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Posted by: berkeley 3 years, 2 months ago

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This was no casual slip. Beneath his scholarly rhetoric, the Pope's logic seemed to be that Islam is dangerous and godless

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Mike1955
Sept. 19, 2006, 8:25 a.m.
Well and your point being what exactly? You can see that the extremist Muslims are dangerous and godless. So the Pope's quote from a dead Byzantine king still holds truth today doesn't it?

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  jordan11
  Feb. 10, 2008, 11:47 a.m.
  Sure, the extremists are dangerous. So are extremists who qualify their remarks by dragging an entire religion into it. He didn't say extremists. He spoke about the religion itself. You can't possibly miss the difference.
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berkeley
Oct. 9, 2006, 10 p.m.
fta: For in claiming that Islam may be beyond reason, and then to claim that to act without reason is to act contrary to the will of God, is pretty close to the assertion that this religion is godless.
in addition, he is not distinguishing between "extremist" muslims and "ordinary" muslims. they are all in the same box.