"[T]he Pope quoted from a book according to which, he said, the Byzantine emperor Manuel Paleologos II had said: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.""
(It is quite ironic for the representative of the Catholic church, of all people, to be making judgements about issues relating to reason, persecution, oppression, exclusivism, violence, etc. It is amazing how easy the papacy can forgive its own long record of"sins.")