“The only way to save Lebanon is resistance,” Benedict said in his address to open the global summit the Pope organised in aid of the Christian community of Lebanon. Support and help to Lebanese Christians is a mandatory duty of all Christians. I now tell all Christian brothers and sisters to join forces and break the immunity of the Islamist criminals, Benedict said.

Can you imagine the uproar? You can’t talk like that. It’s hate speech. It’s nazi. It’s downright rabid.

Yes, it is. But it wasn’t the Pope who said it, not in this our real world.