Do some due diligence on what the Pope said

It is always a good idea to check in with Juan Cole’s “Informed Comment” blog when Westerners, even the Pope, start bloviating on what the world’s 1.2 billion Moslems supposedly believe. Cole is a professor of middle east studies at the University of Michigan. He has lived in the Middle East. Of course, the Neo-Conservatives whose talking-head importance is elevated by frightening “War for Civilization” rhetoric don’t like the things Cole says, although his credentials for knowing what he is talking about seem light years ahead of theirs. Getting these things wrong costs lives.