Pakistani clerics and scholars demand Pope's removal

About 1,000 clerics and religious scholars at a meeting in eastern Pakistan demanded the removal of the Pope for making “insulting remarks” against Islam, and warned the West of severe consequences if it didn’t change its stance regarding Islam.

“Pope Benedict XVI should be removed from his position immediately for encouraging war and fanning hostility between various faiths and making insulting remarks” against Islam,” said a joint statement issued by the clerics and scholars at the end of their one-day convention in the eastern city of Lahore.