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.
I think the USDOD can come up with some " crusaders" that would do the job.
Islam - The Religion of Perpetual Outrage
one has hurt my feelings, therefore one must die.
Really, it's worse than that though, some one has hurt the
feelings of a man who died a thousand years ago, therefore
someone must die.
Loony as they come, it wouldn't matter if they were just
waiting for the Raelian space ships to come get them but NOOO, they want to kill us first.
You're thinking of Sudan, that other "moderate" Islamic state nearby to Somalia
LOL...good one!
Could we ever get an IMHO from these people? Don't they realise that every individual in the whole world is entirely free to NOT like, admire or follow Mohammed.
[Liberals hate the Catholic Church even more than they fear Islam, and most countries are now dominated by liberals. In their governments, at least.]
Yep.
The pic is not showing up and I want to see it. Can you fix it?
A "moderate" Muslim is somebody who desires to see the infidels dead, but who does not personally have the balls to actually do anything. Which is why you never see the "moderates" condemning the extremists
Somebody who does not believe in Jihad is not a Muslim at all. He's an apostate, and as such is subject to being killed by the first orthodox Muslim who finds an opportunity to do so
Don't worry about that being misinterpreted. The remark has now been flashed on every screen around the world and put in context. It is part of the packaging of the product. They don't know that it is we who are doing the packaging, they are merely furnishing the styrofoam peanuts.
Enough! Enough I say! This crapola is NOT to be tolerated any longer.
I am SO SICK of these threats from these muslim males.
HEY YOU SICK MUSLIM BASTARDS! You try any such thing and WE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN.
You have effin' been warned, asswipes.
Thanku thanku. No, I am not giving up my day job.
10 million mainly moderate Muslims
It's code. We know quite well what it means.
[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.
NYT "Repoter" to GWB: We're a friendly paper.
GWB: Yeah. Right.
GWB: I'd hate to see an unfriendly paper. (much laughter)
(GWB's press conference 9/15/06.)
Link didn't work. Could you post it for us?
I don't quite understand what you mean.
I do not see how any of this will be resolved in a lasting way without a major world conflict. Unfortunately, much of the public is too busy watching bad TV to pay attention.
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