Querulous quote; Show me what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as the command to spread by the sword the faith he preached. -- Manuel II Paleologus.(Breakfast Table)

Manila Bulletin | September 17, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Adrian E. Cristobal

BY including the above remarks in his scholarly lecture at the German university where he used to teach, Pope Benedict XVI incurred the wrath of Islamic scholars and leaders everywhere.

The Vatican quickly apologized by pointing out that the papal lecture was taken out of context, but a careful reading showed that the Pope's aside itself was out-of-context in his dissertation on the modern "dehellenization" - the modern disjunction - of faith and reason.

The lecture would have interested only philosophers and theologians ...

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