British Religious Leader Rowan Williams Criticizes OBL Killing: The Different Versions of His Killing Don’t Seem to Help (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, May 6, 2011, 5:02 AM
British far left Anglican leader Dr. Rowan Williams criticized the assassination of Osama Bin Laden on Thursday.
“The different versions of events that have emerged in recent days have not done a great deal to help.”
Dr. Rowan Williams said the many versions of the killing don’t seem to help.
The Telegraph reported:
Dr Rowan Williams, spiritual head of the 80-million strong worldwide Anglican Communion, criticised the White House for repeatedly changing its account of the raid on the al-Qaeda leader’s compound in Pakistan.
Killing bin Laden when he was not carrying a weapon meant that justice could not be “seen to be done”, the Archbishop suggested.
But lawyers and senior figures from politics and the military said Dr Williams was not living in “the real world” while relatives of 9/11 victims expressed outrage at his remarks.
A senior Government source described the Archbishop’s comments as “very unwise”, adding: “One has to give some thought for all the unarmed people that bin Laden killed. This was a very silly thing to say.”
Dr Williams’s intervention represents the most outspoken statement so far by a mainstream religious leader since the US Navy Seals team stormed bin Laden’s hideout and killed the world’s most wanted man on Monday.
Nice work bungling the communications, Barack.
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Steve commented:
Anything this gentleman may have to say about anything is moot. Nothing to see here. Move on.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839978,00.html
P. Aaron commented:
Want the truth? Fire the liberals!
Beto commented:
Obama: Last night, we captured The King of The Leprechauns, King Brian.
Press: Sir, did he give you any wishes or gold or secrets to eternal life?
Obama: No, we threw him into the woods according to Leprechaun law.
Press: Why?
Obama: He might have been armed.
Press: Armed with a gun?
Obama: We’re not sure. He might have hidden behind a Fairy with a stick.
Press: A stick?
Obama: Maybe not.
Press: Do you have any photos of this encounter?
Obama: Yes, but we can’t show them to anyone.
Press: Again sir, why?
Obama: We don’t want to stir up the Irish. (does a drinking motion with his hand)
Press: Oh for Christ’s sake!
Obama: He was there too.
Atlanta Media Guy commented:
The progressives are taking over the Anglican church. Been to an Episcopal Church lately? It’s all about social justice to them. I’m an Episcopalian and very disappointed for Rowan. My 12 old asked if we could put Rowan on our prayer list. We did and are actively praying for this Arch Bishop. I find it very troubling….
MAJ Mike commented:
I. DON’T. CARE!!!
These mult-culti types will smile as the dull rusty jihadi sword slowy saws their necks off because they’re sooooo sympathetic to “The Other”. I’d have displayed OBL’s body a la Mussolini, severed his head and left it on a pike in front of Ground Zero until the crows ate its eyeballs.
When you turn the other cheek with jihadis, they take another shot at you. This a war with Islam. Get used to it.
Edouard commented:
Rowan Williams is a dyed-in-the-wool British parlour socialist, and as such is plainly ridiculous. It is a monumental shame that this goof holds the high position he does, with authority over so many Christians. Just as the embarrassing ex-Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, was known as “Red Ken,” you can accurately call this clown Red Rowan. First thing I’d tell Red Rowan would be to shut his silly commie mouth. Second thing I’d tell him would be to trim those crazy eyebrows which are thicker and more sprawling than Nottingham Forest.
bg commented:
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eh, we have celeb Jones, they have celeb Rowan..
what’s that saying about clocks?? /s/
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Marta commented:
The man is a complete embarrassment and the poster child for what’s wrong with organized religion today. Could not care less what he says about anything. As a matter of fact, I’m inclined to reflexively take the opposite view, just as I do with anything Obambi or the MSM says.
vagabond trader commented:
I strongly suspect the archbishop has yodeled the shahada.
bg commented:
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anything outside happening within the Obama matrix?? /s/
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toongoon commented:
#3 Beto commented:
I like your scenario, quick and to the point and no more comprehensive than than normal.
I would to love hear an interview where zero simply answered a question. But, he can’t deliver an answer without convoluting and rambling for five minutes to the point where it doesn’t even matter what the question was in the first place.
