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RE: Vatican on Alert - ISIS Threat
January 22, 2015 at 5:26 pm
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RE: Vatican on Alert - ISIS Threat
January 22, 2015 at 5:27 pm
Oh dear. If ISIL is really going to do something like that I foresee bad things. Very bad things.
13th century, anyone?
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RE: Vatican on Alert - ISIS Threat
January 22, 2015 at 5:30 pm
Why would the Pope have anything to worry about? God's on his side! He could run around the Mideast with his Mohammed mask, making fun of Islam, and they wouldn't be able to touch him... right?
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RE: Vatican on Alert - ISIS Threat
January 22, 2015 at 5:49 pm
Just thinking it through a bit---the sheer mania that would result if the Islamic State actually succeeded in harming/killing the pope. Meanwhile we regularly drone the shit out of their religious leaders/innocents. Boy will the level of furor against Islam go through the fucking roof.
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RE: Vatican on Alert - ISIS Threat
January 22, 2015 at 5:57 pm
(January 22, 2015 at 5:21 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: After the Pope's recent musings regarding how religion should not be mocked, there is quite a bit of irony in this news:
http://news.yahoo.com/pope-sees-shadows-...11726.html
Quote:"On the horizon we see shadows and dangers which worry humanity," he said in the wake of an increase in security around the Vatican amid fears Islamic State extremists may be plotting to attack the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
"As Christians we are called not to lose heart or be discouraged," Francis said in a new year's message to the police.
Security was tightened in Saint Peter's Square in September after intelligence services intercepted a possible plan to attack the Vatican.
He should be OK as long as he doesn't draw any mean Mohamed cartoons.
Wow. That's an excellent plan if they really want an actual Holy War.
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