{"id":5788,"date":"2006-09-17T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/more-from-canada.html"},"modified":"2006-09-17T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T00:04:09","slug":"more-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/more-from-canada.html","title":{"rendered":"More from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fr. DeSouza, like David Warren, writes from Canada:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In response to this historical excursus in an academic lecture by one of the world’s most erudite theologians, we are witnessing a wave of madness and malice, no doubt an embarrassment to millions of Muslims.<\/p>\n

Roman Catholics are likely angry. Relations between adherents of the two religions simply cannot develop without all conducting themselves as mature adults.<\/p>\n

It does a disservice to children to call the wild-eyed statements and deranged behaviour of the past days childish.<\/p>\n

It is not only the obscenity of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist terrorist band suppressed in several Muslim states, demanding an apology from anyone, let alone the Holy Father.<\/p>\n

It is not only the grandstanding Pakistani politicians passing resolutions condemning a papal speech few read, and even fewer understood. It is not only the extraneous charges about the Holocaust and Hitler by the agitated and excited.<\/p>\n

It is that we have seen this before.<\/p>\n

When Pope John Paul II made his epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Palestinian Muslim representatives jostled him on the Temple Mount, shouted at him, and, in one episode of maximum rudeness, abandoned him on stage during an interfaith meeting. Bashir Assad, the Syrian President, treated him to an anti-Semitic rant when the late pope visited Syria.<\/p>\n

Catholic goodwill toward global Islam is severely attenuated by such continued maltreatment of our universal pastors.<\/p>\n

And it is well past time that the maltreatment of history ceased too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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