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Cairo's al Azhar centre for Islamic learning, a leading authority for Sunni Muslims, and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Arab world's largest group of political Islamists, said Benedict's renewed appeals for dialogue were not enough. "None of what he has said amounts to the clear apology that al Azhar has asked for. It's just a way of avoiding the previous declarations in order to calm the anger," al Azhar spokesman Osama Hassan said .
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
It is true. Try studying your history.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
I dont see Christians rioting. Protest and writing complaints is different from death threats and religous leaders tolerating and encouraging their flock to go around attacking or killing people.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
What do you mean nothing happens. Of course something happened. Muslims are throwing a massive tissy fit because someone was pointing out that Muslims in their history were just as violent and blood thirsty as Christians. perhaps a bit more.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
South Park is on TV here. It is ultra blasphemous towards Christianity. yet its being shown. Ive also seen people on TV mocking or attacking Christian beliefs.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
So far, none of them are in hiding or under police protection. The show did not get shown on BBC. So what? Christians protests reasonably without threating mass murder. So what? There are enough mocking shows to take its place. Look at Monty Python's Life of Brian. or some of the skits on Little Britain.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
Your point is..................
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
Probably because theres enough Muslim butchery of Christians and other infidels going on in Africa that its a bit hard to notice what a few Christians do. 40 people? A minor scuffle compared to the millions of "infidels" in Darfur getting the shaft from Muslims.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
Obviously if you read my post you wouldnt have made a silly comment like that. I stated as much that Christians have been pretty bad. Ive been on the recieving end of some Christian "love". So what? It doesnt means Muslims are any better, more justified, or even rational in their fits and tirades.
A minor scuffle compared to the millions of "infidels"
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
I can show you far many more instances of Muslim unprovoked brutality towards anyone not Muslim. Hell, I witnessed enough in a certain cesspool called Saudi Arabia.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
Never said they werent. The topic here is Muslims throwing a fit about the Popes comments. especially when the Pope was right. islam was violent and confrontational from its birth. Christianity took about 400 years to get there.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
Now this is the funniest thing yet. Everytime I see the media, it always tries and portrays the Muslims as poor victims of intolerance. Instead of showing both sides. Including intolerance from the Muslims themselves.
The meeting, carried live in its entirety by al-Jazeera as well as by Vatican television, was the Pope's latest attempt to draw a line under the fierce controversy that has raged since he quoted a Byzantine emperor describing Islam as "evil and inhuman", and the Prophet Mohamed as favouring conversion by force.
One Vatican expert conceded that the "earthquake" caused by those slighting references had "undoubtedly done damage to the Pope's image and his credibility in some parts of the Muslim world," but said yesterday's speech "will repair the damage and begin healing the wounds".
It was the fourth occasion on which Pope Benedict has attempted to eat his words since the fateful address to professors and students of Regensburg University in Germany a fortnight ago. Those words have became so notorious that yesterday he did not even spell out why he and 40 Muslim delegates - the remainder representing Islamic organisations in Italy - were gathered together in the hall of the Swiss Guards at his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome.
Originally posted by lombozo
I'm a 2nd generation American whose ancestry is 100% Italian. If I got ticked off every time I saw some sort of Italian parody, I'd be in a constant rage. This constant outrage thing is getting quite tired IMHO.
Originally posted by Waiting2awake
Originally posted by lombozo
I'm a 2nd generation American whose ancestry is 100% Italian. If I got ticked off every time I saw some sort of Italian parody, I'd be in a constant rage. This constant outrage thing is getting quite tired IMHO.
I know what you mean. But here is a question for you(and everyone?) what is the lesson "we" can learn from the seemingly childish antics of eastern Muslims?
*I agree that they seem to over react everytime something tangentally comes close to being moderatly offensive - but are "we" in the west under-reacting to what is going on? The rpesident takes rights, and nothing happens, Removes segments of the constitution and nothing happens, declares torture to be OK - and still nothing.... Maybe we can learn something from them?
Originally posted by Waiting2awake
My question(to myself really) was that why would the Pope say that? Surely he, or his handlers knew how it would be received - they chose to leave those quotes in there(Inidently I agree with the quotes, but that is another issue all together LOL) and they had to know what would happen. So why do it? Surely the point could have been made in endless ways that would not upset people already too excitable?
IMHO, if the muslim community does nothing about the atrocities that are committed, then they will be labeled as inhuman.
Frankly, I think the Muslim community should clean up their own back yard. There is a reason why they are perceived the way they are.
The leader of the Archdiocese of Detroit met Thursday with area Muslim leaders as part of an effort to strengthen Catholic-Islamic relations that were strained by Pope Benedict XVI's remarks linking Islam and violence.
Cardinal Adam Maida, leader of nearly 1.3 million Catholics in six counties surrounding Detroit, told reporters that the meeting should not be seen only as a reaction to the pope's remarks earlier this month that angered some in the Islamic world.
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"The hijackers wanted to send a message to Pope Benedict XVI and protest the pope's upcoming visit to Turkey," noted Muftuoglu.
Muftuoglu indicated that as soon as legal procedures are completed in Italy, the THY jet will fly to Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey.
Originally posted by RedGolem
Hijacked plane in Turky may have been a message to the Pope regarding his visit to Turky.
The Italian security official said the hijacker was seeking to have a message delivered to the pope, but said he did not know what it was.
Ekinci had converted to Christianity and was an army deserter and anti-militarist who fled to Albania in 2006, according to the private Dogan news agency and NTV television in Turkey.
Ekinci, 28, sent a letter to Benedict on Aug. 30, asking for help not to return to military service in Turkey, saying he was a Christian, Dogan reported.
Originally posted by Jamuhn
No, it wasn't, it was a Turkish Christian who didn't want to serve in the military.
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Acting on behalf of the International Islamic Front (IIF) for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People, which is headed by Osama bin Laden, the Markaz-ud-Dawa (MUD) of Pakistan, which is the political wing of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), is reported to have issued a Fatwa calling upon the Muslims to kill Pope Benedict XVI for a recent speech of his delivered on September 12,2006, which has been projected as anti-Islam by Al Qaeda and other jihadi terrorist organisations of the world.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in a square in Istanbul Sunday to protest Pope Benedict's visit to Turkey later this week. The protesters say the pope is not welcome, until he properly apologizes for comments made about Islam two months ago. Sabina Castelfranco reports for VOA from Istanbul.
It was the largest anti-pope demonstration so far in Turkey. Pope Benedict begins his four-day pilgrimage in Ankara on Tuesday. But many at Sunday's protest made clear that the pope is not welcome.