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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?

From a post on freerepublic.com: Iranian hatemonger/Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked fury yesterday by flying Hezbollah’s flag in his parliament building.

Don’t believe I missed this one! This guy is on the verge of becoming next on the list to being at the receiving end of an American Marine’s boot, and he’s pushing buttons? Just doesn’t make sense.

In other news, France is trying to negotiate peace between Hezbollah/Lebanon and Israel…or as I interpret it, trying to dictate who surrenders to who. But that’s a story for another day…

“You wanted an open war, you will have an open war. You don’t know who you are fighting today. You are fighting the children of Mohammed, ali Hassan and Hussein. You chose the war to fight against people who believe in their pride.” - Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah Terror Gang Big Wig

So it begins…

…and will continue on…

…and on…

…til they’re all dead and rotting…and those of us who’d like to remain out of the conflict (alive, that is) are wrought by our own losses.

Targeting civilians under the pretext of fighting terrorism is unacceptable and unjustified. Israeli practices violate international law. - Aboul Gheit, Egyptian Foreign Minister

I happen to agree.

We call on the powers in the region to seek to bring about a de-escalation of the situation. We cannot confuse cause and effect. The starting point is the capture of the Israeli soldiers.

It is important that the government in Lebanon, which is on a peaceful path, should be strengthened, but it must be made clear that the capture [of the soldiers] cannot be tolerated. The attacks did not start from the Israeli side, but from Hezbollah’s side. - Angela Merkel, German Chancellor

Also very true, although I’m sure from an Israeli or Palestinian standpoint, the attacks started long ago, but that is just a small nitpick.

So, neither side can claim innocence, and neither side wishes to give an inch, what must happen to cause the fighting to stop?

Talking doesn’t work; they immediately start in on the hostilities after they finish with the talks. Death doesn’t work; it just causes more death.

World War III will be held in the Middle East, and it isn’t going to be pretty.

In celebration of such a wonderful revelation, I present to you the first ever dual-flag burning to be held on BurntFlag.com: