[broadsword]

How many converts do you think he would make by denouncing the spiritual symbols of Islam directly?

LOL! I would bet that not one single person converted to Catholicism just because the Pope kissed a tome of evil that sladers God, condems Christians to persecution and death and women to horrid fifth-class citizenship, genital mutilation and death for the slightest infraction. Wow! What a stretch. I would guess that that ugly, stupid, cowardly action pushed many thousands of good people away from the Church.

[Campion]

women to horrid fifth-class citizenship, genital mutilation

Actually, the Koran says nothing about "female circumcision," and many Muslims don't practice it. It seems to be mainly a Somalian, Egyptian, and Sudanese thing.

[sinkspur]

I would guess that that ugly, stupid, cowardly action pushed many thousands of good people away from the Church.

I would guess that so few people know about the Pope kissing the Koran that its effect was, and is, negigible. In fact, I'd bet that not one single person left the Church at the time over it.

But, the Catholic haters (and I include the integrists in that group) continue to regurgitate a 20 year old act like a mother kangaroo puking up for her young.

It's reached the point of silliness.