Well, at least Ratzinger apoligized for his dumb comments.
Firstly, his name is Benedict the 16th.
Secondly, why should he have apologized for making a quote taken in context during an academic lecture?
Because he is a representative of the evilness and intollerance of the West and Christianity... particularly Catholicism.
Besides, anyone who declares Islam to be intollerent is only askign to be punished, right?
I am frankly trying to understand the ideological relativism of the Left. How, on the one hand, they can claim ... sickeningly, but correctly ... that a movie made of the murder of a sitting president is free speech, and must not be infringed; but on the other, demands remonstrances for incorrect speech such as the pope's university address (which, BTW, was given as a means to spur dialogue between the two religions).
It makes little sense to me, so I'm actually curious as to jfern's reply.
The pope is free to say whatever he wants, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to try to start the next Crusades.
