Posted on 09/08/2015 5:33:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
Saudi Arabia Bans National Geographic Cover Featuring Pope Francis BY DAVID KENNER
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015. Saudi Arabia Bans National Geographic Cover Featuring Pope Francis Pope Francis has won praise around the world for advancing a more humble, tolerant version of Catholicism, but there’s one country that he evidently hasn’t won over. Saudi Arabia banned the August issue of the National Geographic’s Arabic edition, whose cover featured Francis standing in the Sistine Chapel, due to what the magazine said were “cultural reasons.”
“Dear readers in Saudi Arabia, we apologize that you did not receive August’s magazine,” read a statement published on National Geographic’s Arabic-language Twitter account, from the editor-in-chief, Alsaad Omar al-Menhaly. “According to the distribution company, the magazine was refused entry for cultural reasons.”
The very act of putting the Vicar of Christ on a magazine cover could have been controversial enough for senior officials from a country where mosque and state are closely intertwined. But Saudi censors might have also seen dangerous implications for the Wahhabi state in how National Geographic framed its coverage, as the cover referred to Francis leading a “quiet revolution” to reform the Catholic Church.
An editor’s note published in National Geographic’s Arabic edition in August lauded Pope Francis for moving to revitalize his church by making changes that “will dislodge some of the ingrained principles of the followers of the church.” Its argument, however, went beyond Catholicism: It made the case that religious institutions must adapt to a rapidly changing world. Religious pillars, the article argued, “are only tools aimed at preserving something, and if they are no longer capable of that, they must be altered.”
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Besides, who wears white after Labor Day?
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It is an odd place for a pic of the Pope.
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That’s our ally again!
“Religious pillars, the article argued, “are only tools aimed at preserving something, and if they are no longer capable of that, they must be altered.””
The last pope knew the danger in this logic.
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires...” — Pope Benedict XVI
Most Westerners, especially Germans, have no understanding of Islam and how it behaves where it rules, its true nature or what it means to them.
The irony of it all. The Vatican is urging re-settlement of mostly Muslim refugees while Christians are fleeing Bethlehem.
We should have nuked Riyadh and Mecca 14 years ago. Effing savages
“We should have nuked Riyadh and Mecca 14 years ago. Effing savages”
The times have changed. The muslimes will be using the nuke against the west. The rest will be taken care of by the invading Mediterranean hordes.
This is Neanderthal vs CroMagnon Part Deux. Only this time, ironically, the descendents of Cro-Magnons are the Neanderthals.
Probably because he is a commie.
every time I think “it” cant get any more crazy...:it” does
what If National Geographic photographers re shot the cover photo with Frankie in Street Clothes??
They must have a policy against putting Communists on their magazine covers.
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