Calculating? Naive? Or Just Plain Stupid?

Pope Benedict is heard to utter references to 14th-century Muslim teaching about the spreading of the faith by use of the sword. He was speaking at the educational institution where he taught for many years in Germany.
Immediately some Muslims are up in arms. How dare he criticise Islam. Why does he draw references linking Islam to violence? Has he forgotten the Crusades which were intent on killing all Muslims?
What the Pope said was - to say the least - unfortunate in these days of tension between the Western "democratic" ethos and the Islamic ways of life.
For all his years of study and prayer, Pope Benedict has shown a complete lack of understanding of the world around him.
He must be an intelligent man or else he would not have been elevated to his lofty position as "Christ's representative on Earth".
There are three possible reasons for his statements:

1. It was a calculated statement in order to promote more antagonism between Christian and Muslim.
2. He was naive enough to think that all people would take his words in the spirit of historical fact.
3. HE IS JUST PLAIN STUPID!

Let's hope it's the last reason and we can all just write off Pope Benedict the Stupid as a madman who should be ignored. If this is not the case then the Pope will go down in history as the biggest supporter of Mad George W.

Perhaps he has an inbuilt German guilt for what the Nazis did to the Jews and wants to pacify them? I hope it isn't that simple because it would show that he hasn't thought things through to their logical conclusion.

Perhaps we will hear that Benedict advocates nuking Tehran or Islamabad?

Stupid, bloody stupid!