http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/euro_medi_ren/
From a church in Italy!
I'm completely disappointed with this statement.
Posted on 02/14/2006 2:07:23 PM PST by steve-b
The Vatican, commenting on a series of satirical newspaper cartoons that have outraged Muslims, said freedom of expression does not include the right to offend religious sentiments....
The Vatican statement, without getting into the details of the cartoons, said "freedom of thought or expression ... cannot imply a right to offend the religious sentiments of believers," no matter what the religion....
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnews.com ...
TG 4 the 1st amendment.
A Liberal outfit obviously...translation:...."you have right to free speech as long as noone objects to what you say."
Geez, it must be embarassing to be a Catholic.
There are still many of us, though, who have the spirit of the Crusaders in us.
It's not.
Got one over here for you!
From the vatican? Sounds like something broadcast from your local mosque.
One hopes that the German in charge will get the French underlings into line. ;-)
Oh nonsense, reminding people to be polite in regards to certain topics is an abandonment of nothing!
Now, if the Vatican would just call on Islamic leaders to renounce violence, you could certainly accuse them of calling on someone to abandon their principles.
Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, told Vatican Radio that the ongoing demonstrations show how deeply Muslims have been offended by the depictions of their Prophet.By the good Archbishop's own reasoning, he had no right to make a statement that so deeply offends my love and respect for the principle of freedom of speech and thought, and should therefore apologize for and retract it forthwith."We shouldn't diminish the love and respect Muslims have for their prophet Mohammed. This is very important for them and therefore cannot be the object of derision or ridicule," he said.
Equally? So writing/publishing satirical religious cartoons is on equal footing with burning embassies, committing murder, threatening holocausts, etc.?
Wait a minute--that means if I'm offended by this, I'm not supposed to burn down a cathedral?!?
Shoot. All dressed up and nowhere to go.
Indeed. These statements are so steeped in moral-equivalence miasma that they make a modern Unitarian Universalist congregation look like Geneva under the rule of John Calvin.
The Vatican was never very into freedom of expression.
"We shouldn't diminish the love and respect Muslims have for their prophet Mohammed. This is very important for them and therefore cannot be the object of derision or ridicule," he said.
The archbishop added that violent reactions to such offenses are not justified.
This just in Cardinal, Allah's not real. Since your own Bible tells you that there is no other God but the Living, i.e. Biblical God, Allah must be a false god. But hey, far be it for a laymen to tell you what your religious underpinnings are, eh.
Cardinal Achille Silvestrini is either an idiot or insane.
"freedom of expression does not include the right to offend religious sentiments"
Actually, your Holiness (or whomever), it includes exactly that.
To be fair, there's no indication that the Pope himself has endorsed this lunacy. One hopes not.
The Russians couldn't find a home grown hitman that would shoot the Pope. So the had to get a Muslim from Bulgaria.
I can't imagine that Benedict feels any differently than Archbishop Fitzgerald.
Publishing these cartoons was no different than displaying a jar of urine with a crufifix in it: it was meant to demean.
That one can publish something does not mean that one should.
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