Melbourne Anglican Archbishop Philip Freier is under fire from the Jewish community for hosting a function for former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami while he is in Melbourne this month.
Jewish Community Council of Victoria president John Searle wrote to Dr Freier saying the Jewish community found it inconceivable that the Anglican Church would host “such a man” or even meet him.
He declined an invitation to attend and asked Dr Freier to reconsider.
Mr Searle told The Age that although Mr Khatami, president of Iran from 1997 to 2005, was regarded as a reformist, he was a sponsor of terrorism, a Holocaust denier and leader of a country that has often threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”.
No worse than Schori engineering a UN luncheon function for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he visited New York to share his wisdom and goodwill. It is racism and hatred at its’ deepest level.
Intercessor
If there are any idiots is this story, it’s the lawyers and judges who are actually surprised that the people they put on juries are really stupid enough to think this wasn’t a violation of the rules. Or are surprised that the people who pretended to have no biases about the case and pretended to know nothing about the case during jury selection wouldn’t promptly go out and violate rules.
If anything, I’m surprised the people admitted their violations.
Oops, wrong thread. Elves, please delete this; I’ll post in the right place…
Didn’t Bishop Chane also invite this thug butcher Khatami to speak at the NatCat some time ago?