he said, sharia said

I am just flabbergasted at the childish melodrama coming from prominent middle-eastern Muslim voices over this Benedict thing. for example, Ahmad Khatami, a prominent cleric in the city of Qom told his students:

[The] Pope should fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to understand Islam.

This is a childish fantasy. Anjem Choudary, a London lawyer and demonstration organizer goes further:

The Muslims take their religion very seriously and non-Muslims must appreciate that and that must also understand that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the prophet.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

How pompous. How can the West take Choudary seriously, except as an inciter of murder and instigator of mass hatred?

I suppose most of the things being said are engineered to get a rise out of us. They are spoiling for a fight which spills out of the lecture halls and onto the streets of the great cities of the West. Enough of this talking, talking, talking. Let’s just convert the Pope by the sword.