sura 25:63: "The worshippers of the All-Merciful are those who tread the earth gently, and when the ignorant speak to them, they reply, 'Peace!'" That Religion of Peace again !    http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3304938,00.html Somalia: Italian nun's murder may be linked to Pope, official says Published:  09.17.06, 15:06 The killing of an Italian Catholic nun in Mogadishu on Sunday may well be linked to anger among Muslims about Pope Benedict's recent remarks on Islam, a senior source among Somalia's Islamists said. "There is a very high possibility the people who killed her were angered by the Catholic Pope's recent comments against Islam," the source said. (Reuters)

There NEVER was an Arab country of Palestine. Jerusalem was NEVER the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. In the 1948 Islamic invasion and illegal occupation of the Jewish Holy Land, Jordan destroyed 58 sacred synagogues in Jerusalem. Since 1996, Rachel's Tomb, near Bethlehem, has been attacked by Muslim snipers, bombs and Molotov cocktails. In October 2000, Muslims torched and destroyed the ancient synagogue in Jericho. In 2005, Muslims desecrated and destroyed sacred Gaza synagogues. Joseph is the beloved Bible hero of Jews and Christians. Muslims murdered IDF soldiers at Joseph's Tomb. Muslim mobs BURNED BIBLES and Jewish prayer books that gave praise and glory to the One great G-D, and destroyed the Tomb. In the Islamic invasion and filthy desecration of Jesus Christ' birthplace, Church of Nativity, BIBLES were TORN UP for TOILET PAPER. Inscribed in the Bibles are the Laws G-D gave to Moses; the Laws our Western civilization is founded on: Exodus 20: "You shall not murder" "You shall not commit adultery" "You shall not steal" "You shall not bear false witness" "You shall not covet" Exodus 21:16 "He who kidnaps a man, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death" Leviticus 24:17 "If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death" Global Islamists seek the total destruction of Western civilization. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Hebrew Bible, not once in the Koran. G-D designated the Temple Mount to the Jews for His worship and prayer only. Muslims on the Temple Mount repeatedly engage in massive rock throwing at Jews, turning the HOLIEST place on earth into a common place of violence! Muslims have perpetrated massive desecration and destruction at Judaism's HOLIEST site, the Temple Mount. The OFFENSE to G-D is enormous! The Temple Mount must be returned to its Jewish owners immediately!

He is deeply sorry he offended others? What kind of apology is this? What was his point then when he stated/quoted offensive lines from 600 year old Crusaders leader book who massacred millions of Muslims and Jews I see propaganda to show that his Christianity is better than any other religion and no Christian should convert to other faiths. The Pope needs to be rudely awakened and stopped now.

I am glad that at least they have backed down. What of the other radical Moslem sects? To put it another way: "To a person with a ahmmer in their handm the whole world looks like a nail" Translation: If someone still wants to take offense at the Pope's remarks, they will still find cause to do that.

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Do Islamists not fear Master of the Universe, the G-D of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who gave the Promised Land to Jews? Exodus 9:1 Thus says the L-RD, the G-d of the Hebrews, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me" Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh said, "Who is the L-RD that I should obey His voice" On March 27, 2002, at the Park Hotel in Netanya, terrorists targeted for murder Jews honoring and thanking G-D for His great mercy: Exodus 12:14 “you shall celebrate it as a feast to the L-RD” Exodus 12:42 “It is a night to be observed for the L-RD for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for the L-RD, to be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.” The Muslim human bomb killer murdered 30 Israelis as the Jews obeyed G-D, taking part in the Passover meal. 140 Jewish innocents were injured. The bomb was filled with nails and other metal pieces to maximize the suffering of survivors. On August 19, 2003, terrorists targeted for murder Jews who worship G-D. The Muslim human bomb killer blew himself up on the bus as Jews returned from prayer at the Western wall. The Temple Mount, the holiest place on earth, is Judaism's holiest site. The gruesome attack-the bomb packed with metal pieces, killed 22 Jews and injured 134, many seriously. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the Hebrew Bible, not once in the Koran. If Jesus Christ had lived in our day, from the time Jesus was in his mother's womb, he would be targeted for murder by IslamoFascist religious supremacists for being a Jew living in his homeland of Israel. The Palestinian Authority hailed as heroes the terrorists who brutally murdered defenseless 8 months pregnant Jewish Gaza mother, Tali Hatuel, and four little daughters in Gush Katif in May 2004. In defiance of Israel's G-D, and massively breaking G-D's law given to Moses: "YOU SHALL NOT MURDER" the Palestinian Authority teach through their mosques, media, summer camps, and public education system, that murdering Jews is a religious obligation. Human bomb killers of Jewish innocents are revered and considered heroes by PA society. Effigies of burning buses are features of PA school pageants and summer camps. Streets and soccer teams are named after suicide bombers. Broadcast from Gaza mosque, Oct 13 2000, Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, on Palestinian Authority TV (transcribed by Memri): "Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them..."

