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European religious and political leaders have backed Benedict XVI in the wake of Muslim protests over the Pope’s academic lecture at Regensburg University Tuesday, saying the Pope’s words had been misinterpreted.
“Rather than criticizing Islam, the Pope is actually offering it a helping hand by suggesting that it do away with the cycle of violence,” Fr. Samir K. Samir, SJ one of the Vatican’s leading experts on Islam wrote in the Catholic newspaper AsiaNews.
The Pope’s academic lecture “was trying to show how western society-including the Church-has become secularized by removing from the concept of Reason its spiritual dimension and origins which are in God,” Fr. Samir stated.
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“Rather than criticizing Islam, the Pope is actually offering it a helping hand by suggesting that it do away with the cycle of violence,” Fr. Samir K. Samir, SJ one of the Vatican’s leading experts on Islam wrote in the Catholic newspaper AsiaNews.
The Pope’s academic lecture “was trying to show how western society-including the Church-has become secularized by removing from the concept of Reason its spiritual dimension and origins which are in God,” Fr. Samir stated.
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