Thursday, September 14, 2006

I'm in the middle of reading another great spy thriller and NY Times bestseller from Daniel Silva called "The Messenger". The book begins with a terrorist attack on the Vatican which almost kills the Pope.

Uh oh.


Pope's speech stirs Muslim anger

Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.

A senior Pakistani Islamic scholar, Javed Ahmed Gamdi, said jihad was not about spreading Islam with the sword.

Turkey's top religious official asked for an apology for the "hostile" words.

In Indian-administered Kashmir, police seized copies of newspapers which reported the Pope's comments to prevent any tension.

You remember what happened the last time something offensive to radical/extreme/religious/facist/false/"not a few" Muslims appeared in the newspapers....



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