Muslims demand papal apology for crusades Highest Sunni authority sends official request to Vatican

World Net Daily ^ | 19 March 05 | Unkinown

[LSUfan]

The world's highest Sunni Muslim authority has demanded an official apology from the pope for the medieval Christian crusades.

Sheikh Fawzi Zafzaf, president of the Interfaith Dialogue Committee of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, said his panel sent the request to the Vatican in February

[muawiyah]

So, if I had to give him advice I'd say "Hey, Pope, you know that deal the Italians do with their right arm, their left arm, and they lift their right leg?

Means about the same thing the Americans mean with that lifted and rotated middle finger.

Anyway, you got a bunch of them there at the Vatican ~ they work all over the place.

Call in the mullahs with their demand and line up the Italian Cardinals to send them a message.

They'll know what it means."

"Pssst ~ no praying for their souls ~ they don't got any!"

[SteveMcKing]

I barely care about my great-grandparents who I never knew, except in an abstract human sense.

Why the hell do people care for their ancestors from hundreds of years ago???

[muawiyah]

Actually the Seljuk Turks had cut off the flow of Jerusalem bound pilgrims that had enriched the fellows who ran Egypt in those days.

The Egyptian Moslems asked the French for help in evicting the Seljuks from the Levant.

No apology is required.

[atomic_dog]

Katin is so much more elite than Arabic:

Filius tu canis et cameli
Te futueo et caballum tuum ~or~ Te futueo et equum tuum
Podex perfectus es

[RPTMS]

"This sounds like something out of the slavery reparations handbook."

The muslims have probably enslaved more people than were ever working on plantations in the South.

[hardworking]

Why the hell do people care for their ancestors from hundreds of years ago???

Nothing better to do?

[henderson field]

I suppose they also want an "official appology from the pope" for the seal of the city of Milan, which features a Crusade Cross and a serpent swallowing a Muslim. Some people find it aesthetically pleasing.

[Bouchart]

Because their societies haven't advanced since then.

[thombo]

"The Vatican ambassador......says the request is being considered by the Holy See."There is no way the Pope could seriously consider any type of appology to these thugs.It would be the ultimate insult to the Western World,and a total sellout.

[David1]

can you translate?

[quantim]

How do you say,"Jump up my ass" in Arabic?

Mohammed.

[swilhelm73]

Map of the Christian Roman (Byzantine) Empire in 565 AD.



You'll note that of the 5 most important Christian cites; Rome, Constantinople, Anitoch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria four were conquered by the Muslim hordes...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We are sorry that you attacked us and forced us to stop your attempt to take over the world.

Good enough?

[Mears]

This apology stuff is really getting out of hand,isn't it?

Everyone just ought to say"Okay I'm sorry for everything that was done for the past 2000 years,are you happy now?"

[Ethyl]

Ok, we'll apologize -- AFTER they return Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, northern Iraq (Assyria + GReater Armenia), Egypt, Cyrene (present day Libya), the rest of north Africa and Yemen to Christian rule.



Who can we post this to make it happen??

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[quantim]

Why the hell do people care for their ancestors from hundreds of years ago???

Some of us are rather proud of our Irish ancestry, Mr. McKing!

[ClaireSolt]

Tell him to get Bethlehem shaped up so we can visit this Christmas, or we will do it again!

[PzLdr]

The most selective memory since the French!

Let's see: Attack the Eastern Roman Empire's holdings in the middle east, 6th century. Overrun Christian North Africa. Attack Spain and Portugal. Stopped at the battle of Tours 732 by Charles Martel.Seljuk Turks take Holy Land, and what is now Iraq and Anatolia. CRUSADES.Mamelukes retake Holy Land. Ottoman Turks attack, and eventually overrun Byzantium (1453).Turks take Balkans and Greece, using Christian children bought as slaves, converted, trained as Infantry (Janissaries). Turks take Hungary. Turks driven back from Vienna as late as 1683. Turks defeated on Mediterranean at Lepanto. Barbary Pirates beaten by US in early 19th century. Who the hell owes who an apology?

[ApplegateRanch]

It's a swarming of the Plague of 700 Year Locusts.

Maybe that's why I think of them as Satan's Locust Army of Revelation.