Pope offends Muslim leaders
Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:20 AM BST
This cracks me up. Why? Because on closer examination of the article it's the radical Muslim leaders that are offended at something the pope quoted that someone else said 600 years ago. And since when aren't the Muslim Brotherhood getting their noses out of joint at something some Westerner said?
Pope fails to allay anger of Muslims
Tensions escalate despite apology
By FRANCES D'EMILIO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
9/18/2006
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Associated PressSister Leonella, shown in a family snapshot, was killed Sunday in Somalia.
VATICAN CITY - Anger and violence over Pope Benedict XVI's remarks on Islam continued unabated Sunday, even as the pontiff said personally he was "deeply sorry" that some Muslims had been offended.
Two churches were set on fire in the West Bank..., raising to at least seven the number of church attacks in Palestinian areas over the weekend blamed on outrage sparked by the speech.
Concern also arose that the furor was behind the shooting death of an Italian missionary nun at the hospital where she worked for years in the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia.
Pistol-wielding attackers shot Sister Leonella, 65, four times in the back as she left the Austrian-run S.O.S. hospital. Her bodyguard was also slain....
Ok, soooooooo... the Pope pissed off a bunch of Muslims by quoting something from the fourteenth century that said that Islam has a few problems with violence.
You know? I have less and less use for organized religion every day. It is an irritant to me.
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