Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos

In Australia, the government's Muslim Advisory Group chairman Ameer Ali has condemned the current outbreak of Muslim violence that has included the burning of an effigy of the Pope in Iraq, the murder of a Catholic nun in Somalia and firebombing of churches on the West Bank. “They have to move on,” he said.

In the Balkans, the millions of Muslims living there—remnants of the 15th century conquest of Eastern Europe by the Muslim Ottoman Empire—have primarily ignored the Popes words and remained peaceful.

Those have been two bright spots in a week in which, as with the publication of the Danish Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons almost a year ago, Muslims around the world have engaged in self-indulgent temper tantrums, including bombings and murders. Al Qaeda in Iraq has vowed war on "worshippers of the cross" targeting the extermination of all Christians in a massive holy war. In Somalia, where Catholic nun, Sister Leonella, used her last breath to forgive the Muslims who murdered her, the Islamic militia that has conquered most of southern Somalia announced that it is setting up "holy war training camps," to preparation for a worldwide "holy war" to exterminate all non-Muslims.

All of this in response to the words that Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos spoke to “an educated Persian” 600 years ago. That Pope Benedict XVI quoted from this dialogue brought the issue into the 21^st Century. And the bloody and blood-thirsty reaction of Muslims validated the accuracy of the words spoken by Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos:

"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only bad and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." He then continues, saying, "God is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably (syn logo) is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death..."

It has been becoming more and more evident that Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos was on target. After all, Muslims began killing one another less than a decade after Muhammad’s death and have been continually doing so for almost fourteen hundred years, with frequent periods, such as the present, of murdering non-Muslims. I write that knowing, as with the Pope’s speech, the words are not politically correct, and could lead the crazy Muslims targeting me for death, too. Of course, as a Christian, I have already been targeted.

I am tired of the bloodshed—the bombings, the kidnappings, the murders, etc. I am tired of the world and its leaders kissing Muslim asses every time they throw their adolescent temper tantrums.

Sunday I wrote that Muslim terrorism cannot be defeated by force of arms. In a coming blog, which is now in draft form, I will make the suggestion that only Muslims can defeat Muslim terrorists—if they are willing, which to date it seems they are not.

In the meantime, I pray for the ever increasing list of victims to the blood-thirstiness of Islam, Muslims as well as us infidels.