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

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I would like to know that my dear friend kikei is living proof that there are plenty of Muslims who are neither crazy, nor doctrinaire, nor violent, nor ignorant, nor suspicious of everything beyond their ken, nor woman-hating (in this, her family is the evidence). kikei is one of those rare person whom you respect and admire the more, the more you know her: talented, phenomenally hard-working, demanding of herself but not of others, loving, and highly intelligent - and devout in her religion. It is, in a sense, unfair to quote such an exceptional person as if such virtues were universal or easy to attain, but I have met many decent and friendly Muslims, and she is only the best of a good bunch.