Can you believe these crazy middle easterners reaction to the pope's comments about their history of violence

Question

So how do they react but with VIOLENCE. It's like trying to explain to heroin addict that he has to stop doing drugs. But the drug has consumed their ability to behave responsibly.

Sure the Inquistion has its place in history as going down as one of the most horrific periods in human history. But that was long ago and it was corrected.

We now live in a modern world. If people want to live in the modern, there has to be tolerance. To change is most difficult, that is why it is so scary to imagine that this war in the middle east will last 100 years.

100 years to make generations of a backward society phase out and the new generation realise their father/ancestors were wrong. America is always changing with tolerance. I can't say that for those that react with VIOLENCE.

God Bless America......My home sweet home.

Answer 1

The difference between Islam and Christianity is that for the most part the Christian faith has modernized. when was the last time you heard about a Christian Civil war in a country? How is it that Protestants and Catholics who used to fight and kill each other now live peacefully in harmony. yet in Iraq sunni's and Shiites contiue to car bomb each other. The Islamic faith must modernize and evolve and it has to start with the clerics and Imams.

Answer 2

Any number of comments from right wing talk radio could be lifted out ouf context and have the Middle Easterners talking about what the 'crazy Americans' think.

As far as the European religious wars, it was not just the Inquisition, but also the whole Reformation that had Europeans hacking each other to bits--for several hundred years. *

Then how about one of our religious leaders calling for coverts to assasinate an elected head of state? Consider that one Pat Robertson, host of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez** in the August 22 broadcast of The 700 Club:

ROBERTSON: There was a popular coup that overthrew him [Chavez]. And what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing. And as a result, within about 48 hours that coup was broken; Chavez was back in power, but we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he's going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent.

You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... This is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.

* For anyone uncertain of the European Protestant-Catholic wars, there is an excellent audiocourse called 'Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Rise of Nations'by the Teaching Company on their web

** Chávez was elected President in 1998[4] on promises of aiding Venezuela's poor majority, and was reelected in 2000.

Answer 3

THey always react as fools do THe things the Pope said are really not insulting and he was refering to a meeting between a 14th century Archbishop and a Persian scholar in Constantinople
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/15_09_06_pope.pdf
here is the intire text of the speech.

Answer 4

Well it looks like Islam too a page out of Jewish handbook by demanding some sort of aplogy for a remake that the pope said.
Looks like Anti-Semitism will be rename Anti-Arabictism.

Answer 5

YOUR sweet home America destructed the world, your sweet home America caused disasters and killed people, your sweet home America sent weapons to Israel to help it destruct Lebanon and Palestine, your sweet home America is leading every war in the world.
Your one hundred year old America wants to civilize the old Iraq where was written the first low in the world.
Muslims are over reacting i agree but America is the helper?? i really don't

Answer 6

Hey now, Islam is a PEACEFUL religion! If you don't believe that you'll get you head chopped off! You westerners and your silly prejudgment. It's not our fault that our holy book specifically calls for the death and/or conversion of every non-muslim! Sheesh, cut us some slack!

Answer 7

If people want to live peacefully in modern world why use out dated and callus remarks. If this present pope thought there was buck in in it he be using N word for blacks.

Answer 8

Here is a link to the English translation of the Pope's controversial speech: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

your question starts of well, the follow up makes no sense though

Answer 10

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