What the Pope says by that quote is not a direct insult to Mohammed & Islam, but the context is so complexly layered that it WILL appear so to Muslims who do not take the time to sort thru the references and dissect the entire speech.

But what the Pope does right after this, in my opinion, is obliquely criticize the structure of Islam and current practice of many members of Islam for allowing their concept of God/Allah to be outside the strictures of reason; thus providing a basis for taking certain scripture literally and allowing Muslim clerics to interpret the 'rules' subjectively...including rules of Jihad.

   As the Pope's speech progresses, this connection seemingly becomes only a subtext of other erudite points, but he 'could' have made his point without using Mohammed as an example, so I suspect it was not accidental.....and yeah, he should have realized someone would yank THAT line out of the text and have it all over the world in 15 minutes!

   There is obviously some food for thought about the ways in which Islam is structured so that it is possible for various adherents to find justification for their violent behavior....just as some Christians can find justification in the Bible for sending missionaries out to 'convert the heathen'....by any means necessary.

   I suspect that the Pope didn't ask the spirit of his predecessor, John Paul II, for advice when he wrote that speech.