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Muslim anger grows at Pope speech

Are people’s (supposedly) passionately held religious beliefs so fragile that they can’t cope with a bit of dreary waffle from the other camp? I guess we’re back to the Danish cartoon thing again, aren’t we? I wonder how much of the Muslim anger has been cynically whipped up by travelling clerics this time.

I mean, come on, it’s the Pope. Why get so worked up about something he says? Us non-Muslims don’t take a blind bit of notice of anything he says. Just remember the maxim…

“sticks and stones may break my bones, but racist, sexist, homophobic anachronisms cannot hurt me” :-)