Of course the Pope’s “spin” about “violent, irrational Islam” involves lying of omission as well as of commission. Thus palpable realities ignored by the Pope in his Bush-ite Apologia include the following:

1. No Muslim countries are at war with anyone at the moment;

2. No Muslim countries are occupying any other countries (except for Turkish occupation of part of Cyprus);

3. Western armies in 2006 have been partially or completely occupying 5 substantially Muslim countries, namely Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

4. The post-invasion avoidable deaths (deaths that should not have happened) in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories currently (September 2006) total 0.3, 0.5 and 2.0 million, respectively – 60% under-5 year old infants and due to gross Occupier violation of the Geneva Convention that demands that Occupiers keep their Conquered Subjects alive (see: MWC news ).

5. Largely Muslim Iran is currently under acute threat from US-Israeli State Terrorism (USIST)  (a reality that makes the present Papal Islamophobia particularly dangerous. Is the Pope’s speech a deliberate contribution to pre-Iran War  psy-ops and a prelude to USIST attack on Iran?).

Outstanding writer on Muslim and World affairs, Tariq Ali, has commented thus on the Pope’s deliberate attack on Islam: "Was Benedict's most recent provocation accidental or deliberate? The Bavarian is a razor-sharp reactionary cleric ... leaves little to chance ... I think he knew what he was saying and why ... Today most Catholic prelates in the West (including the Bavarian in the Vatican) and politicians of Centre-Left/Right worship the real Pope who lives in the White House and tells them when black is white." (see: here ).

Pope Benedict’s last paragraph reinforces these interpretations of the pro-Bush War on Terror sub-text of the Pope’s Islamophobic speech [my queries and comments are in square brackets]:

QUOTE: “The West [why the West? Aren’t universities universal?] has long been endangered [poetical inclusion] by this aversion to the questions which underlie its rationality, and can only suffer great harm thereby [i.e. untestable assertions of “God” and “purpose of Life”]. The courage to engage the whole breadth of reason, and not the denial of its grandeur – this is the program with which a theology grounded in Biblical faith enters into the debates of our time [but not into rational Scientific inquiry]. “Not to act reasonably (with logos) is contrary to the nature of God”, said [Islamophobe] Manuel II, according to his Christian understanding of God, in response to his [Muslim] Persian interlocutor [i.e. implicit re-statement of this false thesis that Muslims are irrationally violent as well as the false assertion of Scientists being irrational in their scepticism] . It is to this great logos, to this breadth of reason [perversion of reason], that we invite our partners in the dialogue of cultures [but evidently not Muslims or Scientists]. To rediscover it constantly is the great task of the university.” [No, the great task of the university is to approach Truth by critically testing potentially falsifiable hypotheses].

The 18th century Enlightenment was all about Humanity freeing itself from dogmatic superstition violently imposed by institutions such as the Inquisition. The appalling realities of violent, Bush-Blair-led Western involvements in the Muslim world, the HIV/AIDS carnage (assisted by papal intransigence over safe sex) and the annual global avoidable mortality of 16 million on remorselessly warming, First World-ruled Spaceship Earth are ignored by Pope Benedict who instead promulgates false, offensive and threatening Islamophobia in the interests of US-Israeli state Terrorism that represents the greatest current threat to Christianity in the Middle East (just read expert UK scholar William Dalrymple's outstanding exposé "From the Holy Mountain" ).

60 years after the liberation of the concentration camps, Deutschland has now reverted to complicity in horrendous current war crimes (in Afghanistan, as part of the US Alliance where the post-invasion avoidable deaths now total 2 million and have occurred through gross Occupier violation of the Geneva Conventions that demand that Occupiers keep their Conquered Subjects alive) (see "US-corrupted Germany and Japan" in MWC News ). Is former Nazi German soldier, pro-Bush Joseph  Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI,  showing his true colours?

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Dr Gideon Polya,  MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality ---

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