Road Map architects U.S. EU UN - PA/PLO/Hamas political/religious agenda keeps Palestinian Authority Christians persecuted. Take BETHLEHEM and other CHRISTIAN towns inside the green line now! PLO terrorists conducted barbaric jihad against Lebanon's Christians murdering huge numbers. http://www.free-lebanon.com Click on photo gallery - 20,000 Christians handicapped by PLO atrocities. PLO savagery was rewarded - PLO terrrorists were implanted into Israel as "peace" partners through Oslo Peace Accords to continue bloody jihad. Christians in PA areas suffer horrendous persecution under cruel occupation of PA/PLO and other terrorist organizations. Christianity Dying In Its Birthplace By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com | September 13, 2005 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19453 "What some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West Bank, on the night of Sep. 3-4. That’s when fifteen Muslim youths from one village, Dair Jarir, rampaged against Taybeh, a neighboring all-Christian village of 1,500 people. The Ajajs and their friends broke into houses and stole furniture, jewelry, and electrical appliances. They threw Molotov cocktails at some buildings and poured kerosene on others, then torched them. The damage included at least 16 houses, some stores,a farm, and a gas station. The assailants vandalized cars, looted extensively, and destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary. “It was like a war,” one Taybeh resident told The Jerusalem Post. Hours passed before the Palestinian Authority security and fire services arrived. The fifteen assailants spent only a few hours in police detention, then were released. As for Khouriyye, the Palestinian police arrested him, kept him jail, and (his family says) have repeatedly beat him. A cousin, Suleiman Khouriyye, pointed to his burned house. “They did this because we’re Christians. They did this because we are the weaker ones.” The Khouriyyes and others recall the assailants shouting Allahu Akbar and anti-Christian slogans: “Burn the infidels, burn the Crusaders.” This assault fits a larger pattern. According to the Catholic Custodian of the Holy Land, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Christians in the Bethlehem region alone have suffered 93 cases of injustice in 2000-04. In the worst of these, in 2002, Muslims murdered the two Amre sisters, 17 and 19 years old, whom they called prostitutes. A post-mortem, however, showed the teenagers to have been virgins – and to have been tortured on their genitals. “Almost every day – I repeat, almost every day – our communities are harassed by the Islamic extremists in these regions,” Pizzaballa says. “And if it’s not the members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, there are clashes with … the Palestinian Authority.” In addition to the Islamists, a “Muslim land mafia” is said to operate. With PA complicity. it threatens Christian land and house owners, often succeeding to compel them to abandon their properties. The campaign of persecution has succeeded...Bethlehem and Nazareth, historic Christian towns for nearly two millennia, are now primarily Muslim. In 1922, Christians outnumbered Muslims in Jerusalem; today, Christians amount to a mere 2 percent of that city’s population." "Islamic mafia accused of persecuting Holy Land Christians" http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/09/wmid09.xml Every single agreement has been broken by the PA/PLO, rendering Oslo, Road Map and ALL agreements NULL AND VOID. IDF, HELP! Stop Islamic cruelty. Liberate Christians from ALL terrorist organizations now!

