Turks want Pope arrested

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cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/19/pope.turks.reut/index.html

I know there are several of these and it’s not going to go away anytime soon, but I read the below and laughed out loud.

Taken from the news article:
They said the pontiff had violated Turkish laws upholding freedom of belief and thought by “insulting” Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.
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Of course the follow up is
Muslims worldwide have been angered by remarks the pope made in a lecture last week that they said portrayed Islam as a religion tainted by violence and irrationality.
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There’s nothing irrational about the first quote and we haven’t seen ANY violence in the last couple of days. :rolleyes:
 
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Workers at Turkey’s Directorate General for Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, petitioned for the arrest of the pontiff when he makes a scheduled visit to Turkey in November.
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It would be interesting to see what would happen if they did arrest him, and sling him into a Turkish jail.

And watch what happens. I suspect it wouldn’t be pretty.

I wonder if it ever occoured to these morons that if they put half as much energy into condemning terrorists and publicly distancing themselves from them as they do in issuing fatwas every time somebody breaks wind within half a mile of a mosque, things would be a whole lot more peaceful.
 
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And watch what happens. I suspect it wouldn’t be pretty.
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One thing would be for sure. Turkey could forget about getting into the EU for the next few centuries, even though the government there is desperate about gaining membership.
 
****Very disturbing but not laughable. . They are accusing him of the very thing they are doing themselves and have been doing for centuries. **

After looking at the faces in the photos this week so filled with hate and vengeance surely has made me a believer in demonic possession.
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I can’t see that he said anything that would break a religious tolerance law; however, even if someone wanted to twist it into that, he was in Germany when he made the speech, so Turkish law is sort of irrelevant.
 
Deus Vult wants deputy leader of Turkish Prime Minister to apologize to Pope!

Salih Kapusuz, deputy leader of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted party, said Benedict’s remarks were either “the result of pitiful ignorance” about Islam and its prophet or, worse, a deliberate distortion.
“He has a dark mentality that comes from the darkness of the Middle Ages,” Kapusuz told Turkish state media. “It looks like an effort to revive the mentality of the Crusades.”
“He is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini,” he added.
 
Let’s not forget that he’s a head of state. I’m sure there some sort of Diplomatic Immunity situation.

It won’t work anyway.
 
At first I thought that had to be a satirical news item from The Onion.

Don’t you actually have to be in a particular country at the time of an offense to be considered to have broken that country’s laws? Let’s see… He was in Germany, breaking Turkish laws… Hmm… I think we’ve learned we can’t appeal to reason with these people.

I hope the Pope will not go to Turkey in November, as originally planned. Turkish prisons do not have a great reputation.
 
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