Interesting that the Vatican sent out Father Lombardi to deny that ISIS is planning to assassinate the pope:
Go here to read the rest. One thing the Jihadists prize above all is the status, the street creds, that their bloody deeds give them in the Islamic world, at least among those who agree with them. What greater status could they possibly gain then by killing the Vicar of Christ? There may be no such plot now, but it is entirely plausible that the Pope would be on a very short list of top targets.
“There may be no such plot now…”
There may not be a plot, but the desire is very much there. One of the second-tier Iranian leaders a few years back commented that Rome had to be destroyed. He didn’t say so, but you can just see the wheels turning in his brain: the Sistine Chapel, the Pieta, all those acts of idolatry, they’ve just got to go. We can be sure that ISIL and the MB and all the rest feel exactly the same way.
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Wonder how the centrifuges are doing today…
How does the Vatican speak for ISIS?
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The centrifuges got nothing on us.
“The centrifuges got nothing on us.”
Perhaps not, but their fanaticism does, as we have seen in Iraq lately. The fanaticism is also a weakness once we are aroused, but it will cause much damage before we are. If we ever are.
TomD: “The centrifuges got nothing on us.”
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I wrote tongue in cheek. We have a cure for ebola, they do not.
This link gives 16% of French citizens sympathetic to IS….partly because 40% of immigrants are unemployed. Germany has 3-4% sympathetic to IS. The rest of the article has the good news that two Shite militia in addition to Iraqi forces have gathered to break the seige at Amerli, a Shite city running out of food and water and under seige 78 days. Iraq has air struck IS beseigers and the US will probably join in the relief of Amerli which the UN alerted everyone on Saturday.
http://www.i24news.tv/app.php/en/news/international/middle-east/41647-140827-iraq-masses-forces-to-break-is-siege-of-amerli
The day is long gone when we could say, “Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim Gun and they have not”. ~Hilaire Belloc
Would being unemployed make me become sympathetic to ISIS? I don’t think so.
About pope’s in history who were targeted for political reasons…was there threats on B16 after Regensburg?