Mohamed Salim El-Awa'a

Mohamed Salim El-Awa'a , a very famous name in the Islamic world , beside being a lawyer the Islamic activist also works in the international Muslim scholars organizations based in London , one of the most respected and important Islamic organization in the world ,Yesterday Salim was hosted in the daily night Talkshow "10' o'clock " with my favorite Mona Shazely , of course you don't need to guess why he was hosted yesterday , it was for the talk of the hour ,to know what he thinks about the Pope's provoking statements about Islam and Prophet Mohamed "PBUH" on last Tuesday.

You can call Salim a real Muslim who combines both Religion and modern world , I won't use the word moderate because the rule in Islam is moderation not radicalism, a great man and by the way he writes in weekly "El-Osboo" in Egypt occasionally

a great interview with a great and what it makes more interesting that before El-Shazely hosted Salim , she hosted the highest priest in the Egyptian Catholic church Father "Jon Falatah" , a great kind man who tried by all ways to mend the Pope's mistakes ,underestimating it so both the Muslims won't be sad and the Pope won't turn to be mistaken , diplomatic words and yes he underestimated the attack when he said that it was only two sentences in 7 pages lectures while in reality there were 9 sentences in the beginning of the 7 lectures. as I said father Falatah wanted to hold the stick from the middle

Then Salim came and shared his wonderful thoughts and suggestions about the crisis with the viewers; here is a summary from it ,I hope you got benefit from it

First about the Pope Banadict XVI :

• It seems that the current Pope comes from narrow minded theological background
• It is not the first he attacked Islam , from few months , there was some kind of summit in the Vatican for the youth from the religions of the world , in the end of the summit ,he met with every group of young people from every faith , he saluted every group from religion except ours "Islam" , he stood in front of our youth and told them words

 " I hope that the hate in your hearts caused by the Islam will be taken off !!"

Second about the reasons behind this attack from the Catholic Church :

Here Salim is guessing

• He believes that the Catholic Church wants to re-gain again a place in the United States , after all the shortest way to reach for G.W Bush's heart is to attack Islam , already the Catholic Church got financial and moral crisis in the United States "he didn't say what kind of moral crisis to the viewers ,of course those who are familiar with the news of the Catholic church ,will know immediately what he means"
• The increasing number of Muslim in Europe not from the immigrants but from the Europeans themselves who convert to Islam

Third about the results of such statements :

• This is an open invitation to fight Muslims in Europe "around 6 million"
• The end of the Islamic - Catholic Christian dialogue after 46 years
• The Catholic church will lose more as in its benefit to be united with the Muslims to stand against both the Zionists and the new paganism as Salim said " the new modern paganism is all the calls against the religions and its teachings"

Third about what we should do as Muslims :

• We must inform the Vatican by all our possible peaceful ways that we refuse  such statement , and that an apology is not enough ,he should withdraw those statement , already this damned lecture is going to be printed after few weeks shouldn't contain such statements.
• We must reach our anger from these statements as governments and people to the Vatican also in civilized way
• We shouldn't return back our Ambassadors from the Vatican, no they should stay but they should boycott all the Vatican's diplomatic activities

I agree with him totally and by the way he asked the same questions regarding the real intention of the Pope and silly naive official statement

I wish that we got more of Mr Salim , by the way I found by accident that he attended my mother's wedding in the 1970s

tags:Islam, Middle East, Muslims, West, East, Europe, Catholic Church, Christianity, Pope Banadict  ,The Pope