“We will smash the cross,” it added, and “conquer Rome”.
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Posted on 09/18/2006 2:07:44 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
Despite appeals for calm from Islamic and Western leaders, protests were held from Indonesia to Iraq over the Pope's citing of a medieval text last week that criticised some teachings of the Prophet Mohammed as “evil and inhuman”.
The leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics yesterday said he was “deeply sorry” for the offence caused by his remarks and the Vatican launched a diplomatic offensive to explain to Muslim countries his position on Islam.
Mohammed Habib of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood said they considered the apology a retraction of the Pope's statement, but some Egyptian lawmakers demanded diplomatic ties with the Vatican be suspended.
In Jakarta, some 100 hardliners rallied outside the Holy See's mission in the Indonesian capital, waving a banner depicting the Vatican as an “axis of Satan”.
Some 150 protesters from a youth party marched through the Pakistani Kashmiri capital Muzaffarabad chanting “Death to Pope” and burned him in effigy.
The Pope was also burned in effigy in this southern Iraqi port city where hundreds of Iraqis staged a demonstration today and called for an apology.
The 500 protesters, followers of Ayatollah Mahmud al-Hassani, a mystical Shiite Muslim cleric, also burned German and American flags and called for the Pope to be tried in an international court.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq warned in an internet statement it would wage jihad, or holy war, until the West is defeated.
“We say to the servant of the cross (the Pope): wait for defeat. We say to infidels and tyrants: wait for what will afflict you. We continue our jihad,” said the statement attributed to the Mujahideen consultative council.
“We will smash the cross,” it added, and “conquer Rome”.
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So many Satans, so little time. What's a murderous dirtbag to do?
Yep! Islam, the religion of peace! My a$$!
I'm confused here, who is the crusader if the Muzzies are saying the want to conquer Rome?
They've been looking for an excuse, if the Pope didn't say anything, they'd invent something. They want this war, and they're going to get it, and they will not like the outcome.
We see polls constantly, approval ratings, tracking polls, whatever...
I want to see a poll asking how many Americans (if any) actually still believe Islam to be a religion of peace...
When will the Euro-peons wake up? When the Muslims march them into the "Islamic Infidel Beheading Centers?"
We need to weed all of the crazies in Iran out on the field of battle like the old days.
Prediction: The middle-east phonebooks are gonna' be much thinner in 10 years.
Wait a minute. They complain because the pope quoted a verse that said Mohammed brought violence into Islam's religion, so they get mad and to prove the quote wrong, vow to conquer Rome, call the vatican an axis of satan and promise death and destruction to followers of the cross?
Well now, that proves the quote all wrong, does it not (sarc off).
Sheesh, what numbskulls.
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can't stand that commercial.
...you just can't make this stuff up.
These deluded people are so indoctrinated and steeped in hate, intolerance, and the culture of death that they are blind to how their own actions substantiate everything the 11th century Emperor and today's Pope were referring to.
...and how they serve as a loud beacon and incessant warning to all of the civilized world.
Democrats never answer "Yes" or "No" questions. They always try to qualify an answer without giving one. They have no position on anything except for their hatred of Bush and their lack of political power.
Actually, those places are literally translated into "chop-chop" square.. normally found at the foot of a mosque. In the US, next to Christian churches, you'd more likely find a bake sale.
Oh yea, I see the Christians being far worse then the muslims... Rosie is sooo insightful /sarc
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