Isn't it interesting the difference between Jews and Christians and on the other hand, Muslims. When there is an anti-semitic or anti-Jewish, or anti Chrisitan remarks, the reaction heard is from the ADL or other Jewish orginazations, a Christian group or leader, deploring the comments. Have you ever heard of a violent protest by jewish or Christian people in modern times?? The first reaction by the Muslims is that of violence and the burning of churches and maybe even the murder of a nun. The reaction of burning of churchesin the west bank and gaza has nothing to do with the Pope's remarks. It is yet another excuse for the Muslims to be violent, EVIL AND INHUMAN. They always find an excuse for this type of behavior. It has nothing to do with Israel, Palestine, West Bank, Gaza, Statehood, human rights. The first knee jerk reaction by Muslims is violence. They have no interest in peace. Their agenda is to kill anone and everyone who isn ot muslim. How right was the emperor!

Jews flourished prospered under Islamic Spain for hundreds of years. During the 11th and 12th centuries the Jewish population in Islamic Spain reached its point of greatest prosperity, intellectual energy and well-being, coinciding with Cordoba's greatest moment in history. Cordoba was the star of western Europe, a center for prosperity, commerce and learning in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages.. When the very light of civilization flickered among poverty and ignorance to the north, Cordoba's paved streets were illuminated with street lighting. The Jewish community thrived under the religious tolerance of Islamic Spain, and contributed actively to its prosperity and intellectual energy. Hasday ben Shaprut, the governor of the Jewish community, became an influential minister to the Islamic Spain Govenment, increasing his people's well-being and turning Cordoba into the most significant center of Jewish learning and culture in the world, taking the place of the Babylonian School.

The Crusades, violence in the name of G-d, ended hundreds of years ago. Jihad, violence in the name of Allah, has never ended and is occurring today! Retake the Temple Mount. Then apologize.

We can all rest easy now, the radical Islamists accept the Pope's appology. Is it just me, or has the world turned upside down?

Illegal sexual relations: adultery, fornication and homosexuality: Zina (sex) In most interpretations of Sharia, the death penalty is applied for homosexual acts. According to the opinions of scholars, acceptable means of performing the execution included burning, throwing from tall buildings, and stoning. Death by stoning is also the penalty for adultery, while lashing with 100 stripes is usually the legal penalty applied for fornication when the guilty parties are not married. Now, would some Muslim brother be good enough to tell me that this is not both evil and inhumane?

Sorry to tell you that you are giving yourself too much credit.. the whole incident shows the pope's ignorance of Islam, we don't need his appology nor his acceptance..

Well they are happy now that they extorted by violence and threat of violence an "apology"

...not the rabbi.

Islamic leaders will never publicly or privately desecrate Christianity nor Judaism , since they are considered came from the same source, God of Abrahams.

Sahi Muslim No. 4206: "A woman came to the prophet and asked for purification by seeking punishment. He told her to go away and seek God's forgiveness. She persisted four times and admitted she was pregnant. He told her to wait until she had given birth. Then he said that the Muslim community should wait until she had weaned her child. When the day arrived for the child to take solid food, Muhammad handed the child over to the community. And when he had given command over her and she was put in a hole up to her breast, he ordered the people to stone her. Khalid b. al-Walid came forward with a stone which he threw at her head, and when the blood spurted on her face he cursed her." Now in my book that is an evil and inhumane act: the fact that Muslims may be offended by me saying so does not make it less evil or less inhumane. Contrast this with the behaviour of Jesus when confronted with an almost identical situation: John 8 WEB 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them. 3 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst, 4 they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?" 6 They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. 7 But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her." 8 Again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. 9 They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle. 10 Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?" 11 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

The Muslims are offended by WORDS and CARTOONS, but not by the hatred and death being delivered against innocent people by their own religious leaders?? Give me a break. WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!

isn't it?

jihad is not violence in the name of Allah. The true meaning of jihad is non-violent personal struggle, as every individual strives to avoid bad habits (drugs for instance). If you are referring to the so-called 'Jihad' of Islamic fundamentalists, it is important to make that distinction. Also, Allah, is the arabic translation of the word God.

