The Pope's speech (link)

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http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html

Scientists and philosophers appreciated it.
Howling mobs of fanatics hated what they could understand of it.
(This suggests that a lot of LJers will hate what they can understand of it.)

Comments

[goreism.livejournal.com]

I'm also suspicious of the reports that say a prominent so-and-so in Mogadishu or whatever has condemned the Pope. I sort of wonder how many of these people are nutters with no real following.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Um. Considering that, 1) the Islamic judges run the town and much of the country now, and 2) that someone just murdered an elderly Italian nun who was working in the local hospital for no reason, I suspect there is rather more to that than you imagine.