‘Catholic’ Iraqi Minister Invokes ‘allah’
And so, we will continue to do so; not because we are wise, but to raise an alternative voice for the sake of sanity as the chaos of the battle rages and intensifies.
So, here's an easy question: when we worship God as Catholics, who do we pray to?
Do we pray to Jesus, or do we pray to “allah”?
If you claim to be a Catholic, there is really no contest.
Yet, what did we hear from Iraq’s deputy prime minister in his quest for “peace”? This supposed “Catholic” invoked not the Name of Jesus in his public statement for “peace,” but the false god “allah,” whose name moslems scream out when they seek to justify the murder of innocents.
It is not just in this regard that we are questioning the timing and statements of the Vatican in regard to Tariq Aziz’s visit to meet with the pope and pray at St. Francis’ tomb, but it is in other questionable comments as well.
The pope sent his emissary to Iraq at the same time Aziz was in Italy to send a personal message to saddam insein, a man any sane individual knows is a friend of the devil. What did the pope’s emissary hear from the Iraqi leader?
Amazingly, insein, in his message to the cardinal, told the pope what he should do! The most outlandish statement this “fiend of the devil,” who has murdered, tortured and oppressed people as good as any nazi could, was to tell the pope’s representative what John Paul II’s responsibilities are “in front of God”!
Then we have to endure the pope's representative telling the world that saddam insein is “doing everything to avoid war”! Hello, is anyone home?
We are sure the pope is innocent in his striving desperately to maintain the peace. We are sure he wants nothing more than the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
But we will not attain either one by entertaining and giving credence to the thoughts, plans and representatives of people like saddam insein.
Now, the Vatican is concerned that its anti-war statements regarding U.S. policy to disarm saddam insein are beginning to appear to be “anti-American.”
This is an important concern. We are not for war. We are not for Bush. We are not for our troops going into Iraq and getting killed. We are for the Reign of Christ the King!
But until that time comes, we are for protecting American citizens.
How quickly the world seems to have forgotten what happened on September 11th, 2001. Suddenly, 6 million people who are willing to brave the cold see not the moslem threat or Iraqi menace to peace, but the United States government. We are well aware of the myriad faults the Bush administration and previous U.S. administrations are guilty of. In fact, we are sure we can enlighten many a demonstrator on the evils of corrupt U.S. administrations.
But none of this exceeds the guilt of islamic worldwide terrorism.
Indeed, none of this exceeds the guilt of the saddam insein regime, of which the supposed Catholic, Tariq Aziz, is part of, and continually proves his support by his public statements and pronouncements.
If the Vatican wishes to end the concern that it is being “cast in a bad light” as it is wrongfully being portrayed as supporting the evil regime of Iraq, than it needs to do what it continually has failed to do: publicly rebuke a pretend “Catholic,” who, on his trip of propaganda, did not invoke Jesus Christ as his God, but the false pagan god, “allah.”
If the Vatican wishes to make the world understand that its peace initiatives are not designed to support terrorism, than it needs to publicly rebuke the islamic theology of “jihad.”
If the Vatican is really concerned about the fate of Catholics, such as the 150,000 that are left in Iraq, it must also balance this concern with the public safety of the 63 million in the United States.
It was not the 150,000 in Iraq that were attacked on September 11th. And if any Iraqi Catholics, as well as moslems and other Christians, were victims during the first Gulf War, it is only because their government first attacked the nation of Kuwait. Does anyone remember this?
How many of this weekend's demonstrators demonstrated for the people of Kuwait when Iraqi soldiers were brutally murdering, raping and torturing civilians?
If the Vatican is concerned about the fate of Catholics, does it remember that New York City has between 2 million to 3 million Catholics in its political boundaries? And, if we include the surrounding metropolitan area, that figure easily skyrockets threefold.
In California, another majority of Catholics live and work.
Where is the concern for the innocents of America who — whether they agree with the Bush administration policies or not — can become victims of terrorism in a madman’s game of biological, chemical or nuclear destruction? A game of revenge by him and islamic madmen over a nation the Vatican has diplomatic ties with, Israel.
We know full well the Vatican does not want this type of scenario.
We are praying for our brothers and sisters in Iraq, as well as in China, Korea, or Russia, etc. But perhaps, as long as the madman saddam insein remains in power, the 150,000 remaining Catholics in Iraq should take the same route as their brethren did and leave this nation until a saner regime is brought to power by the Hand of God. This is what their 350,000 brothers and sisters did. This is what our relatives did to escape European tyranny and religious intolerance.
We do not pretend that George Bush or Tony Blair are a power that God is impressed with. But as we all know God always bring good out of evil.
Has the Vatican considered that this might be one way God chooses to free the Iraqi people from a madman who has terrorized them for as long as John Paul II has been pope? For the two rose to power at the same time!
If, in his spiritual wisdom, John Paul II does not think the Lord wants, desires or Wills to use Western military might to free the world of the scourge of terrorism, coupled with Iraqi insanity in their quest for Weapons of Mass Destruction, then the pope should, at the very least, take care of business which he — and he alone — must do.
And that is, again, to condemn a liar and heretic; a man, Tariq Aziz, who not only has blood on his hands by supporting saddam insein in power, but who also has the audacity to invoke the false god of islam.
If the Church cannot stand up to this one individual’s public hypocrisy, does it really have the right to rebuke Catholics who, through unfortunate circumstances of life, have committed lesser sins, such as divorce, than those mortal sins committed by Tariq Aziz in his support of saddam insein?
But what can we expect from a leadership that is still debating whether or not we should kneel before, during and after Communion?
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at St. Francis' tomb.
The Franciscans fell all over themselves to give this phoney
a replica of a candle lit for peace by the pope and other religious leaders last year.
Nobody seemed to mind when
Aziz invoked the name of allah
in his prayers for peace.
“I think there is some
cause for hope, for peace,
should Allah will it,”
Aziz stated.
