To protest the Pope's comments on the violent beginnings of Islam, muslims worldwide protested by rioting, burning cars, shooting into churches, kidnapping 24 westerners and beheading 12 of them. With each recorded beheading was the message "Islam is not violent, understand that before we kill you!". Ok, I exaggerated a bit!
While the Pope's comments are basically true, the Catholic Church also used violence when making conversions; especially in California & Mexico. One must ask what was the Pope's purpose in making such comments. To date I cannot see any.
The Pope has only added to the frustrating rhetoric of Bush, Castro, Chavez, and Ahmadinejad, truly the seeds of WWIII are being sown. Kofi to the rescue? Ask the people in Darfur about that!
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