Muslim leaders demand apology from Pope - Yahoo! News

Would His Holiness kindly put an sock in it.

This was totally unnecessary! Why dig around for some long past statement by some Byzantine Emperor, in the first place?

The World ould have been better off if they had called the Taxidermy man and had John Paul II stuffed and pretended that he was still alive.

This Pope gives me the creeps!

Muslim leaders demand apology from Pope - Yahoo! News:

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Leaders across the Muslim world demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologize for his remarks on Islam and jihad, unmoved by the Vatican's assurances that he meant only to emphasize the incompatibility between faith and war.

The torrent of rage unleashed by Benedict's comments in a speech in Germany stirred fears of violent anti-Western protests like those that followed the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
Two churches in the West Bank were hit by firebombs Saturday, and a group claiming responsibility said it was protesting Benedict's words. Scattered protests elsewhere, however, have been peaceful.

Benedict cited an obscure Medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as 'evil and inhuman' , comments some experts took as a signal that the Vatican was staking a more demanding stance for its dealings with the Muslim world.