Nonsense! The man had guts! He took them on in their own turf - at Al-Azhar in Cairo and the Great Mosque (formerly a church) in Damascus. He went into the lions' den and came out unscathed! He bore witness of Christ! He reminded me of St Francis before the Sultan!
If you find and post a picture of St. Francis kissing the sultan's koran, I'll happily retract.
Bingo-Could not have said it better
A picture is worth a thosand words
Better yet, find a picture of St Pope Pius X
Why do these Vatican II popes have such a fear of this oath and have refused to take it, one and all? Is it because their lawyers (I guess they have the same legal council Bill Clinton had) advised them not to take it? What about the Oath against Modernism that a Saint in Pope Pius X made mandatory?
The Papal Coronation Oath: the vow a pope takes when he is elected:
"I vow:
• To change nothing of the received tradition, and nothing thereof, I have found before me guarded by God-pleasing predecessors, to encroach upon, to alter, or to permit any innovation therein;
• To the contrary: with glowing affection as her truly faithful student and successor, to safeguard reverently the passed on good, with my whole strength and utmost effort;
• To cleanse all that is in contradiction to the canonical order should such appear;
• To guard the Holy Canons and Decrees of our Popes as if they were the divine ordinances of Heaven, because I am conscious of Thee, whose place I take through the Grace of God, whose Vicarship I possess with Thy support, being subject to severest accounting before Thy Divine Tribunal over all that I shall confess.
• If I should undertake to act in anything of contrary sense, or should permit that it will be executed. Thou willst not be merciful to me on the dreadful Day of Divine Justice.
• Accordingly, without exclusion, we subject to severest excommunication anyone - be it ourselves or be it another - who would dare to undertake anything new in contradiction to this constituted evangelic Tradition, and the purity of the orthodox Faith and the Christian religion, or would seek to change anything by his opposing efforts, or would agree with those who undertake such a blasphemous venture."