Friday, September 22, 2006

Post # 201 ROP Chronicles Pakistanis protest, cleric says Pope should be crucified

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Hundreds of Pakistani Islamists held street protests to condemn
Pope Benedict XVI for remarks they regard as anti-Islamic, with one leader saying the pontiff should be crucified.


Demonstrators Friday poured out of mosques after the main weekly Muslim prayers in Pakistan's largest city Karachi, the eastern city of Lahore, the capital Islamabad and other urban centres.

"If the pope comes here we will hang him on the Cross," Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a senior leader of Pakistan's main alliance of radical parties, told around 200 noisy demonstrators in Islamabad.

Preaching tolerance and understanding at services again I see.

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