From Jihad Unspun, an excerpt from an article by By Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice
... an official of the Chaldean Church has issued highly extravagant claims about the sham election held at US insistence on Sunday, 30 January 2005. .... Monsignor Djibrail Kassab the Chaldean archbishop of al-Basrah told the Catholic Missionary News Agency MISNA that, "there were no reports of violence of any kind." Kassab went so far as to say that ... the mood was "almost as though it was Carnival."
In northern Iraq Father Mageeb Mekhail, the Dominican superior in Mosul claimed that "people in Mosul turned out to vote in a show of courage despite the many threats from terrorists." .... Mekhail joined his fellow priest in al-Basrah in claiming that the population "voted in a festive climate." .... Mekhail demonstrated that his sympathies are entirely with the invaders and their stooges when he concluded his praise of the election farce by once again slandering the Resistance as "terrorists" while making the incredible claim that the theatricals showed that the country still under direct American military occupation is "free." ....
Naturally the sentiments of such church authorities must not be mistaken for the views of the overwhelming majority of Iraqis, including those of the Christian faith, who denounce foreign aggression and occupation, and who certainly are not interested in serving as its lackeys. The pro-American priests' statements show, however, that ... some of those institutions ... allow themselves to serve as mouthpieces for imperialist invaders. |