So for all of the adults on the planet... let's see if we can get the basics straightened out:

1. The Pope quotes from an ancient debate on the use of  violence to advance a faith... the quote itself seems to imply that the prophet Mohammed did use violence to advance his brand of faith - which everyone on the planet knows is true...

2. The words that the Pope utters are that of a Byzantine emperor - NOT his own, and he makes clear that he was quoting...

3. The use of the quote was in the context of a speech/lecture given so as to discourage radical religionists (of any sort) from using force/violence to advance their faith...

4. Muslims around the globe begin to cry out in mysteriously organized unison (given that few of them speak German) "not true, not true Islam doesn't use violence to advance its cause... and the Pope should apologize."

5. The Pope makes clear that he was quoting an historical quote, and that the quote does not reflect his own view that all Muslims are presently using violence... he apologizes if anyone misunderstood the context of his lecture which again WAS to discourage people of any faith from using violence to achieve the advancement of that faith...

6. The Muslim brotherhood in Egypt accepts the Pope's explanation...

7. Now even more mysteriously organized Muslims around the world begin to threaten the Pope, and harass churches in the middle east...

8. The Pope again reiterates that he was not saying that he believes all Muslims are now using violence to advance their faith thus why he was giving his original lecture to discourage ALL faiths from using the aforementioned violence to spread their aforementioned faiths...

9. The still mysteriously organized Muslims continue their street VIOLENCE, burning the Pope in effigy...

10. To which the Pope in his Sunday Mass reminds everyone that the QUOTES he referred to were not his views, but that lifted from a debate that happened like 1400 years previously...

11. After which non-violent Muslims in Somalia seek out an Italian nun and execute her... demonstrating their horrid opposition to violence of course...

12. Simultaneously the Vatican continues to try to calm people's excitabilities...

13. Whereby Iran's crazy-man-in-charge openly states that the Pope is part of a US-Israeli conspiracy... and like so many other things the man says - no one has a clue what he means...

14. Which brings us up to date where the non-violent, peace-loving, freedom-protecting Muslims in the world are now calling for the death of the Pope...

Grrrrrrr.... I think the Byzantine emporer had it right... paraphrased: Muslims are nuts!