Pope enrages muslim world, inspires death threats by suggesting Islam not peaceful

[Reenk Roink]

Depends on what you consider out of proportion. Civil protests, while they should never be prohibited by anyone, can be uncalled for too. If some high ranking muslim cleric called by personal philosophy (in my case, secular humanism/agnosticism) vile, immoral or without virtue, I would certainly not dignify it with a demonstration. A lot of muslims are way to uptight about critique on their religion, we say that even more clearly with the cartoon riots.
That, and when I say that a lot of muslims react to strongly that doesn't mean that all of the protesters must have had set fire to churches or intimidated christians. With every violent outburst there's only a tiny fraction that actually commits the deeds, but many more of them don't condemn those deeds or even agree with them.

Where the protests have clearly gone out of hand (Palestine) the Hamas/Palestinan leader Haneiya has repeatedly condemned the attacks against churches.

[Ignoramus]

All the Pope did was quote someone, and the Muslims fly into a rage. It's ridiculous. Muslims quote people who speak against Christianity, and the Christian community doesn't call for their death.

[Papewaio]

Okay just a 24hr time out before it gets worse.

[AntiochusIII]

Okay just a 24hr time out before it gets worse.

Good idea. It's getting in circles.

Aren't you going to lock it?