Depending on where one gets their news and information, that statement may or may not have any meaning to you. If the major source is mainstream, network news - probably not. However, if one reads blogs and message boards - you're on board.
The Pope made a speech regarding Islam and now muslims everywhere are going nuts. According to another source, the muslims didn't start acting out until they had attended their Friday prayer services.
We've been misled about the "Religion of Peace." History records Islam as being a religion of the sword. In the address scientists on the role of faith and reason in human experience, the Pope recounts a debate between a Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an "educated Persian." Here I quote directly from his address :
Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. "God", he [the Byzantine emperor] says, "is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death...".
So, at this rate, if anyone dares to say anything negative about the Islamic religion they could be putting their lives on the line. I guess I am now a target. Woo-hoo!
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man, i'm glad someone else has made the same observation. i was telling someone else the same thing - they say, "peace! peace!" but when their religion is viewed or skewed in even the slightest manner their true colors show. back when the danish artist had made references to mohammed in his work it wasn't just the extremists that became outraged and violent. no, it was the quiet ones, your neighbors, your co-workers. don't believe it? wear a t-shirt with a caricature of mohammed through your local mall and see what happens. we can't really say that we weren't warned because this was foretold long ago...
"The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.
And he said, 'Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?' 'I'm running away from my mistress Sarai,' she answered.
Then the angel of the LORD told her, 'Go back to your mistress and submit to her.'
The angel added, 'I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count.'
The angel of the LORD also said to her: 'You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael,75 for the LORD has heard of your misery.
He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward76 all his brothers.'"
- gen 16:11-12
these two incidents have done nothing but supported the quote the pope made. they're a violent people and when they become enraged there is no reasoning with them.
hey look! i'm a target too! bring it on. i'm wearing a pork-chop necklace.
"we're a peaceful people, and we'll fight anyone who says otherwise."
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