That is truly ironic and sad. There is indeed a great cultural divide in the world. The Western world vs. The Middle-East situation has been excalating for about 3 decades, and people only has to hear so much from another source to build up this hatred again. There was, in relating to the thing 'bout the Pope, also the drawings of Muhammad from the danish newspaper JP that was released in november last year (I think) which let to a nationwide ban on danish wares in most of the Middle-East as well as the burning of 2 danish embassys (spelling???) And those pictures were, in my eyes, totally harmless... perhaps with the exeption of the picture where his turban is a bomb... (looking for a link, but failing). Our current world situation could indeed turn out very nasty if nothing is done to prevent further misunderstandings.