Yet the Pope is supposed to apologize.
I suggested the papal response:
Are we seriously supposed to apologize over every little thing that sets them off? Is the Pope really supposed to apologize for some reference to an obscure 600-year-old document? Honestly, apologies just encourage this type of behavior. A good official "bugger off" with Vatican stationary would be more appropriate, with the advice to come back and talk to us when the Islamic world's GDP is higher than Spain's.
But I had nothing on David Warren who remarks:
It is cowardly to apologize for imaginary transgressions. Let those who demand the apologies stick it.
Indeed. Read the whole thing. Apologies should come not only from the Islamic world but from the editorial board of the New York Times, the BBC, and those who fail to see that a violent and bloody reaction to a speech noting the violent roots of Islam kind of proves the point of the Pope and not the apologistas.
Really, until Saudi Arabia is funding artistic exhibitions that feature some revolting thing called "Piss Koran" rather than rioting over mythical Newsweek reports about false incidents at Guantanamo, I don't want to even hear about how the Islamic world feels offended.
