In my humble opinion, the speech delivered by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany on the subject of faith and reason is exactly right. Violence has no place in religion.

From the Pope’s remarks:

… I was reminded of all this recently, when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (Münster) of part of the dialogue carried on – perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara – by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both’