Just Sarin

the whole controversy over the pope's choice of quotes is totally unnecessary in my opinion (of course, i'm a biased observer on this point - being catholic and all)...

 

anyway, considering that the greatest ever terrorist act (that of downing the WTC towers) can be squarely placed on the shoulders of one Osama, i think we can all agree that there is some justification to the relevancy in recent times to the quotes that range way back in history...

 

i think the larger protest would have to be in case there were some hard liners who decided to pick up on the pope's preaching's and hit out against the muslims - haven't heard of any such incident. if you ask me, in this particular case, i doubt most ordinary people would give 2 hoots about the pope's opinion or initerpretation on the muslim religious beliefs.

 

overall, i doubt anyone in this world has an objection to people holding incorrect beliefs - however, what most people have an issue with is if those people act in a way that is dangerous due to those incorrect beliefs.

 

i think instead of having such protests now, the muslim world should wait till at least one catholic person hits out at them physically - and then i'm sure that severe protests would be justified.