I’m not much of a Catholic fan either, but…
Comments: 0 - Date: September 20th, 2006 - Categories: Terrorism, Stuff
From an article here:
Careful to say these words were not his own, the pope went to on say that this emperor of Byzantium, Manuel II Paleologus, with “startling brusqueness,” also said: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”
Reminiscent of the violent worldwide reaction by many Muslims to the publication of Danish cartoons that associated Muhammad with violence, more widespread violence erupted in reaction to Benedict’s remarks.
Several Christian churches were attacked by Palestinians angry over the pope’s remarks. The pope was burned in effigy in India. A Muslim cleric in Somalia called on his followers to hunt down and kill the pope. He said anyone who offends Muhammad should be “killed on the spot.” Shortly thereafter, an elderly nun was gunned down in a children’s hospital.
When Salman Rushdie published Satanic Verses, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims to kill the author. The cleric even put a bounty on Rushdie’s head.
Score one dead nun and another huge drop in public opinion for the Muslim faith! Way to go!
How could they not see that they are just proving the pope’s quote, over and over? “You said we’re evil and inhuman, so we’ll kill some people just to prove we really just want to be friends!”
Frankly, I’m convinced that these radical Muslim idiots have somehow found a benefit to being nuked into an extremely large sheet of glass… perhaps they realize that the environmental implications of having a reflective surface of that size upon the Earth will destroy western civilization too, and thus, it is just another (huge scale!) suicide attack?
