Reply #99: He was merely doing what many academics do

[Henny Penny]

and showing that whatever ideas were being discussed were not necessarily new.

In any case it is absolutely clear that the pope is not saying... "Here's what I really think about Mohammed"....


Are we to allow a situation to develop where we cannot even quote long dead individuals who say something we may disagree with? Its a nonsense. Such a concept would make reporting the news impossible and do untold damage to academia. In fact I would go so far as to say that it would do far more damage to our civilisation than any terrorist plot.


The pope was ambushed and already there seems to be dead Italian nun as a consequence. Still, maybe Italy will toughen up on the war on terra wouldn't that be an unforeseen blessing.....