Jeff Israely's September 6 article on Time magazine’s website about Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming trip to Austria is more proof that the mainstream media fear a muscular Christianity more than radical Islam. The article’s title itself asked, "Will the Pope Behave in Austria?," and recounted the Pope’s "provocative lecture about faith and reason" at the University of Regensberg, which took place nearly a year ago on September 12, 2006, and, as Israely put it, "set off riots in some corners of the Muslim world." Needless to say, the author is directing his question in the wrong direction, given the rage-filled Islamic masses that ran amok in reaction to the lecture.
Israely characterized that the "mild-mannered" Pope’s address threw him "into the fire of breaking-news notoriety — with both his keen intelligence and striking lack of political acumen on fine display" and that the "controversial" lecture is "the singular watershed of his papacy. Indeed, Vatican watchers now commonly divide Benedict's reign into ‘before and after’ Regensberg." That point is arguable, though the significance of the address cannot be overlooked.
Israely’s liberal viewpoint also emerged at other points in the article. In the same sentence as his mention of the "riots in some corners of the Muslim world," Israely wrote that the lecture "sparked renewed debate about the theological and philosophical roots of the so-called ‘clash of civilizations’ percolating across the globe." So-called "clash of civilizations"? Is that a bit of denial on the part of Israely?
Israely then discussed the Pope’s recent visit to Brazil.
On his last trip to Brazil, the Pope was making big news before even landing by telling reporters on the Rome-to-Sao Paulo flight that pro-choice politicians were automatically excommunicated. Later, he would speak about the Church's role in colonizing Latin America, without mentioning the history of forced conversions and other violence by Catholics against the indigenous population.
One question that immediately comes to mind in response is whether Israely would ever bring up is the more recent instances of forced conversions and "other violence," such as terrorism, that is perpetuated in "some corners of the Muslim world."
Israely closed the article by bringing up a standard mainstream media line in many articles about the Catholic Church - how Catholics in Austria "will be looking to their pontiff for words of encouragement as the nation's Church continues to recover from a sex abuse scandal in the 1990s.... Indeed, some will consider the trip a success... if Benedict can simply heal old wounds rather than open new ones."
—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.
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The use of the term "behave"
September 7, 2007 - 15:28 ET by mostlymoderateThe use of the term "behave" makes me sick to my stomach. I hate TIME magazine now.
Israely closed the article
September 7, 2007 - 15:36 ET by motherbeltBehave= not say anything that will force Muslims to take to the streets in a riot of destruction again.
Israely closed the article by bringing up a standard mainstream media
line in many articles about the Catholic Church - how Catholics in
Austria "will be looking to their pontiff for words of encouragement as
the nation's Church continues to recover from a sex abuse scandal in the 1990s...
Oh, of course. MSM Rule 17: Never mention the Catholic Church or the Pope without bringing up the sex scandal from 10 years ago.....
How the hell does he know WHAT the Catholics of Austria will be looking to the Pope for?
And how about this from "Time"? : Mrs. Clinton, who was thought to be complicit in the financial scandals that mired much of her husband's Presidency in the 1990's....."
Yeah, right.
Time Rag is just
September 7, 2007 - 15:35 ET by bigtimerTime Rag is just that.
Despicable fishwrap....or firestarter.
Nothing more.
Puppy potty training
September 7, 2007 - 15:37 ET by MightyMouth"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Mighty....That is better
September 7, 2007 - 15:41 ET by bigtimerMighty....
That is better yet.
Gloss on the pictures/pages does not make a good firestarter, and like mb says doesn't qualify for fishwrap either.
Once again...you got it nailed.
Despicable fishwrap....or
September 7, 2007 - 15:38 ET by motherbeltDespicable fishwrap..
Doesn't even rise to the level of fishwrap....
.....without mentioning
September 7, 2007 - 15:51 ET by MidAmerica.....without mentioning the history of forced conversions and other violence by Catholics against the indigenous population.
Yes those poor indigenous people should have been left alone to keep on ripping the beating hearts out of their thousands of human sacrifces so they could 'appease' their gods.
MId
September 7, 2007 - 16:18 ET by BlondeYou notice the author of this dispicable piece doesn't mention anything about muslim forced conversions, though. I can say Steve Centani. Bet this Israely guy can't, though....
