Pakistani clerics demand pope's removal

[Almeria]

About 1,000 Muslim clerics and religious scholars meeting Thursday in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of Pope Benedict XVI for making what they called “insulting remarks” against Islam.

    Benedict "should be removed from his position immediately for encouraging war and fanning hostility between various faiths" and "making insulting remarks" against Islam, said a joint statement issued by the clerics and scholars at the end of their one-day convention.

     The "pope, and all infidels, should know that no Muslim, under any circumstances, can tolerate an insult to the Prophet (Muhammad). ... If the West does not change its stance regarding Islam, it will face severe consequences," it said.

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The statement also said jihad was not terrorism and that “Islam was not propagated with the sword, but it became popular and was accepted by the oppressed peoples of the world because of its universal values and teachings.”

     "Jihad is waged to rid an area, state, or the world of oppression, violence, cruelty, and terrorism, and bring peace and relief to the people. History is full of incidents where Muslims waged jihad to provide relief to people of many faiths, especially Jews and Christians," it said.

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[cathgal]

Is there no end to their irrationality !

"The statement also said jihad was not terrorism and that “Islam was not propagated with the sword, but it became popular and was accepted by the oppressed peoples of the world because of its universal values and teachings.”
Who they think they're kidding ??

 

[Catholic29]

Is there no end to their irrationality !

"The statement also said jihad was not terrorism and that “Islam was not propagated with the sword, but it became popular and was accepted by the oppressed peoples of the world because of its universal values and teachings.”
Who they think they're kidding ??

Not me,

The prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, was nothing more than a 7th century version of the prophet Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism in America. Just like the Qur’an is the Islamic equivalent of the Book of Mormon for the LDS…

 

[bones_IV]

Notice now that the media doesn’t condemn the protesters of this kind. I wonder why that is? You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that they are just afraid of upsetting the terrorists regimes.

 

[gilliam]

For those who don’t know the history:

Eastern Pakistan was mostly Hindu until the Muslims invaded the land and forced the people to convert to Islam.

Pakistanis protest, cleric says Pope should be crucified
Hundreds of Pakistani Islamists held street protests to condemn Pope Benedict XVI for remarks they regard as anti-Islamic, with one leader saying the pontiff should be crucified.

Demonstrators Friday poured out of mosques after the main weekly Muslim prayers in Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, the eastern city of Lahore, the capital Islamabad and other urban centres.

“If the pope comes here we will hang him on the Cross,” Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a senior leader of Pakistan’s main alliance of radical parties, told around 200 noisy demonstrators in Islamabad.

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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER:
“How dare you say Islam is a violent religion? I’ll kill you for it” is not exactly the best way to go about refuting the charge. But of course, refuting is not the point here. The point is intimidation. . . .
In today’s world, religious sensitivity is a one-way street. The rules of the road are enforced by Islamic mobs and abjectly followed by Western media, politicians and religious leaders.

 

[cathgal]

Notice now that the media doesn’t condemn the protesters of this kind. I wonder why that is?

Let me guess…cuz they’re bunch of chickens??

 

[OriginalJS]

I am a very peaceful person, but if you disagree with me I’ll blow your head off!

 

[bones_IV]

Let me guess…cuz they’re bunch of chickens??

Yep, they’re afraid of upsetting the terrorists regimes. They condemn the terrorists bombings minimally! Doing it minimally will not do it. And then the MSM posts the coments made by the extremists calling for the pope’s removal and don’t show the other side of the story either. Wonder why that is?