Archbishop attacks Iraq strategy

[CJCRANE]

"The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the government of placing Christians in the Middle East at risk through its actions in Iraq.

Dr Rowan Williams, head of the Anglican church, said there had been a growing number of attacks on Christians.

He is on a pilgrimage to the region with the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor."

"The situation has got worse since Saddam fell," he said."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6205299.stm

[sam sarrha]

1. aaaaaaahh,.... what hasnt gotten F'n worse.!!! everywhere since the wet brain alcoholic took over.?

0click on my blue link below

[annabanana]

2. Didn't the Pope also

recently scold B*sh?

[Ian David]

7. Pope John-Pedophile expressed concern that Bush might be The Antichrist.

Personally, I think Der Chimpenfuhrer and Pope Ratso are both good candidates to be The Antichrist.

[MasonJar]

3. Take it to him, Archbishop! You go, Rowan!

[Fenris]

4. The Crusades had a similar effect.

Christians enjoyed relative religious freedom under their Arab conquerors (with notable exceptions). They were free to worship as they wished provided they paid a non-believer tax and obviously didn't attempt to overthrow Arab control. The Crusades obliterated much of the tolerance the Muslims had shown toward their Christian subjects, although to be fair Christians in the Holy Land were distrustful of the Crusading militias, and some did not share their goal of a violent takeover of the Levant.

We never learn anything, do we?

[IndianaGreen]

6. And Christians living in Constantinople were slaughtered by invading Crusaders

who, like US troops in Iraq, viewed all of them "foreigners" as infidels.

[Fenris]

8. Also correct.

"Christian" in the Levant meant something very different than "Christian" in Toulouse or Ravenna.

[laststeamtrain]

5. He's not a fan of 'the wall' either

"The Israeli-built wall is “a sign of all that is wrong in the human heart”, the Archbishop of Canterbury said today in Bethlehem.

Speaking to the town’s civic representatives shortly after walking through the wall, Dr Williams said the wall symbolised “the terrible fear of the other, of the stranger, which keeps us all in one kind of prison or another”, from which God 2,000 years ago came to release people."

http://www.openbethlehem.org/

[ShortnFiery]

9. Exactly!

IMO, worth posting again:

“the terrible fear of the other, of the stranger, which keeps us all in one kind of prison or another”

Just like the isolated hillbillies in southern Virginia are proudly racist against Muslims (whom they never have knowingly encountered) and don't know why their beloved Congressman (Goode) is in trouble, it's this "FEAR of the other" as well as "WILLFUL segregation" (race, religion, socioeconomic status, etc.) are the true evils of this world.