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Pope, Prophet and Policies.............

The context is the Pope's speech which many Muslims feel is offending Islam. Read this link for some excerpts of the Pope's speech : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5348456.stm Curiously, the Pope hints to an "argument against violent conversion". I wonder whether he thought about the Crusades of the past and the current "induced" conversions in Asian, African & Latin American countries, including India. This link speaks about the Muslim protests against the Pope's remarks : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5349578.stm But did the Islamic protestors think what would the followers of other faiths think, when Muslims quote the Koran and call them "Infidels" and "Kafirs" ? (Similarly the Christian proselytisers call the non-Christians as "sinners" - 'Paavigale .....'). And read this for the next news : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5353208.stm But, in all this discourse, imagine the Hindus b