how do you feel about what tje pope quoted? do you want him dead? i just want your point of view
2006-09-21 22:29:08 · 35 answers · asked by DAZ4518 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
by the way i am not a muslim!
2006-09-21 22:44:31 · update #1
he should tink before he speaks. he's like the most powerful person in his religion, he should know better than to insult other religion!
2006-09-21 22:57:51 · answer #1 · answered by keira 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a British Muslim and I have read through a transcript of the popes speech in Germany.
Firstly, I feel the choice he made when selecting a quote stupid choice at best. When addressing a christian crowd (as he is the leader of the Cristian community) why would he bring another religion in to it? In my opinion it was totally uncalled for. He aught to have used a quote describing the crusades if he wanted to make a point about the link between religion and violence. Does he forget the fact that it was the catholic church that declared war on Islam centuries ago in the Iberian peninsula and Sicily, with Mass expulsions, killings, forced conversions and a vicious inquisition to police the cleansed Europe and the reformist protestant enemy?
A serious state of hypocrisy, this doesn't deserve death. Why should we condemn the living to death when we can not give the dead life?
I would just like to say I was very fond of Pope John Paul II. He spent the best part of his life building bridges between people of different cultures and religious beliefs, and this Pope has destroyed all that in the time it takes for me to peel an orange.
2006-09-21 23:07:10 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Slug 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The pope was being dishonest by hiding behind quotations and just displaying his (apparant) ignorance about islam, its history and the last of the prophets. He did not apologise and only said sorry for the understandable reaction to his speech (another insult!). What religion would consider itself or its leaders to be "evil" (except for satanists)?
He was either being extremely stupid or wanted to engineer a religious conflict in the wake of the military invasion of muslim lands.
I don't think muslims expect him to change his faith but he could at least be honest and historically accurate.
The media hysteria was, as usual, hyped up in the familiar vitriolic way. A few misguided (or stage-managed) individuals burning an efigy does not represent accurately the views of a billion others.
If he was openly advocating another "crusade" or spanish inquisition against the muslims, then this would be similar to encouraging the murder or forced conversion of muslims.
Muslims don't need to wish him dead. Sooner or later, we will all die eventually and discover who was right or wrong. They can follow the example of the last prophet and pray for his guidance.
2006-09-21 23:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by Nothing to say? 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, I'm not a mohommedan but here's another take on the subject.
the historians have established that mohommedanism WAS spread by violence and hatred in the early days. So however was xtianity. so, they cancel out. The xtian religion grew up and now abhors violence. Clearly, from the recent troubles, the mohommedan world has not. therefore, while both religions are bad, mohommedanism is by far the worse of the two.
The monotheistic world should perhaps revert to judaism, the only religion to have received the Torah directly from God - in, as they claim, the presence of 600000 (some say 6 million) Jews, or Hebrews as they were then called.
2006-09-22 01:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Muslim and i adored pope John Paul the II as did a lot of Muslim people and countries around the world.
The pope is head of the catholic church and it is his responsibility to bridge differences not create them.
This so called pope destroyed Pope John Paul's work in an instant.
They say the anti Christ will emerge from The Vatican,how true that is starting to seem.
2006-09-22 01:32:44 · answer #5 · answered by Sherzade 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Muslims we are expected to respect all religions and their view on life and religion, but what the Pope said was not only offensive to all Muslims, but also disappointing because he is a respected person all over the world. I don't want him dead, I would just really like him to take back the things he said, because - like I said - it was quite offensive.
2006-09-21 22:35:48 · answer #6 · answered by ingratiating_01 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
wanting someone "dead", looking at a person in "evil" way will sure get you a place in the wrong. Who are we "humans" to judge anyone else. Only "Allah" or what ever name you want give him, is the one to judge. We should "shut up" and get on with our lives.
When will the human race realise that war, anger and evilness has not got anyone into the right path, there is no truth in the world left at all, its all WAR and LIE, for what, purposes of religion, what a shame that the "human race" is thick!
All you hear is muslims this, christians this, jews this and that, hindu the other, why cant we be civilised human beings and respect each others religion and live in harmony and peace.
2006-09-21 23:03:30 · answer #7 · answered by 007HS 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pope quoting an 14 century emperor, that a major religion in the world with millions of followers worldwide, is evil and inhuman and it has not given anything good to humanity is really in poor taste. Anyway, after apologising, I think it is a closed case now. If if he did'nt, I do not want him dead. Why ? After all God is the judge, why are we to bother ?
2006-09-21 23:33:33 · answer #8 · answered by inin 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Considering the atrocities committed by The Catholic Church including members of its own hierarchy abusing, starving, buggering and beating vulnerable children in its care, hiding Nazi gold, having its current Pope elected despite (because?) he was a Nazi in his youth and that's before we look further back at The Inquisition, and what kind of religious order in the 21st century would still claim that women were descended from a rib of Adam when evidence of ape like humans dating back at least a fortnight exist?
Okay, so I'm not a practising Muslim, but I'm not responsible for the moral bankruptcy of The Catholic Church either.
2006-09-21 22:55:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
He,s an old man out of touch with the modern world, maybe he,s senile, but don,t deserve to be punished for what he said, did muslims take it out of context anyway, you prove his point by wanting to kill the man for what he said . Lighten up you muslims and think modern, thoughts. What have the uk to put up with with some of you preaching hate, in the very country you live in. I have respect and tolerence of all religions, the muslim culture should try the same.
2006-09-23 23:06:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Muslim, I don't believe the Pope, I only know of his existence, and that doesn't matter to me, he's just another average Joe to me, and his point of view actually hints me of who he is and how he sees our religion.
HELL YEAAAH!,, I WANNA HIM DEAD! No wonder all Popes travel in bullet-proof cars and heavy protection, because they usually know they will insult and mess with other religions.
2006-09-21 22:33:49 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