Pope Benedict Criticizes Islam

Submitted by steven l (United States), Sep 19, 2006 at 15:34

The vast majority of the world, and more specifically those who believe in benignly acquired freedom of thought and speech, do not get it.

Just like people fight for freedom (in general) there is a counter weight of people who fight just for the opposite. It appears that Islam contains the seeds, allowing some groups to promote violence to suppress freedom of the individuals. No other religion or philosophy seems to carry this type of characteristic as its core belief.

The destruction of the Nazi system was a costly struggle initiated by a "minority" of extremist individuals. there are strange similarities with what the extreme Islam is about and the world behaves like a chicken in front of a snake. You need very few people to start a "catastrophe". Mao is responsible for the greatest number of deaths of all times (>70 M/ followed by Stalin (>40 M) and Hitler? It appears that the human nature likes to indulge in the suffering of others.

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