Because my husband and I are still members of the mennonite brethren conference, we receive the MB Herald monthly, which reports on the going-ons regarding MBs. I'm not in favor of many things that are going on at many of the MB seminaries, and so I don't like to have my name attached with being a member anymore. However, we have not yet withdrawn our membership. In the November issue, I was shocked to see a
picture of MCC (mennonite central committee) interim executive director pinning a dove, usually associated with peace or the Holy Spirit, onto the shirt of Iran President Ahmadinejad. If you don't know who Ahmadinejad is, well here are a few things you should know:
- Referring to Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Mr Ahmadinejad said: "As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."
- He said in 2005 that the Holocaust was a "myth"
- Western powers suspect Iran of enriching uranium to build a nuclear weapons capability. Iran says its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.
- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran had reached the significant milestone of 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment. Experts say this could be sufficient to produce enough material for a nuclear bomb within one year, if Iran wanted to do so.
Is a man who wants to wipe Israel off the map, denies the Holocaust, yet says his nuclear programme is "peaceful", someone the MCC should be pinning a
dove on? Is this man peaceful? Does he plan to promote peace? I agree that we are supposed to promote peace. Jesus does say "blessed are the peacemakers", but do we need to go so far as to pin a dove of peace on him?
He hates Israel and the Jews-God's chosen people. What was the MCC thinking when they had a representative pin a dove representing peace on this man, who hates God's chosen people? Was that really necessary?
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