The Religion of Peace Makes More Threats.

In yesterday's Web Recon it was reported by Allahpundit that the Pope had attacked Islam on its concept of Jihad. Today its being reported in the Washington Times that:

"Turkey's top Islamic cleric asked Pope Benedict XVI yesterday to take back recent remarks he made about Islam and unleashed a string of counteraccusations against Christianity, raising tensions before the pontiff's November visit to Turkey -- his first to a Muslim majority nation."

Seems that Allahpundit was right the Pope is marked for death, the only problem is the Pope is absolutely correct in his assessment of Modern Islam, even if he was quoting historical documents; it is still a death cult.

To defend your recent actions with the argument that since centuries ago Muslims and Jews were killed by Crusading Christian knights is akin to saying that Modern Islamists are no better than Medieval man and to ignore the thousands of years of peace that Christendom has preached after realizing that its crusades were not in line with the teaching of Christ. It’s damning me to death simply for the fact that a possible relative one thousand years ago did something stupid, and I am to be held accountable for that act. Christianity in a small short period of its 2006 year history may have slipped off the path of its teaching for several decades, but it regained its footing and refocused itself on the true teachings of its founder, Islam, has never strayed from its founder’s word and for its 2000+ year history it has indiscriminately killed any who stood in its way.

If as in the words of Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey's powerful Religious Affairs Directorate, he was deeply offended by the remarks about Islamic holy war, calling them "extraordinarily worrying, saddening and unfortunate." Then perhaps he should reconsider their tactics of spreading the word of Mohammed and stop the indiscriminant killing of innocents and non-Muslims around the world. Talk of Jihad is extraordinarily worrying for the simple fact that Muslim Extremists around the world invoke those very words when they kill those that will not submit to Islam.

Perhaps the disconnect between Modern Islam and Historical Christianity is because Modern Islam is still rooted in the 15th Century and not the 21st Century. If Muslim countries follow the advice of Hakem al-Mutairi, secretary general of Kuwait's Islamic Umma, or Islamic Nation, party, urging Muslim countries to recall their ambassadors from the Vatican until the pope apologizes for what Mr. al-Mutairi called his "calumnies" against Islam, then perhaps we should hold these same people responsible for their calumnies against humanity.