I cannot believe that hate speech, calling Islam ‘a cult of violence and death’ could actually exist in modern Catholicism! Given Pope Benedict’s work to try and reach out to Muslims across the world, I would have thought that Catholics would be behind him. Islam actually helped Catholicism, preserving Greek and Roman texts which allowed for the theologican advances of the thirteenth century. And here you are, calling for ‘a new crusade’, the conflict which actually taught the concept of ‘holy war’ to Muslims.
The Truth is NOT hate speech and I resent your characterising it as such!
There are none so blind as the wilfully blind.Please read the Koran-it will make your hair stand on end.Do you have any concept of dhimmitude?Look it up!Modern day Islam is a Political Ideology and a convert- by- the- sword “religion"that does NOT wish to coexist but to dominate and to forcefully convert us or do away with us.Don’t be blind,don’t be what the former Soviets termed appeasers-“useful idiots”.Just look at the “fruits” of this 'faith”.Where have you been for the past twenty years?
The Crusades were a legitimate response to Muslim invasion and aggression-look at how long it took to evict them from Catholic Spain.
And by-the-by the Holy Father in addition to reaching out justifiably chastised them.Your memory is quite selective:
REGENSBURG, Germany � Pope Benedict XVI stepped into the volatile realm of religious violence Tuesday, warning that fanaticism was “contrary to God’s nature” and quoting a historical criticism of Islam likely to inflame tensions in the Muslim world.
Speaking to academics at the University of Regensburg, where he taught theology in the 1970s, the pope traversed centuries of Islamic, Greek and Christian philosophy to decry holy wars and forced conversions, and to hold up Christianity as the “profound encounter of faith and reason.”
The pontiff’s lecture was long, dense and subject to wide interpretation. Rather than criticize Islam directly, he cited a Byzantine emperor’s harsh condemnation of Islam, its founder Muhammad and holy war.
Benedict used the word jihad, choosing the emotionally and politically loaded Arabic term for holy war or struggle.
“Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul,” Benedict said. “Not to act in accordance with reason is contrary to God’s nature.”
In contrast to fanatic abuse of religion, the pope said, in Christianity “the fundamental decisions made about the relationship between faith and the use of human reason are part of the faith itself.”
