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The current state of terrorism has nothing to do with Muhammed and everything to do with the desperate and extreemist responses by Middle Eastern forces to strategic socioeconomic powerplays by the US and the UK. The pope was simply repeating old world religous bigotry; he slipped and let a little hate out. It's not uncommon for religous leaders to be somewhat defensive of their religon and somewhat offended by other religons. As was stated by Superbelt, many religons have been spread through violence and even "evil", including Christianity and Islam. It's an unfortunate byproduct of people being able to wield the power of the minds of those who are devoted to faith. The thing is, singling out a religon for being violent is like singling out a single tree for being green, and that singling out is usually done by a mamber of another religon. That's called religous bigotry.