Following comments made by Pope Benedict XVI last week about the teachings of Muhammad as "evil and inhuman" and that Muhammad taught to "spread his teachings by the sword", there have been numerous protests, some violent, across the world by Muslims. I just read an article on Yahoo News in which Islamic Extremists said, "The Pope and The West are doomed."
Isn't it interesting that the comments which claim that some sects of Islam breed violence and evil produce protests which are violent? Isn't it also interesting that "the West" is synomymous with Christianity when "the West" often fails to uphold Christian values and does not truely live the way of Jesus? Christianity has its own problems with misrepresentation and violence. How can this twisted argument of "the West" or "Christianity" blaming Islam for violence happen?
Speck and plank parable anyone? See Matt 7:3 or Luke 6:41.