And no 'spin'.
Today Holy Father did indeed apologize for offending Muslim sensibilities; that after the Vatican and every other intelligent source clearly stated his speech was in opposition to violence, especially religiously motivated violence, or jihad, and not against Islam.
He humbly apologized without taking back what he said, which ought to be considered within the context of his speech.
This was clear from the beginning, although media and Muslim leaders exploited the one sensational comment in his speech, rather, I should say, it was not at all sensational, albeit sensationalized. Resulting in this distorted image of the Holy Father, churches burned, a nun killed, the Holy Father burned in effigy, and demands for the Pope's death, as well as calling for attacks upon the Vatican. All by the people of the religion of peace, so misunderstood by the western world.
This is the translation of the writing on the profaned image of the Pope:
The script in red calls for the Pope’s beheading. The rest of the translation:
"Swine and servant of the cross, worships a monkey on a cross, hateful evil man, stoned Satan, may Allah curse him, blood-sucking vampire." (Thanks to Z)
Islam denies that Jesus is God, they say he was a prophet, like Mohamed - yet they venerate Mohamed as greater than Jesus Christ. The 'religion' is anti-Christian in its very essence. From the time of Mohamed they have won converts by the sword, those they did not kill became slaves. Today In Darfur Christians are being killed and deprived of their homeland by an Islamic government. Christians around the Muslim world have been consistently persecuted up to our own day. Bin Laden and his thugs want the west, the entire world, to convert to Islam. In WWII Islam was an ally to Hitler. Where do they get off claiming to be offended while insisting they are a religion of peace?
Nevertheless, they have a long memory - I believe they are out to reclaim whatever they lost in medieval times - they will use the Pope's words as a battle cry for years to come. They will exploit every irrational angle they can to retaliate and yet justify their crimes by blaming it on some Dutch cartoons, and the innocent words of an intellectual Pope.
One blogger suggested that people are over-reacting, feeding paranoia and dissension by speculating that further, and perhaps more disastrous violence will occur as a result of what the Holy Father said and how Islam will distort his words and use them to their advantage. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption to expect escalation of violence and terror as a result. What must be made clear however, the Holy Father did not start it - Islamic leaders are simply 'cashing in' if you will.
Some of us who are 'older' remember the chant from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as well as Kent State, "The whole world is watching!" That is happening today, the whole world is watching this cultural idiocy of Islamic over-reaction, unreasonableness, and hyper-sensitivity. It's absolutely incredible to behold.
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