While both items from Palestinian media mentioned below occurred before Pope Benedict’s meeting with Muslim envoys, no one seems to be in a hurry to apologize either for the cartoon or the content of the sermon following that meeting, which was clearly not enough for those who would demand the Pope grovel for forgiveness like a proper dhimmi, or convert to Islam. From YNet News:
Pope Benedict XVI is “arrogant,” “stupid,” and “criminal,” and will be judged by Allah on the day “when eyes will stare in terror,” declared a sermon delivered this past weekend on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ state-run television station.
The sermon coincided with a cartoon also published this weekend in an official Hamas-run daily newspaper in which the pontiff is depicted holding a swastika while wearing a scarf of American and Danish flags.
The cartoon, published by the Hamas paper Al-Risala (“the message”), can be found here at Palestinian Media Watch. Will Al-Risala‘s publishers be disappointed when Catholics don’t riot, engage in shootings and bombings, and call for the conversion or death of Ismail Haniyeh?
“To this arrogant Pope — criminal and arrogant — this message is from Allah the Elevated and the Exalted, as it was said: ‘Think not that Allah is unaware of what the wicked do. He but gives them a respite until a day when eyes will stare (in terror),'” stated Gaza preacher Osama Al-Mazini in a sermon broadcast by the official television station of Abbas’ Fatah party.
“For this ignorant and stupid pope, who has no one to attack besides Islam and the prophet (Muhammad) … (the pope) characterized Islam as a cruel religion and characterized Muhammad, may the Creator have mercy on him and protect him, as a cruel man,
spilling blood, who strove to kill,” Al-Mazini said in the sermon, which was translated by Palestinian Media Watch.