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These crybabies can sat the most hateful stuff about the infidels, but read an unflattering paragraph out of the Book of Hate (Koran) and all hell breaks loose. Pope: Tell em to stick where the sun don't shine!
No Catholic I, but this was not a blunder!
translation: speak the truth about Islam, in even the mildest terms, and the global MSM will join the raving jihad fanatics in trying to beat you into the shadows
Since when is speaking truthfully a 'blunder'?!?!?
The Pope's real message was a nuanced and correct one.
"By unwittingly angering Muslims with his comments on Islam" ... BS. Just as harmless cartoons wre the excuse for Arab muslim outrage, so too the reasoned and truthful questioning of Islam's violence issue.
" Pope Benedict XVI has shown that he has yet to shake off his academic theological roots and master the global media machine with the same deftness as his predecessor."
... who is, who? Bill Clinton?
Only to the Stone-age press is the Truth a Blunder. Next they are going to start calling him a Cowboy. The Pope doesn't answer to Man, he answers to God.
Pray for W and Our Troops
He recalled all the past "blunders" of Il Papa and made sure to list them all. He'll lay in wait for future "blunders" so he can kill the messenger again.
The arrogant fascist Eurotrash responsible for this blog, this title and this article think they know so much more than a Pope.
They deserve to be lined up in front of a blunderbuss.
Leni
The irony is that this sort of Western secularist view is precisely what the Pope was warning against in his now famous speech. A faith which denies man's reason leads to the violence of Islamic fanaticism; while a reason which denies faith and "relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue" with "profoundly religious cultures".
Blunder? No way. Here's what he asked: What good has islam given the world? Can ANYONE find a single gift from islam to the world? If so, please list them.
That was a stupid article!
Well said. Islam has been the enemy of Christendom for 1400 years. It began as a military operation. The West finally beat it back in the 8th century in the middle of France, then at Belgrade, Lepanto, Vienna; and earlier Constantinople survived several sieges before falling in the 15th century. Pray tell, exactly what good and positive thing did it introduce to the world?
What blunder? What he said was right on the mark!
I don't believe the Pope blundered at all, and if the Muslims are mad about it, it just means they understand the threat he poses to them. They have had a cushy time of it in the media up to this point; no one wanted to say anything bad for fear of reprisals. The Pope doesn't care about reprisals. He knows the Truth, and speaks it, as he should.
There is no reason to build a bridge to evil.
Speaking the truth is not a blunder!
It appears that one cannot have an intellectual conversation with the muslim community. Intelligent discourse could lead to needed reform of Islam.
The religion of Islam has had no equivalent to the 21 Ecumenical Councils held by the Catholic Church. Islam is thus stuck in the 7th Century and full of contradictions and inconsistencies in its holy literature.
Muslims in uproar over popes remarks on Islam.
Muslims deplore Pope speech, want apology.
Muslims express fury over popes remarks.
Turkish lawmaker compares pope to Hitler.
Muslims assail popes remarks on Islam.
Pakistan parliament demands Pope retract Islam comments.
Pope branded a medieval crusader in India.
Muslims demand pope apologise for Islam comments.
This AP image is making the rounds.
"How dare you say Muhammad spread his faith by the sword?"
What is the over/under for increased rage after Friday sermons?
BBC;
The head of the Muslim Brotherhood said the Pope's remarks "aroused the anger of the whole Islamic world".
Muslims reacting in anger. How can that be ???
Fox News quotes Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam ;
"Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence".
h/t Polly in the comments
Given that fact that Cardinal Ratzinger pretty much won the papacy with his campaign speech / homily to his predecessor, I highly doubt that he wasn't aware what he's doing, especially post-Jyllands Posten.
And while I have to admit that JPII was a communications genius, his willingness to kiss everyone and everything, including the Qur'an, doesn't necessarily make him right.