PLOT TO KILL POPE ANOTHER ISLAMOPHOBIC PLOY

Six Algerian street cleaners arrested for planning to kill Pope Benedict were pronounced innocent and released without any charges. The six were arrested in London by British police on the basis of a conversation overhead. According to those critical of the police, if the pope had been under any threat it might have come from the gay right groups, or the hundreds of victims who had suffered sexual abuse by Catholic priests; Or was this as critics have claimed just another opportunity to play the Muslim card again by the authorities and media as the tabloids went to town with blaring headlines like “Muslim Terrorists Plot to Kill Pope”. An opportunity once again to perpetuate the myth that all Muslims are terrorists, something they have been doing successfully for over a decade. The situation is just as bad or even worse in America as recent events revealed. The hysteria and outpouring of hate for Islam and Muslims had never been more evident than by the incidence of Qur’an burning and the debacle over the building of a Muslim community centre near Ground Zero.