Turkish official compares pope to Hitler

Posted by Anne on September 15, 2006 8:32 AM

Coming from a Turkish official is that a [1] compliment or an insult?
From [2] AP

Turkey's ruling Islamic-rooted party joined a wave of criticism of Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, accusing him of trying to revive the spirit of the Crusades with remarks he made about Islam. A party official said the pontiff would go down in history "in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini" for his words.

A few years ago, I bought then-Cardinal Ratzinger's book, [3] Truth and Tolerance and was deeply disappointed that he bracketed Islam, the topic I was most interested in, for discussion at a later time. I am glad to see that now is finally the time for discussion.

Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/09/turkish-official-compares-pope-to-hitler.html

URLs in this post:
[1] http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/005409.php
[2] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_re_mi_ea/pope_muslims
[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158617035X?ie=UTF8&tag=robertspencer-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=158617035X