Interesting comments - his next quote source may well be Urban II

Submitted by Sully (United States), Sep 20, 2006 at 21:33

I think this Pope was chosen to confront Islam and he was perfectly in command of what he was saying.

Europe will, in effect, surrender to Islam without a serious struggle if it persists in it's kick the can down the road strategy while Muslims increase in numbers within countries that have no other real faith to contend with Islam.

You mentioned that there has been speculation the Pope was alluding to Ahmadinejad by quoting a conversation involving dialogue with a Persian.

Look instead to his quoting of a Byzantine Emperor speaking about 60 years before he fall of Constantinople. Can anyone guarantee that Italy will not be a Sharia state by 2076 given that small percentages of Muslim population in Europe have already been able to criminalize intellectuals such as Oriana Fallaci and achieve censorship over newspaper publishers and other media?

The Pope may well, quite reasonably, see Rome in 2006 as being comparable to Constantinople in 1391.

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