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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Richnorth who wrote (5184)9/16/2006 1:18:36 PM
From: Ann Corrigan  Read Replies (2) of 224738
 
More remedial reality:Vatican Stops Short of Apology as Muslim Leaders Decry Comments
September 16, 2006

Pope Urges World Religious Leaders to Use Influence to Bring About Peace

VATICAN CITY — Leaders across the Muslim world demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologize for his remarks on Islam and jihad, but the Vatican stopped short of doing so Saturday, saying instead the pontiff "sincerely regrets" that Muslims were offended.

Benedict's speech in Germany this week unleashed a torrent of rage among Muslims and stirred concerns of violent anti-Western protests like those that followed the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The new Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said Benedict's position on Islam is in line with Vatican teaching that the church "regards with esteem also the Muslims."

Muslim leaders have been unappeased by previous overtures by Vatican officials.

"We do not accept the apology through Vatican channels ... and ask him (Benedict) to offer a personal apology — not through his officials," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon's most senior Shiite cleric, told worshippers Friday in Beirut.

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