[Dark Skies]

"Behead those who say islam is violent!"

[engrpat]

The beauty of all this is they fail to see how their actions and statements prove the words to be true. Without violence islam is nothing, it is the glue that holds it together.

[right-wingin_It]

The cross will never be destroyed. We had Christian Martyrs long, long, before Islam reared its head.

[WarEagle]

There's one good thing about this contretemps - it draws the lines more clearly.

Every time a Western institution is threatened, the divide becomes wider for those who think about it for longer than 2 minutes or do not have another agenda.

President Bush, PM Howard, and PM Blair get it. So does the Pope. How much more will it take for the rest of the West's leadership wakes up?

[RightWhale]

The Pope says his words, intent were misinterpreted. It seems the misinterpretation is deliberate and that conversation is therefore impossible.

[Republican Wildcat]

They are upset the Pope quoted someone saying Islam is a violent religion, and so they are going to blow people up in protest at the slander.

[Barnacle]

"We will not rest until your thrones and your crosses have been destroyed on your own territory," said the group, which has claimed many attacks against US and government forces in Iraq.

It appears that Benedict has prepared himself for martyrdom. I would hate to see that happen. He is the right man at the right time, and we need him now.

In that awful event, I just hope the Vatican will not be destroyed by a weapon of mass destruction.

If you are a Christian, please pray for the safety of my pope.

[BW2221]

The longer this goes on, the more I think Ann Coulter made sense when she said, "Invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

These people have always been fanatics, but until the modern ear of travel and communications, they were not as great a danger to the rest of the world.

[mware]

This is a best seller in Turkey. A country the Holy Father will be visiting in November.

and guess who they blame for his assassination????...

the Turkish Secret Service, the infamous Masonic lodge P2, and (of course) Opus Dei into his plot line. Inevitably, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, also makes an appearance

[antonia]

"The Religion of Perpetual Outrage"

"If you don't stop calling me violent and blood-thirsty, I'll kill you!"

[Lazamataz]

AN Iraqi armed group has threatened to carry out attacks against Rome and the Vatican in retaliation for Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on Islam, according to a statement posted on the internet today. "We swear that we will destroy their cross in the heart of Rome ... and that their Vatican will be hit and wept over by the Pope," said Jaish al-Mujahideen (the Mujahideen's Army) in the statement, whose authenticity could not be confirmed.

You know, if this keeps up, I might just start doubting that Islam is a Religion of Peace^TM.

[jwalsh07]

They will find it not such an easy task to kill the Pope. Catholics will defend the faith and the Pope. We will not engage in mass killing of Muslims for idiotic speech but neither will we shirk the responsibility to protect the innocent from the whackjobs. As Aquinas said, it is a grave sin to stand by while the innocent are murdered and killing those that would do such things is not only not a sin it is a requirement. Paraphrased of course.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

A little less talk and a lot more action fellas. All of these threats and little or no action is simply boring. The catholics won't do anything about it anyway. What are you waiting for?

[HighlyOpinionated]

I'll repeat what I posted elsewhere:

If Islam and Mohammedanism cannot act reasonably, how can they dialogue their culture and religion with other religions? And as we see, with the assistance of the MSM, Mohammedans are willing to behead and kill those who would say that their religion is violent.

Does the word "reasonability" have no Arabic translation? Apparently so.

[XR7]

Watch the screaming Muslims (all men by the way - women aren't allowed in public) all over the world denouncing the pope for speaking the truth about Islam. Interesting that they are hollering the same phrases as when they cut off innocent journalists' heads. Nuts.

TODAY: Outrage in the Islamic World
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=4B91E72A-19D3-4067-85E1-DCEC5D99CA8C&f=00&fg=copy

[unsycophant]

The fact that the Pope's criticism affects them, discredits their beliefs entirely and only is another example that they are not "religious".