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Common Sense Party

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Sun Sep-17-06 01:32 AM
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10. "The world listens carefully to the words of any pope." But the NY Times

Edited on Sun Sep-17-06 01:46 AM by Common Sense Party

won't.

Good gravy, what a bunch of tempest-in-a-teapot ninnies they are over there!

If they would actually listen to and understand the Pope's *entire* speech--rather than, as you say, only focusing on the potentially divisive soundbite taken out of context--they would see the Pope was NOT attacking Islam.

He was attacking the theory and practice of spreading "God's word" at the point of a sword, or gun, or car bomb.

The Times has done a disservice to its readers and to rational discourse.

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