Non desidero polemizzare con Vittorio Messori, nutrendo per lui amicizia e stima. Purtroppo però a volte nella polemica si è trascinati nostro malgrado, per un dovere di testimonianza alla verità: così anni fa insorsi per i giudizi (che ritenni non generosi) espressi da Messori su Giovanni Paolo II, subito dopo la sua morte.
E oggi mi sento costretto a farlo per il dovere di verità che abbiamo verso i martiri cristiani che sono stati massacrati anche in questi giorni.
“Amor mi mosse che mi fa parlare”: l’articolo di Vittorio uscito ieri sul Corriere della sera davvero fa un pessimo servizio ai cristiani. Ma soprattutto fa a disservice to historical truth.
Forget the discutibilissime excursions in the seventh century, on the invasion of Egypt and the Arab North Africa.
I anxiously searched the text Messorio least one sentence that would put emphasis on the heart of the problem (as well enunciated the Pope in Regensburg), that is the unresolved relationship of Islam with violence, an issue certainly known to Messori, an issue that has horrendous consequences not just on Christians but on the relations of Muslims with all the other religions and civilizations, besides on various social issues (I think the conditions of women).
But unfortunately I have not found this phrase. Without a conviction appeal lies in the article, but is not against the unresolved admixture between Islam and violence.
No. The sentence seems to touch the "Zionism" (accused of "violent intrusion"), that Zionism has nothing to do absolutely nothing to do with the attack on the Christian cathedral of Alexandria (perhaps Messori here aims to describe the Islamist ideology, but does not appear to dissociate himself from that opinion on Zionism).
Among the bad guys without mitigating Messori also cites the usual Bush (with the Amerikan). Even Christians are represented by him so far from flattering.
one with which the Catholic intellectual but is agreed Grand Imam of Cairo, Al Tayyeb, that the attack "is not an attack on Christians, but fly to Egypt."
Now, Ahmed Al Tayyeb this is the guy who accused the Pope of "interference" in Egyptian affairs when the Pope condemned the massacre of Christians to put on 1 January. This
Grand Imam is also the type that always in the aftermath of the massacre, interviewed by Corriere della Sera, again - as noted on the same Ippolito Courier - "he felt compelled to rimbeccare the Pope calls for protection of the faithful in the East ", arguing that the quote" appeal to Pope defense of the faithful can create misunderstandings. "
The Great Imam has come so far as to demand that the pope "as a gesture to Muslims, as if on the other side of the Mediterranean were threatened to be the followers of the Koran."
These criticisms are always Ippolito. And they are not surprised that instead of Messori editorial published yesterday. He does not make any critical reference to those amazing statements of the Great Imam. Indeed, he quotes him saying that in that sentence (on the assassination as an attack on Egypt) "is not wrong."
Personally however I also believe that a very ambiguous phrase.
To understand that, according Al Tayyeb, Islam, also Egyptian, is a marvel and the terrorists would be a foreign body that is to topple this idyllic Muslim world and the Egyptian state.
And what would have caused the violence of these terrorists? Here's the answer that gives Messori (much shared among the Muslims) after having endorsed the sentence of Imam:
"All governments of all Muslim nations are under the tsunami that had the detonator the violent intrusion of Zionism that is come to put its capital in Jerusalem, the holy city for believers almost equal to Mecca. Anger, humiliation, feelings of helplessness have initiated a pan-Islamism that it intends to demolish the borders and regimes current to reach a common block of iron and faithful in the Qur'an. A sort of superpower that can challenge even the United States, patrons of Israel. "
Anyone is clear that the theorem Messori not stand: if the problem was really the Zionist massacre because the Copts are Egyptian citizens who have always been faithful to the Egyptian state?
If the problem was really the foundation of Israel in 1948, for fourteen centuries, Islam seeks to conquer and subjugate the Christian countries (until they arrived in Vienna to Sicily and to the Pyrenees, before being rejected)?
E 'known, moreover, that some Islamist groups feel orphans of Palestine as much as you feel cheated out of Sicily, Andalusia and maybe tomorrow: we do, I'll laugh?
Again I ask: why is the turkish genocide of Christian Armenians (the first of the twentieth century) occurred decades before the birth of Israel?
And why, finally, the Muslim Brotherhood there from 1928-1929?
And why have resurfaced with fanaticism rather than only in the eighties in 1948?
It could explain, Messori, how and why the Islamic regime in Khartoum, Sudan, for twenty years, since 1980, has massacred the Christians and animist blacks in the South, causing a massacre of two million victims?
him I say: why they rejected the imposition of Sharia law, not because - thousands of miles away from them - there was the State of Israel.
And why, on the other end of the world, the Indonesian regime has invaded East Timor and slaughtered a huge portion of the Christian population of East Timor, and no one - neither Indonesia nor the people of East Timor, we were never concerned Israel and Palestine?
The truth is quite another. Let's hear from two historians (although not Catholic). "For almost a thousand years," wrote Bernard Lewis "from the first Moorish landing in Spain in the second turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under the constant threat of Islam. "
Samuel Huntington pointed out that "Islam is the only civilization to have put in serious danger and twice the survival of the West."
Given this enduring imperialist utopia of Islam, where religion and politics are one thing, the great trauma of the Islamic world was represented by the end of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War.
That was the detonator.
Then, from decolonization, the Arab elites have focused on secular political movements, the socialist ideology and / or nationalist.
These schemes were the first to scuttle the possibility of a Palestinian state and, with the pan-Arab and anti-Zionist ideology, have launched a series of wars for the elimination of Israel emerged in pieces. So
their illiberal regimes, often corrupt and largely failed - to find an external enemy to point out to the crowds fanatics - have fueled anti-Israeli hatred and anti-Western, even stronger as our way of life and Wellness is coveted by those peoples.
I hate that - after the Iranian Shiite revolution of the seventies - it is in a revival of fundamentalist Islam.
The real problem is the failure meeting of Arab and Islamic countries with democracy and the recognition of human rights. And the appointment of Islam with non-repudiation of violence.
The invitation of the Pope in Assisi is the other side of Regensburg: the attempt by Christians to help those who want to leave the religious sentiment, which is expressed in the various religions, violence and intolerance.
One final note: the title of the article by Messori was "The roots of hatred against Christians."
But Christians have been hated, persecuted and massacred over two hundred years, under all regimes and ideologies. And still are, for example in all communist regimes.
So the "root of hatred" can not be in the existence of Israel. E Messori knows. So why not say so? Why write editorials like that?
[Antonio Socci on "Free" 8 January 2011]
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