He spoke the truth, Islam is violent. Look at their reaction to what he said.
2006-09-24 11:57:00 · 21 answers · asked by Recycled-Goat 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
In my opinion, although what the Pope said was true, he said it in the wrong way to the wrong people.
If you are going to give a constructive criticism to your neighbor (Islam) then you should do it to his face not behind his back.
The Pope's speech used Islam as a bad example of "faith and reason" to a group of Catholics when he probably could have found a better bad example in Catholicism.
Therefore it is appropriate for the Pope to apologize.
With love in Christ.
2006-09-24 17:06:19 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
at first he did no longer ask for forgiveness for asserting the comments. He apologized for the reaction his comments brought about. that may no longer apology to me and that i'm Catholic myself. My mom is Muslim nevertheless and that i take a number of my ideals from Islam considering that could be a non violent and exciting faith in assessment to what the media has fooled many human beings into believing that is not. besides, Benedict could in no way have pronounced those issues i don't be attentive to what become dealing with his suggestions while he did nor do I care. the undeniable fact that he's purely apologizing for offending Muslims and not for asserting them tells me he somewhat does have faith those issues and that i do no longer have faith him one bit. He could in no way have been invited as Pope. He needs to re-examine his holiday to Turkey, if i become the Turkish best Minister i might tell him to stay his at the back of on the Vatican.
2016-10-17 21:58:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is the leader of the Catholic faith and God's voice on Earth (all you hold true in the world, I too will hold true in Heaven), and as such, he should not be apologetic to any other faith or religeon on Earth. In fact, didn't some of his own predecessors demand "heathen blood" in the name of faith (The Inquisition)? Remember when the so-called "religeon of peace" (pfft!) had encroached into western Europe and it was with French steel and Saxon blood which said "No more will we spend unto these taxes from the east by Suleman's forces! Rise Christian Soldier's! Let us take this holy crusade to drive this pox from our lands! (1st Crusade) or how about the freedom of the Holy Lands (3rd and 4th Crusade)? No way should he even entertain any others for his comments, instead, he should DEMAND the same as these criminals who would resurrect this islamic imperialism and call to arms those who follow the faith.
I hope he should have some balls and PUSH BACK!
2006-09-24 12:24:00 · answer #3 · answered by Blue Hyena 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pope is a very shrewd old man He can manage a few camel jockeys with their panties in a bunch.
Plus there are 2 billion Muslims on earth and AlJazier could only find a couple dozen to pay for an anti pope demonstration.
2006-09-24 12:03:50 · answer #4 · answered by Skull&Bones 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish the Pope would have taken a stance against Islam. It is clear by the statements coming from the Vatican that those are not his views. But then again, I dont follow the Pope, dont believe he is Gods representative on this planet (Jesus is) and quite frankly dont care what he does.
2006-09-24 12:01:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What really gets me riled up is that he didn't even say what was attributed to him. It was a quote from the 15th century in a seminary essay. It was totally taken out of context by the time it disseminated to the Muslim world, and we have the result being Muslim leaders comparing the Pope to Hitler and Mussolini. I have one word that keeps coming into my mind when I see the Muslims react this way. Cult.
2006-09-24 12:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by baseballandbbq 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, its ok that he apologized, it was a stupid thing to say in the first place.
Christianity has just as violent a history as Islam does
2006-09-24 12:09:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely he should have apologized.
The Pope was warned before he gave that speech that it was going to be controversial and cause major problems. He knew exactly what he was doing and it was a political setup for him to ignite hostility among the Muslems.
2006-09-24 13:03:47 · answer #8 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he's afraid of what they might do when they've committed so much violence because they didn't like his comment already. I think it doesn't matter whether or not he apologized, they STILL proved him right. Apologizing was maybe trying to curb the violence, which is a good thing, whether or not he meant it.
2006-09-24 12:11:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, i think what he said was the most realistic view ever expressed about Islam. Those guys are evil in every sense of the word.
2006-09-24 12:03:48 · answer #10 · answered by thealternativemind 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