Lovely piece roachy, its great seeing how the left is trying to remain blind to the issue and blaming the west for the conflict.
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What makes me shudder about the Pope's Regensburg lecture is that he appears to join Osama bin Laden in this effort to cast the current conflict as a clash of civilisations.
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I'm taking the pope over the leftwing columnist on this one. Also I'd think there should be a form of 'Goodwining' for comparing one to Bin Ladin.
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ut what sense is there in such a contest? If the most senior figure in Christendom effectively takes Bin Laden's bait and says that, yes, this is a war of religions, ours against yours, how can this end? Such a war cannot be quieted by the usual means of diplomacy or compromise. There can be no happy medium in matters of core belief: Muslims cannot meet Christians halfway on their belief that God spoke to Muhammad, just as Christians cannot compromise on Jesus's status as the son of God.
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This is where he missed the point. The religion may be the center but its NOT a clash of religions, its a clash of civilizations, of people, the religion is just being used by one side as a way to motivate their people and justify barbaric acts.
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Most religious leaders have long recognised that, and agreed to tiptoe politely around each other, offering a warm, soapy bath of rhetoric about "shared values" and "interfaith dialogue". Of course they have known that, if pushed, they would be obliged to say their own faiths are better than the others, but they have avoided doing so. Now this Pope has broken that compact - and who knows what havoc he has unleashed
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Oh christ, has this guy been LISTENING to what the Islamic religious 'leaders' have been saying lately? How do they feel about Jews? I don't think I need to quote these guys here to prove THIS point now do I.