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Pope on anti-Islam drive in Turkey: Al-Qaeda Associated Press Cairo, November 30, 2006 Al-Qaeda in Iraq denounced Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey, calling it part of a "crusader campaign" against Islam. The Vatican said that Wednesday's comments showed the need to fight "violence in the name of God." The trip is Benedict's first visit to an Islamic country as pontiff, seeking dialogue with Muslims who were angered over a speech he made in September in which he cited a medieval text that linked Islam and violence. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the most feared Islamic militant group in Iraq, issued its...

Note: The link above just refers to the book itself, not the article. ISBN is 0-89555-467-4 This quote is from the last chapter, and is intended to provoke discussion. The West has returned, and one might say that the work of Saladin was plainly undone. Now the future is as hidden from us as it was from those fathers of ourse who, barely three lifetimes ago, still feared the further advance of the East. But when we consider the major forces at work before our eyes, though we cannot conclude upon their results we can at least estimate their immediate...