Read the Regensburg Address. With all due respect to my Roman Catholic friends, JP2 was an embarrassment in many ways.
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html
Pope Benedict is of a different mind.
Then perhaps present-day Rome is deceived. But slandering millions of Catholics by saying they serve the false god of Islam is not a fitting subject for FR. I think you should do it somewhere else.
Pope John Paul II may have been infallible, but he was not inerrant or impeccable. That scene represents a severe mistake, like the Assissi conference.
But Islam is a syncretism between Christianity and various pagan religions, but they do actually believe that the God they pray to is the God of Abraham, the one God, no matter how perverted and adulterated their understanding of Him is.
That Allah is somehow a moon god is a bunch of nonsense; the Christians of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Arabia used the name Allah centuries before Mohammed syncretized the god of Abraham with that damned meteorite. Even Mizrahi Jews call God, Allah. The name means “The God,” with the article (”the”) indicating that there is no other god.
With tens of millions of Catholic Christians living with Islamic swords hanging over their head, the Catholic pope is not free to act with the belligerence that many Protestants do. In an effort to make peace, John Paul II has made regrettable overtures, but when he teaches that the Jews, Muslims and Catholics believe in the same God, he is correct. When Benedict XVI says that the Muslims created no good thing, he is also correct. Whatever good or true Muslims know of, they know of through the Christians they have slayed and conquered. But that God they have learned of is, no matter how badly perverted their image of him is, the same God.
Are you aware of what book that is?
It is not the Koran as Protestants would have us believe, but a copy of the Eastern Orthodox Gospels.
Gotcha!
So that’s all you have? One picture, as opposed by two thousand years of history? This “article” is an Epic Fail.