That's great.

 

apologies generally come later, after the fact. you gotta give them some time to realize the idiocy of their actions. when did the official apology to the jews/muslims for the spanish inquisition come? when did the vatican officially condemn acts of anti-semitism? when did the US issue an apology to its citizens of japanese ancestry that they put in internment camps during ww2? im pretty sure a majority of the muslim would really like to see this incident resolved in a peaceful manner. too bad their cause wont sell newspapers.

maybe christians just arent as caring/sensitive about their faith anymore? most of the attacks on christianity that we have seen have come from others christians/former christians.

 

^^^^^^^agree^^^^^^^

 

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/inte...m?id=683442004
NOBODY expects an apology for the Spanish Inquisition. But yesterday the Pope gave one, asking forgiveness for the wave of torture, trials and executions the Church unleashed across Europe in its hunt for heretics.http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=19215
VATICAN, Oct 29, 02 (CWNews.com) -- Cardinal Walter Kasper (bio - news), the Vatican's chief representative for relations with Judaism, has issued a sharp new condemnation of anti-Semitism, which he calls "a subtle, insidious, and multi-faceted sin."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_internment
The U.S. government officially apologized for the internment in 1988, saying it was based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership", and paid reparations to survivors.

let me guess, that's ^ still not good enough for you.will & grace do it on an episode by episode basis. NBC aired a show (Book of Daniel), in which that was its sole purpose. fortunately it got cancelled. i don't consider either of these to be Christian.

 

Yes, and these are all 60 years after the fact. You're expecting Muslims to apologize immediately for what they do.

 

Many aren't at all. They care about it when they want to win an election.

 

as if they've been screwing around only for the past 5 years.. and besides, this isn't the dark ages. there is no excuse for stuff like this.

 

No it's more like 20 years. But, the point still stands: apologies are late to come, if at all, even in the Christian world.

And while it isn't the dark ages here, the Middle East lags far behind Western Europe in culture and development. And their societies are much less PC than western ones, because they aren't to that stage yet.

 

just a little article...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4685886.stm
found it very interesting

 

"has mostly been non-violent" != non-violent

Danish embassy ablaze
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/....ap/index.html

the possibility that it's "mostly been non-violent" does not excuse the violence. someone should tell this guy that..