Pope Benedict (Joseph Ratzinger) is a highly educated man. He has studied science, history, political science, and all major religions. Scholarship has been his life.
Muslim leaders only learn to memorize the Koran at the madrassah schools.
no pope in history has made a deeper study of Islam. Having explored every verse of the Koran, and engaged in long debates he rejects the simplistic notion — held by fundamentalist Christians, and by the Roman Catholic Church until the middle of the 20th century — that Islam is evil. Yet he is convinced that some of its doctrines are morally indefensible. In Benedict's view, a profound ambiguity about violence lies at the heart of Islam, arising from the Prophet's belief that faith can be spread by the sword. Mohammed, after all, was a general whose troops beheaded hundreds of enemy captives. Benedict would emphasise that the Islamic understanding of God is radically different from that of Christians.
2006-09-18
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