Rome

In my previous article, “Is Islam a Tolerant Religion?” posted on 30 June, 2006, I did not expect it to be Part One of a series of articles on this subject. The Tanweer website, where I saw the Arabic text, gave no indication of a continued discussion of the topic. But while I was glancing at the website of the Arabic online daily Elaph, I discovered Parts II & III of the series.
As is my method in my contributions to FFI, first I begin with excerpts from the article, and then end with my analysis and comments.

Pope Benedict XVI in his speech of September 12 at the University of Regensburg, Germany, perhaps unintentionally provided the Muslims with a golden opportunity: the opportunity to prove to all enemies of Islam that Muhammad indeed gave the world magnificent new teachings.

• ig-no-rance (ignr-ns)n.

The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed

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According to the common understanding of the word, as well as to the defining of it by the American Dictionary, to state that someone is ignorant on a topic is to state that that one is “uneducated, unenlightened, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored” on the said topic.