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Politics : The Truth About Islam

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (1176)9/20/2006 5:08:51 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Read Replies (1) of 20106
 
Papal Bull: The Pope's Latest offense
Slate ^ | september 18, 2006 | Christopher Hitchens

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.... The Muslim protesters are actually being highly ungrateful. When the embassies of Denmark were being torched earlier this year, Rome managed a few words of protest about … the inadvisability of profane cartoons. In almost every confrontation between Islam and the West, or Islam and Israel, the Vatican has either split the difference or helped to ventriloquize Muslim grievances. Most of all, throughout his address to the audience at Regensburg, the man who modestly considers himself the vicar of Christ on Earth maintained a steady attack on the idea that reason and the individual conscience can be preferred to faith.

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