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>> Heaven forbid the Sovereign should have diplomatic relations with foreign states.<<

What credence should one lend to congratulatory messages from those states where Sharia law prevails and wherein, through the Quran, Christians are considered as "lower than pigs and dogs" and which exhorts its adherents to "kill the unbelievers where you find them"?

I guess he's in a no-win situation, then. If they'd sent him death threats you'd all be pouring scorn on his head because his constant pleas for an end to violence and attempts at peacemaking were not bearing fruit. Instead, they send him congratulations and you still dump on him.

Many Muslims recognize in JPII a true man of God and of peace. Paradoxically, this is why the fundamentalists hate him and want to kill him. They fear him and see him as an obstacle to their violent plans.

JPII is the only voice of sanity at the moment. If we had listened to him, we wouldn't be blundering around in Iraq, trying to bring "democracy" to a people that doesn't want it and helping to turn a country that was at least secular in its outlook into a new Islamic Republic, all the while the country's Christian minority gets persecuted, murdered and exiled.