[sassouki]

Dear Honorable Pope,

You made reference to an old book saying Islam brought nothing but evils.

Honorable Pope, when Prophet Mohammad sent his armies to liberate Greater Syria from occupying Romans, there was no Geneva Convention at that time, but the armies carried with them the message of Mohammad: Do not kill Christians, do not kill Jews, do not kill the elderly, women and children...therefore, Honorable Pope, Arab Christians of Jerusalem gave Omar, the Arab ruler at the time, the keys of the Holy Sepulcher which Moslem's still maintain until this very day. Christians and Jews continued living peacefully with the Arab Moslems for all these centuries, in real tolerance and love.

Honorable Pope, your great ancestor in the 11th century instigated the crusades to come all the way from Europe to the Holy Land, killing children, women, elderly who were besieged in Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem . The knee reaching blood of this massacre is not an act of tolerance and love....

Honorable Pope, one hundred years later, without an ideology of hate, Salaheddine conquered Jerusalem killing nobody, assisting all Europeans wishing to return back to Europe and welcomed all those opting to stay which many did until this day.

Honorable Pope, in the 19th century, Moslem Arabs did not come to fight you in Europe . Your armies came down the Mediterranean conquering brutally the whole of the Arab Moslem world from Morocco to Oman ... Such armies were not carrying any messages of tolerance and love.


Honorable Pope, the greatest sin ever in the history of man was committed in the 20th century by the extra tolerant, loving British, French and others, in the creation of Israel, sending to exile, until this very day, the indigenous people of Palestine to live in intense in ******, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere until this very hour. Deir Yassine, Jenine and other massacres in Palestine have not instigated any feelings of sympathy in the loving and tolerant Europe ...

Honorable Pope, In the nineties of last century, the Arab Iraqis did not attack Europe or the White House in Washington , but 32 loving and tolerant nations destroyed the nation of Iraq ..

Honorable Pope, this reminds us of a boxing game where spectators crave blood in the arena !!!!! Tolerant and loving America, Europe and Israel enjoyed extension of the war in Lebanon day after day and over 34 days spilling more and more blood to satisfy their love and tolerance...

Honorable Pope, last but not least, your tolerant and loving ancestors burnt and gassed Jews and poor Palestinians had to pay the price, never you...tolerant loving pope....



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To everyone who wants to email the POPE
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To: Benedict XVI; Popes of the Roman Catholic Church

In a very critical era in man-kind’s history where violence is nourished by extremists and calls from wise people to peace to prevail, we the undersigned have been shocked as many other millions of Muslims over the world by the statement you have said in your lecture in Regensburg University during your last visit to Germany about Islam and Prophet (Muhammad) PBUH.

We, the Muslims, respect Christianity as a religion from *** that came before Islam and our faith is not complete until we believe in Christianity as a religion from our *** and Christ as a messenger of *** (*****).

You have criticized Islam and the Islamic concept of Jihad as unreasonable and against ***'s nature..!!

Not only that, but also quoted (i.e. you like to say) that prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), the last messenger from ***, did not bring any good but evil & inhumane things.

You have portrayed Islam as a religion which endorses violence, where faith is "spread by the sword".

Sir, we want to tell you that these remarks are unacceptable and demonstrate ignorance &/or dishonesty of the Islam faith. We invite you to read and learn more about Islam.

You mix between a great religion established more than 1400 years ago and have followers of more than 1500000000 (one and a half billion) believers over the world and violence.

Islam invites people to peace, tolerance, equality & justice.

I want to tell you that at the moment you spread hatred against Islam, it is the highest religion in the world that have new believers from other religions joining it through talking only, not by sword as you said. Only because they believe as we believe that Islam is the last religion from *** and that Islam is a great faith.

The history of the Roman Catholic Church had violent chapters. After the bloodstained conversions in South America, the crusades in the Muslim world, the coercion of the Church by ******'s regime, and even the coining of the phrase 'holy war' by Pope Urban II, I do not think the Church should point a finger at extremist activities in other religions.

In your speech you overlooked the fact that Islam was the cradle of science and that Muslims were the first to translate Greek philosophers before they became part of European history.

As you said that, we did not hear you asking the killers of innocent Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon & Palestine to stop killing them. You did not take any measures to protest or to prevent that. Those killers of hundreds of thousands of Muslims are mainly Christians Sir...!!!

We demand that you retract any wrong to Islam and the prophet of Islam immediately and clearly.


Regards,


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To: Benedict XVI; the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church

We, the Muslim people, would like to object to your recent comments about our prophet Mohammad and our religion…
Your comments illustrate your complete ignorance of our religion …

We demand an immediate apology to all Muslims and to be more considerate next time…

Let me remind you of this

"VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican, commenting on a series of satirical newspaper cartoons that have outraged Muslims, said freedom of ___expression does not include the right to offend religious sentiments."

What do you call this? Hypocracy?

I also I don’t accept the claim that you did not mean to offend Muslims or to insult our prophet.

Having read the whole speech, I really fail to see how a 600 year old quotation describing Muslims as evil and inhumane is at all appropriate in the context of this speech. It just seems to be a dig at Prophet Mohammad to me, and to all of us.

It is also funny that you have chosen to quote a Byzantine emperor whose family had to flee Constantinople due to the attacks by the crusaders. Even in the 15th century attempts at starting a Latin crusade failed as "the Greeks thought that the Byzantine civilization which was centered at the Orthodox faith would be more secure under Ottoman rule, and preferred to sacrifice their political freedom in order to preserve their religion" --- extracted from wikipedia


It is also a fact that far more non-believers have been killed by Christians than any other world religion…!!!

The Church has no right to point a finger at any religion after all the blood-stained conversions in South America and after the coercion of the church by ******'s regime to exterminate Jews.

Your quotation was an essential part of Christian propaganda to justify the crusades with no basis of truth. A closer look at history will show you how great tolerance was shown by Muslim rulers to other religions.

And finally let me provide you with a couple of versus from the Qur'an that PROOF that Islam is a religion of peace and was never spread by the sword

"Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from error"[Al-Qur’ an 2:256]

"***** commands justice, the doing of good, and liberality to kith and kin, and He forbids all shameful deeds, and injustice and rebellion: He instructs you, that ye may receive admonition." (An-Nahl: 90)

“But if the enemy inclines towards peace, do thou also incline towards peace and trust in *****.” (Al-Anfâl: 61)

“Fight in the cause of ***** those who fight you, but do not transgress limits”.

*{O you who believe! Stand out firmly for *** as witnesses to Justice; and let not the hatred of a people cause you to swerve from justice; be just; that is the closest to piety}* (Al-Ma'idah 5:8).

"if they let you alone, and did not wage war against you and hold out their hands in peace towards you, then ***** has never sanctioned you to wage war against them." (An-Nisa': 90).

Finally, Muslims do not attack others unless they attack them first. The Qur'an says what means: *{Fight in the way of ***** against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! ***** loveth not, aggressors.} * (Al-Baqarah 2:190)

Regards,