Pirate's Cove

In Somalia:

Gunmen shot and killed an elderly Italian nun at a children's hospital in the Islamist-controlled Somali capital amid outrage over Pope Benedict XVI's comments about Islam, witnesses said.

Is that peaceful, or "evil and inhuman?"

On Friday, a prominent Mogadishu cleric called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill the pontiff for his remarks.

"Whoever offends our Prophet Mohammed should be killed on the spot by the nearest Muslim," hardline imam Sheikh Abubukar Hassan Malin told worshippers at a mosque in southern Mogadishu.

"We call on all Islamic communities across the world to take revenge on the baseless critic called the pope," he said.

Remember, though, we should never say anything inflammatory

ShortnFiery There were several other quotes he could have used. Using something negative and Mohammad in the same sentence is absolutely insensitive if not blatant disrespect to the Muslim People.

Whomever advised His Eminence to make that inflammatory statement is a putz and should be replaced poste haste.

Pretty good look into the head of the Left, eh? OF course, they only speak "the truth." Snicker.

And, we couldn't have a story about a Nun being slaughtered without BDS

RangerSmith The radicals  among them are just fucking nuts.

They should never be minimized by how big an idiot bush is. One of the clerics called for the Popes assassination.

This is a very serious problem that will not change based on who we elect as our leaders here. We lose votes by pretending that these problems will in any way be minimized by anything other than religious conversion.

We have to somehow acknowledge that we understand that this is a huge problem that we don't think is going to go away just because we elect a Democrat. That's ignorance of the culture and the majority of voters know it.

Topic. Stay on. Hard.

Update: The front page of the Washington Post says "Amid Turmoil, Pope Apologize." Turmoil. This is what they call "turmoil"

Despite the statement, protests and violence persisted across the Muslim world, with churches set ablaze in the West Bank and a hard-line Iranian cleric saying the pope was united with President Bush to "repeat the Crusades."

An Italian nun also was gunned down in a Somali hospital where she worked, and the Vatican expressed concern that the attack was related to the outrage over the pope's remarks.

Benedict sparked the controversy…….

That is neither "turmoil" nor "controversy." It is standard Muslim action, murder, meyhem, destruction. Instead of people being outraged, especially on the Muslim and liberal side, they should sit back and say "hmmm. Maybe he is right."

Notice, though, that they Pope did not really apologize:

Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that he was "deeply sorry" about the angry reaction to his recent remarks about Islam, which he said came from a text that did not reflect his personal opinion.

He is sorry that the vocal and visible Muslims are angry people who he was exactly right about when he made his statement.