By condemning the film that\u00a0supposedly\u00a0forced\u00a0Muslims\u00a0to take to the streets and slaughter innocent people<\/a>. \u00a0Once again, there is that latent love\/hate throughout so much of the Catholic world when it comes to America. \u00a0If Muslims made an anti-American\u00a0film, and Americans took to the streets to blow up Mosques and kill Muslims, would his\u00a0reaction\u00a0have been to call the film shameful, or to condemn Americans for killing Muslims? \u00a0I don\u2019t know. \u00a0You decide. \u00a0But it would have been nice if he was quoted as saying \u2018as much as I disagree with this movie produced by a Coptic Christian, I must emphasize my utter\u00a0disgust\u00a0at the barbaric slaughter that seeks to use violence and bloodshed to squelch the freedom to express opinions about any religion, no matter how offensive.\u2019 \u00a0It would have been nice, and I hope he just wasn\u2019t fully quoted. \u00a0If he was, and that\u2019s all he had to say about it, then shame on him.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By condemning the film that\u00a0supposedly\u00a0forced\u00a0Muslims\u00a0to take to the streets and slaughter innocent people. \u00a0Once again, there is that latent love\/hate throughout so much of the Catholic world when it comes to America. \u00a0If Muslims made an anti-American\u00a0film, and Americans took to the streets to blow up Mosques and kill Muslims, would his\u00a0reaction\u00a0have been to call […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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