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Benedict’s words got them angry…

My earlier post today about the Holy Father’s comments concerning Islam was right on target. The truth hurts obviously. Muslim leaders are crying foul. I just hope the Pope - or his ‘handlers’ don’t try to sugar coat what he stated. The facts stand for themselves and history testifies to his words. Here is the article:

“Muslim religious leaders have accused Pope Benedict XVI of quoting anti-Islamic remarks during a speech at a German university this week.

Questioning the concept of holy war, he quoted a 14th-Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad had brought the world only “evil and inhuman” things.A senior Pakistani Islamic scholar, Javed Ahmed Gamdi, said jihad was not about spreading Islam with the sword. (Is he brain dead or what? What the hell is happening in the world? What a pack of liars!)

Turkey’s top religious official asked for an apology for the “hostile” words.

In Indian-administered Kashmir, police seized copies of newspapers which reported the Pope’s comments to prevent any tension.

A Vatican spokesman, Father Frederico Lombardi, said he did not believe the Pope’s comments were meant as a harsh criticism of Islam.” [snip] BBC News

I’m concerned about the Holy Father’s upcoming visit to Turkey however. Let us pray for his safety. The third secret of Fatima said the Pope was killed - we don’t want this to happen to him. Pray!

My friend sent me a collection of photos of some fashion models. Rather thin models. Recently Spain has set up rules governing how thin the runway models may be for the fashion houses. Here is the article:

Sept. 10, 2006 — The organizers of Spain’s fashion week in Madrid are rocking the fashion world after saying the standard for runway models is too skinny. Now, to walk on the Spanish catwalk, a model who is 5-feet-9-inches tall has to weigh at least 123 pounds.

In fashion centers such as New York, Paris and Milan, models have to be more than just thin to land on top runways. They have to be super thin. The average runway model is 5-feet-9-inches tall, and weighs just 110 pounds. [snip] Read more, link.

Interesting that Spain is so concerned about how skinny models are, yet approves gay marriage and abortion. (It is an in-trade decision - not legislative, yet it still shows the misplaced concerns of modern thought. Granted it is important to help women such as these, but the other blatant immorality endorsed by the West causes this voluntary starvation for money and fame to seem insignificant by comparison. Nevertheless, women subject themselves to all of this.)

When a woman is as thin as these women, fertlity is usually no longer an issue…

Benedict XVI speaks on Islam.

From Time we have:

“This is indeed Benedict doing it on his own terms. Rather than tackling the challenge of fundamentalist terrorism with a pithy remark packaged for the 9/11 anniversary or reaching for a John Paul-inspired sweeping gesture, the professor Pope went digging into his books. He went so far as to quote a 14th century Byzantine emperor´s hostile view of Islam’s founder. “The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war,” the Pope said. “He said, I quote, ‘Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.’” Benedict added “I quote” twice to make it clear these were someone Else’s words. Nevertheless this reference was undoubtedly the most provocative moment of a provocative lecture. In a sense, explicitly including the Muslim prophet by name, and citing the concept of jihad, was a flashing neon signal to the world that the soft-spoken Pope intends to make himself heard clearly on this defining tension of our times.

It is not the first time he has entered the fray. On his last trip to Germany, to Cologne for Catholic World Youth Day in August 2005, he told a group of Muslims that they have a responsibility to try to halt the violence carried out in the name of their religion. Even earlier on this trip to Bavaria, which ends Thursday, he seemed to refer to Islam’s negative view of a Western society that has too little faith, and cited it as the cause for tensions.” [snip]

(Gerald from The Cafeteria is Closed has an interesting post on the Holy Father’s speech as well. Don’t miss his great photo’s of the Pope’s visit to Barvaria either.)

It seems to me those in authority, including Bush, are now calling a spade a spade when it comes to Islamic fundamentalism. It’s about time. AND - the reason Islam can make such headway into Western culture is indeed our lack of faith and morality, our rejection of God for secularist materialism. We better repent. Maybe our Holy Father will call for a Rosary crusade after all.

How would one go about petitioning him to do so?