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2017-02-28 Europe

Pope: Islam needs "bridges not walls" - as he looks on the Leonine walls without which he wouldn't exist

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Posted by anon1 2017-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 he doesn't know much about Islam then. Islam was spread by the sword. he would be given three choices:

Convert to Islam.

Pay a special tax in humiliation. That includes bowing and groveling before your Islamic Masters. You are not allowed to publicly display your religion or practice it - (Allah is pathetic little god who cannot stand up to competition or criticism after all). You can be killed out-of-hand and you have no legal rights.

Be killed.

Perhaps the good Pope should deliver his message in Mecca...

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-02-28 00:57|| 2017-02-28 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Build a bridge - like the one that surrounds the Vatican!

Posted by Raj 2017-02-28 02:08|| 2017-02-28 02:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Kind of sad to see the oldest organization in the world going down the tubes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-28 02:08|| 2017-02-28 02:08|| Front Page Top

#4 We need containment.

Posted by newc 2017-02-28 02:19|| 2017-02-28 02:19|| Front Page Top

#5 crazyfool: yes 100% correct. Newc: agreed. This is why we need Flynn back and "nothing to do with islam" McMasters out

Posted by anon1 2017-02-28 07:29|| 2017-02-28 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Kind of sad to see the oldest organization in the world going down the tubes

Organizations are just groups of people, only mortal on a somewhat longer timeline. The Vatican needs a dirt nap along with a bunch of "foundations" that have ossified into hard left mummies at this point. Many of them do not even need to be replaced...

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-02-28 08:43|| 2017-02-28 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 It's been said that the church survives despite the best efforts of her leaders.

Posted by James 2017-02-28 11:01|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2017-02-28 11:01|| Front Page Top

#8 It's been said that the church survives despite the best efforts of her leaders.

The cardinals wanted someone less rigourous than the last guy they gave the hat to, and now they'll have less rigour until they're sick to their back teeth of it. The next election will benefit from more African cardinals among the voters, I suspect, with their personal knowledge of Muslims in the non-abstract.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-02-28 11:26|| 2017-02-28 11:26|| Front Page Top

#9 I look forward to the day when a new Pope is selected.

Posted by Crusader 2017-02-28 13:24|| 2017-02-28 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Islam needs bridges, not walls because walls will just slow down the conquest of Europe.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-28 14:18|| 2017-02-28 14:18|| Front Page Top

#11 I think it's time the Pope builds some bridges and goes out to meet as many Imams as he can on their home turf. Maybe Saudi Arabia will let him in.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-28 14:19|| 2017-02-28 14:19|| Front Page Top

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