Posted by
Dawnsblood on Sunday, September 17, 2006 7:51:15 PM
The Gateway Pundit has a lot of
links, but I wanted to share this bit:
In a scathing attack, barely 48 hours after a Somali Islamic cleric
called for Muslims to kill the Pope for his Tuesday utterances,
Archbishop Christodoulos told a sermon in Athens that Christians in
Africa were suffering at the hands of 'fanatic Islamists'.
I can't help but think Oriana Falaci wound be proud of the Pope. She said this about him:
“I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.” I had
asked Ms. Fallaci whether there was any contemporary leader she
admired, and Pope Benedict XVI was evidently a man in whom she reposed
some trust. “I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the
same things, there must be something true. It’s that simple! There must
be some human truth here that is beyond religion.” Writes Tunku Varadarajan […]The
scant hopes that she has for the West she rests on [Benedict]…Last
year, he wrote an essay titled “If Europe Hates Itself,” from which Ms.
Fallaci reads this to me: “The West reveals . . . a hatred of itself,
which is strange and can only be considered pathological; the West . .
. no longer loves itself; in its own history, it now sees only what is
deplorable and destructive, while it is no longer able to perceive what
is great and pure.”
“Ecco!” she says. A man after her own heart. “Ecco!”
Lots of additional info at both links.
Addendum: Our friends at The American Thinker go into
great detail on Manuel II.