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'm not Catholic, my Lutheran ancestors got chased out of Switzerland by Catholics, but, that being said, if they touch the Pope, I have my own jihad in mind.
It's about time someone did. I lost any hope of anyone in our government doing it a long time ago.
They are becoming merchandise. The Natural Selection of bagged spinach.
Uh, no they don't. Neither do they accept that.
Don't forget, in recent years, Mohammadans have tried to kill a Pope at least twice. Though the communists secret services, including the KGB, were behind the failed assassination of Pope John Paul II, it was a Turk who was the hitman. Ramzi Yousef (probably with funding from bin Laden) tried to assassinate the same Pope in 1995 in the Philippines.
*Snicker*
This headline I can believe.
A headline I could never believe would be: Pope Calls for Somali Cleric's Death.
And therein lies the difference between Islam and normalcy.
Thank you for trying Sandy, but it failed again. All I see is a blank frame.
AMEN!! Libs DESPISE Bush because he's a Christian.
Yikes! Thanks for the link.
I take it you are slightly angry.
Don't hold your breath. We are a long way off from the (western) world actually understanding what they are dealing with.
A vast majority of the world is still in the "appeasement" phase
You go swampsniper!
Yep. And everybody on earth gets it. It's over.
I don't think michellemalkin.com allows hotlinks. You should be able to see it individually via one of the links I posted.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.