Tuesday May 12, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

The Pope's historic dream trip to the Holy Land crashed into reality yesterday.

Conflict and shouting erupted during a meeting in Jerusalem at the holy site Notre Dame.
Religious representatives of all the religions of Israel had gathered to meet the Pope and have a traditional exchange of ideas. The situation got so far out of hand that the Pope was ushered out of the sanctuary before the event ended. The Pope was treated to a rude and real situation, one in which anger and uncivilized shouting are the norm.

What happened was that after the Pope's presentation about unity and working together in order to overcome differences, the head of the Muslim courts started shouting at the Pope. He shouted that Israel was murdering children and destroying mosques. He shouted that Israel needed to be stopped. He shouted that Israel was stealing Palestinian land. He shouted that the Palestinian capital will always be Jerusalem.

The Pope would not confront the ideas.
The Pope just left the room.
The biggest shame of it all is that the Muslim community was not even embarrassed by or ashamed of this verbal explosion.

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