[AFPhys]

This is a stupid thing to excerpt.

Read the whole thing... it has NOTHING to do with that small excerpt.

Here is the official transcript:
Faith, Reason and the University
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html

Here is what an official spokesman for the Vatican said:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702933/posts

His address was to REPRESENTATIVES OF SCIENCE, not theologians or reporters or politicians or "the common man" and it was extolling academics to stop marginalizing religion. It had nothing to do with Islam.

[goldstategop]

But is directed at all those who exclude reason from faith and this applies as much to Islam as well as to the Left's secular representatives - the scientists.

"Show me just what Mohammed 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." -Manuel II Paleologus

[dervish]

Right and wrong. The discussion of Islam is central to his message - that Christianity is based on Logos.

It places Christianity in the middle - not reasonless like Islam (see the excerpt) but not pure Godless reason like science.