Vatican: Imam prays for victory over the disbelieving people

An original article by Carpe Diem with much thanks.

Last Sunday, Whitsunday if you like, Pope Francis hosted Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at a ‘Peace Gathering’ in Vatican City. Prayers from clerics of the three faiths had been planned to be part of the programme, as News.va, The Official Vatican Network, reported prior to the visit.

After he had seen the broadcast, Hamed Abdel-Samad, an Islam-critical political scientist and author who lives in Germany, wrote on Facebook:

“In the garden of the Vatican, the Muslim cleric finishes his prayer with the verse from the Quran: ‘May Allah give us victory over the disbelieving people’. This is what I call a prayer for peace.

Since Hamed Abdel-Samad speaks Arabic fluently, he had recognized that the Imam had quoted the last three verses from Sura 2.

On June 10, Bernd Hagenkord, head of the German section of Radio Vatican, published an article in which he contradicts the claim: “No, during the prayers for peace the Quran hasn’t been recited requesting to destroy the unbelievers. […] What a source of unbelievable stuff the internet is.”

In some way he couldn’t know better. Hagenkord attached all prayers (in English) that were handed in to his article. The Imam simply changed the programme.

When two readers put the translated verses into the comment section, Bernd Hagenkord answered: “Colleagues told us that the translation circulating the internet and this comment section is the harshest and not common at all.”

Not common at all?

Both translations were of the very same wording, so I had an Idea – and I was right. Both commentators had used the translation from the Central Council for Muslims in Germany

For the ones of you who speak Arabic, here is the video:

By Carpe Diem

[Editor’s note: I suspect the video below is the prayer the Pope was expecting]

[Gates of Vienna has this article on this event as well.]

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5 Replies to “Vatican: Imam prays for victory over the disbelieving people”

  1. Allah gave Muslims ”al-Rum” and made most of the catholics AND the pope braindead.

    Apparently.

    Anyways, being a catholic in this day-and-age must really suck, huh? The pope is nothing short of an anti-pope and most of the catholics are, well.. sheep. Doh.

  2. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. II, Q. 12, A. 1, Obj. 2: “… if anyone were to… worship at the tomb of Mahomet, he would be deemed an apostate.”

    Do you guys think he would do it? I dont have any doubts that he would.

  3. “Unbeliever”? It is surely time that we put a stop to this defamation,we are NOT “unbelievers”we just do not accept the unmitigated ,superstitious,primitive,psychosis that masquerades as a “religion”to all homicidal muslim retards,most of us have our own superior form of faith,that does not include murder, violence and the destruction of freedom.

  4. Most important question: Who exactly was this Imam? Name? Was he from the Israeli or “palestinian” delegation? So far dead silence on the web.

    Who is he?

  5. Democracy:

    More to come on that shortly. I have some answers although not to your specific questions.