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Protestors Urge Peres Apology for TV Show’s Abuse of Jesus

Protestors Urge Peres Apology for TV Show’s Abuse of Jesus
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Source: Al-Manar TV, 21-02-2009

Dozens of Christians held a demonstration Saturday near Kfar Yasif in the Galilee, to protest a late-night talk show host's comments about their religion, with some demanding an official apology from ‘Israeli' President Shimon Peres.

Lior Shlein was responding to the reinstatement of Bishop Richard Williamson by the Vatican despite his denial of the full extent of the Holocaust. In the program, Shlein sarcastically denied Christian traditions, saying that Mary (pbuh) was no virgin and that Jesus (Prophet Issa pbuh) did not walk on water. The talk- show host said he was doing so as a "lesson" to Christians who deny the Holocaust.

The Vatican was outraged and in a statement, it said that ‘Israeli' authorities had promised to stop any such shows. The Vatican nuncio in ‘Israel' contacted the government after protests from the country's Catholic community about the show on private TV channel 10, and Shlein later issued a formal apology.

However, Christian protestors, residents of the Galilee towns of Judeide, Mayilia, Pasuta, and Kfar Yasif gathered on Saturday to show their objection to the Shlein's remarks. Some held up signs calling the host "scum" and Channel 10 - on which his program airs - "devils".

Protesters said, "We call on Channel 10 not to make do with the hesitant and insincere apology offered by Shlein, apparently at the orders of the producers, and to take the show off the air immediately."

Protestors also called on Shimon Peres to issue a public apology to the Christian faith. The ‘Israeli' president should renounce Shlein's comments and make clear that his views do not represent ‘Israel', they said.

"If an apology is not forthcoming we will ask the Pope, through leaders of the (Christian) community, to reconsider his visit to ‘Israel' in May," one protestor said.


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