You can send your words of support to: benedictxvi-at-vatican.va

(Note for you non-techies: Replace the “at” with the “@” sign, ok? It’s a spam prevention thing.)

I have no doubt the Internet cyberjihadists are trying to bring the Vatican website down, as they have done in the recent past to their enemies on the Internet–so send your message while the Vatican is still online.

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And here is a photo via Yahoo! News of murdered Italian Catholic nun Sister Leonella and her family:

Keep them all in your prayers, if you pray.

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Ed Morrissey’s open letter to the Pope is here. A snippet:

If Islam is ever to peacefully co-exist with other faiths in the manner that Christendom finally learned how to do, then it has to start abiding questions and criticisms without resorting to violence. Islam has to learn to persuade and to attract people through reason, not through forced conversions and coexistence through violent supremacy. Muslim leaders around the world still believe that our faith can only exist at their sufferance, and any question of their doctrinal beliefs has to be met with violence or demands for apologies, not with rhetoric, facts, and reason.

We cannot enable that to continue. We must demand that they renounce violence and intimidation. When you apologize and retreat, they understand that as a triumph for their religion, a victory won with force and threats rather than through intellectual engagement. This encourages more of the same. The West had the opportunity to stand up to the same angry hordes earlier this year during the controversy over the Danish editorial cartoons that depicted Mohammed, and many of us gave into the threats and violence rather than stand up for the freedom of speech, religious practice, and editorial commentary. In both cases, Muslims ironically proved the point of the criticism leveled at them.

Do not apologize for speaking the truth.