Exterminate Quotes
Odo of Chatillon-Sur-Marne. This is an amazingly distressing quotation for most moderns. Here we have the Pope preaching genocide and ethnic cleansing. This was one of the main triggers of the bloody Crusades and is not forgotten by Muslims in the Middle East Today. As Islam has not changed a great deal in 1000 years, most Muslims assume that the same is true of Christianity and especially the popes and the Roman Catholic Church. This is one of the reasons that the Islamic world reacts so strongly when a pope makes any statement negatve about Muslims and Islam.
At the Democratic convention of 1924, the party was split over a proposed resolution that would denounce the Ku Klux Klan by name. Bryan had an opportunity to denounce the Klan, but his dwindling political base in the south contained many Klansmen. After his speech he was mercilessly heckled by the crowd. Bryan claimed he had never been so humiliated in his life:
