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2006-09-22 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My only regret in this farce is that Benedict has backed down - thus encouraging and emboldening these scumbags. Their demands will not decrease, but increase, now.

The only answer to Muzzy outrage is to ignore them -- or escalate, but definitely do not retreat. There will be no peace until they have been either fought head-on or marginalized as the insane but irrelevant barbarians they are.

Posted by .com 2006-09-22 00:29|| 2006-09-22 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Only God can remove him, morons. That's his boss.

Posted by Fleasing Unomosh2048 2006-09-22 00:37|| 2006-09-22 00:37|| Front Page Top

#3 My only regret in this farce is that Benedict has backed down - thus encouraging and emboldening these scumbags. Their demands will not decrease, but increase, now.

I don't feel that expressing regret of an ironic reaction counts as "backing down". Backing down would sound more like "I take back what I said, it was foolish of me, I was wrong, you were right, I've changed my attitude, etc.". Has the Catholic church ever taken back anything in less than 100 years? :-)

Posted by gorb 2006-09-22 01:55|| 2006-09-22 01:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Your Western take is about 30x more complex than the Muzzies can handle. He backed down as far as they're concerned, thus my comment. What they think is what drives them.

Posted by .com 2006-09-22 02:14|| 2006-09-22 02:14|| Front Page Top

#5 What they think is what drives them

Silly me! And they probably also think whatever their imam tells them to think, anyway.

In any case, it seems like they're being encouraged to be too big for their britches, and when their little angry fists start flying, hopefully it will end quickly.

Posted by gorb 2006-09-22 02:45|| 2006-09-22 02:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I hope it continues long enough for more Westerners to realize that Islam is the problem. I am certain they will oblige, too. There's no evidence that the imams have any understanding of how we think, either.

Posted by Chinetch Thinert3825 2006-09-22 02:58|| 2006-09-22 02:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Another example of why Pakistan should be up with Iran as No.1 priority!!!!

Posted by Cheregum Crelet7867 2006-09-22 05:17|| 2006-09-22 05:17|| Front Page Top

#8 There's no evidence that the imams have any understanding of how we think, either.

They have no idea how the rest of the non islamic world thinks. To them it's like the rest of the universe has no legitimacy and validity.

Posted by Duh! 2006-09-22 05:18|| 2006-09-22 05:18|| Front Page Top

#9 all those scholars and clerics , and not a brain between them

Posted by Glolung Glererong7721 2006-09-22 05:36|| 2006-09-22 05:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Two bits
Four bits
Six bits
A dollar
All for Allan
Stand up and holler!

Probably been done (numerous times) before, but I couldn't help myself.

Posted by Jeck Spomomble8089 2006-09-22 06:04|| 2006-09-22 06:04|| Front Page Top

#11 I do not think any muslim is in any position to demand anything anymore.

Posted by newc">newc 2006-09-22 06:33|| 2006-09-22 06:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Quarantine islam.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-09-22 06:46|| 2006-09-22 06:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Good. The more outrageous Muzzi behavior, the sooner that has to be done will be done.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-09-22 07:01|| 2006-09-22 07:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Those mooks crack me up. They still don't get it that being Pontiff is not quite the same as being the usual half-literate head of the local madrassah.

On behalf of my fellow Catholics, FOAD, and that includes your Prophet, too.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-09-22 08:00|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com ] 2006-09-22 08:00|| Front Page Top

#15 He did worse than back down. He missed an instructional opportunity. He gave them a hook to make it look as if he had apologized so that they could blame him. Instead he should have told them, in a Popely way, that their immature reaction was their own responsibility and that they needed to start acting like grown-ups if they wanted to be treated like grown-ups.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-22 08:10|| 2006-09-22 08:10|| Front Page Top

#16 Quarantine islam.

In the same way we quarantined smallpox.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-22 08:30|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-22 08:30|| Front Page Top

#17 .com is right and so is NS. He backed down and missed an opportunity to educate. But technically, I guess he's not a politician.

The muzzies/jihadiis are backwards, uneducated, black and white thinkers, and the operatives rile them up all the time with b.s., so yeah, there's no getting through to them.

The mistake here is answering to them as if they're coherent, informed people wanting peace, who actually were offended. They're very primative in their ability to reason, so it's always an "us against them" mentality. There is NO middle ground. That's why you can't give them an inch.

Posted by ex-lib 2006-09-22 11:22|| 2006-09-22 11:22|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm getting tired of this notion that the pope has "deep respect" for Islam. I saw that as a Drudge Report headline a couple of days ago, but that's not what the article said he said. The article said "deep respect for Muslims". The man has a deep respect for all human beings, so Muslims are included. I doubt his respect for Islam runs quite so deep.

Posted by Darrell 2006-09-22 15:02|| 2006-09-22 15:02|| Front Page Top

#19 I wanna start seeing stuff like,
"Pope: "Nuke Waziristan", or "Pope:"Sorry I Offended The Crazy Motherfuckers, But Do You see Where I'm Coming From", or "Pope to UN: Bite Me", or "Pope: Muslims All Pussies, Not Afraid of Them."
They want insults, give'em insults.

Posted by tu3031 2006-09-22 15:25|| 2006-09-22 15:25|| Front Page Top

#20 About 1,000 Muslim clerics and religious scholars meeting Thursday in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of Pope Benedict XVI for making what they called "insulting remarks" against Islam.

Sigh. ONE THOUSAND targets all herded together and not a JDAM in sight.

We will begin to make progress when this sort of Spittle Fiesta gets bashed like a cheap Piñata. These are the programmers, these are the facilitators, these wingnuts pour poison into childrens' minds.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-09-22 15:54|| 2006-09-22 15:54|| Front Page Top

#21 What you said, swamp-blondie!!

Posted by Sgt. D.T. 2006-09-22 16:02|| 2006-09-22 16:02|| Front Page Top

#22 Zenster hits the nail on the head. These guys ARE the problem. They are the ones that stir the pot, add the spice and make all their followers turn into Mr. Hyde. We should have capped them all in one strike. So seething commences. Who gives a rats. Change our stance....grrrrrrrr.

Posted by remoteman 2006-09-22 16:06|| 2006-09-22 16:06|| Front Page Top

#23 Zenster nailed it. Why do we continue to pretend that there is ANYTHING honorable about an ideology that DEMANDS earthly submission by non-believers? Islam must be ridiculed and mocked, and ultimately relegated to the ash heap of history.

Posted by Crusader 2006-09-22 16:11|| 2006-09-22 16:11|| Front Page Top

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