Pope Francis (Jorge
Mario Bergoglio)
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Islam
Muslim leaders in Buenos Aires
welcomed the news of Bergoglio's election as pope, noting that he
"always showed himself as a friend of the Islamic community", and a
person whose position is "pro-dialogue".[139] They
praised Bergoglio's close ties with Muslim groups and noted his comments when
Pope Benedict's 2006 Regensburg lecture was interpreted by many as denigrating Islam.
According to them, Bergoglio immediately distanced himself from Benedict's
language and said that statements which provoke outrage with Muslims "will
serve to destroy in 20 seconds the careful construction of a relationship with
Islam that Pope John Paul II built over the last 20 years."[140]
Bergoglio visited both a mosque and an Islamic school in
Argentina; visits that the Director for the Diffusion of Islam, Sheik Mohsen
Ali, called actions that strengthened the relationship between the Catholic and
Islamic communities.[139] Dr.
Sumer Noufouri, Secretary General of the Islamic Center of the Argentine
Republic (CIRA), added that Bergoglio's past actions make his election as pope
provide Muslims a cause of "joy and expectation of strengthening dialogue
between religions".[139]
Noufouri said that the relationship between CIRA and Bergoglio over the course
of a decade had helped to build up Christian–Muslim dialogue in a way that was
"really significant in the history of monotheistic relations in
Argentina".[139]
Ahmed
el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of al-Azhar and president of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, sent congratulations after the pope's
election.[141]
Al-Tayeb had "broken off relations with the Vatican" during Benedict
XVI's time as pope; his message of congratulations also included the request
that "Islam asks for respect from the new pontiff".[141]
Shortly after his election, in a meeting with ambassadors from the 180 countries accredited with the Holy See,
Pope Francis called for more interreligious dialogue—"particularly with
Islam".[131] He also
expressed gratitude that "so many civil and religious leaders from the
Islamic world" had attended his installation Mass.[131] An
editorial in the Saudi Arabian paper Saudi Gazette
strongly welcomed the pope's call for increased interfaith dialogue, stressing
that while the pope was "reiterating a position he has always
maintained", his public call as pope for increased dialogue with Islam
"comes as a breath of fresh air at a time when much of the Western world
is experiencing a nasty outbreak of Islamophobia".
Saudi Arabia
Alwaleed bin Talal is the Saudi Arabia prince, the founder of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, and a stockholder in News Corp.
Note:
Alwaleed Bin Talal
Foundation
was a funder for the Islamic Development
Bank, and the Muslim Leaders of
Tomorrow.
Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow is a sponsor for the Cordoba Initiative, and the American Society for Muslim Advancement.
Feisal Abdul
Rauf is the founder & chairman for the Cordoba Initiative, a developer for Park51, a co-founder for the American
Society for Muslim Advancement, and married to Daisy Khan.
Park51
Park51 (originally named Cordoba
House) was a planned 13-story Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan. The majority of the center was set aside for the
general public to promote interfaith
dialogue. Plans for the center included
a Muslim prayer space which, due to its location two blocks from
the World Trade Center site,[6][7] has controversially been referred to as the "Ground Zero mosque", though numerous commentators disputed that
characterization.[8][9] As of August 2014, the owner proposes to build a
three-story museum instead of the original 13-story center.[10]
Park51 would have replaced an
existing 1850s building of Italianate style
that was damaged in the September 11
attacks. The design included a
500-seat auditorium, theater, a performing arts center,
a fitness center, a
swimming pool, a basketball court, a childcare area, a bookstore, a culinary school, an art studio, a food court, and a memorial to the
victims of the September 11 attacks. It included a prayer space for the Muslim
community to accommodate 1,000–2,000 people.[6
Daisy
Khan is married to Feisal Abdul Rauf,
a developer for Park51, an executive
director for the American Society for
Muslim Advancement, and was a director at the White House Project.
Gara
LaMarche was a director at the White
House Project, a VP & director of U.S. programs for the Open Society Foundations, and an associate
director at the Human Rights Watch.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights Watch, the Catholic
Relief Services, and the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and
a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights Watch.
Kenneth F.
Hackett was the president of the Catholic
Relief Services, and is a U.S. ambassador for the Holy See.
John J.
Studzinski is a director at the Human
Rights Watch, a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and a papal knighthood knight.
K.
Rupert Murdoch is a papal knighthood
knight, and the chairman for News Corp.
Alwaleed bin
Talal is a stockholder in News Corp,
the founder of the Alwaleed Bin Talal
Foundation, and the Saudi Arabia
prince.
papal knighthood
is an honor conferred by pope from the Roman
Catholic Church.
Pope Francis I
is the pope for the Roman Catholic
Church.
Benedict
XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) is the
pope emeritus for the Roman Catholic
Church, and was a member of Hitlers
Youth.
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the Hitler Youth?
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Francis E. George
was a cardinal for the Roman Catholic
Church, an archbishop for the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and a parishioner at the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Trumpeter
Newsmagazine is a publication for the Trinity
United Church of Christ (Chicago).
Louis Farrakhan
was awarded the 2007 Jeremiah Wright Jr. Trumpeter award from the Trumpeter Newsmagazine, is the for the Million Man March, and the acting head
for the Nation of Islam.
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