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September 17, 2006
Rioters' madness shames Muslim world
Topics: Understanding IslamWow! A "for real" adult is speaking....
Father Raymond J. de Souza says that the eruption of rage in some quarters of the Islamic world against Pope Benedict XVI requires that several tough things be said:
[...] Painful though it may be, speaking frankly is necessary if there is to be honest and open dialogue between the Abrahamic faiths. Given the reaction to Benedict's address, though, one wonders if that dialogue is even possible.Read it all....The Pope devoted almost 4,000 words to examining the relationship between faith and reason, and the prospect for dialogue between modernity and the world of religion.
In response to this historical excursus in an academic lecture by one of the world's most erudite theologians, we are witnessing a wave of madness and malice, no doubt an embarrassment to millions of Muslims.
Roman Catholics are likely angry (ed: but where are the Catholic rioters calling for Muslim heads? You won't find any!). Relations between adherents of the two religions simply cannot develop without all conducting themselves as mature adults.
It does a disservice to children to call the wild-eyed statements and deranged behaviour of the past days childish.
It is not only the obscenity of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist terrorist band suppressed in several Muslim states, demanding an apology from anyone, let alone the Holy Father.
It is not only the grandstanding Pakistani politicians passing resolutions condemning a papal speech few read, and even fewer understood. It is not only the extraneous charges about the Holocaust and Hitler by the agitated and excited.
It is that we have seen this before.
Posted earlier today at Freedom's Zone
Posted by Richard at September 17, 2006 6:53 PM
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