John Paul II kissed the Koran and it wasn't under pain of death or any threat.  It was a gratuitious act on the pontiff's part.

Now, in Catholic history, tens of thousands of Catholics were put to death for not following a false religion.

Was Pope John Paul II's act of "reverence" toward a book that is part of what used to be considered in Catholicism on a level with idolatry a slap in the face to those martyrs?  

Was Pope John Paul II's act of "reverence" a public act of piety directed toward a false religion?

Remember, thousands of Catholics have been murdered in a bloody manner for not following or even pretending to follow false religions.  

No.  It's a display of apostasy.  He presented to the world the fact that he does not believe in the True God.

As TKGS stated, it's apostasy, not indifferentism. I'll say one thing for the Conciliar Church: Its boldness knows no bounds. To "canonize" an apostate is the very definition of chutzpah, a word with which the current occupiers of the Vatican should be very familiar.

I'd call it idolatry.  When done in public by a Pope, it amounts to blasphemy and apostacy.  To be merely indifferentism, he would have had to have given equal attention go the holy books of any number of false religions.  The only possibly mitigating circuмstance is the Holy Father was laboring under insanity or gross deception of the devil.  When St Paul spoke of "becoming all thing to all men" he meant in order to convert their souls to Christ, not to do so for any intrinsic value.  One may eat what he finds a disgusting meal so as not to drive a soul from Truth.  But one may never sin against Truth to gain a convert.  Then two souls will be lost!  Did Gideon worship his father's idol in order to gain him back to the Lord God?  Did St. Polycarp burn insence to the apparent idol so as to gain favour with God's enemies?  No, death before sin!  
It is a scary thought that JP II has already answered to his Judge.  Even his canonisation in April will change nothing as pertains to the state of his soul.

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A pope, soon to be canonized as a saint, made a public act of adoration toward an object of a false religion?

Did someone change the rules on us?  Didn't popes in the past warn us to avoid any participation in false religions?

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Quote from: TKGS

No.  It's a display of apostasy.  He presented to the world the fact that he does not believe in the True God.

True. John Paul II was the Antichrist.

John Paul II was an antichrist, but not the Antichrist. Isn't the Antichrist supposed to rule the world for three and a half years and kill all the Catholics he could find? John  Paul II did not do that though he was certainly an ally of the Antichrist.

Of course John Paul II was the Antichrist. The evidence is all there. He fit all the hallmarks of Antichrist especially with his dissolving of Jesus Christ/ teaching that man is God. The death of the soul is incomparably worse than the death of the body, and he has led countless numbers to eternal death.

Have you seen this video? The evidence is irrefutable.