Wednesday, September 20, 2006
To: The Detroit Free Press
Re: “Area Catholics, Muslims seek healing over pope”, Sept. 20.
The pope’s speech that so riled the Muslim universe, was deliberate and timely but in no way insulting as any one who has read the pope’s comments will tell you. But any religion that condemns the taking of ones own life as well as the lives of innocent people but worships and praises suicide bombers that slaughter innocent people deliberately as holy martyrs, has some serious explaining to do. As long as moderate Muslims refuse to condemn and denounce such behavior in the loudest and harshest possible terms and take positive steps to oppose it, they should not expect any understanding or respect from non-Muslims. The pope tried to open a door of dialogue between religions and cultures but now he has to see how futile his attempt was – pity.
Janusz M Szyszko
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