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Koran invokes violence, says Australian Archbishop Pell |
2006-05-04 |
AUSTRALIA'S highest ranking Catholic priest has told an American audience the Koran is punctuated with "invocations to violence" and the central challenge facing Islam lies in the struggle between moderate and extremist forces. Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell said reading Islam's holy book was vital "because the challenge of Islam will be with us for the remainder of our lives". In a speech to leading Catholic businesses in the United States, Dr Pell said the September 11 terrorist attacks had been his wake-up call to understand Islam better. He said there were inconsistencies in claims that Islam was a faith of peace with those that suggested the Koran legitimised the killings of non-Muslims. Factual errors, inconsistencies, anachronisms and other defects were difficult for Muslims to debate openly, Dr Pell said. "In my own reading of the Koran, I began to note down invocations to violence. There are so many of them, however, that I abandoned this exercise after 50 or 60 or 70 pages," he said. Dr Pell's speech was delivered in the United States on February 4 but only appeared on the archdiocese's website on Wednesday. |
Posted by:tipper |
#6 A Catholic doing God's work in exposing Islam's violent bent against PC bullshit cover-ups....we are many |
Posted by: Frank G 2006-05-04 20:37 |
#5 full text of article http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/Archbishop/Addresses/200627_681.shtml |
Posted by: Warner 2006-05-04 19:14 |
#4 Whoa! No Druid he. |
Posted by: 6 2006-05-04 19:05 |
#3 Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell said reading Islam's holy book was vital "because the challenge of Islam will be with us for the remainder of our lives". Agreed. I did, and it was an eye-opener. Factual errors, inconsistencies, anachronisms and other defects were difficult for Muslims to debate openly, Dr Pell said. "In my own reading of the Koran, I began to note down invocations to violence. There are so many of them, however, that I abandoned this exercise after 50 or 60 or 70 pages," he said. No kidding. |
Posted by: Ptah 2006-05-04 18:42 |
#2 It's one thing to bully small-parish priests/ministers. Quite another to go after the highest ranking Catholic Archbishop in the country. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2006-05-04 15:17 |
#1 Aren't the Aussie government going to prosecute this "hate speech" like they did to two other churchmen before? |
Posted by: Duh! 2006-05-04 13:20 |