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?

As you can see, the United States is far and away the most burned flag, holding 28% of the top 10 burns…yet just 9% of all burns. What is interesting is that the Hezbollah flag was only put on the site on July 19, but has already accumulated 1360 burns. If prorated out to the length of time that the rest of these countries have been on the site, the Hezbollah flag would have been burned an astonishing 7175 times! Israel, to compare and contrast, fell into 13th place having only 310 burns.

The least burned flag on the site was of the Falkland Islands having only 4 burns during this time period. I suppose they’re too small for anyone to hold a grudge against them?

“What could Lebanon or Hezbollah do against such awesome firepower? God had blessed Pakistan with nuclear capability; therefore, it should play a part in defending the Muslim world. Hezbollah’s and Iran’s leaderships were bold, but they were unable to respond to the attacks of a nuclear Israel. However, by the grace of God, if Pakistan made bold decisions, it could defeat Israel.”

Can you imagine if more of these militant-minded Islamic countries had nuclear capabilities? It’s no doubt they’d rig up some sort of shoulder-launched nuclear contraption–or maybe they’d just hide the warheads in various animal corpses alongside roads. Thankfully that military officer is retired and not making decisions anymore!

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…