BENEDICT XVI BETWEEN CONSTANTINOPLE AND ISTANBUL
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

American Chronicle, CA
Nov 29 2006

When, within a few hours, the Pope will land in Istanbul, he will find
himself for a few days outside Time; the evenly balanced gravitation
of Istanbul and Constantinople will place the Pontiff at a uniquely
equidistant point between Turkey and Europe, Christianity and Islam,
and Orient and Occident. Few moments counted as much as this in the
World History.

Pontiff’s visit is the Terminus Post Quem

Conflicting interests and disastrous policies cultivated and pursued
for hundreds of years by all parts involved, in the past and the
present, have brought the world at the brink of the abyss. Few realize
how close the Mankind has reached to the point of collapse.

>>From ecological disasters caused because of the Industrial
revolution, the emergence of a besotted society of consumers, and the
repeated arms races of all sorts to cultural and educational alienation
of hundreds of millions of people, the Mankind deviated to the utmost
materialism, extreme oppression, and absolute disregard of the Other,
let alone the other’s sensitivities.

Suddenly, the world has become too small to accommodate an
ill-conceived European unification, an American presence in five
continents, two expansionist economies like those of China and
India that are based on extreme and at times inhuman exploitation
of masses without alleviating poverty and misery, plus unjustified
and unsolicited anti-Americanism that emanates from uncultured and
thuggish dictators like the Venezuelan clown, and last but not least,
the hysteria and the hatred directed by the pseudo-Islamic sheikhs
and their millions of followers against all the rest.

And all interconnected and interrelated to an extent that you almost
cannot mend this without deteriorating that. What to do, and where
to start?

Benedict XVI does not represent the Occident!

To some this statement may sound odd and erroneous, but brief thought
is enough to drive us to the conclusion that Benedict XVI does not
and by definition cannot represent the gay couples legalized in
Spain or the accepted adoption of children by them. Furthermore,
Benedict XVI does not represent abortion, pedophilia, and the
ceaselessly increasing consumption of drugs by Western youth. No
one can disagree on this; Benedict XVI and the Roman Catholic Church
do not represent the advanced materialism that invaded the Western
societies, taking all possible forms of existentialism of the Left,
Marxism, anarchism and/or nihilism. Even more so, Benedict XVI does
not represent secretive groups, plots and conspiracies, racism and
anti-Semitism, all the ideological contaminations that brought wars
and disaster to Europe and the world.

Benedict XVI represents, is the only Authority in the West to
represent, Justice, Equity, Humanism, dedication to Spiritual Concern,
and a certain Hope for many.

Benedict XVI represents Jesus, a person highly revered by Muslims,
and adored by Christians. There is no divergence between the Christian
and the Muslim sources about, and references to, Jesus as regards
his Foremost Authority in terms of Justice and Equity.

Representing Jesus’ Legacy – or at least part of it as Muslims
claim that too -, Benedict XVI can truly offer great service to the
confused Mankind of our times, by sticking to the most representative
Criterion for Jesus’ Concept of Justice; he must make it his, apply
it everywhere, and support the approach:

Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.

Representing this sentence, Luke, 20:23-25, bringing forth Justice
in the relations among states and nations, religions and ideologies,
Benedict XVI has a chance to be heard and accepted by a significant
number of Muslims, who know that the Right and the Just is not the
monopoly of those who pray – like the Pharisees of Jesus’ times –
five times per day, but forget to endure self-criticism and rejection
of egoism.

Benedict XVI to vigorously support Turkey’s adhesion to the European
Union

The Pontiff is a Head of State; and as such, he is able to understand
that Vatican’s policies are not situated at the miserable level of
parochial politicians like the former French Prime Minister Alain
Juppe and other lower and lewder fellows of the French Right.

