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By Jeff Jacoby | September 20, 2006 | The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/20/muslim_violence/

This one I send in so that we can better understand the minds of the right wing, in this case conservative columnists Jeff Jacoby, who says of the recent furor of the Pope’s remarks that culminated in the murder of a nun is Somalia:

“If it weren’t so sickening, it would be farcical: A line in the pope’s speech suggests that Islam has a dark history of violence, and offended Muslims vent their displeasure by howling for his death, firebombing churches, and attacking innocent Christians. One of the points Benedict made in his speech at the University of Regensburg was that religious faith untethered by reason can lead to savagery. The mobs denouncing him could hardly have done a better job of proving him right.”

Need I say that the views expressed here are the writer’s own? It was the writing that persuaded me to send it: the case is made forcefully here that Pope Benedict’s remarks were largely right on target…BS