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Olde Tyme Religion
Pope stresses religious freedom
2007-06-02
Pope Benedict XVI stressed the importance of protecting religious freedom on Friday as he greeted Pakistan’s new ambassador to the Vatican. “A robust democratic society depends on its ability to uphold and protect religious freedom, a basic right inherent in the very dignity of the human person,” the pope told Ayesha Riyaz, according to a statement from the Vatican.
That's downright seditious talk in the Moose limb world. Religious freedom implies you can stop being a Muslim. They can't cope with the concept, not even the relatively civilized ones like in Malaysia.
Benedict also commended Pakistan’s “recent electoral reforms, which are aimed at facilitating the full participation of all citizens, including those belonging to minority groups.” He continued: “I would also like to acknowledge recent legislative decisions in Pakistan aimed at eliminating unjust forms of prejudice and discrimination against women.” In addition, the pope said he wanted to express “my deep respect and admiration for the religious heritage that has inspired the human development of your country, and continues to animate its aspirations for greater peace and mutual understanding.”

“Christians and Muslims both worship the one God, the Almighty, creator of heaven and earth,” he said. “It is this belief that moves us to unite minds and hearts as we work tirelessly for peace, justice, and a better future for mankind.”
Posted by:Fred

#2  I can make it simple. Islam is not of God. Mohammed NEVER read the bible, The lawful application of Islam is unlawful period. In ANY court.
Posted by: newc   2007-06-02 02:11  

#1  After what looked like a rather promising start by Benedict sure seems to have fallen flat of late.

“Christians and Muslims both worship the one God, the Almighty, creator of heaven and earth,” he said. “It is this belief that moves us to unite minds and hearts as we work tirelessly for peace, justice, and a better future for mankind.”

This sort of palliating bullshit is what allows Islam to continue its march under false colors. The article I posted by Srdja Trifkovic, "Winning the War on Terror: A Realist Strategy", specifically addresses this issue.
Yes, Islam has an inherent advantage over the tepid ideology of multicultural mediocrity in that it offers Allah in the place of nothing. Its adherents should not be condemned for maintaining their traditions. We should blame ourselves for refusing to acknowledge the facts of the case and failing to take stock of our options. People did not take Mein Kampf seriously, at their own peril. The Kuran's exhortations to the believers to annihilate the non-believers, to confiscate their land and property, to take their women and enslave their children are equally frank, and the fruits visible through the centuries.

The elite class has every intention of continuing to “fight” the war on terrorism without naming the enemy, without revealing his beliefs, without unmasking his intentions, without offending his accomplices, without expelling his fifth columnists, and without ever daring to win. Their crime can and must be stopped.
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The stubborn refusal of world leadership, be it political or religious to name Islam for the intolerant and hostile ideology it is only compounds its destructive force. This is betrayal on a grand scale. These toothless guardians knowingly deliver us into the hands of our executioners while they retreat into their own well-protected and gated enclaves.

Pope Benedict's approving words for the Islamic cesspit that is Pakistan gives it undue credibility and only serves to validate their ghastly anti-Christian agenda. Better that he denouce the destruction of Christian churches and excoriate Pakistan's envoy for his country's role in exporting jihadist terrorism around the world.

This is fatal misrepresentation and it serves no useful purpose to smooth over Islam's continually raised hackles with trowel after trowel of diplomatic horseshit. Islam's paper thin sensitivities must be rubbed raw by gritty reality until Muslims everywhere are exposed for the pathologically violent exponents of global domination that they are. Pretending that the Koran is anything but a war manual is treason against civilization.

Pope Benedict can only be keenly aware of how Muslim majority nations routinely reject the least manifestation of his own Christian faith, to the point of murdering members of his own flock. To gloss over this barbarity with pronouncements of praise for these vile killers is an affront to man and God alike. So long as Islam persists in perpetuating shari'a law, it can have no claim upon worshipping the "one true God", Benedict's claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Sadly, the Catholic church appears to have ensconced another feeble minded fool who shall lead them into irrelevance and self-immolation at the hands of a savage creed.

Posted by: Zenster   2007-06-02 01:24  

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