Pope ready to bow to Allah
November 29th, 2006
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Nov 27, 2006Vatican officials announced Sunday that Pope Benedict plans to become just the second pope to enter a mosque when he visits Turkey Tuesday.
In order to be permitted into an Islamic place of worship the pontiff - who has been trying to placate Muslim rage he triggered last September - will have to remove his shoes in deference to the anti-Christian and anti-Jewish religion and its Allah.
Analysts in the Vatican said the purpose of the mosque visit would be to try and build bridges between “Christians” and Muslims.
But the announcement did nothing to placate the fury or encourage tolerance from tens of thousands of Muslims who rallied in Istanbul Sunday to protest against the pope’s arrival.
The mob’s message to the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics was vividly spelled out on a large banner above the crowd.
It was an attack on the very heart of the Christian faith and read:
“Jesus is not the son of God. He is a prophet of Mohammed.”In Islamic parlance “God” means “Allah” so the protestors were half right. However, the orthodox Jewish Rabbi from Nazareth Muslims repeatedly delight in defaming lived long before Mohammed and, in fact, warned His followers to be on the alert against false prophets like one who founded Islam.
Instead of shunning this religion, Pope Benedict appears poised to embrace its followers in order to “build bridges” between the Vatican and the Muslim world.
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