The See of Ecumenicalism
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi Arabian, came
from that place in the Middle East where the holiest place in Islam is Mecca,
because of the temple of Abraham, the patriarch of both Judaism and Islam`s Ka`
Ba. As leader of Islam, king Fahd, had assumed the title, `Custodian of the Two
Holy Mosques` which, according to tradition, had been Saladin`s, the Kurdish Moslem
leader, who`d defeated the Christians at the battle of Hattin (1187) to
maintain their control of the city revered by Christianity, Jerusalem, because
it was where Jesus Christ, a Jewish rabbi, had his victory over death: `Love
your neighbor as you love yourself.` (Mk:
12. 31) Jesus had been taken to the hill of Calvary outside Jerusalem by the
soldiers of the Roman Empire then occupying Jewish Palestine, and nailed to a
cross of wood where he died, `Surely, this was the son of God.` (Matt: 27, 54) Subsequently Jesus, known
as `Christ`, because it means `Messiah`, had Resurrection and Ascension to
heaven above, which began the success of the Christian religion that ultimately
deposed the Roman Emperor in Rome and replaced him with a religious leader, the
first of whom was Jesus` disciple, Peter, who held the title, Pope (30 A.D.),
and whose successors would live in the Vatican, a city within a city, in Rome,
Italy, although the Protestant move away from centralization of Christian
authority would eventually result in the see of Christ becoming Ecumenical and effectively
moving to the US` Presidency and the White House on Capitol hill in Washington,
D.C.
The
Christians` tradition was to fight the Moslems, whose leader, Mohamed,
descendant of the second son of Abraham by his wife, Sara`s maid, the Egyptian
woman, Hajer, had accepted the Moslems` holy book, the Koran (610-30 C.E.), from God`s angels. The Koran reveres Jesus, so Christianity`s wars, known as `crusades`,
to capture and keep the holy city, Jerusalem, meant their victories over Islam
were hollow ones. Although the title, `Custodian`, assumed by Saudi Arabia`s
king Fahd in 1986, reflected a belief in a peaceful Moslem union, it derived
rather from a desire to heal the wounds of Islam inflicted by the Ottoman
Turkish Empire of Selim I, who captured the cities of Mecca and Medina in 1517,
and afterwards assumed the title, `Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques` there.
The rulers of the Ottoman Empire, which at its height, included much of the
Middle East, South Eastern Europe, including Greece and the Balkans as far West
as Hungary, and parts of North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt),
remained Custodians until the last Sultan, Mehmed VI (d. 1922). Consequently, when Fahd was instrumental in persuading a
Moslem coalition of nations to militarily support the US against President
Saddam Hussein in the Gulf war (1990-1) to retake Kuwait after the invasion by
his Iraq army, Fahd was in the tradition of a religious leader seeking to heal
Islam, which was again his role when the US invaded Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein
in 2003 after he unwisely evinced support for the Al-Qaeda terrorist group
operating under the auspices of the misogynist Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Ostensibly, the US invaded Iraq because Saddam
Hussein was waging war on the Kurdish peoples within Iraq`s borders, although
the Turks resisted a coup d`état in
July, 2016, before continuing to wage war on the Kurds within their borders by
helping the US against the Iraqi successor to Saddam Hussein, Abu Omar
Al-Baghdadi (d. 2010), who`d
effectively proclaimed a new Islamic Sultanate, the Independent Levant of Iraq
and Syria. In simple terms, Fahd represented the Custodians of peace against
even his fellow countrymen, Osama bin Laden, leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist
group that crashed hijacked civil airliners into the World Trade Centre in New
York city, and the west wall of the Defense Department of the Pentagon building
in Arlington, Virginia, on September 11, 2001, and who was killed by US Navy
Seal Team Six on May 2, 2011. Where Fahd represented the custodians of peace, the
Sultanates were division and war. For Islam, which reveres Jesus, the problem
is that, despite the symbolism of a holy Mosque built within the site of the
old Jewish temple in Jerusalem built by Solomon (957 B.C.) and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar
II`s pagan Babylonian Empire (586 B.C.), Christianity continues to wage war,
rather than defend: `Mystery, Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of the
abominations of the Earth.` (Rev: 17.
5) The US use of Turkish airbases to bomb Omar`s Independent Levant (IL)
successor, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi`s Sultanate, while the Turks use the same
airbases to bomb the Kurds, illustrates this.
The
Kurds are the people of Saladin, traditionally credited in Islam as being the
first `Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques`, and although the US gave defense of
the Kurds as the excuse for invading Iraq, trading permission for the Turks to
wage war on the Kurds in order to use Turkish airbases to bomb Abu Bakr Al
Baghdadi`s Sultanate, rather than defend the Kurds after the execution of
Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006, it looks very much like the US, Turkey and
the IL are competing to complete Saddam Hussein`s planned conquest of Saladin`s
Kurds. Especially if Jesus` see is considered to be that of a future custodian
of three holy mosques including the Qubbat Al-Sakhrah, that is, the Dome of the
Rock (691 C.E.), built upon the site of the second temple of the Jews in
Jerusalem by the Moslems after its destruction by the Roman Empire (70 C.E.).
Although the Jews look forward to a third temple, effectively the Moslem`s
mosque is the seat of Jesus` Ecumenical see, because the Moslems revere Jesus.
The mosque stands where the Jewish temple couldn`t; in fulfilment of the Kurd
Saladin`s defense of Jesus` Jerusalem against the Christians at the battle of
Hattin in 1187. The plight of the people of Saladin, that is, the Moslem Kurds
in Islam, is of the defenders of Jesus` see of Ecumenicalism, which seeks to
bring peace amongst the nations, and so defeat the evil, who seek to wage war,
rather than defend against it.