Orianna!
Posted on 09/16/2006 1:19:13 PM PDT by bnelson44
A HARDLINE cleric linked to Somalia's powerful Islamist movement has called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill Pope Benedict XVI for his controversial comments about Islam.
Sheikh Abubukar Hassan Malin urged Muslims to find the pontiff and punish him for insulting the Prophet Mohammed and Allah in a speech that he said was as offensive as author Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
"We urge you Muslims wherever you are to hunt down the Pope for his barbaric statements as you have pursued Salman Rushdie, the enemy of Allah who offended our religion," he said in Friday evening prayers.
"Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim," Malin, a prominent cleric in the Somali capital, told worshippers at a mosque in southern Mogadishu.
"We call on all Islamic Communities across the world to take revenge on the baseless critic called the pope," he said.
Reached by telephone on Saturday, Malin confirmed making the remarks that were echoed in less strident form by other senior clerics in the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS).
Another SICS executive member, Sheikh Ahmed Abdullahi, vented similar anger at the pope's "barbarous criticism" but stopped short of calling for his murder.
"He must apologise because he has offended the most honorable person who ever lived in the world," Abdullahi said.
The German-born leader of the Roman Catholic Church has been condemned in the Muslim world for comments he made at a Tuesday lecture, in which he implicitly denounced links between Islam and violence, particularly with reference to jihad, or "holy war."
The pope also quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed were "evil and inhuman."
Somalia, a Horn of Africa nation of some 10 million mainly moderate Muslims, has been wracked by instability for the past 16 years but has recently seen the rise of fundamentalist Islamists who seized the capital in June.
"Somalia a nation of 10 million mostly moderate muslims..."Wait a minute,isn't that the country where christians are being murdered and enslaved by muslims?I wonder what the authors definition of moderate is?
It's their Clerics, they are evil personified IMO.
ah yes, somalia, the voice of reason...
I hate to say it, but I don't think anything at all would happen to the Muslims, except that the armies of various countries would be called out to guard the mosques for awhile and we'd have a few more "understanding Islam" classes while we buried the Pope. Oh, and we'd flog ourselves for having offended their delicate sensibilities.
Liberals hate the Catholic Church even more than they fear Islam, and most countries are now dominated by liberals. In their governments, at least.
The mohammedans are one major atrocity away from getting the global war they apparently are champing at the bit for.
You know what, when the camel humpers took down the twin towers I didn't show this much outrage. From all appearances these folks have pumped themselves up into a collective demonic posession. Look at them.
What I did have on the evening of 09/11 was a boiling desire to see Islamic Fascism eliminated from the face of the planet and that hasn't changed one bit. To that end, go George Bush and whoever follows him. Stick it to these bastards! Stick it to them hard. Wipe them from the face of the earth, until their friends, families and "UN"-civilization decides to live in peace.
They are way too uptight to live.
They have no clerics. They have neighborhood Godfathers.
Exactly and the NYslimes has the same problem...with not reading that is.
Does seem the same, but they are insame godfathers.
The irony of this whole things is just stunning.
Orianna!
If the Mussies want a religious battle... they have no clue that they'll loose that & the war.
Hey Mussies... don't go away mad, just go away.
I said someone who cannot read rather than using the big word--illiterate--just in case someone from the NYT was reading this thread.
LOL..that's gonna leave a mark.
They really are Godfathers, that's what sheikh means, that's what they call OBL and that's what they call the King of Arabia. Means Graybeard. Any old guy who therefore knows something about something.
Once again we hear from the religion of peace. The non radical had better step up with great speed and get rid of these spokesmen.
Onward Christian Soldiers. Never expected the Pope to take the lead on this one. I am glad he did.
LBT
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'Moderate' in islam means one hasn't personally strapped on the bomb belt yet.
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