Former Archbishop of Canterbury Backs Pope and Issues Warning on "Violent" Islam

Pope Benedict's words at Regensburg, and the ensuing Islamic reaction, seem to have struck a chord among some English churchmen:

THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s “extraordinarily effective and lucid” speech.

Lord Carey said that Muslims must address “with great urgency” their religion’s association with violence. He made it clear that he believed the “clash of civilisations” endangering the world was not between Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole.

“We are living in dangerous and potentially cataclysmic times,” he said. “There will be no significant material and economic progress [in Muslim communities] until the Muslim mind is allowed to challenge the status quo of Muslim conventions and even their most cherished shibboleths.”

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In addition, Roman Catholic Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England, has praised Pope Benedict's Regensburg address as "perceptive and very relevant."

The Anglican Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, seems to know the score, as well.