Imam’s Prayer at Vatican: Make us Victorious Over the Tribe of Unbelievers
Posted on June 22, 2014 by creeping
via Make us Victorious Over the Tribe of Unbelievers | Gates of Vienna.
As we have reported extensively over the past week, a Muslim imam who was invited to participate in the “prayer for peace” event at the Vatican on June 8 went off-script and asked Allah to help him gain victory over the unbelievers. The Vatican at first denied that any such thing had happened, and an edited video of the event was released that supported their denial — the end of Sura 2 Verse 286 that the imam quoted from the Koran had been judiciously removed from the publicized version.
Below is the full video of the imam’s part of the Vatican ceremony, as provided by an Arabic TV channel. Many thanks to ritamalik for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the editing, subtitling, and general project management.
The translator notes that the personal prayer with which the imam concluded was not the controversial part of the ceremony, since his choice of prayer was generally unexceptional. His quotation of the last verse (286) of Sura 2 of the Quran, however, is what made his words controversial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DNnFQgGY25s#t=2Keep reading for more analysis and the Video transcript.
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/imams-prayer-at-vatican-make-us-victorious-over-the-tribe-of-unbelievers/
