...you mean, not taking back what he READ.....Just wondering , the leader of Iran called for the elimination of Jews and there has been no apology....hmmmmmm
for those who act like this is crazy mooslims fighting for God against the Pope. Please review what John Paul II did fighting communism. He almost bankrupted the Catholic Church funding the freedom movements in Poland and other communist countries. That was not a crazy man carrying the banner of Christianity. That was a man fighting for human rights. Now do I think John Paul II to be a great Pope or a Great Catholic no. But please do not equate the leader of the Catholic church with some crazy muslims killing for God and 70 Virgins.
I nominate this for the best damned post of the year!!! EDIT: It would be perfect for a M.O.A.B., the Mother of All Bombs
Doesn't seem like anyone is going to alter your delusions of winners and losers...does it? Imagine a debate, where there were active moderators, who would step in the moment someone used a logical fallacy...eh? Just imagine, as it is not going to happen here... Chit chat is an intellectual wasteland where there are no rules of debate, decorum, or much of anything beyond if enough people complain, the moderators might do something about it....and if you think otherwise, then once again, enjoy your delusions...
I think you may be one of the main reasons it has become an intellectual wasteland because every time you can't respond to a valid point.....you call them a Fascist, KKK,Neo Nazi...whatever....I actually thought you were better then this but your right, i must have been delusional to think that.
Too funny. I am so powerful, I control what happens here, and I am the main reason for what goes on here. People are powerless over what I do, I make them do what they do. ROTFLMAO... Seek professional help for your delusions... p.s. You might want to take your "intellectual honesty" and do something about the constant use of the term "moonbat" to describe anyone who is a liberal or disagrees with the klannish party line... Bwaaahaaahaaahaaaaaaaaaaaa
I hope His Holiness' security detail has been expanded beyond dudes in circus pantaloons carrying spears:
The missing Muslim outcry By Jeff Jacoby Thursday, September 21, 2006 As she lay dying in a Mogadishu hospital, Sister Leonella forgave her killers. She had lived in Africa for almost four decades and could speak fluent Somali, but her last words were murmured in Italian, her mother tongue. "Perdono, perdono," she whispered. I forgive, I forgive. She was 65 and had devoted her life to the care of sick mothers and children. She was on her way to meet three other nuns for lunch on Sunday when two gunmen shot her several times in the back. "Her slaying was not a random attack," the Associated Press reported. It "raised concerns" that she was the latest victim of "growing Islamic radicalism in the country." Raised concerns? Sister Leonella was gunned down less than two days after a prominent Somali cleric had called on Muslims to kill Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks about Islam in a scholarly lecture last week. "We urge you, Muslims, wherever you are to hunt down the pope for his barbaric statements," Sheik Abubukar Hassan Malin had exhorted worshippers during evening prayers at a Mogadishu mosque. "Whoever offends our prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim.â Sister Leonella was not the pope, but she was presumably close enough for purposes of the local jihadis. If it weren't so sickening, it would be farcical: A line in the pope's speech suggests that Islam has a dark history of violence, and offended Muslims vent their displeasure by howling for his death, firebombing churches, and attacking innocent Christians. One of the points Benedict made in his speech at the University of Regensburg was that religious faith untethered by reason can lead to savagery. The mobs denouncing him could hardly have done a better job of proving him right. In his lecture, Benedict quoted the late Byzantine emperor Manuel II, who had condemned Islam's militancy with these words: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." In the ensuing uproar, British Muslims demonstrated outside Westminster Cathedral with signs reading "Pope go to Hell" and "Islam will conquer Rome," while the head of the Society of Muslim Lawyers declared that the pope must be "subject to capital punishment." In Iraq, the radical Mujahideen's Army vowed to "smash the crosses in the house of the dog from Rome" and the Mujahideen Shura Council swore to "continue our jihad and never stop until God avails us to chop your necks." Arsonists in the West Bank set churches on fire, and a group calling itself "The Sword of Islam" opened fire on a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza and issued a warning: "If the pope does not appear on TV and apologize for his comments, we will blow up all of Gaza's churches." In fact, the pope did apologize, more than once. He emphasized that the words he had quoted "do not in any way express my personal thought" and said he was "deeply sorry" that Muslims had taken offense. Whether the studied frenzy will now subside remains to be seen. But it is only a matter of time until the next one erupts. This time it was a 14th-century quote from a Byzantine ruler that set off -- or rather, was exploited by Islamist firebrands to ignite -- the international demonstrations, death threats, and violence. Earlier this year it was cartoons about Mohammed in a Danish newspaper. Last year it was a Newsweek report, later retracted, that a Koran had been desecrated by a US interrogator in Guantanamo. Before that it was Jerry Falwell's comment on "60 Minutes" that Mohammed was a "terrorist." Back in 1989 it was the publication of Salman Rushdie's satirical novel, The Satanic Verses. In every case, the pretext for the Muslim rage was the claim that Islam had been insulted. Freedom of speech was irrelevant: While the rioters and those inciting them routinely insult Christianity, Judaism, and other religions, they demand that no one be allowed to denigrate Islam or its prophet. It is a staggering double standard, and too many in the West seem willing to go along with it. Witness the editorials in US newspapers this week scolding the pope for his speech. Recall the State Department's condemnation of the Danish cartoons last winter. Of course nobody's faith should be gratuitously affronted. But the real insult to Islam is not a line from a papal speech or a cartoon about Mohammed. It is the violence, terror, and bloodshed that Islamist fanatics unleash in the name of their religion -- and the unwillingness of most of the world's Muslims to say or do anything to stop them.