Pope's speech sparks Muslim anger (protests erupt in Muslim world)

Telegraph ^ | September 15, 2006 | Damien McElroy

[taxcontrol]

Truth hurts.

[ChristianDefender]

The headchoppers are proving the Pope's point.

A very obvious but ignored fact by most "infidel" leaders and the MSM.. huh ROP.. i'm still waiting for W to retract that ROP statement!

[duckman]

Yep, they look peaceful to me.

[RexBeach]

When you're taking flak, you must be over the target!

[uncbob]

Can't we get the NFL to put teams in these muslim countries so they have something to expend their energy on

Their favorite past time is raising hell in the streets

[delphirogatio]

"...he could have been brave enough to say it personally without quoting a 14th-century Byzantine Christian emperor,” it said."

Ok, so I am thinking that, in a debate of this kind, it's probably not the brightest thing to do, when you highlight that your "religion of peace" has been called on its violence-mongering objective since THE 14th CENTURY. Way to go there, islamofascist!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

In addition to both liberals and Islamofascists being thin-skinned when it comes to criticism, they have two other things in common:

1. they want to destroy America;

2. the both hate the Jews and want Israel to "just go away".

[ChristianDefender]

The doctrine of Islam tells them to do just that.

[uncbob]

The RATS and Islamists sure like to dish it out, but scream and rant when somebody calls them on it.

They do have that in common alright

[tkathy]

Do muslims have any concept at all of how evil and inhuman they are?

[mad puppy]

So.... the various leaders of Islam can rant and rave about American being Satan and lead chats of "death to America", but when the Pope *** QUOTES *** a true, though less than flattering comment about Islam, they say it's divisive and get all insulted?

Sorry, but shut up and quite sniveling.

Free world: we'd better wake up to the threat that is Islam or we will end up enslaved.

[epluribus_2]

The Truth hurts. Ouch.

[Post-Neolithic]

"Do muslims have any concept at all of how evil and inhuman they are?"

They do, they just want to make us think they don't or are not.When was the last time you saw Christians burning,looting and killing innocents when something was said about Christianity?

[knarf]

"It's kind of amusing that when Dubya, Rummy, or Boehner call the leftwing moonbats for what they are, they start foaming at the mouth, just like the Islamofascists do when the Pope does it to them. The RATS and Islamists sure like to dish it out, but scream and rant when somebody calls them on it."

Liberalism really is a mental disorder.

Savage knew it all along ... we should've made glass out of Faluja when we first went in there.

[Chuck Dent]

Ill-slam is the religion of the mentally ill.

Religion merely reflects the people who practice particular faiths. If Islam didn't exist, something else would have been created to assuage/justify deep seated feelings of inferiority & criminal behaviour (ie a philosophy based on the takings of others).

The best thing that will ever happen to the civilized world is when the oil runs out. Since Islamic cultures (with the exception of Turkey) have no economies other than resource extraction (performed by Westerners), no oil=no money=no technology (WMD) in which to bother us. Btw, we'll be able to simply credit their Western bank accounts (where else do you think they store their billions?) as well, thereby depriving them of their assets as a final goodbye.

[mcashman]

"Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death....The decisive statement in this argument against violent conversion is this: not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature.

"The editor, Theodore Khoury, observes: For the emperor, as a Byzantine shaped by Greek philosophy, this statement is self-evident. But for Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality. Here Khoury quotes a work of the noted French Islamist R. Arnaldez, who points out that Ibn Hazn went so far as to state that God is not bound even by his own word, and that nothing would oblige him to reveal the truth to us. Were it [Allah's] will, we would even have to practise idolatry." - From the Pope's speech

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No wonder they are so insulted! Clearly this is not the photo of a person dedicated to reason or to respecting the free will of others. The only question is whether or not we give people like this any kind of power over us.

[MarineDad]

Yes, and they like it.

But they really get their knickers in a twist whenever an infidel knows it, too, and has the wherewithall to actually so it!

Subhuman trash.

[stm]

Yup, not a lot of money to be made shepherding goats and camels.

[tkathy]

What the Christian world needs are some leaders with backbone and courage.....

So far, there hasn't been one single other christian leader with any courage to lead whatsoever.

[mad puppy]

Look at the guy in this picture.

If the best we can do is try to appease this psycho, then frankly, we deserve what we get. If I got that worked up every time the Christian faith was insulted, I'd never get anything else done.