"How dare you call me violent! Now I must kill you!"

So, the Pope quotes a medieval text that calles Muhammad's teachings evil and inhuman, and notes that Islam has been historically spread by the sword.  As if wishing to prove the Pope's point, many Muslims respond by burning the Pope in effigy, and calling for his death.

I can't be the only person that finds this whole thing tragically and awfully funny.  I mean, all of this seems to me to be a diabolic case of sibling rivalry. Some of the quotes I read from the angry Muslims are warning the Pope that true religion will come to Rome and knock down the Pope's thrones along with all the crosses in the houses. Hmm...

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

~Rev. 9:17-21.

"Antichrist is the pope and the Turk together; a beast full of life must have a body and soul; the spirit or soul of antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk. The latter wastes and assails and persecutes God's church corporally; the former spiritually and corporally too, with hanging, burning, murdering, etc. But, as in the apostle's time, the church had the victory over the Jews and Romans, so now will she keep the field firm and solid against the hypocrisy and idolatry of the pope, and the tyranny and devastations of the Turk and her other enemies." ~ Martin Luther.

May the LORD JESUS CHRIST restrain and conquer all His and the Church's enemies, and protect and save all those that are His.