Pope Benedict XVI Watch: Al Qaeda – “JIHAD” Against the “Worshippers of the Cross”

Pope Benedict gestures to the faithful during his Sunday Angelus prayer from his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome, September 17, 2006.

Reuters: “Jihad” vowed over Pope speech

An Iraqi militant group led by al Qaeda vowed a war against the “worshippers of the cross” in response to a recent speech by Pope Benedict on Islam that sparked anger across the Muslim world.

“We tell the worshipper of the cross (the Pope) that you and the West will be defeated, as is the case in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya,” said an Internet statement by the Mujahideen Shura Council, an umbrella group led by Iraq’s branch of al Qaeda.

“We shall break the cross and spill the wine. … God will (help) Muslims to conquer Rome. … God enable us to slit their throats, and make their money and descendants the bounty of the mujahideen,” said the statement.

It was posted on Sunday on an Internet site often used by al Qaeda and other militant groups.

Will this announcement of JIHAD be a wake-up call for the feckless Europeans? America has been fighting the Islamofascists since September 11, 2001.

And what of the world’s Catholics? Will it be a call to arms?

You bet.

This is a depiction of the Holy Father from the Jihadis:

Attached is a picture of the Pope that is circulating in Qaeda-friendly chat rooms and websites. Lovely (and predictable) that they call for his beheading. The script in red calls for the Popeâ€™s beheading. The rest of the translation: â€œSwine and servant of the cross, worships a monkey on a cross, hateful evil man, stoned Satan, may Allah curse him, blood-sucking vampire.â€

Pope Benedict said on Sunday he was deeply sorry Muslims had been offended by his use of a Medieval quotation on Islam and violence. The remarks outraged Muslims and triggered protests and attacks on churches in several Arab towns.

Another militant group in Iraq, Ansar al-Sunnah, also vowed to fight Christians in retaliation.

“You will only see our swords until you go back to God’s true faith Islam,” it said in a separate Internet statement.

Al Qaeda in Iraq and other militant groups have staged suicide bombings and killings of foreign forces and members of the U.S.-allied government and security forces.

If a HOLY WAR is what the radical Islamists want they will get one from the “WORSHIPPERS OF THE CROSS.”

Flap reminds readers that the United States has been in a war against radical Islam for decades now.

Will America receive help now from other Christian yet Islamofascist appeasing nations?

Perhaps

Watch the LEFT blame this JIHAD on the Iraq War and President Bush.

Stay tuned……