I've been following the stories in the past couple of days about the uproar regarding the Pope's speech in Germany. I haven't had a chance to read the speech yet, so I'm not ready to express much of an opinion, except to say two things:
1. By quoting extenisively from a source that seems pretty clearly to have been hostile to Islam, the Pope at minimum made a mistake, and at worst demonstrated a real bias.
2. Any violence or destruction along the lines of what happened when the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed were published would be completely uncalled for and unacceptable. We do not need to repeat that ugliness.
Tensions are high, and I would hope that public figures- secular and religious- would use great care in chosing their words in order to not increase the strain.
GP
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