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A POPE CAME AND SAW, THEN RETURNED LEAVING HALF OF HIS HEART IN TURKEY... THAT IS ALL... We are sure that we are not able to know what are there in the hearts. Only He is the Knower of the invisible and visible, the Great, the High Exalted. Most of world people especially 90 per cent of the Christian West do not have any clear knowledge about Muslims read and believe the order of Allah in the message in the Glorious Koran, ( Women ): 136. "O ye who believe ! Believe in Allah and His messenger and the Scripture which He Hath revealed aforetime. Whoso disbelieveth in Allah and His angels and His scriptures and His messengers and the Last Day, he verily hath wandered far astray" This means that muslims believe in Jesus Christ and Moses and their messages (scriptures) whatever they revealed from Allah, as Christians and Jews believe them. That is the basic order from Allah for their faith, And they also do not know that how the Glorious Koran inform the muslims for Jesus Christ and Mary in the Chapter (The Family of Imran): 45. (And remember) when the angels said: O Mary ! Lo ! Allah giveth thee tidings of a word from Him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near (unto Allah). 46. He will speak unto mankind in his cradle and in his manhood, and he is the righteous. 47. She said: My Lord ! How can I have a child when no mortal hath touched me? He said: So (it will be). Allah createth what he will. If He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be ! and it is. 48. And He will teach him the Sculpture and wisdom, and Torah and the Gospel. Also in the (Women): 171. O People of the Scripture ! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and the spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not "Three"--- Cease ! (it is) better for you ! --- Allah is only One God. Far is it removed from His Transcendant majesty that he should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah sufficient as Defender. Muslims believe that Mary has been pregnant to Jesus Christ by a miraculously - supernatural mysterious way only Allah knew about. "O Lo ! Thou art able to do all things !" Christians also do not know that what strong extraordinary remarks The Glorious Koran gives Jesus Christ with a very highly distinguished place in its readings. And also Glorious Koran has a special seperate section (Surah 19) under the name of Mary and happily She is also accepted as mother by the muslims. Clergy in Vatican and the churches intentionaly kept the world, the Christian people from the realities of the call of the Islamic message. We are sure that we are not able to know what are there in the hearts. Only He is the Knower of the invisible and visible, the Great, the High Exalted. But what I believed that before coming to Turkey Pope ventured some his life and planned to use misinformation, any opposite reaction against him and prove that how mistaken and dangerous the Islam was to the Christianity world about. But this did not happen. We did not have a second AGCA. Yes Allah changed the evil-doings to well-beings ! Who knows the reality ? We are sure that we are not able to know what are there in the hearts. Only He is the Knower of the invisible and visible, the Great, the High Exalted. * The place where the heart (conducts) leads to ! It is not very easy in the very first place to mean the saying of the Pope 16. Benedict, while leaving our country that: "Half of my heart stayed / left here" At the end of his several days trip he came, did not have chance too intimate / familiar within the people because of tight security measures then Turkey was a highly different country than he accustomed to. I try to understand how Pope leaves half of his heart in this kind of the country Turkey, different in plain words ? Someone gives / to attribute extraordinary negative meanings to these words In his speech to call Istanbul as Constantinople, not to deliver the declaration in Turkish signed with Patriarch, vision against the Laicizm, while in his remaining mostly spend the hours in religious ceremonies, were the events for Pope mostly reacted by someones. Leaving half of his heart here these people connect it to somehow evil aims. But even he is under the clergyman garment the Pope 16 Benedict is also surely a western modern intellectual. The important is what he has read and listened before he set out his trip more than what he accompolished during his stay here. We ought to see how the Pope has been influenced by his familiarization about the country named Turkey; with its history, features, and the people live in. It is obvious that in spite of all efforts shown by the Church today the Christianity is in regression in Europe. Much praised with its wealth, pouring its dreadful richness into the missionary activities even in Africa which aimed to, the Vatican could not increase the interest supposed upon Christianity. In the last five years almost wholly among the Europeans even their state of mind made confused and suspicious by hearing the speeches against Islam within Islamafobia, but the religion is the Islam most rapidly spreading. The last search made by TESEV ( a research NGO in Turkey) showed once more that the Turkish society is engaged and strongly faithful to his religious values. If the findings of this search which realized recently, the Pope 16 Benedict innerly should ponder over the deep precipice between the decrease of Christianity in Europe and liveliness / resurrection of Islam in Turkey. The Vatican is in the center of the great Rome Empire and Istanbul the Pope visits was once at a time center of East Rome. Edward Gibbon, states in his book "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88)" which had the longest sovereignty on the world that the decline of the Rome is upon those four components: 1. To be overloaded more than its military power, 2. Inner moral collapse, 3. The religious conversion, 4. Invading by barbars. Almost whole of these components are related in one way or other with Islam and the muslims. Nowadays the Scotch origin researcher Niall Ferguson finds out right the tesis, Western civilization under the threat of Islam also today, in his book 'The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West' Ferguson also share the idea of Prof. Charles Kupchan, the writer of the book "The End of the American Era" that today USA is the Rome Empire and EU is the East Rome Empire. And the last blow to Rome were by the muslims who advanced from Andalusia to Poitiers near Paris in France. And he sees that the East Rome was demolished by the muslim Turks. What I believe that while in Turkey the mind of Pope was quarrelling among these anxieties. To understand the mental confusion in Europe which has influence on Pope, it will be very enough to look at the Turkey - EU relations: A group of East Rome ( according to Prof. Kupchan EU is East Rome) who leads France are opposing, in initial look a dreadful meaningless manner against the EU membership of Turkey. Today in the global reality, mainly the two view are struggling / arguing. One is the view to see the world is in an endless struggle and argue ground between the faiths / beliefs and not to be defeated by barbars and defence to defeat them... The other view there is no barbar anymore in the ground, so instead of war it is better to come mutual understanding and instead of fighting let's to share, to conclude an alliance. The Pope before he came to Turkey was the supporter / in favour of the very first view. While he was leaving our country he began what I believe to think something different. His heart I hope which he left half of it here will help him to realize and find the truth. We are sure that we are not able to know what are there in the hearts. Only He is the Knower of the invisible and visible, the Great, the High Exalted "VEDI, VIDI" / I CAME, "I SAW, I LEFT HALF OF MY HEART IN TURKEY... THAT IS ALL !" 2006-12-15 14:08:21 Posted by Zeki Kentel (zkentel2001@yahoo.com)

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