Index To MR's Series On The Anti-Papal Riots
Our coverage of the anti-Papal riots was nominated for Best (Post) Series in the JIBs, but there were too many posts for them to index. MR published a series of over 40 posts about Pope Benedict XVI's speech and the ensuing anti-Papal riots. These posts included an extensive unpacking of the speech itself, as well as criticism of academic and media reactions to the controversy. 39 of those posts are categorized and indexed below:
(1) On How to Really Believe (Without Blowing Things Up)
(2) So Catholic That He Actually Thinks Catholicism Is True
(3) Confused? We'll Translate: He Believes in God
(4) Juan Cole As a Study In Pro-Jihadist Faux Liberal Sophistication
(5) The Imbecility of Interfaith Dialogue
(6) They Called Europe 'Christendom' For a Reason
(7) His Argument vs. Hitchens's Straw-Version of His Argument (Plus, We Ask Hitch To Come Home)
(8) Shut Up, He Understands Islam Better Than You Do
(9) Either You Believe 'The Pope Made Them Attack Churches' Or You Know History
(10) Moral Equivalence, Gender Specific Edition
(11) He Gets To Decide What Catholicism Is. You Don't.
(12) Slippery Slope, Church of England Edition
(1) Toronto Sun - Previously Unexplored Stupidity As A Justification For Anti-Papal Riots
(2) The Guardian, For One, Welcomes Our New Islamist Masters (Plus: Karen Armstrong Our New Most Hateful Journalist. Today)
(3) Fun with the New York Times Editorial Process (Don't Push/Leave Incomplete/Old Drafts Online
Edition)
(4) Benedict Media Coverage Wrapup
(5) Oh No! Not the "All Religions Are Violent" Argument!
(6) No Seriously, You Blithering BBC Idiot, Explain to the Poor Sheltered Pope How Islam Works
(7) NYT Editors Condescend to Pope Benedict XVI, Complain That His Really Good Points Hurt People's Feelings
(1) Interfaith Dialogue. Holy Hell, Are These People Stupid
(2) They Admit the Pope Is a Billion Times Smarter Than They Are, But Not Really, Ya Know?
(3) They Have No Respect For Their Betters. None.
(4) All Their Examples of Dumb Liberal Ideas Suck And They're Too Ideologically Myopic to Be Ashamed About It
(5) The Total Lack of Any Thought About Anything. Ever. They Don't Even Know The Consequences of Their Own Stupid Moral Equivalence.
(6) Nope, We're Not Going to Tell You. We Promise You This: You've Never Read Anything Like It. It's Quite Simply The Most Amazing Thing You'll Ever Read.
(7) Oh Come On. That's Not Even Credible Moral Equivalence
(1) Murder of Nun is a "Protest"
(2) Condescending, Insufferable Little Pricks
(3) The Implict Admission That Islam Is Violent and That We All Just Have To Live With That
(4) How They Totally Don't Understand Religion
(5) Militant Islam Confuses Them. Except Not Really, Ya Know?
(1) Uh Oh - Looks Like Someone Didn't Get the "Koran Bans Forced Conversions" Memo
(2) Juan Cole's Latest Post On the Pope Is Just As Dumb and Ignorant As All His Other Ones (Not
Getting the Argument Edition)
(3) They Were Never Really All That Different Anyway
(4) Sephardic Rabbi Inadvertently Becomes Metaphor for Clash of Civilizations. Not in a Good Way.
(5) Juan Cole: They're Blowing Up Churches Because of Root Causes (Also: Academic Condescension to Blacks!)
(1) The Pope Is A Tactical Genius (Jew-Baiting With a Purpose Edition)
(2) SCORE! Iran Blames the Jews for Benedict's Statement!
(3) MR Medical Breakthrough: Genetic Difference Between Muslims, West Identified
