Yes. It is his time and place to confront them directly and to correct publically their evil misdirection. May he continue to speak out against their evil works and machinations.
"A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures," he said.
Please notice that he's criticizing the secularized West, too. He's saying you can't enter into a "dialogue of cultures" if you've yanked out the roots of YOUR OWN culture.
We've trivialized our Judeo-Christian heritage. Instead of being one of the prime sources of education, law, popular custom and public ceremony in this country, it's been banned from the public square and relegated to a private hobby, like collecting beer bottles or raising budgies.
Islam has become salient in the West not because it's a spiritual powerhouse but because the West has insisted on turning itself a spiritual vacuum.