Godwin’s Law Violation Already
An official of the ruling Turkish Islamic-rooted party has compared Pope Benedict XVI with Hitler and Mussolini. We have a real-time violation of Godwin's law in record time.
On Friday, Salih Kapusuz, a deputy leader of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party, said Benedict's remarks were either "the result of pitiful ignorance" about Islam and its prophet, or worse, a deliberate distortion of the truths.
"He has a dark mentality that comes from the darkness of the Middle Ages. He is a poor thing that has not benefited from the spirit of reform in the Christian world," Kapusuz blurted out in comments made to the state-owned Anatolia news agency. "It looks like an effort to revive the mentality of the Crusades."
"Benedict, the author of such unfortunate and insolent remarks is going down in history for his words. However … he is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini," he said.
In Beirut, Lebanon's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric denounced the remarks and demanded the pope personally apologize for insulting Islam.
"We do not accept the apology through Vatican channels … and ask him (Benedict) to offer a personal apology — not through his officials — to Muslims for this false reading (of Islam)," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah told worshippers in his Friday prayers sermon.
The rioting will commence as soon as enough of the proper flags, effigies, fuel and ignition sources can be obtained, one suspects. It takes time to organize a "spontaneous outpouring of rage", after all.
UPDATE: The Anchoress is well worth reading on this subject.
World news | Gaius Friday, 15 September , 2006
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Don Singleton — Friday, 15 September , 2006 @ 2:05 pm
By Bert Wiener, Friday, 15 September , 2006 @ 9:04 am
Dude! You left out the best part:
http://wienerville.blogspot.com/2006/09/muslim-compares-barney-to-sauron.html
By Gaius, Friday, 15 September , 2006 @ 9:24 am
Most excellent title!
By Beachhutman, Friday, 15 September , 2006 @ 5:01 pm
>>”the result of pitiful ignorance”
Yeah, right. I don’t like the guy too much, but he spent 25 years as a university theologian, and was a professor in a respected university. Which I rather suspect means he is less pitifully ignorant about Islam than some of his Muslim critics, who only know what their Imams - a largely self appointed clique - tell them.