We’ve said that Pope Benedict XVI is healthy for Catholic-Jewish relations. We’ve said he’s hostile to militant Islam. The reason we say these things is because they’re true:
Pope Benedict XVI held a meeting at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, a strident critic of Islam, Vatican sources confirmed. The 76-year-old writer, who describes herself as an atheist Christian and was sued in Italy for insulting the Muslim faith in one of her books, asked to meet the pope, a source said.
“Europe is no longer Europe, it is ‘Eurabia,’ a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense,” Fallaci told The Wall Street Journal on June 23… Before becoming pope, Ratzinger outlined his opposition to Turkey joining the European Union and his concerns about the West’s “inner disarray” at a time when “history’s soul is awakening once again”.
Say what you will about his theological dogmatism (and we think that there’s good and bad there), Pope Benedict XVI knows what ails Western Europe.
