Global Jihadists Will Take Any Excuse To Kill Infidels
Tomorrow we'll post some more extended stuff about this Pope's shocking Catholicism (who knew?), including discussions of his commitment to Europe, the stupidity of moral equivalence, and the idea that religions need believers. In the meantime, global jihad has had a busy day trying to intimidate its historical enemy:
* We're not theologians of Benedict's caliber, but we're pretty sure that fibbing is a sin:
"These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought," the Pope said at his weekly Angelus prayer. "I hope this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address, which in its totality was and is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with mutual respect."
Well, that's why the Catholics have confession. Captain Ed thinks that the speech went too far, and he's angry about it. We still think that his apology was of the "I'm sorry you're too stupid to understand anything but absolute submission to your irrational mystical God" type - but yes, the pontiff could have been a little clearer on the point. It doesn't matter anyway - LGF is right that this won't work because Islamists want the Pope to utterly abase himself. We're confident that at least that won't happen - the Pope understands that the spectacle of the Bishop of Rome abasing himself before savages would be the final blow to the morale of Christian Europe.
* At first we thought that the idiots were protesting outside of Westminster Abbey (the seat of British Protestantism) because they were as stupid as their idiot cousins in the Palestinian territories and were just converging on any old chuch - Palestinians firebombed an Anglican Church in Gaza today, so why not protest one in Britain? It's all part of the ummah anyway, right? But it turns out that the British lunatics were outside Westminster Cathedral, and we have to say they really turned on the charm today. More than a few people were carrying the sign "Islam will conquer Rome" - which they've tried to do before, which they were trying to do in earnest around the 14th century, and which we're literally 100% sure was the Pope's point. They aren't protesting, they're declaring war. Some were wearing camouflage and a ton of them were decked out in shahid paraphernalia, complete with checkered keffiyehs covering their faces. Britain - yeah, Britain's got a bit of a problem.
*Gateway Pundit has a breaking link to a 170 year old Church being destroyed in the West Bank, but we can't get through to the link. Still, he's not making it up. That brings church bombings in the Palestinian territories (that would be around where Christ lived aka the birthplace of Catholicism) up to 7 or 8. You know what would be a really great idea? Give the Palestinians control over Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem like the US and Europe have been pushing Israel to do for 15 years. Great idea! Let's do that!
* Italian nun brutally murdered by Muslims in Somalia. IHT says - gosh, you think it could be Muslims?
Gunmen killed an Italian nun and her bodyguard Sunday at the entrance of the hospital where she worked, officials said - an attack some feared could be linked to Muslim anger toward Pope Benedict XVI. The nun, known as Sister Leonella, was shot in the back four times by two gunmen armed with pistols, said a doctor at the hospital, Mohamed Yusef. The shootings occurred at midday Sunday at a hospital for women and children run by the international SOS-Kinderhof organization in northern Mogadishu, witnesses and hospital officials said.
Could also be that they were just aiming for the women and children and she got caught in the crossfire. Hot Air says "martryed".
Quite right.
* Also from the Reuters article - you're kidding, right?
The heads of Muslim countries have expressed dismay at what they see as offensive comments and religious leaders have called it the start of a new Christian crusade against Islam.
Yeah, all those troops from all those Catholic monarchies that look to Rome. We're losing Western civilization to illiterates. Seriously.
* Michelle Malkin has more on Sister Leonella Sgorbati, RIP.
* We've got a post going live some time this week about interfaith dialogue as part of this set of Benedict posts. We've got another one going up about the history of anti-European jihadism. In the blogosphere, those who hold back posts get beaten by those who don't:
The most important address commemorating 9/11/01 was delivered on 9/12/06, a day after the fifth anniversary of this cataclysmic act of jihad terrorism. It was not delivered by President Bush, and was not even pronounced in the United States. On September 12, 2006 at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture ("adding some allusions of the moment") entitled, "Faith, Reason and the University"
Andrew Bostom is a very smart man.
* The NYT - which, we remind you, thinks that it's inappropriate for the Pope to endanger interfaith dialogue just to encourage "uniform Catholic identity" (and we're not even MAKING THAT QUOTE UP)... The NYT gets eviscerated. Just go read.
* One final thought for the weekend. Most confused man in the world right now: Christopher Hitchens. Actually, we're quite confident that he's not confused at all - given the choice between the European tradition and hordes of savages (literally!), the man won't even hesitate a second. Given the prospect of a truck bomb destroying the priceless beauty of St. Paul's and the Sisteen chapel, he'll naturally be on the side of civilization - near the forefront, actually. Still, this weekend must have really served up a batch of cognitive dissonance for the guy.
