Pakistani clerics and scholars demand Pope's removal 21/09/2006 - 17:06:57
About 1,000 clerics and religious scholars at a meeting in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of the Pope for making “insulting remarks” against Islam, and warned the West of severe consequences if it didn’t change its stance regarding Islam.
“Pope Benedict XVI should be removed from his position immediately for encouraging war and fanning hostility between various faiths and making insulting remarks” against Islam,” said a joint statement issued by the clerics and scholars at the end of their one-day convention in the eastern city of Lahore.
“The Pope, and all Infidels, should know that no Muslim, under any circumstances, can tolerate an insult to the Prophet (Muhammad).... If the West does not change its stance regarding Islam, it will face severe consequences,” it said.
The meeting, organised by a radical Islamic Jamaat al-Dawat group, came days after the Pope apologised for his remarks on Islam.
“The Pope has neither accepted his mistake, nor apologised for his words,” a statement said.
