Pope Right

Must we all watch our words for fear of violent oppression? Should we accept threats to any life because of views expressed, no matter how offensive? Should we accept a call for the death of a person because they have caused offense?

The Pope argued, rightly enough it seems to me, that the a call to Jihad (holy war) is against the nature of God. Whatever you conceive God to be, a call to provoke such violence is against humanity.

The call by Islamics for the death of the Pope - or any other - is simply not OK, no matter what he said. But that he spoke against violence and for dialogue between religions makes it appear that the muslim clerics deliberately misinterpreted, using his words as a pretense for conflict.

Shame on them, and shame on their religion.