Some of our recent popes are harder to understand than a Ouija board! Pope Benedict correctly intimated in a speech during his recent Regensburg trip that Mohammed was "only evil and inhuman," who commanded that the Mohammedan sect be "spread by the sword." When that quotation caused an international outcry in the Islamic world, the Pope issued a kind of apology, stating that he was "deeply sorry" about the angry reaction to his speech. (Source: Associated Press)
Now in Islamic and Iraq, he is being burned in effigy as a crusader and a "worshippper of the Cross." al-Quida has warned him that he and the West are "doomed" and that its holy war against the West will continue.
Well, a Mohammedan tried to assassinate one conciliar pope -- and almost succeeded. Is Benedict next in line? Already an Italian nun was killed at a children's hospital in Mogadishu on September 17, 2006, in an attack that was immediately linked to Muslim anger over the pope's recent remarks on Islam.
As one correspondent put it:
Let's face it: the words he [Benedict] spoke were true. But in the ensuing apologies he and the vatican maintain their esteem for Islam. Now how can that be? To criticize Mohammed is to criticize Islam. I just cannot help wondering whether this was a calculated action. B16 is no dummy. But now he is denying that these thoughts were held by him. Then why read the quote? What about the atrocities the Mohammedans committed against Catholic churches? Something is not right.
So why did the pope apologize? The quotation that the pope used, from a Christian Byzantine emperor, was right on the mark. The Mohammedans as a group support the Koran's call for violence to impose their sect. And on June 1, 1999, kissed the Koran that contained the death instructions, giving his papal "blessing" to the killing of Christians contained in that book, in which Mohammed says:
* "Kill those who join other gods with Allah wherever you find them; besiege them, seize them, lay in wait for them" (Sura 9:5) * "When you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads, until ye have made a great slaughter among them" (Sura 47:4) * "Proclaim a grievious penalty to those who reject the faith [of Mohammed]" (Sura 9:3)
It is hard to imagine that a vatican diplomat of Benedict's experience would make such a faux pas, or that the vatican vetters of his speech would not have caught it. Is it just possible that the pope has a subconscious death wish? Thrice he asked JPII's permission to leave the vatican and retire to Germany to write, dialogue with his students, and play his beloved Mozart on the piano. Thrice he was denied.
He was elected at age 78 and is now only a year short of 80, the mandatory retirement age for cardinals. Although at one time he might have wanted to be pope, probably he no longer had that desire by 2005. Yet, he probably felt that he had to accept election so that the church would not be torn apart by feuds between Modernists and "conservative" Novus Ordinarians.
Remember, the man has had two strokes in some ten years, and his own brother Georg has publicly informed the press that Newpope has a heart condition. Every photograph one sees of Newpope shows him with an unhappy expression or a sardonic smile. The only photograph really showing Benedict happy was the one, published the ewtn etwork, in which he and his brother were discussing a point of Mozartean interpretation over the piano.
Certainly the pope knows how lethal these Mohammedans are. They tried to kill his papal predecessor. They blew up two of the greatest buildings in the West and sacrificed over 5000 souls in them. The Mohammedans have attacked London and Spain. They recently tried to launch another attack against the United States from London. the pope's faux pas with the Mohammedans is undoubtedly the most puzzling act of his papacy.
As another correspondent summed it up:
So the Pope has apologized for his remarks concerning Muslims. Is anybody surprised? The martyrs who died rather than burn incense to the false Roman Gods must be amazed to see Christ's vicar groveling to another false religion. One thing we can be sure of, there are no potential martyrs in the vatican today, nor in the rest of the Novus Ordo. I glad that I'm not connected in any way with that bunch of traitors to the Faith.
Some of our recent popes are harder to understand than a Ouija board! Pope Benedict correctly intimated in a speech during his recent Regensburg trip that Mohammed was "only evil and inhuman," who commanded that the Mohammedan sect be "spread by the sword." When that quotation caused an international outcry in the Islamic world, the Pope issued a kind of apology, stating that he was "deeply sorry" about the angry reaction to his speech. (Source: Associated Press)