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| Pope asked to convert to Islam |
| 2006-09-19 |
| Tripoli - The elder son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has called on Pope Benedict XVI to convert to Islam immediately, dismissing last week's apology from the pontiff for offending Muslims. "If this person were really someone reasonable, he would not agree to remain at his post one minute, but would convert to Islam immediately," Mohammed Gaddafi told an awards ceremony on Monday evening for an international competition to memorise the Qur'an. "We say to the pope - whether you apologise or not is irrelevant, as apologies make no difference to us." Gaddafi junior also hit out at "those Muslims who look for comfort in the words of a non-Muslim". He said Muslims "should not look for charity from the infidel... but should fight Islam's enemies who attack the faith and the Prophet Muhammad". On Sunday, the pope said he was "deeply sorry" for the reaction to a speech he made last week in which he quoted an obscure medieval text that criticised some teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman". The speech sparked several days of protests in Muslim countries against the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics. Although the pontiff's apology was widely rejected as insufficient, anti-pope protests seemed to subside on Tuesday with the only planned event a rally by foreign theology students in the Iranian clerical capital of Qom. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #17 They are. May the Pope enjoy every safety of His Lord's sheltering wing. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-19 23:56 |
| #16 First they ask you to convert. Then, when you don't, they try to kill you. I hope the Pope's Swiss guards are aware of this and increase his security. |
| Posted by: Whuth Omase7875 2006-09-19 22:05 |
| #15 Just how dumb are these people? At this point, is it really necessary to ask? Oh...that was a rhetorical question! Never mind. We see the results of 1400 years of inbreeding! |
| Posted by: Texas Redneck 2006-09-19 16:57 |
| #14 So how many points (Virgins) do they get for taking out a Pope? Boy talk about shooting yourself in the foot though. A lot of the EU is strong Catholic... do ya think that might be enough to get them fired up? Blackvenom-2001 |
| Posted by: Blackvenom-2001 2006-09-19 16:50 |
| #13 The quote doesn't "in any way express my personal thought." Well, at least it's a tiny bit improvement. At least I think so. The last pope kissed the Koran, much to the delight of the Islamic cleric onlooker. I kind of understood why he might have thought that was a good idea, but to the muzzies that was admitting Islam's superiority over the faith and the faithful--so it was a really bad idea. Any retraction is seen as a victory in what the muzzies consider, not a dialogue, but a test of wills. This pope isn't kissing the Koran, but neither should he kiss the boot of Islam. Just my opinion, and no offense to all you Catholics who are rallying behind him. What I think is nuts is that the Islam-icks are behaving in a violent and irrational way, devoid of reason as they attempt to force conversions of thought and action of the worldwide leader of the Roman Catholic people--which, of course, just proves his point about the need for convergence of faith and reason, and an adherence to non-violence in religious discourse. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-09-19 16:32 |
| #12 Musharraf, speaking in front of the UN's General Assembly, just called for a ban on the 'defamation' of Islam. No word yet from Kofi. |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-09-19 16:29 |
| #11 This caused outrage here last time. What about now? Nuke 'em til they glow, andshoot 'em in the dark. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2006-09-19 16:29 |
| #10 "Pope asked to convert to Islam" Pope responds, "FOAD." Or at least I do it for him. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-19 16:19 |
| #9 I guess you didn't read my post, tabd. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-19 16:16 |
| #8 I think the rule is that before you kill someone in the name of Jihad - you have to extend the opportunity for them to convert to Islam. They aren't stupid, just following the rules. |
| Posted by: tabd 2006-09-19 15:41 |
| #7 LOL, Dave D! Exceptional! |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-09-19 15:29 |
| #6 "Just how dumb are these people?" What we're seeing right now are just the earliest precursors of the vaguest hints at the most tentative intimations of the actual depths of their stupidity. Somethin's gonna go THUD soon. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-09-19 15:28 |
| #5 Is this the same dude w/the 30 or so female bodyguards? |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-09-19 15:25 |
| #4 This is just the usual mandatory invitation to Islam before they're allowed to kill you. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-19 15:18 |
| #3 ROFL. |
| Posted by: flyover 2006-09-19 15:10 |
| #2 When is everybody gonna realize that we're basically dealing with an insane bunch of people here? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-19 15:00 |
| #1 Just how dumb are these people? As I said in another thread, the reaction of Muslims everywhere has done nothing but prove the points which Benedict made in his speech about irrationality. |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2006-09-19 14:44 |