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Pope bows down to Islam

September 1, 2013 by creeping

via Pope breaks with protocol by bowing to Queen Rania of Jordan – Telegraph.

As head of state at the Vatican, not to mention the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion catholics, protocol requires visitors to bow to him when they meet him at the Holy See.

But Francis, who has made the forgetting of formalities a trademark of his papacy, bowed when he met a smiling Rania as she visited the Vatican with her husband King Abdullah II on Thursday.

“Up until the 19th century visitors would kiss the pope’s shoes, and the tradition is still that all visitors, women included, bow to him, but Francis behaves as he did before he became pope and is not interested in protocol,” a senior Vatican official told The Daily Telegraph.

 Comment: Want to know how this is being spun in the Arab world? The Islam world sees this as capitulation by Christianity-the supreme leader of the world's largest religion (RC) bowing down to Islam. It is fine to not "believe in protocol", one cannot be naive and/or ignorant regarding how one's actions and behaviors will be reported by enemies. In this case, ignorance is not bliss, it is outright dangerous. I question the Pope's understanding as well as his advisor's understanding of what is going on in today's world.