Boycott Israel [hidayahnet] Vatican stands firm on Pope's controversial comments

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              Friday » September 29 » 2006           Vatican stands firm on Pope's controversial comments             Steven Edwards    CanWest News Service  Thursday, September 28, 2006                      CREDIT: Associated Press/Plinio Lepri    Pope Benedict XVI delivers his address to the faithful during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday.  UNITED NATIONS - The Vatican Wednesday ignored a call by Islamic foreign ministers at the United Nations for the Pope to retract controversial references he made about Islam.  In a speech before the UN's annual summit, Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo said people with political influence should be doing all they can to ensure extremists are sidelined.  He also re-explained what the Vatican says
 His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had meant when he quoted a medieval Christian emperor who equated Islam with violence.  ''It falls to all interested parties - to civil society as well as to states to promote religious freedom and a sane, social tolerance that will disarm extremists even before they can begin to corrupt others with their hatred of life and liberty,'' Lajolo told the assembly.  It emerged Wednesday that foreign ministers of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference had agreed on a communique calling on the Vatican to ''retract or redress'' the terms used by the Pope in his Sept. 12 speech at the University of Regensberg in Bavaria, Germany.  The ministers had met on the sidelines of the annual summit Monday night the same day the Pope welcomed at his summer residence ambassadors and charges d'affaires from some 22 Muslim countries that have diplomatic
 relations with the Vatican.  At the unprecedented gathering, the Pope said dialogue between Christians and Muslims was vital to achieving peace and stability.  ''A sincere dialogue necessarily entails self-critical analysis of the relationship of our traditions to those social, political and economic structures prone to become agents of violence and injustice,'' Lajolo told delegates to the UN.  Muslims throughout the world protested, many violently, after the Pope recalled Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologos saying: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."  In a series of statements, the Vatican has tried to show it was not singling out Islam for particular criticism.  Lajolo referred to
 the Pope's speech after suggesting the United States should have moved more quickly to have the UN Security Council call a halt to the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.  ''The Pope - as is known - expressed sadness that some passages in his academic address could have lent themselves to misinterpretation,'' said Lajolo. ''His real intention was to explain that 'not religion and violence, but religion and reason go together.''' 
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