September 21, 2006 10:13 PM UTC

"Tancredo to Pope, Over"

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• by: Colorado Pols

“Roger that. Pope here.”

Okay, maybe that’s not how the conversation went, and there really wasn’t a conversation anyway, but Rep. Tom Tancredo has advised Pope Benedict XVI not to apologize for his statements last week that said, in a nutshell, that Islam was a religion of violence. Tancredo has since written a letter to the Pope encouraging him not to apologize for those statements (the Pope had already apologized).

As Square State reports: 

In a letter that he posted in a .pdf file on the US House website, Rep. Tancredo (CO-666) quotes passages from the Koran to show that the religion of Islam ties its followers to a path of evil and violence.

He confides in Benedict XVI that, “Like you, I believe any reformation of the Islamic faith is highly unlikely…”

Poor Tancredo. It looks like that Ambassadorship job to Iran is probably out of the question now.