Apologies? For exposing the hideous nature of Islam? No more apologies. Fourteen centuries of dhimmitude is beyond excessive for such undeserved apologies.
How many Christians as well as Jews and other non-muslims must die at the hands of the demons of Islam before the Catholic Church finds its moral spine?
The post-Vatican II Church is replete with apologies.
Benedict is a man of great courage, as it was Pius XII during the Second World War, but also they have to avoid further bloodshed of Christians living under the menace of the Muslim Scimitar.
Given the tinderbox that was the Muslim world then, as now, it was no surprise that Benedict’s citation of Islam as an example of a religion gone wild touched off the firestorm.
Not only were moderate Muslims offended, but extremists attacked churches in the West Bank, killed an Italian nun in Somalia, and beheaded a priest in Iraq. Benedict’s allies saw those episodes as proving the pope’s point, and they cheered his willingness to “get tough” with Islam. “Benedict the Brave,” the Wall Street Journal called him.