German ex-chancellor is writing a book about himself. Gerhard Schroeder recently released an advance excerpt from his memoirs entitled Decisions: My Life In Politics in Der Spiegel magazine.
In this excerpt Schroeder reveals that in his meetings with President Bush on Iraq, before the war began, he was worried. "What worried me, despite a relaxed atmosphere to our talks, and to a certain degree what made me skeptical was how much it came through that this president saw himself as 'God-fearing' and saw that as the highest authority."
Apparently this came as a shock to Schroeder who believed that he himself was the highest authority. But even Mr. Schroeder knew that stating that in his book would raise eyebrows and so instead he said he was worried about this because: "Quite rightly we criticize that in most Islamic states the role of religion in society and the secular character of the legal system are not clearly separated. But we haven't taken note as readily of the U.S. Christian fundamentalists and their interpretation of the bible that show similar tendencies."
Similar tendencies? Last time I checked Christians didn't go around bombing buildings when someone criticizes their faith, like the Muslims did after the Pope made his speech in which he quoted a Medieval text referring to Islam as "a religion spread by the sword."
And Christians also don't kill 3,000 innocent people by crashing planes into buildings for no reason...or maybe the 19 hijackers were all Christians which is why they are reported to have cried "Allah, akbar!" on their way to their death.