Should the Pope apologise for stating a historical fact in his prepared speech?

Question

Why Dont Moderate muslims ask the Ex. prime minister of malaysia for announcing that there is no such thing as moderate muslims to apologise?
This statement is more dangerous than the Pope's as it means that all muslims are extremists. Mahatier's statement is more damaging to the muslims than the Pope's.

Answer 1

Have you actually read what the Pope said?

Here is a link to the English translation of the Pope's controversial speech: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

It is difficult to believe that the POPE is so illetrate and stupid. We can forgive commonpeople who are victim of Zionist propagenda about Islam and Muslims. Each and every act of terrorism in the world has a Zionist stamp on it if yu but have an eye. But if you choose to be naive that is up to you. The current POPE rat..... had a Jewish mother and that perhaps explains every thing! In this regard he is like Clinton who once said that he would wear Israeli unifrom and fight for Israel. If pope can't see Bush brutalities in Iraq, Afgansitan, Palestine and Chechnya etc. then he is as blind as anyone can be whoes vision, hearing and thinking is snatched by All Mighty God.

Answer 3

The status of the Pope comes with several responsibilities one of which is to promote religious understanding. Which was what he was doing when he quoted the offensive words. What angered the Moslems is that the qoutation was offensive because he should have also told his audience that the Quran says "there is no compulsion in Islam". That to me is the meaning of intellectual discourse. A candid advice to void future faux pas like that is to thouroughly research such conclusions and to avoid qouting siple statements for Islam is complex and every one sentence in the Quran is interwoven with several others and expatiated by the traditions of the prophet.

Answer 4

i dont think he should. why do they have the right to call other people infidels but when someone says something about their religion they demand apologies , start a mob riot, start burning flags and churches. i have had enough of this bull cr*p. its time we demand an apology

a quote from an Arab-American Psychiatrist Wafa Sultan

The Jews have come from the tragedy (of the Holocaust), and forced the world to respect them, with their knowledge, not with their terror, with their work, not their crying and yelling. Humanity owes most of the discoveries and science of the 19th and 20th centuries to Jewish scientists. 15 million people, scattered throughout the world, united and won their rights through work and knowledge. We have not seen a single Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. We have not seen a single Jew destroy a church. We have not seen a single Jew protest by killing people. The Muslims have turned three Buddha statues into rubble. We have not seen a single Buddhist burn down a Mosque, kill a Muslim, or burn down an embassy. Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people, and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

Answer 5

NOPE the pope has told what is the truth.

If talking about Islamic Militants is wrong....then let evil prevail.
it was never meant to hurt the feelings of the muslims
Militancy in any form should be stronglly condemned and the pope just did that. So why should he apologize

Answer 6

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely regrets" offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," the Vatican said Saturday.

Evil and inhuman? He has a lot of nerve! Look what his "holly church" did in the past!!! The Inquisition for one. These hollier than thou jerks burn my ***!!!!!

Christians killing Christians, Muslims killing Muslims. And I'm told I will burn in hell if I am not "saved". Well so be it! I believe I will just rot in the ground like everybody else. All I see is a lot of terrible things done in the name of some form of religion. Religion is just another name for "suppression", usually in the form of keeping the female race subservient to the male race and to keep the masses under check to men who think they are better than anyone else. Sounds like a form of government doesn't it? No religion in government, does that make governments safer for the masses? I don't think soooo.

Lets see, don't bring up politics and religion in conversations as it will cause conflict. Yep, it sure does!!!

I'm not even going to get into atheist because they are just a bunch of crazies anyway.

Answer 7

Although in my opinion the Pope has done nothing wrong by quoting someone else's views in his speach, views that he doesn't support, it would be best that he apologize anyway. Whoever may be right, apologizing would appease most people and should stop the violence from escalating further.

Answer 8

The Pope did apologize and that was the right thing to do after that "unlucky" statement.

Answer 9

Now the pope says he is upset, should he apologize for his remarks on Islam?
Yes 61% 67072 votes
No 39% 42782 votes
Total: 109854 votes
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Answer 10

Well, some people don't like to hear the facts, they like to sweep them under the carpet and pretend it's all fine and dandy.

Sort of like reminding a fat person they are fat.

True though it may be, it is not the 'done thing' to go ahead and say in public.