Pope remark offends Muslim leaders
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Pope Benedict's comments about Islam   could hurt religious harmony, government and religious leaders   in the world's most populous Muslim countries, Indonesia and   Pakistan, said on Friday.
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Criticism against Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Islam escalated Saturday with the firebombing of two West Bank churches.
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Muslims deplored on Friday remarks on   Islam by Pope Benedict and many of them said the Catholic   leader should apologize in person to dispel the impression that   he had joined a campaign against their religion.
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Iraq's government called on Muslims on   Saturday not to attack the country's small Christian minority   in response to remarks by Pope Benedict that have angered   Muslims.
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The pope had only said he was ÂsorryÂ for the ÂreactionÂ to a speech discussing Islam last week, noted some Muslims.
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Pope Benedict faced a growing   chorus of demands on Tuesday for an unequivocal apology for   remarks seen as portraying Islam as a violent faith, despite   attempts by Western leaders and churchmen to defuse the crisis.
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Muslim leaders today strongly denounced comments Pope Benedict XVI made this week about Islam, calling them ignorant and divisive.
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Pope Benedict said on Sunday he   was "deeply sorry" at the anger caused by his remarks on Islam   and said a quote he used from a medieval text about holy wars   did not reflect his personal thoughts.
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Pope Benedict meets Muslim   ambassadors and Italian Islamic leaders later on Monday in an   unprecedented move to try to defuse anger over his use of a   medieval text which says their religion was spread by violence.
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Pope Benedict XVI's apology for comments on Islam receives a mixed response but fails to end anger.
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The Vatican says the Pope did not intend to offend Muslims, after he is accused of anti-Islamic remarks.
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Pope Benedict said on Wednesday   that his use of medieval quotes portraying a violent Islam did   not reflect his views and were misunderstood, but he did not   give the clear apology still demanded by many Muslims.
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Pope Benedict XVI is "extremely upset" that Muslims have been offended by some of his words in a recent speech in Germany, the Vatican said Saturday.
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ISTANBUL -- Turkey's top Islamic cleric asked Pope Benedict XVI yesterday to take back recent remarks he made about Islam and unleashed a string of counteraccusations against Christianity, raising tensions before the pontiff's November visit -- his first to a Muslim country.
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Pope Benedict XVI says he is sorry about the offence caused by his speech referring to the Muslim faith.
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Following a wave of protests against   Pope Benedict's remarks on Islam, Muslim intellectuals in   Turkey are asking what he really thinks about their faith and   what long-term consequences his views will have.
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Vatican relations with the Islamic world must be restarted from square one because Muslims insist on misinterpreting Pope Benedict's recent comments on Islam, Germany's top Catholic cardinal said in an article on Wednesday.