Some news outfit in the Toronto area (Mississauga) is run by a Canadian man who left Lebanon long long time ago (in the 1970s) and hasn't been there since. While his ideas became stuck in the 1970s, Lebanon and the world were evolving. Not only is this Mississauga illuminatus completely out of touch with the reality on the ground in Lebanon, his dementia has grown to the point where he believes himself a saint, a prophet of the Maronite Church with which he has had a few run-ins in the past. The Maronite Church has had so many saints that it is very careful with people like our Mississauga fellow who may one day claim sainthood. Apparently, he believes that only he holds the Truth, the absolute truth. He's written on his site that his followers consider him their "father". Ya haraam. Decades of churning 1970s-vintage religious garbage in isolation may lead to cognitive dissonnance.
The Mississauga outfit that goes by the gandiose title of "Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council" is run by ... only him, Mr. Mississauga. The reason his "council" consists of one man is because his views are stuck in a primitive conception of religion in general, and of his Maronite Catholic persuasion in particular, leaving no room for evolution of ideas or compromise of any kind. And since he runs his "council" by himself, he probably holds meetings with himself, talks a lot to himself, repeats the same religious garbage he grew up with long long time ago. He and his views have not evolved since he came off the boat and landed in Mississauga near Toronto.
Now, his ultra-religiosity (his site is laden with stories of saints and such other poor souls that the church exploits to make money and rercuit more idiots) is a compensatory mechanism. You see, like other religious bigots, he confuses cultural tradition with religion. He finds solace in saying that he is on the side of the religion, but not of the organized church. This is typical of religious escapists who have no answers to the depreciating state of affairs of religions in general. He probably hears about the thousands of sex abuse cases by peophile Catholic priests, inluding the rare case to have come out of Lebanon (Labaki; quickly swept under the rug, of course), but he chooses to ignore them. His ultra-religious ideological fanaticism overrides his own conscience. That is, unfortunately, the case with radical fanatic Christians.
The case with the Catholic Church of East Timor is a case in point: Dozens of priests and bishops have sexually and openly abused girls and boys placed in their care for decades, yet the vast majority of the East Timorese people - a primitively devout Catholic community, not unlike Lebanon's Maronites - brainwashed into abject Catholicism by centuries of Portuguese colonialism - continues to adulate these pedophile priests and bishops as heroes. The Maronite Church of Lebanon, like the East Timorese Catholic Church, is just another primitive Third World religious institution that is unable and unwilling to move into the 21st century. And the LCCC is a shining example of how followers of such churches selectively practice, or say they practice, their religion: A la carte, picking and choosing what suits them, but then ignoring what doesn't.
I just discovered that the Mississauga illuminatus has published one of the articles posted on this blog. That is fine, I reject any copyright or rights to intellectual property. I do not consider myself such a big deal to think that I should protect the diatribes I spew on this blog, regardless of their merit. But then, Mr. Mississauga has artfully mutilated my text by deleting, altering, or substituing what he doesn't like and replacing it with his own words, and posting this "amended" article on his site.
Compare his version of my post "Who are the Christians of Lebanon?"
[https://eliasbejjaninews.com/archives/114600/hanibaal-who-are-the-christians-of-lebanon/]
with my original version
[https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2022/12/who-are-christians-of-lebanon.html]
...and you'll see how he has "fixed" my text to suit his rigid fossilized ideas about religion. He obviously likes the piece, which is why he is willing to publish it. But, like a censor in the Syrian or Iranian dictatorship, he decided to change it to make it fit his own ideological diahrreas. He obviously cannot tolerate any dissent, again like dictators with stiff backward ideas. He could at least add a statement at the top of the article to the effect that he has edited it. But no, he has even added a statement at the bottom that goes like this, "Disclaimer: Views expressed by writers in this section are their own and do not necessarily reflect the LCCC’s point of view". So why change the texts? Why screw up with their content? Out of intellectual jaundice and a propensity to not tolerate difference! He obviously knows he is doing something ethically wrong.
Perhaps, as the saint or holy man he believes himself to be, he is above reproach and his freewheeling approach and his religious mandate - I suspect he speaks so much to God and all his saints that God frequently speaks back to him - give him the right to publish whatever trash he wants.
No comments:
Post a Comment