Posted on 09/18/2006 9:12:28 AM PDT by Neville72
So the “Religion of Peace” has declared Jihad against the Pope and the Catholic Church because the Pope quoted a 14th century conversation (at a lecture he was giving in his native Germany) between a Christian leader and a Moslem leader during the Crusades and the siege of Constantinople.
The 14th century Christian effectively told his contemporary that Mohammed has brought nothing but pain (evil) to the world by virtue of using war to proselytize Islam.
In response to this statement from the Pope; the “Religion of Peace” has declared war on all-things Catholic. At the very least they DEMAND an apology. At the most, they’ve already begun attacking churches.
And in Somalia, a “model” of Islamic peace, “peaceful” Moslems murdered an Italian Nun in protest.
Remarkably, the Islamists are so ill-informed about religion, that they attacked Greek Orthodox Churches in Gaza and the West Bank.
The fact that these are not Catholic Churches didn’t stop the “Religion of Peace” from firebombing these religious structures.
And you gotta love the Palestinians. It’s not like they don’t have enough misery to worry about without looking for more by firebombing Churches. But I digress.
Isn’t it incredible how these deluded and stupid people so effectively make the case against themselves by their words and deeds.
If you call us violent, we’ll kill you.
If you write a book (Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses) questioning Islam, we’ll kill you.
If you publish satiric cartoons about Mohammed, we’ll kill you.
If you suggest that Mohammed led a war against Christendom in order to expand Islam, we’ll kill you.
If you suggest that TERRORISTS are acting in the name of Islam, and that Islam is responsible for their deeds, we’ll kill you.
I imagine by now that you get the drift.
The “Religion of Peace” will kill you if you dare say anything that even suggests that Islam is anything but the “Religion of Peace”.
For the longest time, the Western World has bent over backwards to accommodate Islam and make excuses for its abhorrent behavior.
Our leaders and intellectuals closed their eyes and pretended that deviant Islamic conduct was more of an aberration amongst the few, rather than a fact amongst the many.
They were wrong then. And they are wrong now.
These same Western apologists for Islam blamed Israel for all things evil in the Middle East. Whatever happened between Islam and the Jewish people was always the fault of the Jewish people.
For that matter; whatever happened between Islam and anyone was in their perverse (Leftist, intellectual and anti-Semitic) minds somehow the fault of Israel and the Jewish people.
President George W Bush’s attempt after 9/11 to convince the American people that Islam is a “Religion of Peace”, and that it has been somehow “high-jacked” by extremists is running very thin.
Islam is many things, few if any of them are any good. But what Islam is absolutely not, is a “Religion of Peace”.
I know of no other significant religion in this day and age that threatens the entire world as does Islam.
Wherever you look on this planet. If there is a failed state, internecine sectarian violence, and TERRORISM, it is more likely than not that the word Islam will somehow be attached to it.
And it’s not now and then. It’s every second of every day.
The Pope’s apology for quoting the truth of what was said some 600 years ago, is indeed a huge mistake. Caving into Islam is nothing short of empowerment to the people who should be the least bit empowered.
If what the Pope said in his German lecture results in armed conflict with Islam, it will not be a battle between Christians and Moslems.
It will be the battle between modern Secular humanity and a disgraced religious cancer that is eating away at the world.
If this is the catalyst that finally ignites the confrontation, so be it, since it is long overdue.
howard@galganov.com
Word History: The French used petard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”
Some have been "unhung," however, like Jake Barnes. It was a rotten way to be wounded.
You don't have to do anything - they already want to kill you.
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Great cartoon. I love it.
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I would pay good money for a beautiful work of art like that.
From Wikipedia on "petard":
The word remains in modern usage in the phrase to be hoisted by one's own petard, which means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall in one's own trap". Shakespeare coined the now proverbial phrase in Hamlet.
In the following passage, the "letters" refer to instructions (written by his uncle Claudius, the King) to be carried sealed to the King of England, by Hamlet, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, the latter being two schoolfellows of Hamlet. The letters, as Hamlet suspects, contain a death warrant against Hamlet, who will later open and modify them to instead request the execution of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Engineer refers to a military engineer.
After modifying the letters Hamlet (rather improbably) escapes the ship and returns to Denmark.
The verb "hoist" is an irregular past tense of the obsolete verb "hoise", meaning "raise" or "lift". The same form is used in "burn" and "burnt".
The phrase is usually misquoted as "see the engineer hoist by his own petard" and is taken to mean "the hangman hanged with his own rope", or, as in Roadrunner cartoons, a rope, put out to catch something, entangles and hangs the one who set the trap, while the audience "sees" (watches) in amusement.
Hamlet's actual meaning is "cause the bomb maker to be blown into the air with his own bomb", metaphorically turning the tables on Claudius, whose messengers are killed instead of Hamlet.
Islam needs to be wiped off the face of the Earth and returned to it's birthplace...HELL!
Infidels are Infidels. Whatever they say they believe in; they don't believe in Allah, and that is reason enough to punish them.
The world is divided into two groups, Muslims and non- Muslims. It is the duty of the Muslims to subjugate, convert, or kill non-believers in Allah; regardless of race ,creed, national origin, occupation, age or gender. - tom
Well, I think I'll paint it anyhow.
My sentiments exactly.
Back then - muslims and Christians both were ready to back up their comments with action!
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