"The Holy Father thus sincerely regrets that certain passages of his address could have sounded offensive to the sensitivities of the Muslim faithful, and should have been interpreted in a manner that in no way corresponds to his intentions."
The Holy Father here is basically saying he's sorry these Muslim dummies don't have the brain capacity to understand what it was he was saying, and can't interpret what was really said by the Pope in his address. "Could have sounded offensive" cracks me up. How cleverly put.
"On Sunday, he reiterated:
Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday he was "deeply sorry" about the angry reaction sparked by his speech about Islam and holy war and said the text did not reflect his personal opinion. "These (words) were in fact a quotation from a medieval text which do not in any way express my personal thought," Benedict told pilgrims at his summer palace outside Rome."
Here the Pope "apologizes" about the Muzzie reaction to his speech, not for what he said in the speech itself. Again, very cleverly done. Then he says the text did not reflect his personal opinion. The Pope's personal opinion of Muslim behavior and the Muslim religion may be WORSE than the opinion expressed by the dead Byzantine Emperor he quoted. We (and the Muzzies) don't know what the Pope's true opinion really is, and his personal opinion might be a whole lot more negative than the Muzzies would like to think. Hah, hah. Again, a lovely ambiguous statement which really is not an apology at all, is it.
Your post is a keeper. I have been linking some posters to the Catholic Encyclopedia's view of Mohammed and Mohammedanism to give them a hint of what might be Pope Benedict's opinion of Islam. :)