"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 Palelologus
I don’t disagree, but it does strike me that the media could certainly raise a straw horse rather easily to slay later on, at a critical time. I don’t know this guy, and he may be great. On the other hand he could make some comment next year that would be attributable to ‘conservatives’ which could bite us on the posterior.