Pope Benedict XVI has angered Muslims around the world after a speech he gave last week in which he cited the words of a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of Islam's Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman" and referred to spreading Islam "by the sword."
To prove this wrong, Muslims increased violence in retaliation for these words, by among other things, burning a number of Christian churches in Palestine, and by murdering an Italian nun and her bodyguard in Somalia.
At this time it is uncertain how much more violence will be perpetrated in order to prove that Islam is, in reality, a peaceful religion.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/18/pope.islam.ap/index.html
To prove this wrong, Muslims increased violence in retaliation for these words, by among other things, burning a number of Christian churches in Palestine, and by murdering an Italian nun and her bodyguard in Somalia.
At this time it is uncertain how much more violence will be perpetrated in order to prove that Islam is, in reality, a peaceful religion.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/09/18/pope.islam.ap/index.html
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