Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:56:34 +0300 [09:56:34 AM CST]
From: Robert Alai
Subject: Re: Africa: Anti-Christian Gaddafi Takes Over as AU Chair

George

Gaddaffi has been so insulting to Chhristians of late.

Check all these links

Uganda: Gadaffi’s Insults Unite Christians

http://allafrica.com/stories/200803240012.html

Ugandan president teaches Muammar Gaddafi about Christianity

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12151

Gadaffi: “Bible a Forgery Because it Doesn’t Mention Prophet Mohammed”

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/03/gadaffi-bible-a.html

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM, ndebele okoth wrote:

This a mere divisive propaganda for continuality to loot Africa recourses and manpower.

Is this not typical divide a rule tactics of the west? When Christians endorsed Obama the same group call him a Muslim, knowing very well he is a committed Christian, even at times they were calling Kenyans PM Raila a friend of radical Islamic, it seems the writer is from the same school of thought, she need to read the Gadaffi Green Book to understand who this man is.

Was is not Gadaffi who fought a alongside Fidel Castro to liberate South Africa from the so called Christians Apartheid of Boers of government, when ex-dictator Moi was torturing and Killing indiscriminately, it was comrade Gadaffi who stood with Kenyans dissidents .

I am Christian democrats and I have never heard Gadaffi mixing his political ideology with religion. The prejudice must stop, Africa needs to unity to developed, and Africa has enough resources to feed his hungry mouths.

United State of Africa dream is possible, as long as it can bring an end to the senseless wars and hunger.

— On Wed, 2/4/09, edwin mwaura wrote:

From: edwin mwaura
Subject: Africa: Anti-Christian Gaddafi Takes Over as AU Chair
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 4:36 PM

Africa: Anti-Christian Gaddafi Takes Over as AU Chair
3 February 2009

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opinion
President Muammar Gaddafi whose public statements have had the potential of worsening the delicate Muslim-Christian relations in Africa was on Monday elected chairman of the African Union (AU).
The Libyan leader replaces Tanzania’s Jakaya Kikwete in the one-year-term position that is held on a rotational basis by a head of state from Africa’s four regions. His pet subject is greater African unity.
“I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa,” Gaddafi said in his inaugural speech, but admitted that African leaders were “not near to a settlement” on the issue.
Gaddafi, on his 40th year in power, has for the past decade pushed the unity agenda, but without sensitivity to the continent’s religious reality. Christianity and Islam are Africa’s main religions.
The man who has previously dismissed the Bible as a forgery and Christianity as a religion not meant for Africans will for the next year be the spokesman for a continent where religious tensions have sometimes erupted into violent confrontations.
On the other hand, Christian minorities, especially in North Africa, do not enjoy freedom of worship and continue to suffer official discrimination.
In the past two years, Gaddafi has used celebrations to mark the birthday of Prophet Mohammed to disparage Christianity. Last year while visiting Uganda, he delivered a tirade against the Bible, dismissing it as a forgery.
“The Bible we have now is not the one that was revealed to Issa [Jesus], and the Old Testament is not the one that was revealed to Musa. Mohammed is mentioned in both (original versions), but in the Torah and Bible we have now, there is no mention of him,” he said.
“It means that it (Bible) has been forged. Prophet Mohammed was sent to mankind. Allah wanted mankind to have one religion. The Koran that we have is the only book that was sent by Allah.”
In 2007, the Libyan leader said it was a mistake to believe that Jesus had been crucified and killed. “It is not correct to say that. Another man resembling Jesus was crucified in his place,” Gaddafi told a mass prayer meeting in Niger to mark the birth of Prophet Mohammed.
Christianity, he added, was not a universal faith alongside Islam. “There are serious mistakes – among them the one saying that Jesus came as a messenger for other people other than the sons of Israel,” he said.
“Christianity is not a faith for people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Other people who are not sons of Israel have nothing to do with that religion.”
“All those believers who do not follow Islam are losers,” Gaddafi said. “We are here to correct the mistakes in the light of the teachings of the Koran.”
The Libyan leader seized power in a military coup d’état in 1969, deposing the monarchy and imposing socialism and Islamic orthodoxy on the country.

Forward Ever (by any means necessary)!
Karen C. Aboiralor