[Nachum]

The more threats the Muslims make, the more they prove the Pope's point.

[vpintheak]

Exactly. I hope the unwashed masses get that point through their heads.

[Red Badger]

This may spark a worldwide "insurgency"..........

[the invisib1e hand]

STOP the Presses.

Wait!

"Scathing reaction?" Puh-leeze. They were burning down Amsterdam when those idiotic cartoons were published. These are the people who carried out 9/11. This is nothing.

This isn't a "scathing reaction." Look at the news sources, people! The media is trying to get it going. Geez, sometimes I think they are the real enemy.

[woofer2425]

If the Pope is harmed in any way...it could be the Crusades all over again.

[tiki]

I am going to be praying for him.

[Ebenezer]

"I see this as a wake up call for Christians.["]

No kidding.

[wolf78]

THE Muslim world's scathing reaction to Pope Benedict's comments on Islam...

Journalism at its most idiotic. B16 did not comment on Islam he quoted a 14th century emperor as a historical source. There's a difference, you know...

[RobbyS]

Tey hysterical recation to any perceived insult is alarming. Sooner or later one of these recations will lead to violance of the sort that provokes reaction.

[goldstategop]

Exactly. As I believe I stated on one of other threads this morning, Islam takes everything literally and is incapable of criticism and reflection. This prevents it from achieving spiritual growth. A religion that preaches violence and mass murder have divine sanction is not a religion that will attract a great number of adherents. The Pope's point is valid for all time. The question is not what the Pope said; the question is whether is Islam will change to prove it no longer desires to convert others through force. Indeed, the silence of Muslim clerics here shows us nothing has changed in 1400 years.

(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )

[right-wingin_It]

...At least one Muslim leader, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the chief cleric of New Delhi's historic Jama Masjid, India's largest mosque, extolled Muslims to "respond in a manner which forces the Pope to apologise". He did not elaborate...

[BusterBear]

"...such as [Mohammed's] command to spread by the sword the faith he preached".

But this is absolutely true, as recently illustrated by the case of the two kidnapped reporters who were forced to give up their faith and convert to Islam, under pain of death. I can't help but think that the Pope must have been steamed by that. The Islamists should be lectured on this point; and I don't hear any apologies from them about it, either.

[SHOOT THE MOON bat]

"One has to wonder why the Pope, who is normally so careful about what he says or writes, and has a reputation for extreme care, did not realise the reaction that this could cause," he added.

I guess this guy doesn't really get it. The Holy Father was following the example of Jesus, who went about his life saying the truth with no regard of what would happen to his life. Jesus did not care about the "reaction that this could cause" and neither does the Pope.

[HereInTheHeartland]

We are not violent and we will kill to prove it.

[montag813]