Its also ironic that the very arguments that the Pope offered--namely that Muhammad offered no new or unique message--are the very same criticisms that were levelled at Christians by the pagans in the early second and third centuries CE; Christianity was seen as a synthesis of all the pagan Mystery Cults, a sort of "best of collection" that borrowed things from everything from Jove to Mithra to Osiris, and in fact that there is even an amusing early church father exchange between a preacher from the Jove cult where the church father defends the animosity developing between the two competing sects by explaining "we propound nothing different from those you esteem Sons of Jove." Pretty much all the sayings attributed to religious figures were not actually spoken by that person, if we are even to believe that said person actually existed--most of the sayings attributed to Buddha and Confuscious have been realised to be generic wisdom sayings that were existing in the culture long before attached to those figures, and in the Jesus Seminars, conducted in the late 1990's, New Testament scholars came to the shocking realisation that nearly every quote attributed to Jesus in the Bible--the beatitudes, the turn-the-other-cheek, the sermon on the mount--were not authentic but merely wisdom sayings that were "in the air" and were later attached to the figure of Christ. Saying any religion is unique is completely ignorant because anyone who actually has researched into history and science inevitably comes to the conclusion that its all bullshit. But then i wouldn't expect such feats of knowledge from Popes and Imams--best thing to do is probably let them kill each other; only problem is that they fight by proxy through their innocent followers.