Vatican Babbles Nonsense
In the most insanely out of proportion statement yet on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the Vatican’s foreign minister says the prison abuse is a more serious blow to the US than 9/11.
ROME - The scandal of prisoner abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq has dealt a bigger blow to the United States than the Sept. 11 attacks, the Vatican foreign minister told an Italian newspaper.
In an interview published Wednesday in the Rome daily La Repubblica, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo described the abuses as “a tragic episode in the relationship with Islam” and said the scandal would fuel hatred for the West and for Christianity.
“The torture? A more serious blow to the United States than Sept. 11. Except that the blow was not inflicted by terrorists but by Americans against themselves,” Lajolo was quoted as saying in La Repubblica.
Lajolo said that “intelligent people in Arab countries understand that in a democracy such episodes are not hidden and are punished … Still the vast mass of people — under the influence of Arab media — cannot but feel aversion and hate for the West growing inside themselves.”
And, he added, “the West is often identified with Christianity.”