It’s like the retards don’t understand the word “irony.” Maybe it just don’t translate into Arabic.

“We will smash the cross,” it added, promising Muslims they would “conquer Rome… as they conquered Constantinople.”

Another armed group linked to Al-Qaeda, Ansar al-Sunna (Partisans of the Precepts of the Prophet), threatened in a website statement to attack the West — Italy in particular.

Calling the pope “Satan’s hellhound in the Vatican,” the statement addressed to “Crusaders” said: “The day is coming when the armies of Islam will destroy the ramparts of Rome.”

In Tehran, Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei linked the pope’s remarks to caricatures published in a Danish newspaper last year deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed. The cartoons set off deadly protests in the Muslim world.

Ironically, offensive cartoons of Jews and Christians are routinely placed in Arab press, but the response from either major religion or its followers is one of indifference to the Arab provocations.