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Pakistan’s Parliament Slams Pope Over Islam RemarksPosted on Sep 15, 2006The country’s lawmakers passed a unanimous resolution condemning Pope Benedict XVI and seeking an apology for what they called his “derogatory” comments about Islam.
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By Bob, September 28, 2006 at 12:56 pm #
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Catholics consider their religion the one true one? Well yeah, if they didn’t they wouldn’t bother following it, would they? Most people who follow a religion consider it to be the correct one.
Report thisBut catholics in this day and age don’t go rioting and burning when someone offends them.
By your grave, September 17, 2006 at 8:39 am #
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الله أكبر
for sure: God is Greater than every thing.
A word of truth:
each person of you will depart from this life and die some day,no matter how long he\she will live~in this non lasting life.
know for sure also that the one who created this life can for sure make another(another life which is lasting forever:{muslims already belive in the here after,~ and in that God is the most mercifull and best awarding,also the most Just,and all knowing and most wise,...and in that
he is(meaning God/ Allah)greater than to be seen by our eyes, or imagend by our brains
and also that he is the one and only true creator of all things.
we also belive that if we be punished in the here after;then
Report thiswe be punished because of our sins (bad deeds) and his supreem justice(the just rulings of God), and if we be
awarded to live in real happiness forever in paradise(jannah)then its going to be because of his great kindness, forgivness and mercy
(that was part of the islamic belief in God)
all of this belive in God, and in the here after
(preeched:by the kind caring honest and honorable brave wise messanger of God(the prophet Mohammed(may peace and blessings of God be upon him and upon his great households)
all of this should be a driving force for muslims around the world to be
struguling in their life for doing good deeds and refraining from doing bad deeds}.
By Frankster, September 17, 2006 at 4:35 am #
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Fadel Abdallah, all religions are man-made fictions, including Islam.
Aren’t you ashamed your prophet was a child molester? If Mohammed were alive today, he would be a registered sex offender in the United States.
If Islam is so peaceful and tolerant then why are nearly all terrorist attacks carried out on civilians today committed by Islamic groups? Why is is that every other religion tolerates criticism of itself and engages in debate, but the Islamic world reacts like enraged child everytime someone “dares” make a disparaging comment about Islam or the ‘prophet’?
Islam’s number one public relations problem today is muslims themselves. Everytime you over-react to criticism about your religion, you validate much of what was said.
Islam needs to grow up. Most of the other world religions already have.
Report thisBy Fadel Abdallah, September 16, 2006 at 9:08 am #
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To Kalki Gaur # 23598
You’re a bloodthirty, pathetic, hateful savage trying to outdo the Nazi way of thinking. Hidus like you don’t even figure in the pardigm of civilizations; for your savage cast system qualifies you only to be sub-humans. Keep up your hateful rhetoric against Islam, and I can assure you that sooner or later justice will catch up with you! Shall I say I am sorry that Muslims did tolerate savages like you when they ruled India? No, I wouldn’t say it because the fact that they tolerated even your crocked man-made religion is a testimony that Islam is much more peaceful, tolerant and rational religion than the garbage you call Hinduism. Are’nt you ashamed that you’re a cow-worshipper?! And that your so-called religion is responsible for the most savage and backward institution in the world called the cast system!
Report thisBy Jim, September 16, 2006 at 6:10 am #
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This episode is specially interesting and stupid at the same time, coming from the mouth of such a high ranking figure in a major religion. He should know better. I guess the boys must be getting smarter.
Report thisBy KALKI GAUR, September 16, 2006 at 3:57 am #
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CHRISTIAN POPE BENEDICT XVI IS RIGHT ABOUT ISLAM THE RELIGION OF SWORD- KALKI GAUR
(1) ISLAMIC TERRORISM IS EVIL & INHUMAN: 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. Pope Benedict XVI is right. It is Evil and Inhuman to propagate Islam by sword. John Paul II’s Pontificate was largely defined by his relationship with a global conflict between West and East, and he implicitly supported the Islamic terrorists that bombed on 9/11, by defending the rights of Islamic terrorism and opposing President Bush’s war on Islamic terrorism. In 1391 AD in the winter barracks near Ankara - by the erudite Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both. With a startling brusqueness on the central question about the relationship between religion and violence in general, saying: “Show me just what Muhammad 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.” Pope Benedict XVI in a speech in Germany quotes the fourteenth-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus, who challenged a Muslim correspondent to name anything not “evil and inhuman” spawned by the Prophet Mohammed. “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,” was part of an historic dialogue between the emperor, whose throne in Constantinople was then under siege by a Muslim army. Yet some question the wisdom of his decision to use a besieged emperor’s depiction of Islam as a faith, which condones “acting unreasonably. Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya and Algeria might not have fallen to Islam had Persia, Byzantium and Rome militarily supported Gnostic Christians of Syria and Egypt. Persia would not have fallen to Islam had Byzantium supported Persia against Islam. Turkey would not have fallen to Islam had Papacy and Rome supported Byzantium. Europe and India has a moral obligation to win back the lands of Asia Minor and North Africa back into the fold of Christian Civilization before 2050 AD. During Pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI Hindu-Christian Pact of Civilization is possible and Christian lands stolen by Islam would return back to Christian fold in 21st Century, because the religions that expand by sword die by the sword.
