{"id":1576,"date":"2006-06-02T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T10:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/word-up-3.html"},"modified":"2006-06-02T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T10:31:52","slug":"word-up-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/word-up-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Word Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Allen’s Word From Rome:<\/a><\/p>\n

The Pope on Islam:<\/p>\n

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P<\/strong><\/span>opes only rarely lead by decree. Far more often, their example is decisive, pointing a new direction by what they do and say. <\/p>\n

Such has been the case under Benedict XVI on Islam. There’s been no Vatican edict, but everyone recognizes something has changed. It’s not that Benedict created a more hawkish climate on Islam; those currents were always present, and gathered steam in the post-9\/11 period. It’s rather that Benedict has unleashed them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Allen interviewed Cardinal Pell, who has of late had some very direct points to make about Islam:<\/p>\n

He excerpts in in Word, but the full interview is here:<\/a><\/p>\n

You said, \u201cConsidered on its own terms, Islam is not a tolerant religion.\u201d What did you mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019d be thinking about the general historical and political record of Islam. Now you might say that for a lot of our history, we weren\u2019t particularly tolerant either. To that objection, I\u2019d say, \u2018Show me where they\u2019re tolerant.\u2019<\/p>\n

But you seem to want to say that Christian intolerance is a distortion of Christianity, but Muslim intolerance is not a distortion of Islam.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The million dollar question is whether they are distortions of Islam. I\u2019m not sure. It\u2019s difficult to find periods of tolerance in Islam. I\u2019m not saying they\u2019re not there, but a good deal of what is asserted is mythical.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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