10-10-2006, 07:36 PM
Well I typed long,thought out reply, but then my PC crashed and I can't be doing with spending all that time typing it out again, so I'll do a short version.
The whole thing blew up because of his use of a 900 year-old quote, and the mobs and muck-stirrers gleefully took those words for an excuse. The irony of violent riots, destruction of churches and calls for the Popes execution for seemingly calling Islam a violent religion completely passed them by.
Taken in context, what he was actually try to say was that violence has no place in religion. It was also an attack on the scientific community at large
This site covers it better than I can.
http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php?optio...ask=view&id=369