The Pontiff cannot tolerate perverse political interests that would
jeopardize the entire relationship of Christianity with Islam. As
an institution, millennia long Vatican cannot be compared with, and
therefore cannot allow policies corresponding to those of, the French
Fifth Republic (est. 1958). The horizon of the universal Christian –
Muslim relations cannot be damaged at the hands of people like Angela
Merkel, Nicholas Sarkozy, and their likes. Looking at the centuries
ahead, Benedict XVI, although German of origin, cannot take into
consideration the current pocket interests of German employees and
workers.

What could all this miserable microcosm of the European politicians
say, when Benedict XVI stipulates that Ephesus, Smyrna and Thyateira
are as European as Stockholm and Dublin?

What would they answer to the Pontiff stating that Basil of Caesarea
is as European, although Cappadocian, as Mohyieldin Ibn Al Arabi
of Andalusia?

One sentence of the Pontiff can avert a most perilous blockage of the
Turkish candidature at the hands of the Southern Cypriot president
who is known for his long dated hatred of Catholic Christianity.

Benedict XVI to adamantly denounce colonial practices

The possibility to understand is one of the most significant privileges
of the human being. Certainly the Pope understands that the masses
gathered at the Aghia Sophia Museum two days ago do not hate him
personally; they reject the injustices and the crimes carried out by
the French and the British in Algeria, Greece, Egypt, Syria, Arabia
and Mesopotamia.

By denouncing practices that were never accepted by Vatican, the
Pontiff will demonstrate to hundreds of millions of Muslims that he
agrees with them in the Search of Justice, namely that he indirectly
condemns the murderous work of the colonials, and their illegal,
unjust, and ultimately antihuman interference in the lands of the
Ottoman Empire.

The Pontiff understands very well that the manipulation of Christian
populations of the Ottoman Empire by the French, the Russians, and the
British, who mercilessly and cynically abandoned these populations,
after they had first long incited them against their own country,
was a disreputable work for which the absolute condemnation is badly
and urgently needed.

France rather than Turkey stands accused for the murder of hundreds
of thousands of Armenians of Van and of Aramaeans of Julamerg (the
Kutshanus Patriarchate) and Tur Abdin. What does it mean except
dishonesty and duplicity that France is vociferous when it comes
to Armenians killed in WW I, but keeps silent about the parallel
extermination of hundreds of thousands of Aramaeans?

Either all will be denounced or we all will forget it all. The
cynical, unethical and disreputable attitude of thugs like the racist
Kotcharian tyrant of Armenia, and his French presidential friend,
must be castigated in Jesus language and terms.

Only then, the Muslims will be able to repent for their mistakes,
regret for the oppression of millions of Aramaeans and Copts at their
hands, be apologetic for their anti-Semitism, and finally, commonly
with the Roman Pontiff, and all those who seek Justice and Truth on
Earth, contribute to shaping a future faraway from the contamination
of the anticlerical French conspirators.

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, and
Islamologist, Historian, Political Scientist, Dr. Megalommatis, 49,
is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of
encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and
writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages. He refuted Greek
nationalism, supported Martin Bernal’s Black Athena, and rejected the
Greco-Romano-centric version of History. He pleaded for the European
History by J. B. Duroselle, and defended the rights of the Turkish,
Pomak, Macedonian, Vlachian, Arvanitic, Latin Catholic, and Jewish
minorities of Greece, asking for the international recognition of
the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Born Christian Orthodox,
he adhered to Islam when 36, devoted to ideas of Muhyieldin Ibn al
Arabi. Greek citizen of Turkish origin, Prof. Megalommatis studied
and/or worked in Turkey, Greece, France, England, Belgium, Germany,
Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Russia, and carried out research
trips throughout the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and Central
Asia. His career extended from Research & Education, Journalism,
Publications, Photography, and Translation to Website Development,
Human Rights Advocacy, Marketing, Sales & Brokerage. He traveled
in more than 80 countries in 5 continents. He defends the Right
of Aramaeans, Oromos, Berbers, and Beja to National Independence,
demands international recognition for Somaliland, and denounces
Islamic Terrorism.

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