Only in Islam ........ the world's leading Muslim leaders are breaking off talks with the Vatican because the Pope spoke about the onlaught of Islamic genocide against non-Muslims in Muslim countries. The horrible bloodthirsty mass murders of Christians in Nigeria, Egypt, and Iraq go unpunished. And you are not allowed to speak of it; do not insult Islamic genocide!
The Muslim world has ethnically cleansed the whole of the Middle East; their annihilationist plans for the tiny Jewish state are made plain.
The Pope speaks out and Islamic leaders are insulted. Now that is rich. How dare we question Muslim mass murdering. And what does the non-Muslim world achieve in these bogus talks with Muslim leaders? These talks are a one-way street. It is a negotiation for surrender. Talk is one way in Islam -- their way.
MUSLIM LEADERS ATTACK THE POPE (hat tip Benedict)
The president of Al-Azhar, an Egyptian university, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, along with the leading members of the Islamic Research Academy, announced today they are breaking off dialogue with the Vatican in response to Pope Benedict XVI's criticism of Muslim violence against Christians. After the suicide bombing of a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria that killed 23 people, the pope called attention to "non-Muslims being oppressed by Muslim states in the Middle East," and complained that not enough was being done by Muslim-run governments to protect Christians.
Sheikh Ahmed is now accusing the pope of interfering in an "internal affair," and is leading a boycott of future Catholic-Muslim dialogue. This follows an Arab leadership summit held yesterday that also denounced "foreign interference in Arab affairs." Already, the annual inter-religious meeting between the Vatican and Muslim leaders scheduled for next month has been called off.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue defended the pope today:
We are constantly being told that Islam is just like every other world religion—indeed, it is a religion of peace—and that while every religion has its share of crazies, most Muslims are no different than most Christians and Jews. Yet daily we read about unprovoked violence, or threats of it, against Christians and Jews, and just as often we read how it is justified by leading Muslims clerics in the name of their religion.
If a lone Christian zealot kills an abortionist, he gets zero support from Christian leaders. But when a Muslim woman decides to convert, there is no end to the number of Muslim leaders who say she should be put to death. If this is what the "religion of peace" believes, God help those who live under its more radical rulers.
The Muslim leaders also blasted the Holy Father again for his 2006 speech at Regensburg University. At that time, the pope warned against the evils of faith without reason, and reason without faith. The pope was right then, and he is right now. Indeed, these Muslims give expression to the former evil.
Jeff Field
Director of Communications
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
