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Sat 07 Jul 2007Pope's contentious Islam speech was 'prophetic'GERMANY:Pope Benedict's XVI's private secretary, Fr Georg Gänswein, has said that the pontiff's speech in Regensburg last year that prompted worldwide protests from Muslims was deliberately controversial and even "prophetic".The speech sparked outraged reaction from Muslim leaders and several scholars suggested the pope had made a slip in using a quote describing Muhammad's teachings as "evil and inhuman".