Posted on 09/18/2006 3:50:10 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
SYDNEY'S Catholic Archbishop has hit out at Muslims protesting over comments by the Pope, saying their reaction shows the link in Islam between religion and violence.
Cardinal George Pell has also labelled the response of some Australian Muslim leaders to the issue as "unhelpful".
A wave of protest has erupted among Muslims across the globe after comments by Pope Benedict XVI, in which he quoted an obscure medieval text that criticised some teachings of the Prophet Mohammed as "evil and inhuman".
The Pope has since said he is "deeply sorry" for the outrage sparked by his remarks and stressed they do not reflect his personal opinion.
But Cardinal Pell today backed Pope Benedict, saying the violent reaction to his comments on Islam and violence illustrated his fears.
"The violent reactions in many parts of the Islamic world justified one of Pope Benedict's main fears," Cardinal Pell said in a statement.
"They showed the link for many Islamists between religion and violence, their refusal to respond to criticism with rational arguments, but only with demonstrations, threats and actual violence.
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When the time comes, Cardinal Pell would be a magnificent Pope!
we need a massive infusion of Australian DNA into our political system -- stat!!!
Tell them, your grace!
"Unhelpful" is a great adjective. "Counterproductive" and "contraindicated" can't be far behind!
Which Pope is that - the one who said the thing, or the one who backed down and sort-of apologized, and disclaimed the words?
Read what Benedict said.
Thankfully the Pope did not apologize for speaking the Truth.
Moderate Muslim Sighting - On Fox n Friends First, Imam Shamsi Ali of the NY Islamic Cultural Center decried the recent violence as an inappropriate response to the Pope's remarks. Steve Doocy offered that the violent reaction of Muslims around the world, "essentially proved the Pope's point."
The Islamics wont be happy until they have pushed the world into a Holy War. I think they are getting pretty close.
In America the ACLU has evidently seen this coming and has tried to help the Islamics by destroying Christianity.
When the war starts we need to remember that all enemies arent in the Middle East.
And not what the MSM claims he said, and what the reporters' paraphrases said ...
Try to find any of the Pope's exact words (hard) and then try to find them in complete sentences, in the context of paragraphs (practically impossible unless you read Italian).
This is purely a media-created "crisis," and they're going to do their best to keep it going. "Pope Insults Islam!" was Part One, to get the Moslems rioting, and now "Pope Retracts Statements!" is Part Two, to get the Christians (and/or anti-Moslems) annoyed.
He should immediately go into hiding if he values his head!
The Australians, at all levels of their government and organizations, are showing more balls about standing up to the Religion of Perpetual Outrage than most of our so-called "conservative" leaders here in the States. And I, for one, am very heartened to see that at least SOMEBODY in this world is willing to do it! Especially in a country whose press is even further to the left than ours.
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Okay, which is it? Are his remarks inspired by (a) hatred of Islam, (b) ignorance of Islam, or (c) Zionist conspirators? Gotta be one of them.
Will any of the "spontaneous" demonstrators even know he said this? Will the imams in the mosques that IMO inflamed the demonstrators and vandals with selected passages of Benedict's words call them now to reflection? Stay tuned . . . probably for jihad called against Pell.
I agree - Pell has been very a forthright leader and seems to be a very learned man. I don't know if an Aussie has any chance of being pope, but here's hoping! Actually, I'm hoping first for many years for BXVI.
The current fracas in Muzzieland has little to do with the Pope or even Catholicism - it has to do with the Pope having held up a mirror to the Muslims and they didn't like what they saw . . . . . . . . . so, their vision of themselves is the Pope's fault.
Muslims have discovered, in today's PC world, that if they don't like something that someone does or says about them and they get about 20 of them together for a display of violence, they can usually get the person to back down and apologize.
Salmon Rushdie never apologized and he's still breathing. George Bush hasn't apologized for freeing 50 million Muzzies and they haven't touched him, either.
If the Muzzies don't like the view of themselves as others have seen them throughout their miserable history - maybe the so-called "moderates" need to do something about regaining control of their "religion" (death cult), and reforming it. Currently, "Islam" and "Muslim" are simply synonyms for "soulless mass murderer"!
Fabulous! To not respond is to reinforce the muslim denial and victimhood.
When Benedict goes to his heavenly reward (hopefully many years away), the Church will still need strong leadership (hey, Christianity will need strong leadership!).
The former footballer from DownUnder is young and strong enough to provide it.
good Lord! a clergyman who tells it like it is! How refreshing! too bad the pope feels the need to apologize for the truth...
He didn't apologize for the truth. He said he deeply regretted the moozie reaction. Quite a difference, I reckon!
I've always thought he was fantastic. From your lips to God's ear!
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