(2) CHRISTIAN-HINDU PACT OF CIVILIZATIONS: Hindu-Christian Pact of Civilizations to launch Christian Crusades on Islam and Crusades of Democracy in the Middle East. Hindus can provide 10 million soldiers to back it up. Pope John Paul II supported Wahhabi terrorists that bombed on 9/11. Pope Benedict XVI is wisely launching Crusades on Islam. The 900 million Hindus of India wholeheartedly support new Christian Crusades on Islam and new Crusades of Democracy on Islamic Middle East. Pope Benedict XVI is right that Mohammad taught nothing new except Evil and Inhuman. Hindus support all what Pope Benedict said. Hindu India wants to have a Hindu-Christianity Pact of civilizations to tame Islamic barbarism. Hindu India is willing to provide 10 million Hindu soldiers to new Christian Crusades in the Middle East and on Crusades of Democracy to the Middle East.
(3) RECLAIM MEDITERANEAN AFRICA FOR CHRISTIANITY: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco were thriving Christian civilizations, before they fell for Arab Muslim Bedouin invaders after 630 AD, and Arab Muslim killed all Christian men and took over Christian women by sword. The Christian Manifest destiny in 21st Century is to regain Christian Lands of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco for Christianity again before 2050 AD. Hindu India is willing to join Christian Crusades on Mediterranean Islam and provide 10 million Hindu volunteers soldiers for this noble cause in the name of Jesus to regain Mediterranean Africa and Asia Minor back to the folds of Christian Civilization, to help Pope Benedict XVI realize his Christian Dream in first quarter of 21st Century Age of Aquarius. If Jews can return to Israel after 2100 years, there is no reason that Christians cannot return to North Africa after 1300 years and Turkey after 700 years. Victory of Christian-Hindu Alliance is predestined. Jesus shall rule over Turkey, Asia Minor and North Africa again before 2050, with the blessing of Hindus.
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By Fadel Abdallah, September 15, 2006 at 8:36 pm #
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Hardly a year after the chauvinist and crude attempt at stereotyping and attacking Islam by an unknown right-wing Danish cartoonist seeking notoriety at any cost, comes another evil attempt against Islam by an ex-Nazi-turned-Pope showing his true colors and turning Nazi again; but this time this Nazi language is done, without equivocation, in the name of a Christian religion and namely in the name of Catholicism. I am glad that Catholicism rhymes perfectly with fascism, Nazism, Communism, Capitalism and so on; whereas Islam stands as linguistically unconnected to any of these “isms” unless the coiners of evil languages would artificially force the word “Islamism” into the dictionary as they have devilishly forced the phrase “holy war” for “jihad”; which means in Arabic “an all round struggle against evil; whether from without or from within.” The expression “holy war” has no single occurrence, neither in the Qur’an nor in the voluminous sayings or traditions of Prophet Muhammad. Only the lucky enlightened few in the West know that the expression “holy war” was first coined by the Christian Crusaders of the West in the Middle Ages to describe their own bloody wars and campaigns against the Muslims. When it suited their evil propaganda against Islam, the so-called enlightened Western enemies of Islam started erroneously, but deliberately, to use the expression of “holy war” to translate the Qur’anic word “jihad.”
Report thisSo here we go again, with the latest propaganda myth of the West about Islam, which aims at brainwashing the minds of simple unscrupulous people into believing that Muslims’ ultimate goal is to force Islam on the world. The ultimate purpose is, however, to keep people frightened so they can be controlled by their own governments and religious institutions to continue getting people’s taxes and church donations. The bottom line in all this is the evil mighty dollar and what it can do to keep the powerful and dominant political and religious class in power.
May I remind the evil and ignorant Pope that imposing religion by force was the trademark of the church he heads in the well-documented historical Inquisition started in Spain against Jews and Muslims and extended later on even against non-Catholic Christians.
A sincere advice to the not-so-sincere Pope: Instead of wasting the little intellectual power you have on attacking and denigrating the faith of one fifth of humanity in all parts of the world, why don’t you devote your energies to solving the problem of child-molestation by your priests, which has become another trademark of Catholicism due to its frequent occurrence in recent years?!
“God is not pleased by blood ” says the irrational blind Pope in his diatribe. The old man has forgotten that the most cherished symbol of his religion is a “bloody cross,” where God, the Father, allowed and planned the slaughtering of “His only begotten Son,” so that ugly, stupid, evil and irrational people like him would attain “Salvation” and charge money from struggling people to get that “salvation” through his priestly class. That’s what I call the ultimate irrationality, and that’s why my pride in my chosen religion of Islam flourishes every day. In Islam, the highway to God is free open to every individual without intermediaries charging a toll for passage. That’s what I call freedom, rationality and respect for God and believers in Him. Thanks Mr. Pope for strengthening my faith in a more rational religion than yours!
By R. A. Earl, September 15, 2006 at 2:55 pm #
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I’m somewhat amazed that adherents to all other religions, including so-called Christian religions aren’t aware that CATHOLICS and their leadership consider only THEIRS to be the ONE TRUE RELIGION. By definition, ALL OTHERS are shams and fraudulent.
I can’t understand how the Pope can travel the world, meeting, greeting and smiling like the used car/snake oil salesman he is, and have anyone other than dyed-in-the-wool, brainwashed Catholics give him the time of day.
Message to world: ignore the ravings of this lunatic. Most of all, don’t let this overdressed Nazi goad you into starting a war or other hostilities. He’s not worth it. Just IGNORE HIM and his messages… eventually he and his con game of a religion will just fade away - a long overdue development, in my opinion.
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