Well, basically your pope is a scholar and not a people person. He goes to turkey, and makes a well meaning speech about how a philosopher/Emperor of Byzantium said THIS about Muslims, where THIS is that it is a wicked and cruel faith.
Unfortunately his publicist never read it and distilled it into the headline of: Pope calls Islam cruel and wicked faith, which is distilled into the word of mouth of "Pope denounces Islam."
Sigh. It was a truly stupid thing to say. He intended something different. Go look on the beeb for the real text thereof, I read it this morning during our little debate.
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Date: 2006-09-17 08:07 pm (UTC)Unfortunately his publicist never read it and distilled it into the headline of: Pope calls Islam cruel and wicked faith, which is distilled into the word of mouth of "Pope denounces Islam."
Sigh. It was a truly stupid thing to say. He intended something different. Go look on the beeb for the real text thereof, I read it this morning during our little debate.