Variations on a theme

More from Robert Spencer on the Pope's naive view of Islam: "Pope Denounces ‘Fear’ of Islam".

The pope was no doubt unaware of the fact, but two weeks before he issued this call, an Islamic scholar in the pontiff’s home city of Chicago offered a radically different view. On Nov. 14, Mohammad Nusairat said: “Unfortunately, these days we don’t repeat this enough, or we don’t have this doctrinal concept firm in our minds – that Islam did not come to coexist.” He quoted Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, saying: “Islam is always superior and should never be surpassed.” Nusairat added: “Islam is raised high, and nothing is raised above Islam.”

I await His Holiness's formula for making friends with people whose religion defines peace as conquest. That strikes me as pretty much the definition of a zero sum game.

I prefer a slightly more muscular Christianity.