ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Following a wave of protests against Pope Benedict's remarks on Islam, Muslim intellectuals in Turkey are asking what he really thinks about their faith and what long-term consequences his views will have.
Muslim thinkers in Turkey, where the German-born Pontiff is due on a sensitive visit in late November, suspect Benedict suffers from "Orientalist" delusions about Islam and wants to move the Roman Catholic Church away from dialogue with it.
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