This is the Right time to be united "ONE" between Jews & Christians as the Messiah is coming soon on this planet Earth.

It is not a victory of muslims that Pope apologized. It actually shows how open and how understanding he is, how much flexible the christians are. If they wanted they also would have rioted " thatthe Pope need not / should not apalogize". But the christians didnt do that, since it was a personal utterance referring to something of the past. Ok, Pope has apologized. Now what. The history cant change. Can the muslims change the history and what that emporer said about ISLAM? No. So, it is sheer misunderstanding and narrrow mindedness to create riots for every little things.

The Catholics, other Christian and Jews are not attacking Muslum temples just because they don't agree with their religious philosophy. Muslims have a proven track record of violence. The attacks on churches simply because of a quote only seems to justify the remarks. When you combine this with the 9/11 attack, the slurs against Christians and Jews on a regular basis made by Muslims and other similar incidents, it only proves their violent nature (a sharp contrast to the Christians and Jews who have bent over backward to allow their religious expression). The Bible says "he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword". The Bible also says "the meek shall inherit the earth". Think about it!! In addition, the Pope is a RELIGIOUS leader. He is the leader of the largest CHRISTIAN Church in the world, what do you expect? I do not think the Pope should have apologized nor need to tell his "true feelings on Islam" until the Muslim leaders embrace Christianity and Judism and stop their terrorism. I am neither Jew nor Catholic nor Muslim. I am a Lutheran. I believe the Jews are God's chosen people and by the grace of God and Lord Jesus Christ, Christian gentiles will be able to share in the Glory of God in the end of days. The Muslims need to apologize for all they have done before they have a right to demand anything from any other religious leader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1874471.stm Friday, 15 March, 2002, 12:19 GMT Saudi police 'stopped' fire rescue The Mecca city governor visited the fire-damaged school Saudi Arabia's religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers. In a rare criticism of the kingdom's powerful "mutaween" police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday. About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred. 15 girls died in the blaze and more than 50 others were injured According to the al-Eqtisadiah daily, firemen confronted police after they tried to keep the girls inside because they were not wearing the headscarves and abayas (black robes) required by the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam. One witness said he saw three policemen "beating young girls to prevent them from leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya". The Saudi Gazette quoted witnesses as saying that the police - known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - had stopped men who tried to help the girls and warned "it is a sinful to approach them". The father of one of the dead girls said that the school watchman even refused to open the gates to let the girls out. "Lives could have been saved had they not been stopped by members of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," the newspaper concluded. Relatives' anger Families of the victims have been incensed over the deaths. Most of the victims were crushed in a stampede as they tried to flee the blaze. The school was locked at the time of the fire - a usual practice to ensure full segregation of the sexes. The religious police are widely feared in Saudi Arabia. They roam the streets enforcing dress codes and sex segregation, and ensuring prayers are performed on time. Those who refuse to obey their orders are often beaten and sometimes put in jail.

We won't censor ourselves because of Muslims perceived insults and sensitivities. If anything, this whole incident proves to Jews and Christians, that the only way to get OUR voices heard are through ANGRY demonstrations, burning the Islamic flags and effigies of Islamic leaders.

That's why they kill Jews and Christians with increasing frequency. The government of Sudan wants all foreigners out so the Arab Janjaweed can finish the genocide they're committing in Darfur. By the end of next year there could well be 2.5 million dead Sudanese and the Muslim world will remain silent. After all, from what I see, and from what some Islamists tell us, they glorify death - like the rest of the world love life.

I am a Muslim, and agree that this is both evil and inhumane. I'll go further and say, anyone who supports these acts cannot be called a scholar, as you referred to them.

You guys dont know what you need. You made such a big noise for getting an apology. Now you say you dont need. WTF