Antiochian Trustee accused of threatening bishop and flock

I won't post the entirety of the article, but the below should give you a sample of the tone and content of the full article (found here and a related post here).

(OCA News) - Questions regarding Walid Khalife have come to the fore, not because of his past, but because of present actions. Khalife has been sending disturbing and threatening emails to Bishop Mark of Toledo, among others, in the wake of the ongoing controversy concerning recent documents posted on the Archdiocesan website.

As a participant in the recent Synodal meeting in Damascus, Khalife has defended the suspicious documents as authentic decisions of the Synod, even after the Patriarchate itself posted the only authentic decision on its own website. On June 23rd, during the height of the document crisis, Khalife wrote to Bishop Mark of Toledo demanding that the Bishop accept the two documents as the authentic texts and post the false documents on his diocesan website. Bishop Mark did not post the false documents - but he did cite one of Khalife’s email in a letter to his clergy. The Bishop wrote:

“Sadly, in the confusion and one of our Board of Trustees members sent me the following message based on the forgery:

“Dear Bishop Mark, Good morning, I am sending you these faxes from the Synodal Resolution in Arabic & English. And as a Bishop you should obey these resolution and not translate them the way you want to do. In fact it is so un-realistic, that you do not know the Arabic language to speak and write the language. I hope you obey the Synodal Resolution as they are on the web site of Archiodese , in English & Arabic. So if you want to put anything on your web site it should be the resolution issued by Igantius IV on June 17, 2009 and nothing else. I hope you obey that resolution of The Holy Synod, i would like to hear your response as a auxillary Bishop on this matter Thank you Walid Khalife”

...Khalife in an email later that same day to Reardon’s Parish Council President, Mr. Stephen Keller:

“Your ignorance and stupidity does not change the facts. I believe that you are not an Antochian Orthodox person to know the facts. The Holy Synod agreed in his 24 th of Februray and affirmed the decision of the Auxillary Bishop on June17th, You are a person that like sto play with the fire and i hope we can settle this issue face to face one day because you dont know who i am and i wont let anybody talk to me and emailing me with that stupid answer. You should go to the shit house and cover yourself with the lies. I have been loyal to my church in Lebanon since i was born and i am since loyal to my church St. George in Troy since i came to this country in the late 70’s and i am still loyal to our Archiodecse and thousand percent loyal to our Met. Philip You and other stop using the internet and be loyal to your faith. One day you are going to see the devil and regret what you have been doing. And you dont know what is devil, i will assure you and make sure you will meet him one day. Walid Khalif.”

...Who Is Walid Khalif?

If Khalife were simply an angry parishioner, such emails would be inappropriate, but little more. But Khalife is an honorary member of the Board of Trustees of the Archdiocese, an intimate of Metropolitan Philip, and someone who has served, on multiple occasions over the past decade, as a representative of the Archdiocese at Synodal meetings. Sources in Damascus recently related to OCANews.org that the recent Synod meeting “quickly went “downhill” as members of the Holy Synod” attempted to express disagreement with Metropolitan Philip’s positions" Furthermore, they reported that “Some of the Arabic-speaking members of the North American “delegation” went so far as to disparage, accuse and even threaten members of the Synod and their flocks.” In the light of Khalife’s recent emails towards an American Bishop, such claims seem less and less extraordinary...

Complete article here.