Catholic Leader Insults Muslims - Time To Blame The Jews
The ADL takes a break from warning us about the evangelical plot to turn Jewish kids into Protestants to pass on this charming cartoon (which we're not going to hotlink even though you know that the ADL doesn't check their logs, because of (a) courtesy and (b) Yom Kippur):
Anti-Semitic, pathological lunatics. At least it's only a small minority of them. A minority that seems to exist and be very vocal from Bahrain (where this cartoon comes from) to the Gaza Strip. And at least it's only anti-Zionism, and not anti-Semitism (we're assuming that that's a Zionist Star of David in the picture). Although we're kind of beginning to get suspicious about this anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism thing. Do you think, for instance, that maybe when Sheikh Abu Saqer says Zionists, he actually does mean Jews?
Sheikh Abu Saqer, leader of Gaza's Jihadia Salafiya Islamic outreach movement, which seeks to make secular Muslims more religious, called the pope a "puppet" for "that Crusader George Bush."... Abu Saqer claimed he did not condone violence. He blamed the pope for recent anti-Christian attacks in the Palestinian territories. "We are deeply sorry for these acts that we condemn," he said. "But I am sorry that this little racist did not think of the consequences upon the Christians in the Arab world when he insulted our prophet. It is an open war – the Muslims against all the others."
This is the jihadist equivalent of "the Christians were wearing a short skirt". Maybe they should have thought of the consequences that their provocative words would have on those Muslims. Maybe some New York Times-endorsed interfaith dialogue (which is supposed to be more important to the Pope than creating a Catholic identity) can solve all our problem. We suggested that interfaith dialogue is actually worse than useless when people believe (a) in the truth of their religion and (b) that their religion requires getting people from other religions to convert. Let's see who reality supports today:
Pope Benedict XVI's meeting this week with a delegation of Muslim leaders and his calls for interfaith dialogue following earlier remarks about Islam are really "Crusader conspiracies" to subjugate the Islamic faith and force "Christian-Zionist" worldviews upon Muslims, a prominent Gaza Strip preacher told WorldNetDaily in an interview.... The Gaza imam said the only Christian-Muslim dialogue that is acceptable is one in which "all religions agree to convert to Islam... The call for so-called dialogue by this little racist pope is a Trojan horse with the main goal of reaching a new system in which the ideals (of Christianity) are a new ideology that will rule relations between nations and people. The dialogue he wants is dangerous," said Abu Saqer, speaking to WND from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. "The pope is the spiritual and religious wing of the Crusader ideology," Abu Saqer said. "He is totally coordinated with Bush. Through this dialogue he hopes to break the lines of unity between Muslims and polarize the Muslim world, which has some partisans who will accept this new dialogue. But true believers know Islam must rule all relations. The only dialogue we will accept is when all other religions agree to convert to Islam."
It's probably the Occupation's fault.
Anti-Semitic, pathological lunatics. At least it's only a small minority of them. A minority that seems to exist and be very vocal from Bahrain (where this cartoon comes from) to the Gaza Strip. And at least it's only anti-Zionism, and not anti-Semitism (we're assuming that that's a Zionist Star of David in the picture). Although we're kind of beginning to get suspicious about this anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism thing. Do you think, for instance, that maybe when Sheikh Abu Saqer says Zionists, he actually does mean Jews?
Sheikh Abu Saqer, leader of Gaza's Jihadia Salafiya Islamic outreach movement, which seeks to make secular Muslims more religious, called the pope a "puppet" for "that Crusader George Bush."... Abu Saqer claimed he did not condone violence. He blamed the pope for recent anti-Christian attacks in the Palestinian territories. "We are deeply sorry for these acts that we condemn," he said. "But I am sorry that this little racist did not think of the consequences upon the Christians in the Arab world when he insulted our prophet. It is an open war – the Muslims against all the others."
This is the jihadist equivalent of "the Christians were wearing a short skirt". Maybe they should have thought of the consequences that their provocative words would have on those Muslims. Maybe some New York Times-endorsed interfaith dialogue (which is supposed to be more important to the Pope than creating a Catholic identity) can solve all our problem. We suggested that interfaith dialogue is actually worse than useless when people believe (a) in the truth of their religion and (b) that their religion requires getting people from other religions to convert. Let's see who reality supports today:
Pope Benedict XVI's meeting this week with a delegation of Muslim leaders and his calls for interfaith dialogue following earlier remarks about Islam are really "Crusader conspiracies" to subjugate the Islamic faith and force "Christian-Zionist" worldviews upon Muslims, a prominent Gaza Strip preacher told WorldNetDaily in an interview.... The Gaza imam said the only Christian-Muslim dialogue that is acceptable is one in which "all religions agree to convert to Islam... The call for so-called dialogue by this little racist pope is a Trojan horse with the main goal of reaching a new system in which the ideals (of Christianity) are a new ideology that will rule relations between nations and people. The dialogue he wants is dangerous," said Abu Saqer, speaking to WND from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. "The pope is the spiritual and religious wing of the Crusader ideology," Abu Saqer said. "He is totally coordinated with Bush. Through this dialogue he hopes to break the lines of unity between Muslims and polarize the Muslim world, which has some partisans who will accept this new dialogue. But true believers know Islam must rule all relations. The only dialogue we will accept is when all other religions agree to convert to Islam."
It's probably the Occupation's fault.
