africawinsagain...
Posted on 05/05/2007 10:45:17 AM PDT by happygrl
HARARE, Zimbabwe - President Robert Mugabe has dismissed criticism from the country’s Catholic bishops as “nonsense” and warned that his government could start treating the clergy as political foes.
In a pastoral letter last month, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference said economic hardship and political repression by Mugabe’s government had led to widespread anger, leaving the nation in “extreme danger.”
In his first public response to the criticism, published by the official Herald newspaper on Friday from an interview he had with London-based New African magazine, Mugabe said the bishops had turned political and warned this was a dangerous path.
“If I had gone to church and the priest had read that so-called pastoral letter, I would have stood up and said nonsense ... the bishops have decided to turn political,” said Mugabe, a Catholic who attends church regularly.
“And once they turn political, we regard them as no longer being spiritual and our relations with them would be conducted as if we are dealing with political entities, and this is quite a dangerous path they have chosen for themselves,” said Mugabe.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Mugabe is taking up the mantle of Idi Amin.
So, he’s threatening to jail them if they keep speaking out.
Yeah, that’ll sure win him friends.
Mugabe is a Catholic who goes to church regularly?
Mugabe is no Catholic. I wouldn’t care if he lived in the church.
Just took a look at the MSNBC slideshow accompanying the article. It takes linguistic gymnastics to portray the whites are colonialistic and repressive, but it can’t explain away how the country has been destroyed since Mugabe took over.
Mugabe the man Jimmy Carter adored.
By the way, I wouldn’t look at the slideshow unless you plan on crying. The picture of the terrier huddled on the murdered farmers body is the saddest thing I’ve seen in a while.
Mugabe is a murdering despot. Zimbabwe has become a sh**hole. South Africa seems to be following suit.
africawinsagain...
Which means they'll be shot or driven out with a vengeance. At least the Priests are speaking out.
Mugabe is a CINO, using any pretense of religion like any good totalitarian uses 'tools' at his disposal. Clearly religion has had no impact on him in any way.
Mugabe likes to use that royal ‘we’ doesn’t he.
It has that "MSNBC" spin alright.
Since 1980, it's been one-step-forward, two-steps-backward for Zimbabwe. But you would not know that from that slideshow, although the video indicates that it will take decades for the country to recover from Mugabe.
I have come to the conclusion that all of Africa needs an exorcism; there is some sort of deep-seated evil there which infests individuals when they assume leadership.
Appreciated.
When Andrew Young was informed of some of the brutality of Mugabe his reply was
“That is not possible, Robert Mugabe is a good Catholic...”
Mugabe is off his head, he has ruined hsi country in the manner of Dictators across the globe, he is fat and happy and his people are straving and desitutite, he has nothing left to steal and give them to placate them.
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