There are a number of other excellent photos of the protest on Sunday outside Westminster Cathedral. For a Very Rushed Post, it has really hit the jackpot for Joe. The post has 196 comments and he has been blogged all over the known universe.Here is the cover of a book which is a best-seller in Turkey:
The title "Papa’ya suikast" means "Assassinating the Pope". The book predicts that Pope Benedict will be assassinated in Istanbul in a plot involving Opus Dei, the Freemasons, the Turkish Secret Service and Mehmet Ali Agca. In a comment which may or may not help to defuse tension in the region, Salih Kapusuz, a deputy leader of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party commented:
"Benedict, the author of such unfortunate and insolent remarks, is going down in history for his words [...] He is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as (Adolf) Hitler and (Benito) Mussolini."The Assyrian International News Agency has a report telling of a poster that has been placed in many Baghdad mosques for the previously unknown group, "Kataab Ashbal Al Islam Al Salafi," (Islamic Salafist Boy Scout Battalions). This group threatens to kill all Christians in Iraq if the Pope does not apologize in three days in front of the whole world to Mohammed.
Everyone's favourite protest photo, of course is:
However, I always have a reservation about laughing at other peoples' poor English. After all, I cannot speak or read Arabic or any of the other languages that are on banners in many parts of the world. I don't even know what language is on these banners in Pakistan:
Fortunately, the Curt Jester comes to the rescue here. He has done his research and found out the gist of all those arcane scripts. Here is his dynamic equivalence translation of all "them fancy words"."I read the Pope's speech at the at University of Regensburg and I enjoyed it. I liked his reference to surah 2, 256 which reads: 'There is no compulsion in religion.' While I disagree that Jesus was more than a prophet I enjoyed Benedict's critique of the liberal theology of the 19th and 20th centuries that 'ushered in a second stage in the process of dehellenization." Also interesting is his explanation of how modernity is trying to reduce the field of theology to be not one of the "sciences." Truly as he says 'it is man himself who ends up being reduced.' I can see how the dialogue he quoted between Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and who he called an "educated" and "learned" Persian could be misconstrued by those whose source of news is only by headlines, but I really appreciated the distinctions he made about violent conversions and that God is transcendent."
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So a 'fictitious novel' whose theme is the murder of Pope Benedict in Constantinople by a conspiracy involving Ali Agca and Opus Dei (not that albino monk again!) is the current best seller in Turkey!
Gilly Cooper, Geoffrey Archer, Enid Blyton et al all is forgiven!
Obviously the Swiss Guard must be after Yucel Kaya the author of such drivel (must have been a student of Dan Brown) after proclaiming him a blasphemer and pig! They have passed their own sentence on him - a serious talking to and at least 20 hours community service clearing St Peters Square after hours, for his miss-deeds.
After all wasn't Salman Rushdie given similar treatment by islam after he wrote the 'fictitious' novel satanic verses.
Oh, sorry I stand corrected. Salman still lives in fear of his life over a decade after a fatwah (sentence of death) was passed on him by some mentally challenged muslim 'cleric' who thought that Salman had insulted his grandmother in his book - poor guy couldn't read anyway.
Someone has already said it - islam cannot cope with modernity. Jesus preached love, which is timeless and remains the greatest aspiration for all of humanity.
Islam is stuck in a medieval rut of hatred and destruction because mohammed saw other people as 'property' to kill or enslave, published it in his 'fictitious novel' and said 'oh by the way, if any of you change my words (ie blaspheme) you will be beheaded'.
1300 years or so later.......
We need prayer, and lots of it, to sort this mess out. It cannot be done on a human level. This problem desperately needs the intercession of Our Holy Mother, the Blessed Virgin, Queen of Heaven, Queen of Angels, Help of Christians.
Rosaries prayed all over the world will hold our Holy Father under Our Lady's protection. May Our Lady also lead our seperated muslim brethren back to Jesus Christ, the Son of God and King of Kings.
Nice to know the religion of "peace" is demonstrating to the world, how wonderful it is.
It would seem that they have forgotten the incident when John Paul II (who all due respect to him) sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver and kissed the Koran on Al-Jazzera TV...
I take it that the ecumaniacs in the Vatican will not be revoking the blatantly false piece of nonsense in Nostra Aetate, that Muslims and Christians worship the one true God?
One must question the logic of anyone that claims to be religious then equates the pope to Hitler. Its also interesting how Islamic people like to demonstrate the fact that they are the religion of peace by burning embassys or making posters up calling for the head of anyone that may have the audacity to suggest that some forms of terrorist islam might not have a place in a civlised society.
Sounds like a non sequiteur to me.
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