Slog - Comments on Pope Attempts to Smooth Things Over With Osama bin Laden... http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with ...by, um, baptizing a Muslim convert to Catholicism. Italy's most prominent Muslim commentator, a journalist with iconoclastic views such as support for Israel, converted to Roman Catholicism Saturday when the pope baptized him at an Easter service.... Vatican television zoomed in on Allam, who sat in the front row of the basilica along with six other candidates for baptism. Allam later received his first Communion. Well, that should put a stop to talk of a "new crusade" and death threats made against the pope. Via Drudge.... Copyright 2008 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:55:29 -0800 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:23:35 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty Are you kidding? This is going to INFURIATE the fucking Muslims. This is 100 times more blasphemous than printing a cartoon in the newspaper.

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976909 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976909 Religion Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:13:30 -0800 Comment by bma Wow... I can't express how little I respect my old faith at this point. This pope is a fucking idiot.

]]> bma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976913 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976913 Religion Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:29:54 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton @1 I'm not sure if you missed it or not, but Dan was being sarcastic.

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976944 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976944 Religion Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:02:59 -0800 Comment by kinaidos Later they'll no doubt tape him eating the customary 10 courses of pork papal conversion banquet.
For a muslim though, Catholicism must seem pretty compelling, holding out as it does hope for virgin birth. After all what's the one thing that's better than dozens of virgins in the afterlife - dozens of perpetual virgins in the afterlife.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976951 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976951 Religion Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:30:44 -0800 Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty No, Mike, I didn't miss anything - I was being sarcastic too. Hey, it was either that or some kind of wisecrack about Obama bin Laden. . . .

]]> Fifty-Two-Eighty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976953 Religion Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:41:10 -0800 Comment by Max Bell Funniest thing I read all day.

Maybe the Muslims and the Catholics will wipe each other out.

]]> Max Bell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976990 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c976990 Religion Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:56:00 -0800 Comment by Vince #6 What a thrilling scenario! It is inevitable, isn't it? They love killing people for their respective gods. Lots and lots of proof of that!

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c977042 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/pope_attempts_to_smooth_things_over_with#c977042 Religion Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:23:35 -0800