Did the pope say some unforgivable thing about the muslim religion? if so, what did he say that`s so unforgiv?

Question

When a person says words the wrong way, or it is taken in the wrong the way, we as Christians are taught that we must forgive that person, and forget about it, because our God is the God of Love and mercy, and He forgives us for our sins,to remember them no more, So why don`t muslims accept apologies, and show kindness, instead of hatred, and killing innocent people who had nothing to do with what the pope said, what kind of religion is that??????

Answer 1

The pope intended no disrespect. He is sorry for the misunderstanding in the talk he recently gave.

It is sad that his apology is not accepted. Ugh! All I can do is keep praying................. :)

Answer 2

1. You have refered to Pope Benedict as: “a person who says words the wrong way”:when the fact is that he knew very well what he was saying and why. A man who organises his own succession to the Papacy with a ruthless purge of potential dissidents and supervises the selection of Cardinals with great care leaves little to chance. .no doubt he knew what he was saying and why.

2. You say regarding the quote “it is taken in the wrong the way”
at a time when the Pope deliberately chooses to insult the Prophet of Islam. What was the purpose of a quote but to endorse that description? This is evident because he did not question it in any way. Till today he did not retract what he said or say he was sorry he uttered what proved to be explosive words.

3. You say “innocent people who had nothing to do with what the pope said,” which means you accept that pope did say something objectionable.

4. You have asked “why don`t muslims accept apologies”

The new Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said the pope's position on Islam is unmistakably in line with Vatican teaching that says the church "esteems" Muslims.
Benedict "thus sincerely regrets that certain passages of his address could have sounded offensive to the sensitivities of the Muslim faithful and should have been interpreted in a manner that in no way corresponds to his intentions," Bertone said in a statement.”

Mohammed Bishr, a senior Muslim Brotherhood member in Egypt, said the statement "was not an apology" but a "pretext that the pope was quoting somebody else as saying so and so."
"We need the pope to admit the big mistake he has committed and then agree on apologizing, because we will not accept others to apologize on his behalf," Bishr said.

Now you got the answer to your question "what kind of religion is that"

Answer 3

He quoted some ancient text about a conversation of a king and some philosopher. Part of the quote included a line that mentioned that Mohamed ordered Muslims to spread their religion by the sword.

In the Koran, it says this.

However, because the Pope quoted it as part of an academic discussion, Muslims are pilaging and burning and rioting and acting violently all over the world.

Today al Qaeda in Iraq said that they will "make people either convert or die by the sword" (exact quote).

But Rosie O'Donell says that Christians are just as dangerous as radical Muslims on the show The View - and the idiot audience clapped for her!

Hmmmm...

Answer 4

It a small group of Muslims.
the same ones that want Israel destroyed
and all Israeli Jews killed
who shot a dutch film maker to death for making a film
who put a death warrant out on solomon rushdie for writing a book.
who make death threats over cartoons
who use nail bombs to kill israel children
So thier response to the pope was to
shoot a nun in the back
and burn down three christian churches
these people are sick

to see the heart of what islam can be read
LOVE POEMS FROM GOD
by ladinsky
It will show you an islam that is full of love and joy and forgiveness
the Sufis are a group of muslims that should be given more attention by the media

http://www.mikeshane.org/rumi/

Answer 5

we Muslims are also taught that we must forgive people, because our God is the God of Love and mercy, and He forgives us for our sins,and I accept his apologies, and ready to show kindness. In fact all people around me are the same. The problem is your CNN will never show me, but will show the punch of idiots who just speak evil and till you those are the muslims. However, please remember that GW Bush who says that he is devinely inspired had already killed thouthands of Muslims (and christians). We never said that christianity is bad. We just think he is a mad guy who happened to be president. Please understand that we also have some mad guys but thanks God, they are not so powerful as that Bush.

Answer 6

loss of life TO THE POPE! merely kidding. he's somewhat form of lovable in a senile way. He repeated some thing a guy mentioned a protracted time in the past approximately Islam being a violent faith. Like, they concept Jesus replaced right into a thorough back then. individually, the Pope lost ME whilst he went to a concentration camp and cried approximately God, like it replaced into His fault stupid people kill one yet another. you will think of a clergyman could supply God greater credit than to continuously tell people who unlucky issues are continuously Gods will?

Answer 7

the pope only quoted someone Else's bad words and for other reasons this time .... But the illiterate and ignorant can't fathom such a thing as a concentration span the length of a paragraph
or more.... that's why there are so damn few of them as compared to the billions that don't react out of misinformation.

Answer 8

Did you actually hear the pope's apology.

He didn't apologise for what he said, he apologised for the way it was understood, which is not an apology.

So, why don't Muslims accept the apology? Because there wasn't one.

Answer 9

The Pope said nothing that wasn't TRUE. Here is an article from Dienekes' blog.

Muslims protesting (surprise, surprise) Pope's remarks

posted by Dienekes on Saturday, September 16, 2006
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Muslim leaders demand apology for Pope's 'medieval' remarks (excerpt):

Pope Benedict XVI was last night facing angry demands from Muslims that he apologise for a speech in which he appeared to condemn the concept of jihad as "unreasonable" and quoted a medieval ruler who said Muhammad's innovations were "evil and inhuman".

Protests swept across the Islamic world and the furore threatened a scheduled visit by the Pope to Turkey.

The Vatican spokesman, Federico Lombardi, told Vatican Radio: "It was certainly not the intention of the Holy Father to undertake a comprehensive study of the jihad and of Muslim ideas on the subject, still less to offend the sensibilities of Muslim faithful."

n Turkey, however, where the Pope is due to visit in November, the deputy leader of the ruling party said Benedict had "a dark mentality that comes from the darkness of the middle ages". Salih Kapusuz added: "He is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini."

Representatives of the two million Turks in Germany, where the comments were made, also expressed deep annoyance. The head of the Turkish community, Kenan Kolat, said they were "very dangerous" and liable to misunderstanding.

In Beirut, Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, one of the world's top Shia Muslim clerics, said: "We demand that [the Pope] apologises personally, and not through [Vatican] sources, to all Muslims for such a wrong interpretation." An influential Iranian cleric branded his remarks "absurd". Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University: "The Pope has insulted Islam." The lower house of Pakistan's parliament unanimously passed a resolution condemning the comments. It said the pontiff should "retract his remarks in the interest of harmony among different religions".

This is the speech that has incited Muslim protests (excerpt):

But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur’an, concerning holy war. Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the “Book” and the “infidels,” he turns to his interlocutor somewhat brusquely with the central question on the relationship between religion and violence in general, in 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.

The emperor goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul.

God is not pleased by blood, and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death....


The decisive statement in this argument against violent conversion is this: not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God's nature. The editor, Theodore Khoury, observes: "For the emperor, as a Byzantine shaped by Greek philosophy, this statement is self-evident. But for Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality." Here Khoury quotes a work of the noted French Islamist R. Arnaldez, who points out that Ibn Hazn went so far as to state that God is not bound even by his own word, and that nothing would oblige him to reveal the truth to us. Were it God's will, we would even have to practice idolatry.

Answer 10

I'm a Muslim. I accepted his apologies. Only those idiot just refused to accept it. Peace and forgiveness is not part of their dictionary. By behaving as such, they are actually endorsing what the Pope had just said. Stupid... damn stupid.