Re: POPE: FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM CONTRADICTS MUHAMMAD
Pope Benedict XVI and my failing memory
Almost sixty years ago I came across an anecdote related to Hazrat Omar. He was a mighty ruler extending his empire up to Spain. One day his colleagues (cabinet ministers) accused him of employing a Jew as his camel-driver. Omar was taken aback. The Jew had been in his service for more than a decade and yet he remained a Jew. Omar apologised his failure to convert him and said it was not difficult to run an empire but so difficult to be a good Muslim. Yet more, Omar declined to sack the Jew because the driver was efficient and loyal to Omar. I narrate the above to exemplify tolerance as taught by great men. It is unfortunate that the present Pope has started a diatribe of discord. We hope that it isn't the beginning of a harder, intolerant stance by the Vatican.
QN Zaman Old DOHS, Banani, Dhaka
Not just that anti-semitism has been a monopoly of Europeans to date and nobody can out do their atrocities commited against the Jews through out history...
The warring crusaders in their first act of noble deed massacred Jewish communities situated along the Rhine river...
And where did the Jews run off to when prepetually and ruthlessly persecuted in the European lands -- to muslim spain and Ottoman Turkey...