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Reader comment on item: A Key Change to "The Pope and the Koran"

Submitted by Kees Rudolf (Netherlands), Apr 21, 2006 at 16:20

This is what I found today (April 20) in the french newspaper 'Le Figaro' (rubrique 'opinions'): "...le Pape estimerait l'islam incapable de se réformer. Une bombe dans les mains des idéologues qui veulent convaincre du «choc des civilisations». D'ailleurs, à peine a-t-il eu terminé son interview sur l'un des talk-shows radiophoniques les plus écoutés des Etats-Unis que l'information figurait déjà sur les pages Internet du fameux chroniqueur ultraconservateur Daniel Pipes, qui s'est illustré dans la défense du Grand Israël."

In France, 'Le Figaro' is not an especially left-wing newspaper. But apparently even people who are not left-wing refuse to believe in a 'clash of civilizations'. Remarkable: Daniel Pipes is considered famous for being 'ultraconservative' and defending 'Great Israël'. The message is clearly: this is the kind of people who want to convince us of a clash of civilizations; don't trust them!
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Title Commenter Date Thread
Another Lie [35 words]AaronMay 7, 2006 07:2544977
A French newspaper [141 words]Kees RudolfApr 21, 2006 16:2043756
Goosa [11 words]RajJul 19, 2009 15:2243756
Don't over-react to what Fessio thinks he understood what Pope said [165 words]SA FranceApr 5, 2006 10:1542450
WITHOUT CHRIST [99 words]donvanMar 8, 2006 17:2839419
Peace [91 words]JumanaMar 7, 2006 23:4839296
1Struggling with Identity of Islam [304 words]PonderingFeb 23, 2006 04:0837549
1Qu'ran or Islam [109 words]tellisMar 16, 2006 20:0037549
struggling Identity [60 words]observerSep 26, 2006 00:4837549
Keep dreaming [171 words]NOORFeb 19, 2006 02:1236302
Hey, then please go back to that and let us be!!! [136 words]AnneMay 6, 2006 12:2336302
Leave us alone [62 words]Octavio JohansonMay 6, 2006 17:5236302
version corrected for diplomatic resons? likely [162 words]brunoFeb 6, 2006 15:2133952
Expounding On Ambiguity? [563 words]orange yonasonJan 31, 2006 16:0833309
Conspiracies to Control The World [810 words]howlinJan 30, 2006 16:2133146
kuran and reform [134 words]G.BisvasJan 31, 2006 12:5533146
Reply to Howlin [353 words]No DhimmiJan 31, 2006 22:0733146
No Dhimmi [60 words]howlinFeb 1, 2006 12:1833146
Reforming Barbarians [359 words]orange yonasonFeb 1, 2006 14:2233146
Howling at Howlin: Learn the Facts [635 words]JoeFeb 14, 2006 22:0233146
an all out effort [76 words]donvanFeb 21, 2006 13:4833146
To Joe: [29 words]jeffreybFeb 25, 2006 23:0833146
reply to Jeffery, here is the proof [52 words]JoeFeb 28, 2006 00:2233146
To Joe [99 words]jeffreybFeb 28, 2006 16:1533146
again [666 words]JoeMar 1, 2006 13:2533146
To Joe [23 words]jeffreybMar 1, 2006 16:4033146
Does Benedict XVI agree with Ratzinger? [473 words]Tom McLaughlinJan 30, 2006 09:1333097
Conditions for Changing Islam [553 words]Mike RamirezJan 29, 2006 18:4033045
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The compounding of error [284 words]WilliamJan 29, 2006 09:0633001
Comments by William [15 words]JerryJan 29, 2006 20:0633001
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why u people see only one side of picture [42 words]Ahsan HussainJan 30, 2006 08:5932998
Comment to #643 Correction to Pope and the Koran [135 words]William Sumner ScottJan 29, 2006 04:2932982

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