Should the Pope have apologized for stating history about Islam?

Answer 1

Absolutely he should have apologized.

The Pope was warned before he gave that speech that it was going to be controversial and cause major problems. He knew exactly what he was doing and it was a political setup for him to ignite hostility among the Muslems.

Answer 2

The pope said that islam was spread by using sword. That is a lie and he should have apologized for that. I got two reasons fotr the fact he should have apologized. One is telling christians and the world a big lie. And second triggering violence among these two religions. STUPID person. ISNT HE???
He needs to collect information, education and facts about islam and chritianity.
There are about 13 million non muslims in ARAB?? Why if ISLAM was spread through sword.
Did he forget that how many years muslims ruled on Europe; 800 years. Then why islam is not the only religion in europe.
Did he forget that how many people were killed in the name of religion in the crusaders.??
Why people in america or any other country are reverting to islam?? Is someone doing it by force or sword??
Why islam is the largest spreading religion in last 100 years??
Which war was fought for religion?? World war1 or 2???

So there is no reason he should have not apologized for misleading the world.

People are coming to islam coz it is the truth. You study islam then following ISLAM is upto you.

Answer 3

surely, yet easily the final pope did ultimately say sorry to the orthodox church for the sacking of Constantinople throughout the time of the crusades. It replaced right into a stable step forward (ultimately). And particular, the arab international locations did triumph over a great part of the international, and held an empire bigger than rome at one element, in spite of the undeniable fact that it fell different than for inner issues. Any declare that the crusades have been to shield a 'holy land' is organic lack of information, as this land replaced into in no way rightfully romes or perhaps the jews.

Answer 4

No...Islamists want to say that Christianity was at one point as violent as Islam. Nice try at revisionist history. The fact is that Islam is now as violent as it ever was. It has not developed nearly as much as the other religions and has therefore been unhelpful to our planet. I think that is what the Pope was getting at. The rest of the quote said that "Violence is against the nature of God". That said alone would have been controversial in itself. Enough said.

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Answer 5

Yes.

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

In my opinion, although what the Pope said was true, he said it in the wrong way to the wrong people.

If you are going to give constructive criticism to your neighbor (Islam) then you should do it to his face not behind his back.

The Pope's speech used Islam as a bad example of "faith and reason" to a group of Catholics when he probably could have found a better bad example in Catholicism.

Therefore it was appropriate for the Pope to apologize.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

No, the islamics should apologize for being violent. The pope quoted a 14 century emperor and the muslims kill a nun!

Answer 7

He quoted a quote about history. So, even what he said in his speech was 3rd hand inofrmation at best. Yes, an apology was in order considering the state of the world.

Answer 8

The Pope did not apologize for what he said. He said he was sorry that muslims reacted the way they did to what he quoted.

Answer 9

He's entitled to his opinion, just as I am entitled to my own opinion that the pope is a bit of a ****, so no, he did not have to. However, it doesn't really help the state of world affairs, so he perhaps probably shouldn't have said it in the first place, as he is in such a spotlight. However, its hardly suprising that the two different religions don't agree on everything.

Answer 10

The history of Islam, is practically a biography of mahatma gandhi if you compare it to the history of christianity (and the current behavior of Christians), but christians would get mad if someone started trashing their religion as being from hell too.