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bears that out. The Penn State professor of history and religion ends with a few bold, troubling predictions. The most incendiary premonition
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change radically, there will soon be a major
attack on an iconic symbol of European Christianity."
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Amsterdam in November 2004. But most of the European victims so far have been secular, or, at the very least, not singled out for their
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and Christians -- nominal or otherwise.
He figures it's only a matter of time before something really horrible happens.
Jenkins points to the pope as one likely target. After all, he writes, "In 1995, an Arab group based in the Philippines [and financed by al
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distracting attention from a related plot against
U.S. airliners." The plot would have been carried out against a pontiff whose approach to Islam was largely about accommodation and dialogue.
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THE CURRENT POPE HAS PROVED more willing to tiptoe up to that tripwire, and he's received surprising support from European leaders. After
Benedict XVI delivered a controversial address in Regensburg, Germany, in September of last year (he quoted a Byzantine emperor's critical
evaluation of Islam without explicitly endorsing the words -- the horror), death threats poured in. The pontiff then traveled to Turkey, a
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for the pope. German Chancellor Angela Merkel
endorsed the message of the speech, saying, "What Benedict XVI emphasized was a decisive and uncompromising renunciation of all forms of
violence in the name of religion."