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September 17, 2006
I Support the Pope
On retrospect, my last post, "The Immaturity of the Islamists", which was about ongoing Muslim riots over the Pope's speech, I didn't come out and say it outright
I support the Pope, no ifs ands or buts.
Check out what parishoners saw coming out of Westminster Cathedral today. A blogger who calls himself Catholic Londoner took this photo and more (hat tip LGF)
They don't call the placeLondonistan for nothing.
In that last post I said
I have to think that Pope Benedict shouldn't have quoted that sentence about "things only evil and inhuman, such as his(Mohammed's) command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." He could have made his point more delicately.
Now that I think about it more, I realize that while there are definately times when one has to be diplomatic, we simply can't live our lives in constant fear that we might upset "the Muslims" and cause them to riot. Look, if people want to get upset and write letters to the editor, fine. If they want to write denunciations on blogs fine, as long as they do not encourage, incite, or condone violence. If they want to start a boycott, fine. Those are all good democratic traditions.
But Muslims are simply going to have to understand that rioting, violence and threats of violence are simply unacceptable.
As such, we should stand with anyone who is under attack. We stood by the Danish when they were under assault, and now we should stand with the Pope. Whether you are Roman Catholic or not is irrelevant.
Mario Mauro, vice-president of the European Parliament, said in a statement today, "Let us defend the Pope without ifs or buts, let us defend reason," in answer to the reactions from the Muslim world to Pope Benedict XVI's lecture at the University of Regensburg on Tuesday.
"The monstruous attempt on the part of many Islamic leaders, even the so-called moderates, to distort the Pope's reaching out to all religions (through the lecture),in order to hit out at Christians and the West shows us the gravity of the danger we are facing," Mauro continues.He underscores how "the islamo-nazi ideology that permeates the thought of fundamentalists represents the most dramatic distortion of the use of reason."
The statement continues:
"They use God as a pretext to pursue a plan for power, and this is what the Pope has denounced, thereby defending freedom for all, especially for those Muslims who look to religion as an experience of the sense of life, and not as a shortcut to political power."It is remarkable that so many names, too many, among those with political responsibility (in the Western world) are not coming to the defense of the words said by the Vicar of Christ! It is almost as if they are ashamed or are too cowardly to speak up in defense of reason and freedom."
Exactly right.
Far from defending him, Muslim leaders across the world are demanding apologies, and various Muslim groups are threatening his very life.
When has anyone from the Muslim world every apologized to the West for anything? When has a Muslim leader every apologized to the West for the (tens of?) thousands of terrorist acts carried out in the name of Islam? When has a Muslim leader every apologized to the West for the vile anti-Semitic and anti-Christian propaganda that is a staple of the Muslim world?
Never, to my knowledge.
Instead, we get this
A 70-year old Italian nun is killed in Somalia as "revenge"
Churches in Gaza and the West Bank are attacked
This is insane. These radicals see apologies as weakness, and issuing one only encourages more Muslim violence. They want abject apologies over every little real or imagined offence, and we must not get into the habit of issuing them. Did we learn nothing from the "cartoon jihad" of earlier this year. Evidently some people did not.
I think that Dr Sanity said it best
It is laughable to witness the angry, violent demonstrations denouncing any suggestion that Islam is an angry, violent religion. It is hilarious to observe the wails of victimhood and oppression as Islam's religious leaders call for killing Jews and Christians; beheading those who insult Islam, even as their own rhetoric isn't so much insulting as it is directly threatening the rest of the world.
Ditto that.
Posted by Tom at September 17, 2006 8:13 PM
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Exactly right Tom. Btw, you pick the cheese from my bread, hehe, by noticing that Mario Mauro statement earlier than I, a European, did. Slowly, ever so slowly, people may start scratching their heads here. I just heard center-right has won the Swedish elections. I just hope it isn't too late yet.
Posted by: Outlaw Mike at September 18, 2006 5:44 PM
Tom, what cracks me up is their obvious hypocrisy; they scream "kill the Pope because he says we convert by the sword"....duh....?
Posted by: DagneyT at September 21, 2006 6:32 PM
Don't know if you've seen it, but The Weekly Standard had a great piece on Benedict's speech.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/736fyrpi.asp
There's one quote that seemed particularly apropos given the "Jesus is Allah's slave" sign that one of the London protesters was holding:
"Socrates hated the very thought of slavery--slavery to other men, slavery to mere opinions, slavery to fear, slavery to our own low desires, slavery to our own high ambitions. He believed that reason could liberate human beings from these various forms of slavery. Socrates would have protested against the very thought of a God who was delighted by forced conversions, or who was pleased when his worshipers proudly boasted that they were his slaves."
Posted by: The Foreigner at September 24, 2006 6:27 AM
