violence problem? ya think?

From UT's link:

Larger Islamic groups in Britain said they accepted the Pope's apology. Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain said: "The Vatican has moved quickly to deal with the hurt and we accept that.

"It was something that should never have happened - words of that nature were always likely to cause dismay - and we believe some of the Pope's advisers may have been at fault over his speech."

Yesterday's sermon by the Pope was the first time a pontiff has publicly said sorry.

Frankly, extremists on both sides say inflammatory things (I'm not counting the Pope as an extremist -just foolish). Christianity and the Muslim faith BOTH have a very bloody history that adherents of BOTH religions should feel ashamed of. Alas, we never seem to learn. Sometimes I get very fed up with the human race - self included.

We should all just go solar and leave Jesus and Mohamed out of our little human power plays.

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Originally Posted by marichiko

...Frankly, extremists on both sides say inflammatory things (I'm not counting the Pope as an extremist...

I am...

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From what I've read Benedict's prose is usually pretty dense and this was no exception. He could get away with writing like that when his audience was limited but he needs to keep things much clearer now that he is a major player. He needs to start letting folks look at his speeches before delivery. He's very conservative but I wouldn't call him an extremist. We are presently fighting for the hearts of moderate Muslims and we need to be very clear that condemning extremists does not mean condemning Islam. Islam does have a violence problem and our missteps are not helping.