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There is something further about Islam's depraved moral state that comes from the greatest Catholic theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas in Contra Summa Gentiles:

He seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasures … His teachings also contained precepts that were in conformity with [such] promises … the truths that he taught were mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity… he perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law. It was, therefore, a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity.

Aquinas knew well the Koran and points out Muslims are forbidden from reading the biblical books. They would reveal in fact that Mohammed was a false prophet who added and detracted to what is contained in the revealed Scriptures when he invented his own religion. The Pope knows that Islam is at odds with Western religion but is constrained for reasons of political correctness from stating so openly. Imagine the degree of Muslim rage had the Pope taken the time to quote as here, from Aquinas. Who incidentally is a Doctor Of The Church as well one of its saints.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

Actually, Muslims aren't discouraged from reading the bible. In fact, some of their greatest scholars happen to study Hebrew and the bible in great detail. If you would happen to watch any of the great Christian/Muslim debates, you would know that. In fact, many Muslims are openly invited to read and learn about the Bible, and if you spoke to some, you would find it only increases their faith.

Also, the supposed western superiority is laughable. I know as an educated American. Very few American Christians actually follow their religion, or even know much about it, yet they feel free to condemn others quickly. In fact, popes and other religious leaders from past centuries were very prone to avarice and sexual freedoms; even in recent years we discover how the church struggled to hide its pedophilia scandal.

That's not to say Christianity is immoral or "heathenistic." Many people seem unable to separate the religion from the practicer. From the standpoint of many people in Africa, India and the Middle East who have been colonized, mistreated, enslaved, as well as are currently being invaded and killed by the West, that would be condemning and hating all Westerners.

Oh wait, they do. Maybe for good reason. But they're no different from ignorant Westerners who have probably have had more education and more opportunity to learn about different religions - and NOT from foreign invaders who decide they want to own the world.

The fact that there are such hateful Muslims as well as Christians disgust me. Speak in favor of your religion, but to go so far as to call other ones names just shows insecurity and closed-mindedness.