Pope on Islam--surprise?

Submitted by tonymixan (United States), Jul 26, 2005 at 17:26

The Pope was asked today if Islam is a religion of peace? He said,"I wouldn't like to generalize. It certainly has elements that could make peace prevail; it also has other elements."

I think this is really quite an astounding answer,given all the "dialogue" talk that usually comes out of my Church from Rome. What does Pipes think of this? See Zenit.org.

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