How dare Al-Jazeera give coverage to the death of the Pope? It is...humiliating! I thought this hooligan channel was supposed to be dedicated to defending Islam!
"Arab media coverage of Catholic leader's death infuriates Islamists," from AFP, with thanks to EPG (yes, this is beginning to sound like a New Deal-era news report, but that's just because I'm still annoyed at FDR today over DST):
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, famed for screening "exclusive" videotapes from Islamic militants including Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was among the first to announce the pope's death. On Sunday it continued providing widespread coverage of his life and death, as did Dubai-based Al-Arabiya....But radical Islamists, who advocate the expulsion of non-Muslims from Islamic countries, have been using Islamist Web sites to vent their anger at Arab television stations for according the pope such importance.
One such user lashed out at Al-Jazeera, saying viewers were "annoyed" with extensive reports eulogizing the pope, who the user described as an "old tyrant."
"What is mortifying is that this hooligan channel pretends [to defend] Islam," added the user, who wrote under the name Muhib al-Salihine on the Islamic News Network, a site often used by Islamist militants operating in Iraq.
"What is more humiliating - I think that it was Al-Arabiya channel - is that the imam of a mosque ... praised the memory [of the pope]," said Seri Eddine le Libyen on the same site.
"I have started to hate Al-Jazeera for the multiplicity of information on the grieving" for the pope, said another user.
"I have started to hate Al-Jazeera for the multiplicity of information on the grieving" for the pope, said another user.
And I am sure god hates you back.
Boy, oh boy! The Muslims are so easily HUMILIATED! By EVERYTHING! It really isn't "humiliation," though; it's frustration of the sort the average two-year-old experiences when things don't immediately go his way, and is then followed by a temper tantrum in an effort to "make it happen."
Humiliation and frustration aren't the same, but the Muslims just never seem to get past the emotional maturity of the average two-year-old, so they can't tell them apart.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050404/w040438.html
French lowering of flag for Pope blasted; critics cite Muslim head scarf flap
12:32 PM EDT Apr 04
PARIS (AP) - Critics complained Monday about France's decision to lower flags to half-staff to mark the death of Pope John Paul, saying the sign of mourning for a religious leader conflicts with the French principle of secularism.
"I'm troubled," Christophe Girard, deputy mayor for culture at Paris city hall, told France-2 television. The office of Premier Jean-Pierre Raffarin ordered the flags on France's public buildings at half-staff for 24 hours following the death of the Pope on Saturday "in keeping with Republican custom."
But critics say that the custom is secular, based on the separation of church and state, and they point to France's law banning Islamic head scarves in classrooms to underscore the point.
"On the front of our town halls, our schools, it is marked liberty, equality, fraternity," said Girard, a Green party member who describes himself as Catholic.
"It isn't written Catholic France or the Catholic Republic of France like the Islamic Republic of Iran," he said.
As a Southern Baptist I to will be glad when all this coverage of the Pope gets over with.
I have no feeling for anyone who puts forth a system of doctrine (that is contrary to Biblical teachings) that offers a false hope of salvation.
So throw some dirt on this guy and lets get back to some 'little House on the Prairie'.
Kleo in Anderson, Ca.
Kleo, chill out. A very good and forgiving man, the religious leader of a wide and good faith, is dead. I highly doubt Catholics would express a 'lack of feeling' if Baker or Robertson suddenly keeled over. You may not have agreed with him, and there are elements of the ecclessiarcy that had faults, but until you can categorically prove to me that Baptism's all 'ab' and Catholicism's all 'flab', shut it. Let the churches worship as they will, for crying out loud. Or are things not bad enough in the world that the Christians should be fighting amongst one another too?
Man...
Geoff
Kleo- (Madame?)
Not very Christian of you. Abuse of a corpse is considered decent human feelings?
J P II did the best he could with the hand dealt him, broadened the humanity of a hidebound institution, and, although imperfect (AKA human), at least tried to bring down despotisms (the soviets, remember them), apologized for historical
abuses by the Catholic Church, and was not caught in a motel room (Jimmy Swaggert, Jim Bakker) with a nubile member of the flock, or stealing from the coffers, or any of the all-too-common frauds and abuses done by many other religious preachers.
Flawed, but undeserving of your pharisee carping.
(Or is it a Muslim troll in 'Baptist' dress?)
Personally the popes death dosn't interest me.In the big picture he did nothing for humanity and in reallity he and his church steal from people every week in church(don't tell me the Vatican isn't mega rich).
Did he stop priests from molesting children?NO
Did he cure cancer? NO
Did he prevent world wide starvation? NO
What did he prevent? Nothing
I just don't understand the big deal about a sexist in a sexist,repressive religion(like all religions).
I don't believe any religion is true because lets face it it's just a belief.Prove a god even exists,can't be done.Humans invented religion because of our fear of our mortality,in this day and age we should know better.
I am not that religious either and I don't agree with alot of Catholic doctrine but he did do alot of good too. He did nothing for Humanity? He did alot to help with the end of Communism and he fought the Communists all his life. That alone is worth alot of credit in my eyes. It isn't fair to leave out all the good he did unless you want to be biased.
The Pope had a mixed message.
He was as Patriarchial and misogynistic as the Muslims on the hand. Anti Communist on the and anti Capitalist.
A low point, I suppose, was his response to the death of Archbishop Romero and that was a result of very poor advice from Cardinal Casariego of Guatemala who was the only cardinal in Central America at the time and Cardinal Casariego was a great supporter of the Guatemalan military and of militarism in general, in fact Casariego said if he wasn't a cardinal he would want to be a general.In March of 1983 he shook his finger at Ernesto Cardinal at a time when he was visiting Nicaragua and twenty youths had just been killed in the Contra war, and the mothers of those youth were present and they were holding pictures of their sons, and the Pope actually told them to shut up.
Let's all hope the new Pope is not as inclined to dhimmitude as John Paul II.
Kleo--You better start listening to Christian radio and turning off Little House.
DT writes, "Prove a god even exists,can't be done." DT, you can't prove one doesn't, either. Atheism takes a leap of faith, too.
Giaour, again you overstate the case. The pope as mysogynistic as Muslims? Please. Do you not actually read any of the articles on DhimmiWatch?
Kudos to Al-Jazeera, for once.
DT,
"Did he cure cancer?"
Far be from me, poor secularist, to be defending Catholicism again (yet, I'll admit they have me interested these days), but what are you on about? He didn't build underwater cities either, and I hear his investigation into the disappearance of the Lindbergh baby is going really badly, but is that his mandate?
"Did he prevent world-wide starvation?"
'World-wide'? What, you're starving? Come on, how's a Pope going to help that? Shame countries into providing aid? Didn't he do that already? That's a good proportion of why they provide aid now. Look, if you want all that stuff, give him back his political power (i.e. the Pope's "divisions", as old Stalin liked to say) and make him a political power and then bitch about why they never hold elections (other than that of the Papal See, anyway).
Geoff