Sunday, May 21, 2006

I was outraged seeing the coverage of the new Jubran Khalil Jubran's museum (you know him in US as Kahlil Gibran) in Bshirri, his birthplace. I saw on LBC-TV that the Maronite Patriarch sent his representative to officiate the opening. The Maronite Patriarch? The Maronite Clergy? The same one that was so mocked and attacked by Jubran? Have you read Khalil Al-Kafir in his collection Al-Arwah Al-Mutamarridah (Rebellious Spirits)? The Church would not recognize him for years, and even opposed his burial in Lebanon. Jubran who refused the visit of a Maronite priest while he was lying on his deathbed? Go back and read the issues of Louis Cheikho's Al-Mashriq, and see what Fu'ad Afram Al-Bustani and others wrote about Jubran (you may read excerpts that I cited in his article here). Now they want to appropriate Jubran for themselves? How dare they?