Istalia fully agrees with the Jakanian representative. We support the words by Mr Denktas not only because Istalia boast the largest Aurorian population in the world, and my Government cannot fail to represent also its interests being the Government of all the Istalians, but mainly because we cannot accept that such an organization is turned into an organization promoting anti-religious agendas. This time it is the Aurorian Church the "enemy", but who can say if in the future the Ahmadism will become the new target of such initiatives? Or the Yazdism, or the Daenism, and so on.
Regardless of what is the stance on religion of Endralon and its Government, we have to consider the fact that billions of people believe in some sort of religion and adhere to some sort of religious organization and we cannot accept such behavior, only good to ignite further conflict, so disrespectful of the most intimate beliefs of so much people aroud the world. Religions are part of the life of almost all the people of Terra and we cannot ignore this but we shall act with the necessary sensitivity.
But my government is concerned by something probably worst: we cannot ignore the fact that even the current government of Selucia recognized the fact that the previous regime acted with a quite persecutorty stance against the Aurorian Patriarchal Church in order to promote another religion. Even a very leftist and strongly secular (if not pro-atheist) political force like the one currently leading Selucia recognized the need of a totally different course to handle the situation and opposed such promotion of a religion at the expense of another one.
And, finally, we cannot but blame some of the statements made by the Endralonese representative into the SC which looked quite ridiculous: we cannot believe that Endralon's representative really said and really thought that the Aurorian Patriarchal Church asked to its believers "to find and burn the heretics". We are into 49th century for heaven's sakes! It is quite obvious that an excomunication today means that the excommunicated ones are not any more in communion with the APC.
How can we considers such statements? How cannot we consider such statements as lead by some sort of malice? Thus, we wonder if Endralon acted to genuinely solve the issue or if they have been simply led by the same fanatical persecutory stance showed by the Duodecemvires and now by the political party which inherited such fanatical stances, a party which now, without shame and even without trying to hide their extremist and untollerant positions with the excuse to "restore the republic", they are promoting to
openly persecute the Hosians, to adopt a discriminatory policy against them, to deny them even their voting rights, simply asking to "crusch the APC" just because, as underlined by the current leading political force in Selucia, they are the ones these fanatics disagree with.
How cannot we think that maybe the Endralonese Government is an accomplice of those religious fanatics just in order to boast some sort of anti-religious agenda? And thus we cannot fail to express our concerns about Endralon position as member of the SC. The security council simply cannot acting so to fuel what turned out to be a feud between two religions.
And then, we formally demands to the Endralonese Government to show to the international community proof of
their statements about the APC inciting murdering. But we already know, because it is clear, that the Endralonese representative based such statements on a personal interpretation of the word "excommunication" totally disconnected by what really the Canon Law of the APC says about, Canon Law which never mentions a provision for others members of the APC to murder those excommunicated. There is a great difference from murdering a person and excluding him from religious community and religious rituals, there is a great difference from burning heretics and refuse to recognize the validity of the riturals carried out by excommunicated ministries.
My Government is underlining all this not because we are like defendant of the APC but because we question the capacity of Endralon to interpret the laws, national ones, international ones and even internal ones of this or that organization, and thus we are concerned by the fact that such inability could negatively affect the works of the Security Council and undermine the goals for which the SC was created.
Thank you