Pope's one-sided condemnation of Islam
In a speech delivered at Regensburg University on September 12 Pope Benedict XVI quoted a statement from Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologos (1391-1425) to the effect that every single one of Mohammed's deviations from Christ's Revelation was of an evil and inhuman character, especially his call to spread Islam by the sword. Muslims around the world are incensed, particularly as the Pope palpably neglected to dissociate himself from such a viewpoint.
Given the current political climate and the savage atrocities recently committed by Israel against Lebanese Muslims (not to mention Lebanese Christians), such remarks, albeit just in themselves, will inevitably appear to Muslims as extremely one-sided and indeed politically motivated. Even more so when we consider that the Pope, a notorious ʝʊdɛօphile, refuses to balance his implicit condemnation of the Koran with an equally robust condemnation of the тαℓмυd, particularly its emphatic calls for Jєωs to make war, both morally and physically, on all Christians.
Despite talk of fatwas, the Pope's expression of regret will probably suffice to pacify Muslims for the time being. But this confirmation of the Pope's manifest bias and his allegiance to the chimerical and self-contradictory notion of ʝʊdɛօ-Christianity will not be forgotten by them in a hurry.