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Islamphobia:- Muslims loved Papa John Paul…reject Mr. Gratzinger
Titles do not make men great, it is deeds and words.
We thought he was a giant. It turns out he was a midget.
First he spoke against Islam, and the all supported him
Then he wanted to include the Anti-Semitic passage in the mass and all hell broke loose.
Then he spoke against the Protestants and everyone recognized the diminutive stature of the man.
Mr. Gratzinger has not shown integrity in admitting his mistakes or the mistakes of the Catholic Church. Mr. Gratzinger, was propelled to the position of Pope because of his “Conservative” and “Evangelical” positions viz a viz Protestants, Jews and Muslims etc. If Mr. Gratzinger has talked garbage against Muslims, wait a few, other faiths will face the same ridicule.Mr. Gratzinger was not naive when he uttered garbage against the holiest figure in Islam the Prophet Muhammad. He did it deliberately and with hubris. Many identify Mr. Gratzinger with the Islamphobic Neocon philosophy. He showed his theological ignorance of the writings of Averoes (Ibn Rushd) and philosophical illiteracy about the responses by Thomas Aquinas to Ibn Rushd’s “Reason and Revelation”.
He was elected to lead Catholics, not reform Islam. Muslims all over the world do not need any lectures from those who lead packs of homosexual pedophiles and brought the Crusades, and the Inquisition to the world. The “frank dialogue” should begin with the Vatican complicity with the Nazis which is a matter of historical record. John XXIII’s Catholic priests routinely sprinkled holy water on marching Nazis.
Mr. Gratzinger deliberately provoked the Muslims and poured water on “Nostrae Aetate” (promulgated 28th October 1965) and the wonderful works of Papa, Pope John Paul the 2nd who was so near and dear to Muslim and Jewish hearts. Nostrae Aetate proclaimed.
“All the people on earth make up one single community, since God made all men and gave them the earth to live in. They also all have the same ultimate goal. That goal is God, whose love and care, whose plan of salvation extends to all men everywhere.” (Cf. Wisdom 8:11; Acts 14:17; Romans 2:6-7; 1 Tim 2:4)”
Mr. Gratzinger had the unique opportunity in history to build on those bridges of harmony created by Papa, Pope John Paul the 2nd. Papa John Pual said.
“In the course of centuries there have been quarrels and hostilities between Christians and Muslims. But now the Council begs them both to forget the past and to work together for mutual understanding. For the sake of the whole human race let Muslim and Christian work together for social justice, for morality and for peace and freedom.”
Mr. Gratzinger however took the road in following Pope Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) of Rome and Pope Gregory IX who established the Inquisition, in 1233 which eventually led to the horrors in Spain in 1481/1492. Mr. Gratzinger should worry about reforming the malaise from his own church and not worry about Islam.
Mr. Gratzinger’s recent “volte face” act aimed at aimed at “dialogue, brotherhood and reconciliation” in Turkey is to be commended. Will the real Mr. Gratzinger please stand up. Nobel Peace prize winner
Desmond Tutu has the following advice for Mr. Gratzinger “Christians should not be hoity-toity as if speaking from an exalted superior position. We should be suitably humble knowing certain facts about the adherents of our faith”. “We should be hanging our heads in shame for the bloody wars of religion that have been waged in the name of the Prince of Peace; we should speak as those whose faith has produced those who were responsible for the Holocaust, who supported apartheid enthusiastically as consonant with the Christian scriptures, as those who have as fellow Christians the Ku Klux Klan, and those who have spewed forth so much homophobic hate, and those who thought God would be pleased if they killed doctors who performed abortions, who were driven by a religious zeal to let off the bombs of Oklahoma, who had a Christian President approve the use of weapons of mass destruction on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, remembering that it is Christians responsible for the atrocities in Northern Ireland and who were responsible for the genocide in Rwanda.”Mr. Gratzinger still has to apologize to the Muslims for the Inquisition and for his own uncalled for Regensburg remarks against the Prophet Muhammad.