Hezbollah spiritual leader Sheikh Mohammed Fadlallah, who authorized suicide bombings and other attacks killing hundreds of people, was “a true man of religion” whose death last week left Lebanon “a lesser place,” according to British Ambassador to Lebanon Frances Guy. The world “needs more men like him,” she said.
“People in Lebanon like to ask me which politician I admire most… I usually avoid answering by referring to those I enjoy meeting the most and those that impress me the most. Until yesterday my preferred answer was to refer to Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, head of the Shia clergy in Lebanon and much admired leader of many Shia Muslims throughout the world,” Guy wrote on her blog on the website of Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Guy’s comments were condemned by terrorism victims’ groups and by Israel’s Foreign Ministry. Fadlallah inspired the terrorists of Hizbullah and gave approval to mass-casualty terrorist attacks, including a 1983 suicide bombing at a U.S. Marine barracks that killed more than 300 people, they stated.
“Fadlallah inspired the hostage takers, suicide bombers, and wanton violence of Hizbullah. But the British ambassador thinks he was a man of peace and the world needs more of him, and the British ambassador ‘is an honorable woman’,” said Foreign Minister spokesman Yigal Palmor. Palmor’s choice of words was an allusion to Mark Antony, who when eulogizing Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play of that name, sarcastically says that the murderer Brutus “is an honorable man.”
Guy’s blog entry has since been pulled from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website. However, the British Foreign Office has yet to condemn her statements.
Read more at Arutz Shevah.
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Sounds purposefully similar to the comment by that senior editor on CNN that was fired.
Lets assume that she will be fired just like the CNN reporter was, but I wouldnt bank on this. considering the huge growing Muslim population in Britan, its hard for a country with such a huge growing population which are there since the begining of the 60’s unlike the U.S. where the Muslim population has only started settling roughly 20 years ago. And so the British dont have much guts as the U.S. does, we wouldnt stand for such comments thats for sure.
I wonder how many readers of Matzav saw the picture and wondered which rav or rosh yeshiva he is.