Posted on 05/05/2007 2:05:42 PM PDT by humint
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami met Friday with Pope Benedict XVI for talks the Vatican hoped would help heal tensions left from the pontiff's remarks on Islam and violence, but the Iranian said the wounds were still very deep. Khatami, a reformist in power from 1997 to 2005, had been scheduled to meet with Benedict in October but the meeting was canceled. No reason was given, but it was just weeks after Benedict's speech in Germany about Islam touched off protests across the Muslim world. On Friday, the two men spoke about the importance of "a serene dialogue between cultures intended to overcome the grave tensions that mark our times," the Vatican said in a statement after their 30-minute meeting.
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I bet it doesn’t hurt as much as getting your head cut off for saying you believe in Christ. Now that hurts...idiot.
Considering the nature of some of the stuff that bunch has said over the years...that’s pure comedy.
Let's keep the dialogue serene please. Otherwise the situation could get out of hand.
read * my * mind.
Awwww, the poor baby.
Tony, my friend, ya know I love you. Hows the Family eh? Trixie doin well? and your son, whazizname. yeah joey, good lookin kid, he’s doing good eh? Good, So Tony, we been close a long time, friends even, and thats why this bothers me what you said, we’re friends and you say this thing and , well , it hurts me Tony and I think, well its Tony sos I can overlook it, should I overlook it Tony? Yeah. I know you want me to and Tony I want to too. So I think, I’ll overlook it, this thing you said. Yeah, we’ll let bygones be bygones, thay sounds good don’t it Tony , so thats qwhat we should do? But Tony, even though I want to, cause I love you Ton, you know I do, but Tony, How’s it gonna look, yknow theres business and then theres friendship and this thing you said Tony—Its bad for business , so even though we both wanna forget, right? I’m really sorry but I can’t and that hurts me Tony. it hurts me to think of you betrayin our friendship and such
BANG
thud
Sorry Tony but I know ya understand
Did the Pope inform the bastard of the many “hurts” still festering over DEEDS not words, perpetrated by the Islamists”.
Humoring Islamist is not the path to peace.
How about that folks! Let’s give him a hand.
Brought to you by the same people that have pledged to drown you in a lake of fire! Cut off you heads and destroy your country!
What a kidder!
Seriously, he will be here all week. Make sure you try the chicken and remember to tip you waiter!
My exact thought.
I know this is about Pope Benedict’s statement, but I want to quote another Pope’s statement which I just love:
“I come as one who wishes you to fulfill completely your noble destiny of service to the world.”
Pope John Paul (on his last visit to America)
Could someone answer Emperor Manuel P II’s question: What did Mohammed bring that was new that wasn’t cruel and inhuman?
He should put some ice on that.
Boo hoo. Perhaps he should be sent a bouquet of STFU.
CAMP TAJI — Coalition forces thwarted an al-Qaeda plot to destroy the Huda Girls’ School in Tarmiyah, said U.S. military officials Thursday.
As reconstruction efforts for school systems in Iraq continued, al-Qaeda extremists targeted the Huda Girls’ School in Tarmiyah twice in the past month using improvised explosive devices and building explosives into the school house.
“[It was a] sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the Multi-National Force-Iraq spokesman.
Recently, the al-Qaeda plan to destroy the school was disrupted when Soldiers of 2nd “Stallion” Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team discovered a detonating wire across the street from the school leading to five artillery shells, two large explosive-filled propane tanks and numerous projectiles embedded in and around the construction of the school house.
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