Iraqis set on fire an effigy of the Pope Benedict XVI and the German national flag during a protest in the southern city of Basra.(AFP/Essam al-Sudani)
An man burns an effigy of Pope Benedict and a German flag during a demonstration in Basra city, south of Iraq September 18, 2006. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)
Iraqis set fire to an effigy of Pope Benedict XVI during a protest in the southern city of Basra.(AFP/Essam Al-Sudani)
Radical Muslims certainly practice their faith in interesting ways, don't they?
Peace, love, and understanding don't seem to be priorities for them. Above all, there appears to be no room for forgiveness.
Islamic extremists aren't letting up, not yet anyway. An Iranian leader is urging the protests to continue.
A Muslim extremist in London openly called for the Pope to be killed.
Anjem Choudary said:
"The Muslims take their religion very seriously and non-Muslims must appreciate that and that must also understand that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the prophet.
"Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment."
"I am here have a peaceful demonstration. But there may be people in Italy or other parts of the world who would carry that out.
"I think that warning needs to be understood by all people who want to insult Islam and want to insult the prophet of Islam."
At that London demonstration, people held placards with messages such as "Behead Those Who Insult Islam," "Pope go to Hell," and "Jesus is the slave of Allah."
That's a tad extreme.
I get the feeling that these Muslims enjoy performing for the cameras almost as much as lib media outlets enjoy putting up the pictures of them displaying their hatred for Pope Benedict.
They need to get a grip. These people are seriously unbalanced.
CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Qaida in Iraq warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that its war against Christianity and the West will go on until Islam takes over the world, and Iran's supreme leader called for more protests over the pontiff's remarks on Islam.
Good grief.
More Pinky and the Brain talk.
The cartoon's famous tagline is: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?" "The same thing we do every night, Pinky: Try to take over the world!"
If Islam's war against the West is going to continue until Muslims take over the world, then it's going to be a very long war.
It's not going to happen.
The radicals really do have a death wish.
Protests broke out in South Asia and Indonesia, with angry Muslims saying Benedict's statement of regret a day earlier did not go far enough. In southern Iraq, demonstrators carrying black flags burned an effigy of the pope.
Islamic leaders around the world issued more condemnations of the pope's comments, but some moderates in the Middle East appeared to be trying to put a damper on the outrage, fearing it could spiral into attacks on Christians in the region.
The moderate Muslims are clueless.
There have already been attacks on Christians. Their fears are realized. It's more than a little late to put a damper on the outrage.
...Roman Catholic leaders stepped forward to defend the pontiff. At an Italian bishops' conference, Cardinal Camillo Ruini underlined the bishops' "total closeness and solidarity to the pope" and said they deplored interpretations of the pope's comments "which attribute to the Holy Father ... errors that he has not committed and aim at attacking his person and his ministry."
Few in the Islamic world were satisfied by Benedict's statement of regret.
"The pope's words have caused a deep wound in the hearts of Muslims that won't heal for a long time, and then only after a clear apology to Muslims," Egypt's religious affairs minister, Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, wrote in a column in the government daily Al-Ahram on Monday.
These protests and the lame statements from officials have really gone over the top.
The Islamic extremists are proving that they are unreasonable and uncivilized, and that's putting it mildly.
Each day that this goes on, the civilized world loses more patience with them and rightly so.
Enough already!
...Al-Qaida in Iraq and its allies said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross," saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose the 'jizya' tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (being killed by) the sword."
Islam forbids drinking alcohol and requires non-Muslims to pay the "jizya" tax, though those who convert are exempt. The tax, sometimes called a head tax, has not been imposed in Muslim nations in about 100 years, though Islamic militant groups have tried to force non-Muslims to pay it on a local level in some countries.
"You infidels and despots, we will continue our jihad (holy war) and never stop until God avails us to chop your necks and raise the fluttering banner of monotheism, when God's rule is established governing all people and nations," said the statement by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups in Iraq.
Another Iraqi extremist group, Ansar al-Sunna, challenged "sleeping Muslims" to prove their manhood by doing something other than "issuing statements or holding demonstrations."
"If the stupid pig is prancing with his blasphemies in his house," the group said in a Web statement, referring to the pope, "then let him wait for the day coming soon when the armies of the religion of right knock on the walls of Rome."
What horrible, inflammatory rhetoric!
These hateful people are the ones who need to apologize, to Pope Benedict and all members of the Catholic Church.
In Iran, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei used the comments to call for protests against the United States. He argued that while the pope may have been deceived into making his remarks, the words give the West an "excuse for suppressing Muslims" by depicting them as terrorists.
"Those who benefit from the pope's comments and drive their own arrogant policies should be targeted with attacks and protests," he said, referring to the United States.
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is an evil man.
He's deliberately twisting the Pope's words as an excuse to justify the unjustifiable.
..."His comments really hurt Muslims all over the world," Umar Nawawi of the radical Islamic Defenders' Front said in Jakarta. "We should remind him not to say such things which can only fuel a holy war."
Islamic countries also asked the U.N. Human Rights Council to examine the question of religious tolerance. Malaysia's foreign minister, Syed Hamid Albar, said Benedict's apology was "inadequate to calm the anger."
WHAT???
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE???
ARE THEY INSANE???
THE RADICAL MUSLIMS HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE FOR ANY OTHER RELIGIONS.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!
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Very strange...
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