Is not burning effigies of the pope way more insulting than anything the pope may have referred to as a quote?
Or for that matter, burning Christian Churches?
2006-09-18 15:34:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it sure is!
how is it that as a response to a perceived insult Muslims up the stakes more than tenfold?
2006-09-18 15:35:07 · answer #1 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The irony is that the response of these Islamic demonstrators lives up to the passage the Pope quoted. In modern times, their religious beliefs indeed appear to have brought more evil to the world. The combined barbaric actions of the Islamic world in response to any minor criticism, tends to reinforce views that Islam is a religion of violence.
You do not see Christians taking to the streets in America everytime the Ayatollah proclaims the United States as the "Great Satan" or Muslim followers put down my religion. In some respects, my religion is my country, which stands for many good things and which is insulted every day by Islamic demonstrations. I have no recourse, but the world listens and seems to praise their brutal behavior.
I seem to recall the mere use of the word "Crusade" by President Bush was enough to incite violent protest from Islamic hordes, but the word "Jihad", which has come to be synomonous with killing Americans, is uttered everyday by various Muslim leaders and clerics with no protest at all by the media. The world cannot have it both ways. If they keep it up, perhaps they will incite Americans to true violence...in the form of a nuclear Crusade the likes of which the world has never before seen?
2006-09-18 22:40:21 · answer #2 · answered by SkyWayGuy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I pray for God's protection over the Pope and Christians whose lives are in danger from the antichrists.
I pray others will agree with me.
The Pope was just revealing a truth. The truth is hard to accept if one has been brain trained to believe in it's goodness since childhood.
The reaction is just proof of hard hearted people who need the love of God.
2006-09-18 22:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If that's your justification for the pope's speech, I'm afraid you haven't understood how serious it is. At those levels, you don't say things just because. Saying is doing. He meant to hurt the Muslim by what he said. Of course the Muslims are not justified in burning churches, but neither is the pope. Besides, the pope is the authority. Not just one ordinary Christian acting out of rage.
NOTE: I'm editing the word "lame" out of my answer. That was uncalled for.
2006-09-18 22:38:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
as the self proclaimed "religion of peace" they certainly are not doing much to support the claim!
2006-09-18 22:37:36 · answer #5 · answered by Pierre Anzion 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no...totally wrong...do u compare messenger mohammad -peace be with him- with that stupid person who says what bush and blair want him to say..
2006-09-18 22:37:58 · answer #6 · answered by ldl990 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ISLAMICS SUCK !!!
2006-09-18 22:38:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