Pope to Muslims: Sorry you’re stupid
Although some sources are reporting that the Pope has apologised to the world’s Muslims, this is unlikely to prove sufficient to appease the violent protestors who are protesting about being called violent.
A senior Vatican official states:
The Holy Father is very sorry that some passages of his speech may have sounded offensive to the sensibilities of Muslim believers and were interpreted in a way that does not correspond in any way to his intentions.
In other words, if you had understood what he was actually saying you wouldn’t have been offended, you idiots.
The furore has reawakened our old friends the Muslim Action Committee. Leader Faiz Siddique withdrew his head from his rectum for long enough to splutter to the Daily Mail:
the Pope should categorically distance himself from such beliefs and offer an unreserved apology for the obvious offence that was caused.
A leading Turkish cleric has branded the Pope “in the same category as Hitler and Mussolini”. But as yet, there have been no crowds of marauding Catholics burning effigies and firebombing mosques. The Pope may be a hypocrite and a fool, but some Muslims are beyond parody.
UPDATE: (17th Sept) The Pope has reiterated the apology in person:
I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims
Reactions have been predictable.
You forget, it’s not the Muslim Action Committee, it’s Muslims Against Comedy!
Mmmm, the Pope did make some very salient points in his speech. Contrary to reviving the crusades, what he said actually seemed to be the exact opposite. Which – frankly – suprised me, coming as it was from a speech by a byzantine emperor 😛
In one of those coincidences that the world throws up from time to time, today (17th September) is one year to the day since Jyllands-Posten issued it’s call for drawings of Mohammed in their newspaper. The more things change, the more they stay the same……
Doubtless the monitor will upgrade the story, but I hear the pontif has aplogised again – and an innocent, elderly Nun working with children has been shot dead in muslim country: perhaps encouraged by a local “radical” cleric who suggested that anyone who insulted the profit must die.
Now what was it the pope said again?
Hold it: this just in from the BBC comments page. The most popular comment with readers so far, reads:
“Added: Friday, 15 September, 2006, 09:26 GMT 10:26 UK
oh look, muslims are up in arms. again.
Steve, Leeds
Recommended by 1340 people”
Surely a case of Beyer syndrome.
Does this remind anyone else of that (rather bad) sci-fi movie with Dolf Lungdren, Dark Angel, where the blonde alien said “I come in peace” and then killed people. Islaaarm is a religion of peace. BOOM!
It reminds me of that bit in Life of Brian where they’re all chasing him and he drops his gourd and loses his sandal.
GIRL: It is His gourd! We will carry it for you, Master! Master?
YOUTH: He’s gone! He’s been taken up!
GIRL: Hhhh!
FOLLOWERS: For He’s been taken up!
DENNIS: Eighteen!
ARTHUR: No, there He is. Over there.
FOLLOWERS: Oh, yeah. Master! Master!…
[FOLLOWERS chase BRIAN]
[holy music]
FOLLOWERS: Oh! Oh! Ohh! Oh! Ah! Oh!
ARTHUR: He has given us a sign!
FOLLOWER: Oh!
SHOE FOLLOWER: He has given us… His shoe!
ARTHUR: The shoe is the sign. Let us follow His example.
SPIKE: What?
ARTHUR: Let us, like Him, hold up one shoe and let the other be upon our foot, for this is His sign, that all who follow Him shall do likewise.
EDDIE: Yes.
SHOE FOLLOWER: No, no, no. The shoe is…
YOUTH: No.
SHOE FOLLOWER: …a sign that we must gather shoes together in abundance.
GIRL: Cast off…
SPIKE: Aye. What?
GIRL: …the shoes! Follow the Gourd!
SHOE FOLLOWER: No! Let us gather shoes together!
FRANK: Yes.
SHOE FOLLOWER: Let me!
ELSIE: Oh, get off!
YOUTH: No, no! It is a sign that, like Him, we must think not of the things of the body, but of the face and head!
SHOE FOLLOWER: Give me your shoe!
YOUTH: Get off!
GIRL: Follow the Gourd! The Holy Gourd of Jerusalem!
FOLLOWER: The Gourd!
HARRY: Hold up the sandal, as He has commanded us!
ARTHUR: It is a shoe! It is a shoe!
HARRY: It’s a sandal!
ARTHUR: No, it isn’t!
GIRL: Cast it away!
ARTHUR: Put it on!
YOUTH: And clear off!
SHOE FOLLOWER: Take the shoes and follow Him!
GIRL: Come,…
FRANK: Yes!
GIRL: …all ye who call yourself Gourdenes!
SPIKE: Stop! Stop! Stop, I say! Stop! Let us– let us pray. Yea, He cometh to us, like the seed to the grain.
The first time I tried to watch LOB, it was turned off part way through the showing, by the manager of the place I was living in.
No prizes for guessing he was a Christian! That was more than 25 years ago and the assholes haven’t got any better. It’s OK for them to offend us (or a very least, try) … but when the boots are on the other foot.
First time I watched LOB was, believe it or not, in a Relgious Education lesson at school when I was 12. Ah, the advantages of an atheist RE teacher……
I happened to turn on the telly recently to catch a re run of the not the nine o clock news parody from the time when the god botherers were up in arms about it’s release.
Is it still banned in the RoI?
It would be interesting to see if any channel dare show a rerun of that sketch from Not the Nine O’Clock News that shows hundreds of arse-in-the-air Muslims at prayer with the V/O saying something about ‘looking for Ayatollah Khomeni’s contact lens …’ Sort of definitive, that.
The way things are right now, if they got word that it was showing on YouTube, their offices would be burnt to a crisp before they even get chance to figure out it was a hoax.
There’s an element of warning here though. When Not the Nine O’Clock News showed that, very little was said/done. Now we have an idiotic “multi-cultural” society of “respect” (LOL!) and an massive world communcation system of phone, TV and the internet.
To me this has just exposed what Islam (in particular) and many other religions are about; in a word: intolerance.