Posted on 11/11/2004 7:16:53 AM PST by SJackson
Oh I can't wait for the responses on this thread, not.
Uncomfortable, cringing, Catholic PING....
In a related story, The Pope gushed at the Socialist defunding of the Catholic church in Spain.
"We sure showed those war mongering Partido Populars" said EL PAPA
In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster...
How is it possible to reflect on Arafat's most enduring legacy -- the rise of modern terrorism -- without recalling the legions of men, women, and children whose lives he and his followers destroyed? If Osama bin Laden were on his deathbed, would we neglect to mention all those he murdered on 9/11?
It would take an encyclopedia to catalog all of the evil Arafat committed. But that is no excuse for not trying to recall at least some of it.
Perhaps his signal contribution to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.
Figures.
To paraphrase InstaPundit, they're not against violence. They're just on the other side.
"That was a great failure and a lot of problems stemmed from that," he said. "He missed his date with history."
You can say that again about Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Castro, ...
Right now, the propaganda is all that Arafat was oh so good. When the whole world figures out that he died from AIDS/HIV and the Arab community absorbs that reality, the shame emanating from that will stink worse and worse. Afafat's death from AIDS will bring him down from the mythic figure he is now in the Arab world.
Fitting that he is probably the most famous figure to die that way.
Who is going to say that he died of aids.
Who is writing dialogue for this poor old man?
Are there muslims working in the Vatican?
Nah, probably a few French Catholic communists.
While, as Christians, we are supposed to love everyone, nowhere in my bible does it state that I must lie to honor the dead. This man was a known terrorist, a killer, and a thief of children's innocense and souls. I pray that he found the Lord in his last hours, but I refuse to believe that the world is not better off without this murderer.
Catholic ping.
Elegy for a Terrorist ping.
Pope John Paul, who last met Arafat in 2001, retreated into private prayer when he was told of the death of the Palestinian leader earlier on Thursday in Paris, a Vatican source said.
The Pope, who made a historic trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2000, sent a message saying he was particularly close to the Palestinian people "in this hour of sadness".
I'll reply to idiotic nonsense after I finish puking!! My God! I hope some mid level Vatican beaurocrat is making this shit up!
I'd hate to estimate how much Ararat's, "Get Out of Hell", Purgatory cost is? Greater than the GDP of the United States?
"Who is writing dialogue for this poor old man?
Are there muslims working in the Vatican? "
How many divisions does the Pope control ?
You think those Swiss guards would be able to really protect anything ?
Unbelieveable.
And other socialist Eurotrash masquerading as Catholics.
The Vatican honoring a terrorist!......Just another example of how the Vatican keeps its' head buried in the sand.
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