Monday, August 22, 2005
This Guy Is Good
The WSJ is writing about a speech the Pope gave to a largely Muslim audience Isubscription required)
Would that this pope would play as important a role in the defeat of Islamic terror as the last one did in the defeat of Soviet communism.
Pope Benedict XVI decried the "cruel fanaticism" of terrorism Saturday and urged Muslims to join Christians in trying to combat its spread.Go get 'em Benedict! Everybody acknowledges that Islam needs to reform if terror is to be brought under control, but there is little government leaders can do to encourage that. This is the absolutely right source and place for encouragement of this type.
In blunt remarks, he told a gathering of Muslim officials in Germany that Muslim leaders had a "great responsibility" in properly educating their younger generations.
"I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when I bring up as one of our concerns the spread of terrorism," the pope told the Muslim leadership, mainly Turks, in his most extensive remarks on terrorism during his four-month papacy. "Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction, and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair."
Would that this pope would play as important a role in the defeat of Islamic terror as the last one did in the defeat of Soviet communism.
