I’ve watch with increasing interest the furore about the Popes speech last week. When I first hear the usual ‘sound-bite’ news on some lunchtime, must hurry up with the report (by leaving out relevant facts) commercial radio station, I thought that he had made a mistake.
However when hearing a full report later in the same evening, I realised that he had in fact been citing a 14th century quotation as part of the content of his whole speech. I am now amazed at the level of anger that this has created in certain parts of the Muslim world elements of which are using the event as another reason to show the rest of the world how peaceful and respectful religions like Islam are!
Perhaps it would be a good idea that everyone including the mainstream media read the full text of the Popes speech before they go off at a wild and erratic tangent!
There has been a lot written about this subject on many sites/blogs, here is one set of comments that sum up what I also feel about the whole issue.
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