The Pope calls in Tel Aviv for freedom of access to religious sites and for a Palestinian homeland Pope Comments Monday, 11 May 2009 Jerusalem / PNN - Pope Benedict XVI arrived for the first part of his visit to historic Palestine with the Israelis. He called for a just solution and a Palestinian homeland, not using the word ‘state.’ Add comment (0)   Pope disappoints Muslim leaders with no apology Pope Comments Saturday, 09 May 2009 Pontiff delivers keynote adress in Amman's Al-Hussein Mosque Add comment (0)   In Jordan, Pope Deplores ‘Ideological Manipulation’ Pope Comments Saturday, 09 May 2009 AMMAN, Jordan — Visiting a mosque on the second day of his closely watched first visit to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday denounced the “ideological manipulation of religion” and called for greater understanding between the Christian and Muslim faiths. Add comment (0)   Pope expresses respect for Islam in Jordan Pope Comments Friday, 08 May 2009 AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI began his first trip to the Middle East on Friday, expressing his "deep respect" for Islam and hopes that the Catholic Church would be a force for peace in the region as he treaded carefully following past missteps with Muslims and Jews. Add comment (0)   Telegraph: Pope's aide warns of 'threat by Islam'' Pope Comments Friday, 27 July 2007 Daily Telegraph The Pope's private secretary has given warning of the Islamisation of Europe and stressed the need for the continent's Christian roots not to be ignored, in comments released yesterday. "Attempts to Islamise the West cannot be denied," Monsignor Georg Gaenswein was quoted as saying in an advance copy of the weekly Sueddeutsche Magazin to be published today. Add comment (6)   Guardian Comment: The Pope should know better than to endorse the idea of a war of faiths Pope Comments Wednesday, 20 September 2006 Wednesday September 20, 2006 The Guardian Jonathan Freedland The freedom-of-speech defence is a sideshow. The pontiff has broken an unwritten compact of religious leaders Glenn Hoddle and Robert Kilroy-Silk were there first, of course, but Pope Benedict XVI has joined the club. Like those two other great scholars, the pontiff has found himself at the centre of a free speech row. In 1999 Hoddle, then England manager, suggested that disabled people were the victims of bad karma, punished for their conduct in an earlier life. In 2004 Kilroy, then presenter of a daytime TV show, described Arabs as “suicide bombers, limb-amputators, women repressors”. Both Hoddle and Kilroy were eventually sacked, their defenders hailing them as free speech martyrs, cut down for daring to speak their mind. Add comment (0)   The Times: Carey backs Pope and issues warning on ‘violent’ Islam Pope Comments Wednesday, 20 September 2006 September 20, 2006 The Times Ruth Gledhill and Richard Owen   THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s “extraordinarily effective and lucid” speech. Lord Carey said that Muslims must address “with great urgency” their religion’s association with violence. He made it clear that he believed the “clash of civilisations” endangering the world was not between Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole. “We are living in dangerous and potentially cataclysmic times,” he said. “There will be no significant material and economic progress [in Muslim communities] until the Muslim mind is allowed to challenge the status quo of Muslim conventions and even their most cherished shibboleths.” Add comment (0)   Guardian Comment: We cannot afford to maintain these ancient prejudices against Islam Pope Comments Monday, 18 September 2006 Monday September 18, 2006 The Guardian Karen Armstrong The Pope’s remarks were dangerous, and will convince many more Muslims that the west is incurably Islamophobic In the 12th century, Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, initiated a dialogue with the Islamic world. “I approach you not with arms, but with words,” he wrote to the Muslims whom he imagined reading his book, “not with force, but with reason, not with hatred, but with love.” Yet his treatise was entitled Summary of the Whole Heresy of the Diabolical Sect of the Saracens and segued repeatedly into spluttering intransigence. Words failed Peter when he contemplated the “bestial cruelty” of Islam, which, he claimed, had established itself by the sword. Was Muhammad a true prophet? “I shall be worse than a donkey if I agree,” he expostulated, “worse than cattle if I assent!” Add comment (0)   Daily Mail: The jihad against the Pope Pope Comments Monday, 18 September 2006 18 September 2006 Daily Mail Melanie Phillips   The urgent damage limitation exercise mounted by the Vatican appears to have had some effect. Yesterday’s careful statement by the Pope, in which he expressed regret for the way in which his remarks had been misinterpreted by the Muslim world, seems to have taken some of the more dangerous steam out of that reaction before any more harm could be done. But the violent uproar over those remarks remains deeply disturbing. In a densely argued theological lecture about whether holy war could ever be justified, the Pope had quoted an obscure 14th-century Christian Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologos, who had said: ‘Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.’ Add comment (0)   The Times: Why the Pope was right Pope Comments Monday, 18 September 2006 September 18, 2006 The Times William Rees-Mogg Benedict did give offence — but no great religion should be immune from difficult questions    JOURNALISTS SHOULD NOT criticise Pope Benedict XVI for his lecture at Regensburg. He has done only what every sub-editor on the Daily Mail does every day. Confronted with a long and closely written text, he inserted a lively quote to draw attention to the argument. We all do it. Sometimes the quote causes trouble, but more often it opens up an argument that is needed. Add comment (0)

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