A couple of days ago an open letter to the American people by Mairead
Maguire showed up on left Internet websites in praise of one Mother
Agnes, a Syrian nun who is supposedly on a peace and reconciliation
mission in the United States. Maguire won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for
her work toward peace in Northern Ireland and her letter is peppered
with references to a number of good souls whose path Mother Agnes is
following.
Like Mahatma Gandhi in India, the Berrigan Brothers in the Peace
Movement and the American Civil Rights Movement show us that the path to
freedom and equality is a peaceful one. This journey of transformation
in the pursuit of peace and justice is a constant challenge to the
entrenched powers which thrive on hatred and war; acting as a constant
challenge to blind prejudice and the lies that are necessary for war.
Maguire has been promoting “peace” in Syria for quite some time now.
MRZine, a website associated with blind obedience to the Iranian and
Syrian dictatorships, posted an article by her in July 2012 that praised
Mother Agnes and others striving to defend a “secular and modern
country”, codewords for Baathist rule. She called attention to “the
thousands of christian refugees, forced to flee their homes by an
imported Islamist extreme,” a phrase ripped from the pages of an
al-Assad speech.
full:
http://louisproyect.org/2013/11/03/mairead-maguire-pacification-activist/
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