Pope Benedict, On Islamic Terrorism...

This new Pope fella has quite a pair on him; after all, you need one (well, two) these days to speak the truth about the dangers that the Western world faces from the Islamists:

"Attention has rightly been drawn to the danger of a clash of civilizations," said Benedict. "The danger is made more acute by organized terrorism, which has already spread over the whole planet. Its causes are many and complex, not least those to do with political ideology, combined with aberrant religious ideas.

Terrorism does not hesitate to strike defenseless people, without discrimination, or to impose inhuman blackmail, causing panic among entire populations, in order to force political leaders to support the designs of the terrorists. No situation can justify such criminal activity, which covers the perpetrators with infamy, and it is all the more deplorable when it hides behind religion, thereby bringing the pure truth of God down to the level of the terrorists' own blindness and moral perversion."

Hey - appeasing "root-cause" seekers and liberal Islamic apologists - is the above clear enough for you?

Link via Atlas Shrugs; link to Opinion Journal for commentary...