09-15-2006, 08:51 PM
Pope asked to apologise for comments on Islam
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Religious Affairs Directorate head Ali Bardakoglu, a cleric who sets the religious agenda for Turkey, said he was deeply offended by the pope's remarks o Tuesday during his pilgrimage in Germany, about Islamic holy war, calling them ''extraordinarily worrying, saddening and unfortunate''.
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Compare this with the Indian reaction when the MEA guy was read the riot act by some clerk in Pontiff's office.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Religious Affairs Directorate head Ali Bardakoglu, a cleric who sets the religious agenda for Turkey, said he was deeply offended by the pope's remarks o Tuesday during his pilgrimage in Germany, about Islamic holy war, calling them ''extraordinarily worrying, saddening and unfortunate''.
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Compare this with the Indian reaction when the MEA guy was read the riot act by some clerk in Pontiff's office.