Leftists Churches to hold dinner in honor of Ahmadinejad

[mord]

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The head of the Anti-Defamation League has issued a statement criticizing Mennonite and Quaker leaders for hosting a dinner reception for Iran's president in New York later this month.


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Slideshow: Pictures of the week The dinner, scheduled for September 25, is touted as a dialogue by the pacifist religious groups, which advocate diplomatic engagement with Iran's political leadership.

It follows a similar meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held at a chapel last year during his annual visit for the opening of the United Nations' General Assembly.

"Ahmadinejad represents a rejection of everything these religious groups stand for," Abraham Foxman, national director of the ADL, said in a statement Wednesday.

"His speech at Columbia University a year ago showed the futility of attempting to dialogue with a dictator who makes crystal clear his antipathy toward the West, who denies the Holocaust, and who defends the Iranian regime's willful neglect of basic human rights."

Foxman said the dinner "tarnished" the reputations of the participating religious groups as peace-seekers.


 

A spokesman for the Akron, Pennsylvania-based Mennonite Central Committee, which is organizing the dinner, said no one was immediately available for comment.

Other groups involved in hosting the dinner - including the World Council of Churches, Religions for Peace and the Quaker group American Friends Service Committee - either did not immediately return messages left seeking comment or referred questions to the Mennonite organization.

Representatives from a broad range of Christian ecumenical organizations, including the Episcopal Church, plan to attend the dinner.

"Meeting with people does not mean you agree with them," said Maureen Shea, director of the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations in Washington. "The more there is inflammatory language going back and forth, the more we feel there needs to be a way for our two countries to communicate."

Shea, whose group joined a delegation of Christian religious leaders to Iran in 2007, joined the head of the American Friends Service Committee and the international director of the Mennonite Central Committee in sending a letter last month to the Bush administration, encouraging the State Department to open a US office in Teheran, similar to the one in Havana, Cuba. She said she had not received a response.

She said Foxman did not speak for all of American Jewry on Iran, noting that other Jewish groups support diplomatic engagement.

Yet even the most pro-diplomacy Jewish groups aren't planning to attend the dinner reception for Ahmedinejad.

"We are not going to sit with him, no," said Ori Nir, a spokesman for Americans for Peace Now. "Our position does not endorse unconditional contact and engagement."

Ahmadinejad is scheduled to speak at the UN on September 23.

UN Ambassador Gabriela Shalev, who sharply rebuked Iran's UN ambassador for accusing Israel of making threats on Iran and Ahmedinejad's safety, declined to comment on the dinner plan.

[Ulli]

What morons. If some Christians only care about their own community and reject fleshly things like politics I admire them. But if these groups are beginning to spread their worldview and begin to act like politicians, I destest them.

[Rubystars]

I hate this

[mord]

Yes i'm waiting for the leftists Jews who support Hussein

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

This is beyond shameful. Although today Mennonites and Quakers are a hideous left-wing parody of all that my faith stands for, at one time they were proud, heroic strains of thought in Christianity. The Mennonites in particular, who have been viciously persecuted (much like Jews) through most of their existence, should know better. Everyone involved here is a complete and utter fraud. Yimach schmo to this rabble.

[spiritus_persona]

A self-hater is more of a threat than any external threat.  "These" Mennonites and Quakers don't follow the word of Gd.  Didn't Gd say to obey the law of the land?  And isn't TREASON against the law?

[Zionistforever]

i am perhaps most proud of this american general hashem bless his actions

So what can civilized and righteous armies do against Muslim fanatics who don't mind taking a quick ride along the Allah Express to oblivion? Perhaps an example was set, not by an Israeli soldier, but by a certain American, General John "Black Jack" Pershing.

General Pershing was in charge of a U.S. garrison in the Philippines in 1911. It seems his soldiers were subjected to a series of terror attacks by Filipino Muslims.  Pershing did not try to put together a "road map." Nor did he set up study groups to find out why the Muslims hated the Americans. Nor did he offer them a series of "good will gestures." Nor did he put up a giant wall to keep them out. Instead, he captured fifty of those Muslim terrorists. He then had them dig their own graves. He then tied all up to posts execution style. He then dipped fifty bullets in pig's blood. You see, Muslims murders may not have a problem with soaking their hands into Jewish blood but NO WAY do they want anything to do with the skin, blood or 'guts' of a pig. Should they be contaminated by any of these pig parts, they will go to Muslim Hell, not Muslim Paradise!

And so, on the count of three, all but one of those Paradise-seeking Islamists were shot dead! Their bodies were them wrapped in the skins of freshly-killed pigs and dropped into the giant hole. Above them were poured the entrails and other  porcine remains. You may ask, "Why was one Muslim spared?" The answer is simple. This sole surviving Muslim was released and sent back to his fellow 'mujahedin' to report what he had just witnessed. For the next 42 years there was not a single Muslim attack

[Zionistforever]

sorry if that crossed the line i am so mad about the article though.

[nopeaceforland]

The libs are REALLY sickos!

[P J C]

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