Security around pope beefed up

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Italian media reported that security around Pope Benedict XVI has been beefed up following the harsh responses to his remarks on Islam.
On Sunday the pope is expected to deliver his weekly sermon from his summer home, and it is still not clear whether he will address the international uproar his comments have stirred.

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On Friday night about 2,000 protesters gathered outside the Palestinian parliament building to express their anger at the pope’s statement. “This is a new crusade against the Arab Islamic world. It comes in different forms, in cartoons or lectures … They hate our religion,” Ismail Radwan, a local Hamas official, told the rally. …“We want to make it clear that if the pope does not appear on TV and apologize for his comments, we will blow up all of Gaza’s churches,” the group said in a statement.
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I think it is the other way around. They hate OUR RELIGION. They hate Judaism and it’s fullfilment in Christianity. Do we turn the other cheek and become martyrs?
 
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On Friday night about 2,000 protesters gathered outside the Palestinian parliament building to express their anger at the pope’s statement. “This is a new crusade against the Arab Islamic world. It comes in different forms, in cartoons or lectures … They hate our religion,” Ismail Radwan, a local Hamas official, told the rally. …“We want to make it clear that if the pope does not appear on TV and apologize for his comments, we will blow up all of Gaza’s churches,” the group said in a statement.
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I wonder what kind of attacks these people would be able to mount if they would stop using inventions from the hated West? Planes, cars, guns, bomb and weapon technology, missles, cell phones, computers and video/television/radio (for communication and issuing threats). Their whole campaign would be halted if they decided to use only “Islamic” technology and inventions.
 
Eden said:
I wonder what kind of attacks these people would be able to mount if they would stop using inventions from the hated West? Planes, cars, guns, bomb and weapon technology, missles, cell phones, computers and video/television/radio (for communication and issuing threats). Their whole campaign would be halted if they decided to use only “Islamic” technology and inventions.
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They would be stuck with swords and arrows, but thanks to the inventiveness of the West they now are able to do alot more killing in the name of their prophet…
 
gilliam said:
Italian media reported that security around Pope Benedict XVI has been beefed up following the harsh responses to his remarks on Islam.
On Sunday the pope is expected to deliver his weekly sermon from his summer home, and it is still not clear whether he will address the international uproar his comments have stirred.

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On Friday night about 2,000 protesters gathered outside the Palestinian parliament building to express their anger at the pope’s statement. “This is a new crusade against the Arab Islamic world. It comes in different forms, in cartoons or lectures … They hate our religion,” Ismail Radwan, a local Hamas official, told the rally. …“We want to make it clear that if the pope does not appear on TV and apologize for his comments, we will blow up all of Gaza’s churches,” the group said in a statement.
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How do they not see that by threatening to blow up churches they’re doing exactly what the “offensive” quoted text accused them of? They are reacting with violence over a statement that said faith and violence are incompatible! Huh?
 
The Pope’s lecture was about how it is wrong for violence to be done in the name of religion. He uses a medieval quote

The Muslims say this is offensive and wrong. So they get violent in the name of their religion.
 
Caesar said:
The Pope’s lecture was about how it is wrong for violence to be done in the name of religion. He uses a medieval quote

The Muslims say this is offensive and wrong. So they get violent in the name of their religion.
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This strategy has worked many, many, many times for them in the past, why not do it now?
 
Interesting thing I thought of. Recall the third secret of Fatima.

*After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendour that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!’. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it’ a Bishop dressed in White, ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father’. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God. *
 
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