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Pope Benedict's remarks inflame Muslims [audio 5min]

The foreign ministry in Pakistan has called in the Vatican ambassador to express regret over the Pope's recent remarks about Islam. In a lecture in Germany earlier this week, Pope Benedict quoted a 14th-century Christian Byzantine emperor who had said the only new tenet brought by the Islamic Prophet Mohammed was the command to spread faith by the sword, and this was incompatible with the nature of God. Report by Jeb Sharp.
Read entire article at BBC World Service-PRI-WGBH Boston "The World"