[7MMmag]

"The clincher is the complete silence from any source or quarter in the Islamic world to crow over this..."

Excuse me, sir, but at this link http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=10415 provided on this very thread three times before your own above quoted comment, can be found such as:

At the end of the audience the Pope bowed to the Muslim holy book, the Qu'ran, presented to him by the delegation, and he kissed it as a sign of respect. The photo of that gesture has been shown repeatedly on Iraqi television and it demonstrates that the Pope is not only aware of the suffering of the Iraqi people, he has also great respect for Islam.

Now what was that about "crowing"?

You said;

"But the "anytin but Catholic" crowd can't see beyond their hatred for Christ's Church."

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the biggest projectionist(s) of them all?

[Cronos]

I lived in Bahrain for years, and nope, at no point was this shown. Now what catholicculture may so or not is their prerogative -- if you read their about statement they say that CatholicCulture.org is run by a non-profit (501 c 3) corporation, Trinity Communications. The board and officers of Trinity Communications are Catholic laymen

They are not an official communication of The Church.

Now to the point of who was the guy in the picture, dangus has said he was a Christian.

There is no crowing of this in the Moslem world -- not in the Middle East, not in the Indian sub-continent that I have seen, read or heard of in their media or on the street when I have visited or stayed.