If the "Muslim religious scholars" who are now attacking the Roman Catholic Pope's comments actually want to be believed in their profession of a "peacful" Islam, then they can quit standing up to excuse and defend every form of inhuman degradation perpetrated by Isamic terrorists around the Middle East, simply because those terrorists are Muslims.
Absent Islamic terrorism, which is based on Islamic religious intolerance and Islamic intolerance of diverse world cultures, there would not have been an Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has continued now for almost sixty years and Osama and the millions of Osama clones would not have found the support they have in Muslim societies.
While stage-managing their own world-political agenda, for the myth that they are "victims" and that existence of Israel is an example of racism, it is in fact their religious xenophobia and intolerance towards Jews that is the obvious racism.
The only "crime" to Israel's existence is that Jews were determined to have at least one place in the world where they would not live ever again under the Dhimmitude of Muslims or the anti-semitism of Europeans; a goal of national self-determination that they had every right to strive for and achieve; a goal that was rightfully centered on the ancient homeland of the Jews - Israel.
The Israel of 1948 would have been a miniscule shadow of its current dimensions and created no Arab refugees. Instead of culturally and religiously accepting a tolerant peaceful co-existence with that tiny state, the Muslims, the Arabs, with all their vast Muslim and Arab dominated lands in the world, tried to obliterate Israel. By doing so, they created the security requirements for a much larger Israel, in order for Israel to defend its existence.
If Muslims and Arabs think that Israel or the world is going to go back to 1948 and 1948 borders, on new promises of peace that Israel has waited sixty years for, then the Muslims and Arabs are still living in an alternate reality of the myths that they have spun for themselves. And if so, then their continued belief in those myths will make their past failures look small by comparison.
They are in a sucicidal cycle of self-perpetuating myths that fail and with each failure perversely reinforcing the myth. Who knows how big the catastrophe must be to break them of it.
What would happen if we returned like wth like? Would it bring armageddon?