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Terrorists can have serious moral goals, says Williams By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 15/10/2003) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, yesterday urged America to recognise that terrorists can "have serious moral goals". He said that while terrorism must always be condemned, it was wrong to assume its perpetrators were devoid of political rationality. "It is possible to use unspeakably wicked means to pursue an aim that is shared by those who would not dream of acting in the same way, an aim that is intelligible or desirable." He said that in ignoring this, in its criticism of al-Qa'eda, America "loses the power of self-criticism and becomes trapped in a self-referential morality." Dr Williams made his comments in a lecture to the Royal Institute for International Affairs, in which he said he wanted to challenge violence "as the tool of private interest or private redress". Dr Williams said that no government should act as its own judge on whether to launch military action against a rogue state. "Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons," he said. "If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest." Dr Williams said that he recognised there were weaknesses in the current international legal institutions and called for reforms in the United Nations to deal with the problems. A new panel of legal experts should be introduced to advise where military intervention was necessary, rather than relying entirely on the UN Security Council, he said. Dr Williams was an outspoken critic of the war before its outbreak, describing it as "immoral and illegal". In February, he issued a joint statement with Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, calling for continued weapons inspections in Iraq. They also gave warning of the "unpredictable humanitarian and political consequences" of a war. ------- Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. -- Pat Robertson _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
