Thursday, September 21, 2006

The Right Pope

"Can Islam be self-critical? Can its leaders condemn and marginalize its extremists, or are Muslims condemned to be held hostage to the passions of those who consider the murder of innocents to be pleasing to God? Can the West recover its commitment to reason and thus help support Islamic reformers? These are the large questions that Pope Benedict XVI has put on the world's agenda. Men and women of reason and goodwill should be very glad that he has done so". George Weigel, on the Los Angeles Times. On the same subject (more or less), also Jonah Goldberg on Townhall is a must-read.

Round-Up: Freedom's Zone, Hyscience, Blue Crab Boulevard, The LLama Butchers, Inactivist, Mere Rhetoric, The Cafeteria is Closed, Small Wars Journal, The Catholic Knight, South Dakota Politics, Bloguitica, Open Book.

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