Greetings, House-

No doubt many of you have seen and heard of the newest excuse for Islamic radicals to express themselves- Pope Benedict's speech in Munchen. I want to bring this up for discussion because I see a trend taking place with Islam in the natural, and I want to hear what you all have to say about how this reflects on the spiritual confrontation that I feel is currently taking place. Some interesting dynamics are on display here:

Firstly, this situation is even more ironicly revealing than the previous one involving the Mohammed cartoons. If you actually read the pope's words to the University of Regensburg (and I have), and then look at the reaction of the Muslim community, including even the responses of heads of state in Turkey, Pakistan, Somalia, Malaysia etc., it is incredible. The ignorance expressed here is so deep its hard to even be humorous about it. The message sent by a large portion of the Muslim world here can be interpreted like this, literally: "Those who say Islam is a violent and unreasonable religion we shall destroy!"

And secondly, the pope's message could hardly be called an attack. If it was, then Evolutionists should be the ones offended, because he was more directly speaking to western scientists that refuse to acknowledge God and theology. Yet the point he was trying to make did in fact confront Islam indirectly on a very basic level- the lack of reason and contradictions within the Koran. Benedict drew attention to the fact that Mohammed's writings were different in the begining than in the latter parts of the Koran. In the beginning, Mohammed held no political power, and so the Koran reflects a more pacifist attitude. Later on, as he grew in influence, you find passages about "holy war" and religious conquest.

Such strong reactions to words like this are indictitive that they hit upon something valid. A great cartoon illustration I saw compared the Muslim reaction to the pope's words with their reaction to bin Laden's flying planes into the trade centers. Very different- and very revealing. And that's the key word I want to stress here: Revealing. Islam is being revealed for the falsehood that it is. The fruit of this tree is showing ripe; death, destruction, ignorance, faleshood, physical and intellectual poverty, etc. (which the pope indirectly said.)

It makes me think, 'Is God setting the stage for a world harvest, here?' As the spiritual famine of Islam becomes sharper, will more and more of it's captives grow hungry enough for truth to abandon it and turn to the Christ?

What do you see?