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
The area of greatest
September 7, 2007 - 16:37 ET by MidAmericaThe area of greatest forced conversions is right in their own Muslims areas. Isn't it strange that in Muslim dominated areas everybody wants to be a Muslim. In some places every single woman wants to dress in a black head to toe covering and walk around in 125 degree heat.
The real question is...
September 7, 2007 - 16:02 ET by c5thenWill Muslims behave if someone says something that they find mildly objectionable? The answer is a resounding NO! They have proven it time and time again.
Rather than bring up the actions of the over zealous catholics in Brazil more than a hundred years ago, maybe Israely can talk about the forced conversions and murders that are happening now in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Yemenand India, only this time they are Muslims (the practitioners of the 'religion of peace') and Hindus acting against Christians.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic
Double Standard
September 7, 2007 - 16:11 ET by mattmBin Rottin' tells Americans to convert to Islam and the media doesn't even blink. But let the Pope espouse the views of his religion, and he's some kind of troublemaker??? Oh yeah, we have to bring up what happened in the Dark Ages...
Fine. Religious persecution has been going on for Centuries and the Established Government Churches of Christianity are guilty of varying degrees of it, but since the US gave the world the concept of religious liberty (Thank you Baptists), Christianity has less and less frequently engaged in Religious persecution until it's practically eliminated except in very small pockets where there is a government established religion.
But the same can not be said for Islam. The fact is, the most persecuted religious group in the world is Christians and the biggest perpetrators of it are Muslims.
When the Churches engaged in persecution they were violating their own religion, but when Muslims do it, they are obeying theirs. What does that tell you, eh MSM?
The question should be
September 7, 2007 - 16:15 ET by rbosqueThe question should be directed at savage muslim groups that have rampaged through city streets when they hear something they don't like. Maybe Muslim terrorists "should behave" and stop taking hostages, bombing innocent women and children, decapitating, and issuing video threats of violence.
Maybe Time should behave and stop siding with anti-western terrorists and start siding with the west since, they are PART of the west.
The Pope
September 7, 2007 - 17:15 ET by zoro7957.....in a drunken rampage commandeers the pope-mobile and ruthlessly runs down disabled orphans....all this when The Holiness pronounced he would be on his best behavior.....and now to local news.........
Pope shouldn't care about pleasing Time
September 7, 2007 - 19:09 ET by nkviking75The bufoons at Time would be critical of Christ himself were he making this trip. Jesus would probably have been called a hate-monger and a bigot had He been on the earth in our time. Muslims will never be happy with a representative of a religion that proclaims Jesus THE way, THE truth, and THE life.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
A much better source
September 7, 2007 - 19:21 ET by KC MulvilleNot to give the guy a plug, but one of my favorite reporters is John Allen of National Catholic Reporter. Whatever you might think of the NCR itself (it can be moonbat-liberal at times), John Allen delivers the inside story without much editorializing ... and when he rarely does inject a personal note, he has the decency to tell you openly. If you go to his column this week, you'll read a fair report on the Pope's trip. He doesn't pull punches (he mentions the same abuse incident as the Time reporter) but Allen doesn't use it to make an innuendo. He delivers a full, fair, and occasionally intriguing story. I find him to be a pleasure to read every week. (And no, I'm not John Allen, and I'm not related to him in any way.)
Between not reporting the
September 7, 2007 - 22:05 ET by kathleenirishBetween not reporting the Hsu and ACLU chief's 7 year sentence for vile child porn, and all the dozens of other stories they sweep away...and their arrogant demands of the Pope and denigration of Mother Theresa, Christians and Christianity, I am feeling a particularly deep sense of total contempt for Time and their scumbag, reprehensible cohorts of the MSM this week. I actively hope for their final demise. YOU SUCK, "Time"! Time to go, more like it.
Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar.
Well Behaved ...
September 8, 2007 - 08:36 ET by Ole_SargeWomen and Men seldom make history!
Papa Ratzi - do what you gotta do!!!
Funny, the MSM is ALL about sexual revolution and the disolving of all the taboos like sex with UNDERAGED children. This is okay (re. NAMBLA)
BUT...
Scream at the Catholic Church for it less than a 100th of 1% cases of post-pubesent Male to Adult Men encounters ...
And the courts hand BILLIONS over to suspected abuse victims
I know that SOME are REAL victims of REAL abuse, but much of that occured BEFORE 1980... Since that time there has been a REAL concerted effort to discredit and kill-off the Catholic Church by some forces. Evil is real.
Pope Benedict IS on the correct track, Rock it to them!!!