The Pope and Islam

 The danger for Islam is not violence: this is present all over the world and in all religions and ideologies. The danger is that of justifying all this through religion. Even certain forms of violence against women and their rights are justified using the Qur’an. For example, I know a Muslim woman who cannot get a divorce, because divorce is the husband’s right; she can only ask for the favour of being repudiated by him. He, on the basis of the Qur’an, can also remarry (up to four wives) and make a new life for himself, but the woman, who lives apart, does not have this right. She, a young wife, complained to me because “there is no justice”. These situations, in which one uses the Qur’an or sharia law to exclude the other, are frequent.

Fr Samir Khalil at Asia World News – Benedict XVI’s improbable dialogue with 138 Muslim scholars