Una oportunidad [para que Ratzinger] se muestre más amistoso.
Así titulaba The Economist un artículo previo a la visita del papa a Turquía en el que le leía la cartilla a Benedicto XVI y le concedía “una oportunidad”. El artículo empezaba echándole las culpas de parte de los riesgos del viaje:
IT HAS been called the most hazardous journey undertaken by a Roman pontiff in modern times. Some of the hazards of this week’s papal visit to Turkey may be unavoidable, others may have been of his own making.
Y acababa afirmando que “Si el Papa aprende algo de este viaje, puede que sea que no es lo mismo el Islam como devoción que el Islamismo político”:
While indicators suggest that Turks are growing more pious and more inclined to stress their Muslim identity, support for political Islam may be waning. Take the results of a new poll by Tesev, a think-tank which studies society and religion: the number of Turks who put their Muslim identity first has risen to 45% from 36% in 1999; but over the same period the number of people who favoured sharia law dropped from 21% to 9%. So if Pope Benedict learns anything from his trip it may be that pious Islam and political Islam are not the same thing.
Hay quien es más papista que el Papa, y quien pontifica más que el Sumo Pontífice.
