ratzy eats his words

sep 17th, 2006

godman ratzinger is a lion when it comes to hindus because he's pretty confident no hindu assassin will go after him. but he is a lamb when it comes to mohammedans as it's quite likely some mohammedan will now attempt to murder him (like a mohammedan turk attempted to kill godman john paul 2). so he's backpedalling furiously.

one could say he realized he over-reached himself. the church doesn't count for much these days, given the media's embrace of mohammedan petro-dollars. the fact that ratzy heads the oldest, biggest, and most ruthless MNC isn't cutting it these days. the saudis have many billions to spend and journalists and politicans (like george galloway of the uk) and happily feeding at that particular trough (i guess saying 'pork-barrel' would hurt tender mohammedan sentiments again, and we can't have that, can we?).

ratzy tried to say he was merely quoting someone. but he was pretty transparent in his over-cleverness: why did he quote this particular person, unless he agreed with whatever was said by him?

'god's rottweiler' is turning into 'god's poodle'.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Pope-Muslims.html?hp&ex=1158552000&en=1bf0fbecf10b5603&ei=5094&partner=homepage

meanwhile, mohammedans are setting fire to churches and killing nuns and so forth. the usual.

what should hindus do now?

a) add fuel to the fire by saying ratzy should not have said these things, and that we sympathize with genuine 'hurt mohammedan sentiments'

b) be totally sanctimonious and ask 'why can't we all get along?' -- the useful idiot litany. we could also offer to mediate between the christists and the mohammedans (just as the limeys offer to mediate)

any other ideas?