Loved how old Benedictus ripped Manuel II's statements right out of context and pasted them out over the headlines like a frickin' Art class. From the mouth of an angry Emperor of Rome who had been reduced to the obedient hound of the Ottoman in Edirne, who had seen what had become of the Roman cities of Asia Minor by his time, and who was too proud to admit that the blame lay squarely on the shoulders of his predecessors, comes a comment which the Pope apparently thought was perfectly usable for a commentary on the religion of Islam.

With such ignorance (his own and those of the Muslim mobs), what can he expect but anger and riots? Manuel II's words belong in the past, and even then they were wrong. The Pontiff should have let them rest in their shallow grave.