Dagenmagazinet: "Strong criticism of Kairos-document"
This week’s Morgenbladet, a weekly which caters to young urbanites, offers the entire Kairos document. Morgenbladet seems to feel that this document beckons in a new day. Perhaps, Morgenbladet seems to suggest, a new day in which we can all live in peace, regardless of ethnicity and religion? One way to find out is to experiment at someone else’s expense, which is what a depressing lot of Norwegians want to do.
Dagenmagazinet is less enthusiastic, and lets critics point out that the Karios document is a heavily politicized and anti-Israel document.
As Ny Tid points out however, the Norwegian Palestine Committee is happy about the Kairos document. It is scarcely more than a year now that Line Khateeb of the Palestine Committee told prestigious Dagens Næringsliv about how Christians and Muslims live like brethren in Palesine, often visiting each other in order to exchange gifts. In the very same interview she also suggested that Israel’s increasing traffic mortality rate is caused by the psychological distress of occupying someone else’s country. Anything goes.
One day Norwegian Bishops will stand up, act like men, and insist that Saudi-Arabia grant christians full rights. Until then, they are easily recognizable for what they are.
skam mange norske!
du vil snart bli knust av arabiske tilnærming det!!!!!!
Does that mean what I think?
Well, it is an act of bias to criticize A but not B, C and D when B, C, and D is doing more of it. Norwegian Bishops are not intentionally anti-Semitic, but the consequences of their politics are.
Actually, the Kairos document was NOT prepared by Christian Palestinian LEADERS, it was made to look like it was signed by the heads of Churches in Jerusalem, while in fact those heads made a written statement four days AFTER the publication of the document.
It was this signed statement that appears before the actual text. The fact that it is signed by all heads of Churches gives the impression that those heads approve of the document itself. The paragraph in fact states only that ‘we have heard the cry of our children’, a sort of covering the bases, but it does not refer to anything in the text of the Kairos document itself. The people who prepared the document are all ex-Church officials, who do not hold any leading pastoral positions. But oh, what a PR trick!