the Vatican is concerned, Jerusalem is their holy city which must be "internationalised" and supervised by Christians, Jews and Muslims. Whereas Islam says that all of Palestine is uniquely Islamic land which MUST BE UNDER THE HANDS OF MUSLIMS WHO RULE BY THE SHARI'AH. Can there be any clearer contradiction?
And does Shaykh al-Azhar forget--or does the kufr regime he serves so faithfully make him forget!--that this is the second time that the Holy Land is out of our hands. The first time was via the Crusades ordered by Catholic popes who asked their followers to clear Jerusalem of the "infidel barbarians" i.e. Muslims, which they did with incredible brutality and atrocities (similar to what the Russians are doing now in Chechnya!). The only solution then to the occupation of Islamic land, then and now, w!
as the unity of Muslims and the fighting of jihad to liberate all occupied land from the filth of kufr. Then there was the Abbasid Khalifah and Salah ud-Deen Al-Ayyubi as "amir al-jihad" (leader of Islamic army) to do the job. Today where is our Khalifah and our amir al-jihad?
Wake up, O Muslims!
Aqidah Islamic Information Service
Assalamu aleikum.
" ... There is no difference between Christians and Muslims," said Islam
Abdel Moneim, 11, a Muslim."
May Allah (S.W.T.) forgive us all for failing to convey even the most
elementary teachings of Islam to the Muslim children, including apparently
even Surah al-Ikhlas.
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source:
Middle Eastern Times (Cairo)
25 February 2000 International Edition
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http://metimes.com/2K/issue2000-8/methaus.htm
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Pope denounces violence in religious guise
Andrew Hammond
Pope John Paul II, decrying violence under the banner of religion, met
Egypt's top Muslim and Coptic Christian clerics in Cairo Thursday with a
message of peace.
"To promote violence and conflict in the name of religion is a terrible
contradiction and a terrible offense against God," the pope said at the
start of his three-day visit to Egypt.
"But past and present history give us many examples of such a misuse of
religion," he said in an arrival address.
The 79-year-old pontiff appealed for Muslim-Christian harmony and called
for a Middle East peace in which the rights and legitimate aspirations of
all peoples would be respected.
The pope visited Grand Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi of al-Azhar, the
1,000-year-old seat of learning whose influence stretches throughout the
Sunni Muslim world.
"I t!
hanked the Vatican and his Holiness the Pope for their honorable
position regarding the Palestinian people," Tantawi told reporters after
their 45-minute closed meeting.
He said he had told the pope that common interests joined Christians and
Muslims, who had lived in Egypt for 14 centuries "under one sky, on one
land and breathing the same air."
Tantawi said he had assured the pope that Egyptians, whether Christians or
Muslims, enjoyed equality of rights and duties.
The two men exchanged gifts, the pope receiving a book on al-Azhar's
history and Tantawi a religious painting.
The pope earlier went to the cathedral residence of Coptic Pope Shenouda
III, whose Orthodox church has never recognized papal supremacy in nearly
2,000 years of existence.
Shenouda praised the pope's efforts for peace in the Middle East and
harmony among Christians. "We wish all efforts for Christian unity may go
forward through your h!
elp," he said.
Shenouda reminded his guest that Egypt was a holy land, sanctified by the
visit of Jesus and his parents, said to have spent three years in Egypt to
escape King Herod's persecution.
President Hosni Mubarak, who greeted the pope at the airport, called him
"a man of courage, wisdom and tolerance."
In a sign of his increasing frailty the Pope, who once began his foreign
visits by kissing the ground, this time kissed a bowl of Egyptian soil
presented to him by a child.
"We should strive together to fight fanaticism, prejudice and hatred. We
should oppose all discrimination, injustice and double standards if we are
to establish a new viable world order. Your voice on these issues is of
enormous value," Mubarak told his visitor.
Mystical Sinai Moment
The highlight of the pope's visit to Egypt, the first of two tours in the
footsteps of Moses and Jesus, comes Saturday when he will pray at the ba!
se
of Mount Sinai.
Friday he is due to say mass at a Cairo sports stadium and hold an
ecumenical meeting of Christian clerics.
He plans to travel to Jordan and visit Holy Land sites ruled by Israel and
the Palestinian Authority from March 20 to 26.
The Pope said his visit to the desert Mount Sinai, where God is said to
have given Moses the Ten Commandments, would be "a moment of intense
prayer for peace and inter-religious harmony."
"Salaam aleikum (Peace be on you)," the Pope said, in the single phrase he
uttered in Arabic during his arrival speech.
About 800 Christian and Muslim school children waved flags and shouted
"Vive Jean-Paul Deux" (long live John Paul II) as the Pope's heavily
guarded motorcade left the airport.
"The pope's visit has created a bond between Christians and Muslims. It's
a nice feeling. There is no difference between Christians and Muslims,"
said Islam Abdel Moneim, 11, a Mus!
lim.
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