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September 20, 2006

UK: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Defends Papal Speech

But he still believes Islam is not a violent religion. (Does anybody reads Islamic sacred texts and/or Islamic history; but I digress.) Anyway, you take the good with the bad. I'm just glad this was not an instance of complete surrender: Carey backs Pope and issues warning on 'violent' Islam

THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to "violent" Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope's "extraordinarily effective and lucid" speech.

Lord Carey said that Muslims must address "with great urgency" their religion's association with violence. He made it clear that he believed the "clash of civilisations" endangering the world was not between Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole.

"We are living in dangerous and potentially cataclysmic times," he said. "There will be no significant material and economic progress [in Muslim communities] until the Muslim mind is allowed to challenge the status quo of Muslim conventions and even their most cherished shibboleths."

Lord Carey's address came as the man who shot and wounded the last Pope wrote to Pope Benedict XVI to warn him that he was in danger. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to murder John Paul II in 1981 and is now in prison in Turkey, urged the Pope not to visit the country in November.[...]

Notice: the article was written by the same Ruth Gledhill who didn't know the difference between living in a city-state, and controlling said city-state, or didn't bother to check her sources. Thread carefully.

Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 20, 2006 1:54 PM

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