Muslims & Greenies Fume

Responses to His Eminence on the Koran and on the Greenies

As noted previously on this blog, His Eminence, the Cardinal archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Pell, advises reading the Koran as a way of knowing your enemy.

He also very reasonably identifies extreme environmentalism as a religion.

Muslims and Greenies are fuming, of course. Some of the fumes below:

Keysar Trad, founder of the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia, says this is not the first time Cardinal Pell has made "ill-informed comments". "I've already had one meeting with him after he made some uninformed comments about Islam in the past," says Mr Trad. "And my door is open to have further meetings with him, and to explain to him in more detail. "If he was to approach this with an objective mind then he would find this to be a very spiritually rewarding experience.

"But these comments that seem to be totally subjective, an off-the-cuff dismissal of the teachings of one of the world's great religions." Mr Trad says rather damage the image of Islam, the Cardinal's comments do discredit to his office more than anything else. "I think there will be many Catholics out there who'll be cringing when they hear these comments, and they'll be saying 'what happened to the legacy of Pope John Paul II?

The Catholic Church is being changed from the top and not necessarily for the better'." [Greenie] Senator Christine Milne says the Cardinal's comments are unhelpful and insulting. "I think it's unfortunate that Cardinal Pell refers to a pagan emptiness and western fears about global warming as being hysteric and extreme," she said. "Cardinal Pell must surely be aware of the late Pope John Paul's comments about the need for ecological conversion.

"He must also be aware that there's a very strong view in the Catholic faith across the world that we need to recognise that we are stewards of God's earth and therefore have a responsibility to maintain it in its pristine form."How wise of Senator Milne to understand Catholicism better than the Cardinal!