Don't even go there....
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."330
mm, as you know, I am not a Roman Catholic nor am I an apologist for Roman Catholicism. I do not, however, find Roman Catholicism even remotely Mohammedan. I find much of protestantism distressingly so. As for JPII kissing a koran, well, it surprised me but then again I thought then and think now that he was a lousy theologian. Most Orthodox do and did. The quote from the Catechism is an example of the modernist, innovative theology which came out of the Vatican in his years. To say with absolute confidence that “the plan of salvation” (whatever that is) includes Mohammedans, at one level, states the obvious. The created purpose of all mankind is to become like God. This includes atheists, idolators, everyone. But I suspect this section 841 is going beyond that to place Mohammedanism in some special and elevated category. Stuff like this is why so many of us are very concerned about our hierarchs and their talks with the Latins. BXVI, on the other hand, for us is an entirely different matter. Can you imagine him kissing a koran?