Thursday, January 19, 2006
Former Presbyterian Church (USA) moderator, Fahed Abu-Akel, is interviewed in the latest issue of Presbyterian Outlook. Readers may remember Abu-Akel as one of the front men in the PC(USA)'s divestment efforts (see entries here and here), he was also involved in a controversial incident at Wooster College in early 2004 when he recommended an anti-Semitic speaker, Samir Makhlouf, to give a speech at the college. Here is the story in The Layman Online: PCUSA's choice of anti-Semitic speaker prompts college apology
Readers will not be surprised that Abu-Akel's interview includes a number of canards and will also want to take note of the fact that, even when pressed in two questions to admit that Christians in the Middle East are suffering pressure not just from Israelis and Jews, but from their Muslim neighbors as well, he dodges (more like ignores) the questions.
The interview is here: Former moderator discusses Middle East situation, lead up to 2006 General Assembly
The dodge wasn't missed my one commenter:
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"Reverend Fahed Abu-Akel", huh?
Please forgive my implicit profiling... but I can't help wondering if the gentleman has a personal axe to grind here.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline