"Enough now with this turning the other cheek!"

WWJD? Certain Vatican officials think that Muslim intolerance and violence would strain even the Lamb of God's patience.

"Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It's our duty to protect ourselves," Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican's supreme court, thundered in the daily La Stampa ... "The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century, mostly for oil, and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights," he said.

Even the Pope has finally spoken out against Muslim hypocrisy:

Pope Benedict signaled his concern on Monday when he told the new Moroccan ambassador to the Vatican that peace can only be assured by "respect for the religious convictions and practices of others, in a reciprocal way in all societies."

It's about time the world turned some attention to the blatant hypocrisy of Muslims in the west objecting to piggy banks, cartoons and headscarf bans while religious minorities in Muslim nations suffer endless harrassment and persecution.