I just wish that people would report the entirety of his remarks-which are characteristically academic.
Read the entire lecture and several times because it isn't fluff. He basically says that violent coversion goes against the will of God because God isn't pleased by blood and by not acting reasonably.
He then goes on to quote authors who say that for Muslim teaching God is transcendant and not captive to "our categories or even rationality."
The real question that should be grabbing headlines is this:
"As far as understanding of God and thus the concrete practice of religion is concerned, we find ourselves faced with a dilemma which nowadays challenges us directly. Is the conviction that acting unreasonably contradicts God's nature mereley a Greek idea, or is it always and intrinsically true?"
His speech not only confronts fanatical Islam but relativism writ large. It seems that some in the Arab street have answered the Holy Father's question.
Great Post! I hear you!