Deanna commented:
I have to think that most religious leaders will say something about killing being bad. What else could they say? But this idiot took it a step too far.
squeaky commented:
[Mr Panetta also told the network that the US Navy Seals made the final decision to kill bin Laden rather than the president.] how many of the different versions of what went on have excape exits for the bumbler n’ chief as the world chirps in about whether or not osama was murdered, etc. like watching paint dry – we will see.
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/05/05/is-the-obama-administration-setting-up-to-toss-the-seals-under-the-bus/
Charlie commented:
How many Nobel Peace Prizes has this Archbishop guy won anyway? Obama could win one without even lifting his little finger. That’s the fact Jack!
squeaky commented:
fortunately for williams, he still has the ability to express his opinion rather that those who were the victims of what were osama’s successes.
wow commented:
This isn’t the first time he’s said something stupid. It will be a first when he actually says something interesting. Another parlor socialist. Unfortunately there are many more like him mucking up the works.
donh commented:
Dumbledore is a druid in spiritual brotherhood to Islamic satanists.
squeaky commented:
maybe he can follow in the footsteps of the italian peace activist….all we need is love and all.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/15/3192487.htm
Mike commented:
I think there should be a cage match between Williams eyebrows and John Boltons mustache.
RedBeard commented:
I actually like this. One of their high profile leftist dopes criticizing our high profile leftist dope. Seems fitting whenever two lefties enter the mud rasslin’ pit and start pulling hair.
workingclass artist commented:
meanwhile the exodus from the Church of England continues….
JLawson commented:
I don’t care HOW uncomfortable these folks are with the killing of Bin Laden.
He’s DEAD. He’s not pining for the fjords, he’s assumed sea-bottom temperature and will not be warming up again.
So they can snivel all they want about how we were so mean and cruel and whatever. All their discomfort, meeping, whinging and whining and crying isn’t going to bring him back. He’s DEAD. He’s an EX-TERRORIST. He’s gone and joined the ‘Splody-dopes Eternal, (three times a night, matinees on Saturdays and Sundays…) and found his 72 Virgins were leaky blow-up dolls in a shabby Motel 6.
Good damn riddance.
Vixen commented:
@Mike #19: LOL!!!
@workingclass artist #21: Word.
@Atlanta Media Guy #4: Leave TEC. Now. My family and I left in 2008 and never looked back. TEC has had a troubling history with some leaders being Communist sympathizers or Commies themselves– all in the name of “social justice” of course. Read Paul Kengor’s book “Dupes” sometime. An eye-opener for sure. Also, Google “Emergent Church” or Postmodernism. TEC is infected with this baloney.
For a brilliant skewering of the ABC, check out this blast from the recent past by Iowahawk:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/02/heere-bigynneth.html.
Joanne commented:
Rowan Williams is a disgrace to the faith and Church of England. I would have preferred Osama was taken alive, so he could be tortured to extract any Intelligence, and then fed to the fishies, but Holder would have him tried in a civilian court, so killing him was the best option.
Andreas K. commented:
A German protestant military bishop has done the same.
Several German newspapers have screamed how killing Osama violates international law, the laws of war AND… Osama’s human rights.
A German judge has actually filed a criminal complaint against German chancellor Merkel, because she said she was happy about Osama being killed. The judge believes that such a statement is a criminal offense, based on German law about supporting/approving a criminal action.
kansas commented:
International Laws of War? Does that include murdering 3000 people by crashing airliners into their place of work? Oh yeah, I forgot, Bush and Cheney did that.
workingclass artist commented:
#24
If OBL had been taken alive there would have been endless staged protests and kidnappings ala GAZA until he could be exchanged in a swap….
greenfairie commented:
The Archdruid of Canterbury strikes again.
Thanks, Henry VIII.
GrayRider commented:
Isn’t this Rowan Williams the same loon that surrendered all of England and the Anglican Church to Islam a couple of years ago?
Viv commented:
Rowan Williams is a bearded, sandal wearing leftie. Like most of these so called ‘cerebral’ lefties he is not capable of recognition of the real world.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Killing bin Laden when he was not carrying a weapon meant that justice could not be “seen to be done”, the Archbishop suggested.
All that is needed is to ask one question: “Dr Williams, do you believe that bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of all that died in the WTC attack in 2001?”
AuntieMadder commented:
Dhimmis are like that.