Posted by
Randy Miller on Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:13:55 PM
From (where else)
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ :
SRINAGAR, India (AFP) - Police in Indian Kashmir seized newspapers carrying Pope Benedict XVI’s strong criticisms of Islam and jihad, fearing a Muslim backlash in the flashpoint area.
“We’ve seized copies of (Indian) newspapers carrying the pope’s remarks. It has been done to prevent any tension here,” a police officer said. Copies of the Indian dailies were impounded at Srinagar’s high-security airport when they arrived from New Delhi, he said on Thursday.
The pontiff hit out at Islam and the concept of holy war or jihad in a speech in Germany on Tuesday, citing a 14th-century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Mohammed had brought the world “evil and inhuman” things.
The Muslim league, a Kashmiri separatist group, called for a protest Friday over the pope’s comments. “Whatever has been said against our Prophet is unbearable,” the group’s chief Masarat Alam said. “It should be condemned by all.”
It hardly needs to be said that they prove Pope Benedict correct by their actions. But it does need to be said that Catholics as well as protestants (and Hindus, and Atheiests, et al) should be grateful for Pope Benedict.