“This way we can allow the values we share to shine through.”
New York, September 8 – In what organizers are calling a manifestation of religious tolerance, for the first time a Muslim religious leader will ceremonially introduce a session of the United Nations Security Council, directing the delegates in a joint recitation of passages from Adolph Hitler’s seminal work.
Imam Aryan Babyar, a cleric of Pakistani origin residing in Britain, will conduct a reading of Mein Kampf when the Council meets early next week. He was invited to perform the reading by the French ambassador, François Delattre, who sought to open the session with a nod toward pluralism and tolerance, a subject that has stirred passion in France and the Muslim world in recent weeks over attempts to ban conspicuous Islamic attire in some French municipalities.
Imam Babyar is already the resident convocation leader at the Human Rights Council in Geneva and UNESCO in Paris, where he leads the delegates in recitation of important pieces from the classic works The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and Der Stürmer. Ambassador Delattre heard of Babyar’s inspirational activities and invited him to New York, where he and the other Council delegates hope the readings become a permanent feature of the body’s protocol.
“We’re all excited for this opportunity to showcase acceptance and cooperation,” gushed the ambassador, “and I, personally, feel gratified that even amid the controversy over swimwear, secular values, and the limits of religious expression, we can permit the other values we share to shine through.”
The Imam, for his part, confessed gratitude at the opportunity to share his message in so many important forums. “The world is in deep need of these healing passages,” he observed. “A large number of our troubles can be traced to people ignoring the clear implications of the texts I read with the participants. The various sources I bring to bear, and in which we immerse ourselves together, hoping to make them manifest in the world, have seldom been adhered to with any discipline or consistency. It is only when there is a constant effort to uphold what is in these important books that the world will change radically.”
Pubic awareness of the Imam’s impending convocation has already prompted several schools in the New York area to invite him to address their students, and numerous colleges and universities have issued similar requests to have him preside over events in solidarity with Palestinians and in favor of ostracizing Israel.