Posted on 09/17/2006 3:43:16 PM PDT by NYer
Iranian hardline newspapers said there were signs of an Israeli-US plot behind remarks by Pope Benedict XVI that linked Islam to violence and created a wave of anger across the Muslim world.
The daily Jomhuri Islami said Israel and the United States -- the Islamic republic's two arch-enemies -- could have dictated the comments to distract attention from the resistance of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah to Israel's offensive on Lebanon.
"The reality is that if we do not consider Pope Benedict XVI to be ignorant of Islam, then his remarks against Islam are a dictat that the Zionists and the Americans have written (for him) and have submitted to him."
"The American and the Zionist aim is to undermine the glorious triumph of Islam's children of Lebanese Hezbollah, which annulled the undefeatable legend of the Israeli army and foiled the Satanic and colonialist American plot," it said.
Fellow hardline daily Kayhan, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said there were signs of Israeli inteference aimed at creating conflict between Islam and Christianity.
"There are many signs that show that Pope Benedict XVI's remarks regarding the great prophet of Islam are a link in a connected chain of a Zionist-American project," it said.
"The project, which was created and executed by the Zionist minority, aims at creating confrontation between the followers of the two great divine religions."
In a speech in his native Germany on Tuesday, the pope spoke of a link between Islam and jihad, or "holy war", and quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said innovations introduced by the Prophet Mohammed were "evil and inhuman".
The pope on Saturday apologised for causing any offence to Muslims but did not retract his remarks, arguing they had been misinterpreted.
Oy vey!
/sarc
We just need now to know what this latest Goebbels calls himself. It will be no wonder if Iran starts the next war, given how glibly and continuously their press lies to them.
Oh, but wait a minute, our press lies to us too.
But they don't have Rush, Mark, Sean or Ann.
So we're still one up on them.
And we have to keep our powder VERY dry.
The Pope calls Islam violent, and Islam gets violent-A nun murdered and churches burned. Couple that with six muslim bombings in Thailand, and Benedict hits a trifecta. Yet, Benedict is vilified.
"...an Israeli-US plot behind remarks by Pope Benedict XVI that linked Islam to violence..."
islam = violence, death, rape, poverty, destruction, murder, terror, horror, women-chattelling, boy-buggering etc etc etc.
Only one cure for rabies....
As well he should have been. He told the truth about the Religion of Peace, after all! </sarc>
That was the Pope's point as well.
I know it. And Papa needs to say it again and again!
Irans is a waste of time.....we need to NUKE them now before they do the same to us!
Again, oy vey.
I've been trying to find out about this apology but am not having much luck. Did he apologize that his remarks were wrong or did he say he was sorry that his remarks *offended* the muslims? The way I see it, there's a big difference.
His Holiness' apology was for angering the Muslim world. It was not a retraction of what he said. He is very sharp, and it went over most of the Muslim's head.
His apology was directed at their misunderstanding of his remarks. He said nothing wrong; he does not speak in sound bites. The Muslims took his quotation out of context.
The Iranian madmen are still preaching to the Islamic world. Postulating a plot between the US, the Pope, and Israel isn't going to win many converts to their cause, except perhaps in California.
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