Pope Outrages Muslims

Posted on September 15, 2006

We read:

“Pakistan’s legislature unanimously condemned Pope Benedict XVI. Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric demanded an apology. And in Turkey, the ruling party likened the pontiff to Hitler and Mussolini and accused him of reviving the mentality of the Crusades.

Across the Islamic world Friday, Benedict’s remarks on Islam and jihad in a speech in Germany unleashed a torrent of rage that many fear could burst into violent protests like those that followed publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

By citing an obscure Medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam’s founder as “evil and inhuman,” Benedict inflamed Muslim passions and aggravated fears of a new outbreak of anti-Western protests…”

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The Pope has got more courage than most politicians — Australian politicians excepted, of course.

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2 Responses to “Pope Outrages Muslims”

kerwin_brown on September 16th, 2006 2:30 am

I believe they took the Pope out of context. He was addressing the secularism of the West and religious extremism. He probably quoted a Byzantine Emperor in that context. The Byzantine Empire was under attack by Islamist bent on spreading their faith by the sword and it probably gave the Emperor the idea he was dealing with religious extremists. The left would have accused him of being a bigot.
Skul on September 16th, 2006 7:39 am

So they yell and scream and demand the death of anyone that even thinks they’re violent. Yessiree, makes perfectly good sense to this old guy.