The Pope's speech

A number of us have noted the Pope's (rich, learned, and very important) speech at Regensburg, and the angry reactions of some -- or, it appears, quite a few -- Muslims to it. 

It seems to me, for what it's worth, that what is far more striking (and depressing) about the situation is not the Pope's possible "insensitivity" in using the 14th century quotation that he did but the terrifyingly infantile reaction by -- apparently -- so many to that quotation, and (as Rob notes) the numbingly obtuse reporting on the situation by our leading media outlets. 

People are, I understand, burning the Pope in effigy and, yet again, threatening violence, because they cannot be bothered to read his speech with even marginal attentiveness and maturity, and, somehow, it's (yet again) the Pope who is the bad guy and expected to apologize?  This is, I fear, a very bad situation.