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Tag: NYTimes

Paper of Record

By Uber Pig, Section News
Posted on Sun Sep 17, 2006 at 11:02:37 PM EST
Tags: NYTimes (all tags)

In what fucked up, logically tortured world is it possible for the editors of the New York Times -- not some random hired-gun opinion writer randomly chosen in a fit of pique, but the editors to write this?

There is more than enough religious anger in the world. So it is particularly disturbing that Pope Benedict XVI has insulted Muslims, quoting a 14th-century description of Islam as "evil and inhuman."

In the most provocative part of a speech this week on "faith and reason," the pontiff recounted a conversation between an "erudite" Byzantine Christian emperor and a "learned" Muslim Persian circa 1391. The pope quoted the emperor saying, "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

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