NYT Can't Hide Its Contempt for Pope Benedict....

The NYT hits a new low when it quotes an official from the Islamic Society of North America, which was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood and is considered even more radical than CAIR, condemning the Pope. The Times should have run this as an Op-Ed, not try to pass it off as actual news. The author's blatantly obvious bias oozes from every sentence.....

....And so is the lingering sting of the pope’s words in September 2006, when he quoted a Byzantine emperor as saying that the Prophet Muhammad brought “things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

“He brought it up from nowhere,” said Mustafa Choucair, 16, a junior and one of 76 Muslim students at Xaverian. He likes the school but suspects that the pope may not like Muslims. “It makes me feel like you shouldn’t talk about someone’s religion when you don’t know anything about it.”

“It reflects on him as an intolerant person at that moment,” (Islam is the most intolerant ideology on the face of the Earth -ed.) said Dr. Yusuf Mamdani of Englewood Cliffs, N.J., who is affiliated with St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan. “The pope should be beyond these things. I believe a person should respect me.”

Benedict’s views of Islam are complicated, too, but they center on his idea of — and fears for — Europe. As a cardinal he often wrote that ever more secular Europeans were committing a sort of moral and cultural suicide in ignoring their Christian roots. Islam, a competitor, was gaining strength through Muslims’ conviction, he said, something that Europe had forgotten. The view seemed not wholly negative: He has often praised the depth of Muslims’ devotion.

But in the eyes of many Muslims, Benedict delivered another slap in the face on Easter eve when he baptized Magdi Allam, 55, a secular Muslim and writer who immigrated to Italy from Egypt in the early 1970s and who has become well known for his criticism of radical Islam and his support for Israel.

“It hurts when we hear things like this,” said the secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America, Sayyid M. Syeed. (The ISNA was founded by the Muslim Brotherhood -ed.) “We have to convince our people that they should overcome these things and continue.” Mr. Syeed, who takes part in regular meetings with Catholics, will be among the religious leaders whom the pope will address on Thursday, at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington.

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Comments

[Elric66]

“It hurts when we hear things like this,”

Wahhhhhh. Does it hurt when terrorism is committed in the name of Islam?

[Elric66]

"such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

Well, did he?

[ZIP]

Well, did he?

of course, but they're not big fans of a little thing called "the truth"...

[Elric66]

WZ,

They dont even like you calling Mo a pedophile when its written in their own damn book.

As usual, the truth hurts. That's why Koranists avoid it like the plague.

[UberInfidel67]

So His comments about Islam "came out of nowhere"? Want the .pdf of the whole speech? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5348456.stm

Follow the link and go to the box that says read it all. I thinnk his comments were very in context.

“We have to convince our people that they should overcome these things and continue.”

Try convincing your inbred fcktrds that killing is not the ONLY WAY to overcome something.
Cheeses priced!! 1400 years and 1.6 billion (current) inbreds, and you can't come up with ANYTHING other than, "Kill them. Bomb them. Stone them. Butcher them. Behead them"????????????