Pope against Muslims? or Muslims against the Pope?

Question

what exactly did the Pope say that triggered this whole thing against him? i mean what were his exact/well more or less exact statement about the muslims in his speech?

Answer 1

He quoted from an article written by a 14th Century Emperor, who stated that nothing positive has come from Islam, nothing scientific or of benefit to mankind. Just turmoil and violence by the sword. He was just quoting tho', not stating his own opinion.

Answer 2

Its Muslims vs the Pope - all the Pope did was make some simple statements that were critical of Islam, but not with the intention of causing an uproar that should have offended all Muslims or any for that matter. The problem is Muslims are unwilling to take a critical look at their founder - and so instead of actually examining the Pope's words - they simply attack.

Answer 3

The speech was on the use of reason and a component of the speech was that violence is against God's very nature.

Jihadists completely reject that point of view. They seek only war. A statement like that is to say they reject God. They cannot permit such an idea to be continued or people may look too closely at their actions.

Answer 4

well for a start he was quoting a quotion that someone had written in the 14th century . In the speech he was talking about religion and reason and holy war and religion and violence here is the website with the full popes speech

Answer 5

The Pope quoted a statement given by the fourteenth century christian emperor of Byzantine to the Ottomans while defending Constantinople, that, prophet Mohammad preached only "evil and unholy things".This sparked off a useless debate over something that should have been best ignored.

Answer 6

I think its all blown out of proportion by some people who could be so easily exploded.
Maybe the POPE forgot to say the words "I QUOTE" and then "UNQUOTE" Well, it has happened so lets just hope and pray the matter will die off after a while. Apologies have not been accepted so i dont know what else they want.

Answer 7

If you go to Yahoo! news you will find the exact words. But in my view I think that the Pope's utterance clearly prove that there is no one who is infallible. Subjective as my previous statement is it also goes to prove that the issue of right or wrong; proper or improper is subject to individual intepretation. A seemingly harmless statement can arouse furious passion depending on the inherent temperament of the listener.

Answer 8

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 9

The muslim community apparently thinks they are the only religion in the world that is above reproach - not open to analysis nor criticism. I say to the cry babies "get over it". We have a right to free speech.

Answer 10

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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