Cardinal Pell Is Wide Awake.

Note: Full marks to Cardinal Pell for being the best Australian on the block. He, at least, is carrying the fight right up to the swamp of fascist Islam. Now all he needs is some support from the gutless heaps who make up the rest of the 'Australian Establishment'.





Pell steps up war of words on Islam
June 6, 2006

THE country's most influential Catholic has offended Islamic leaders for the second time in a month by declaring Islam more warlike than Christianity.

Australia had not been much changed by the rising Islamic threat after September 11, 2001, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, said. But this could change depending "on how many terrorist attacks" Islamic extremists could "bring off successfully".

"The million-dollar question" was whether intolerance was a modern distortion of Islam or arose out of internal logic.

"It's difficult to find periods of tolerance in Islam. I'm not saying they're not there, but a good deal of what is asserted is mythical."

Dr Pell's comments came in an interview in Rome with John L. Allen, a well-regarded correspondent of National Catholic Reporter. Allen suggested that under the new Pope, Benedict XVI, a more hawkish climate has developed and Islam is being directly challenged on issues of terrorism and religious freedom.

Only last month Dr Pell stirred controversy when he asserted that the Koran was riddled with "invocations to violence", and Islam was not a tolerant religion.

Keysar Trad of the Islamic Friendship Association said Dr Pell's statement showed he had no understanding of Islam.



Comment: Kaysar Trad is a reason Islam enjoys the reputation it has today in Australia. All these sorts of dopes can say when faced by criticism is that 'they don't understand Islam'.

Islam is easy to understand...it is contained in the Koran and the teachings of the hadith and sunna; it is contained in the daily current comments of the poisonous imams holding top positions in the world's leading mosques; it is contained in the declarations of internationally accepted muslim personalities. What's not easy?

All other religious and political organisations are equally able to be understood by similar processes.

The question for Australia is to ask is whether Australia gets any benefit from Islam. Is Islam worth all the fuss?

Is anyone, except Cardinal Pell, asking this question?