With two unfortunate words, “evil and inhuman”, applied to the prophet Muhammad, Pope Benedict XVI last week in the sleepy confines of a Bavarian university lecture room set back relations with Islam several eras.
The comment has called down the wrath of Muslim extremists and the shocked dismay of Islamic moderates. Threats have been issued not only to the papacy but the entire billion-strong community of Catholics. One popular jihadist website operated from Kuwait declared that Catholics “are doing everything in their power to extinguish the light of God” and called for violent retribution.
John Cornwall, Sunday Times, 9/24/2006
The sentiment in Cornwall's article is rot. But the comment about the website in Kuwait is gob-smacking.
The article itself is a revelation in the perversity of some kind of Western critics of the pope.
2 comments:
There is a post on Father Jake Stops the World commenting on this. It seems Benedict XVI was betrayed by his Vatican translator:
http://frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com/2006/09/not-acting-reasonably-is-contrary-to.html
One of the Google ads with this post tried to convince me that the next and last pope will be a devil impersonating JP II.
Should be entertaining!
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