* Second most confused man in the world: Andrew Sullivan. Except not really, for the same reasons as Hitchens. Still, cognitive dissonance aplenty.
* We're not theologians of Benedict's caliber, but we're pretty sure that fibbing is a sin:
"These in fact were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in any way express my personal thought," the Pope said at his weekly Angelus prayer. "I hope this serves to appease hearts and to clarify the true meaning of my address, which in its totality was and is an invitation to frank and sincere dialogue, with mutual respect."
Well, that's why the Catholics have confession. Captain Ed thinks that the speech went too far, and he's angry about it. We still think that his apology was of the "I'm sorry you're too stupid to understand anything but absolute submission to your irrational mystical God" type - but yes, the pontiff could have been a little clearer on the point. It doesn't matter anyway - LGF is right that this won't work because Islamists want the Pope to utterly abase himself. We're confident that at least that won't happen - the Pope understands that the spectacle of the Bishop of Rome abasing himself before savages would be the final blow to the morale of Christian Europe.
* At first we thought that the idiots were protesting outside of Westminster Abbey (the seat of British Protestantism) because they were as stupid as their idiot cousins in the Palestinian territories and were just converging on any old chuch - Palestinians firebombed an Anglican Church in Gaza today, so why not protest one in Britain? It's all part of the ummah anyway, right? But it turns out that the British lunatics were outside Westminster Cathedral, and we have to say they really turned on the charm today. More than a few people were carrying the sign "Islam will conquer Rome" - which they've tried to do before, which they were trying to do in earnest around the 14th century, and which we're literally 100% sure was the Pope's point. They aren't protesting, they're declaring war. Some were wearing camouflage and a ton of them were decked out in shahid paraphernalia, complete with checkered keffiyehs covering their faces. Britain - yeah, Britain's got a bit of a problem.
*Gateway Pundit has a breaking link to a 170 year old Church being destroyed in the West Bank, but we can't get through to the link. Still, he's not making it up. That brings church bombings in the Palestinian territories (that would be around where Christ lived aka the birthplace of Catholicism) up to 7 or 8. You know what would be a really great idea? Give the Palestinians control over Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem like the US and Europe have been pushing Israel to do for 15 years. Great idea! Let's do that!
* Italian nun brutally murdered by Muslims in Somalia. IHT says - gosh, you think it could be Muslims?
Gunmen killed an Italian nun and her bodyguard Sunday at the entrance of the hospital where she worked, officials said - an attack some feared could be linked to Muslim anger toward Pope Benedict XVI. The nun, known as Sister Leonella, was shot in the back four times by two gunmen armed with pistols, said a doctor at the hospital, Mohamed Yusef. The shootings occurred at midday Sunday at a hospital for women and children run by the international SOS-Kinderhof organization in northern Mogadishu, witnesses and hospital officials said.
Could also be that they were just aiming for the women and children and she got caught in the crossfire. Hot Air says "martryed".
Quite right.
* Also from the Reuters article - you're kidding, right?
The heads of Muslim countries have expressed dismay at what they see as offensive comments and religious leaders have called it the start of a new Christian crusade against Islam.
Yeah, all those troops from all those Catholic monarchies that look to Rome. We're losing Western civilization to illiterates. Seriously.
* Michelle Malkin has more on Sister Leonella Sgorbati, RIP.
* We've got a post going live some time this week about interfaith dialogue as part of this set of Benedict posts. We've got another one going up about the history of anti-European jihadism. In the blogosphere, those who hold back posts get beaten by those who don't:
The most important address commemorating 9/11/01 was delivered on 9/12/06, a day after the fifth anniversary of this cataclysmic act of jihad terrorism. It was not delivered by President Bush, and was not even pronounced in the United States. On September 12, 2006 at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture ("adding some allusions of the moment") entitled, "Faith, Reason and the University"
Andrew Bostom is a very smart man.
* The NYT - which, we remind you, thinks that it's inappropriate for the Pope to endanger interfaith dialogue just to encourage "uniform Catholic identity" (and we're not even MAKING THAT QUOTE UP)... The NYT gets eviscerated. Just go read.
* One final thought for the weekend. Most confused man in the world right now: Christopher Hitchens. Actually, we're quite confident that he's not confused at all - given the choice between the European tradition and hordes of savages (literally!), the man won't even hesitate a second. Given the prospect of a truck bomb destroying the priceless beauty of St. Paul's and the Sisteen chapel, he'll naturally be on the side of civilization - near the forefront, actually. Still, this weekend must have really served up a batch of cognitive dissonance for the guy.
* Second most confused man in the world: Andrew Sullivan. Except not really, for the same reasons as Hitchens. Still, cognitive dissonance aplenty.
