'WORLD CONQUER' QAEDA MAKES PONTIFF'S CASE

    Muslim terrorists proved Pope Benedict XVI's point yesterday - vowing to fight Christianity and spill blood until Islam conquers the world.

    "You infidels and despots, we will continue our jihad and never stop until God avails us to chop your necks and raise the fluttering banner of monotheism when God's rule is established governing all people and nations," warned an umbrella group of extremists led by al Qaeda in Iraq.

    Another Iraqi terrorist group, Ansar al-Sunna, challenged "sleeping Muslims" to prove their manhood by doing something other than "issuing statements or holding demonstrations." It called the pope "the stupid pig . . . prancing with his blasphemies in his house.

    "Let him wait for the day coming soon when the armies of the religion of right knock on the walls of Rome," the group said in a Web statement.

    In London, Anjem Choudary, a militant Muslim lawyer, said during a protest outside Westminster Cathedral that those who insulted Islam should be killed.

    In Iraq's southern city of Basra, up to 150 demonstrators chanted slogans and burned a white effigy of the pope.

    In Egypt, a parliamentary committee called for the expulsion of the Vatican envoy if the pope did not apologize more forcefully.

    In Jakarta, Indonesia, more than 100 people rallied in front of the heavily guarded Vatican Embassy waving banners that said the "pope is building religion on hatred."