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Catholics could be just as deadly; Pope Refuses to equate Islam with Violence

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August 2, 2016
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Pope Francis refused to equate Islam with violence on Sunday, saying Catholics could be just as deadly and warning Europe was pushing its young towards terrorism.

“I don’t think it is right to equate Islam with violence,” he told journalists during his return from a trip to Poland.

Pope Francis defended his decision not to name Islam when condemning the brutal jihadist murder of a Catholic priest in France in the latest of a string of recent attacks in Europe claimed by Islamic State (or Isil).

“In almost every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. We have them too,” he said.

“If I have to talk about Islamic violence I have to talk about Christian violence. Every day in the newspapers I see violence in Italy, someone kills his girlfriend, another kills his mother-in-law, and these are baptised Catholics.”

Iman Sami Salem (L) and Imam Mohammed ben Mohammed (R) stand during a mass in the church Santa Maria in trastevere in Rome
Two imams attend mass at Santa Maria church in Trastevere, Rome CREDIT: AFP

The pontiff was speaking after Muslims attended Catholic mass in churches around France and Italy on Sunday in solidarity and sorrow following the murder of the priest, whose throat was slit at the altar of his church.

In an echo of remarks made during his five-day trip to Poland for a Catholic youth festival, Francis said religion was not the driving force behind the violence.

“You can kill with the tongue as well as the knife,” he said, in an apparent reference to a rise in populist parties fuelling racism and xenophobia.

He said Europe should look closer to home, saying “terrorism… grows where the God of money is put first” and “where there are no other options”.

“How many of our European young have we left empty of ideals, with no work, so they turn to drugs, to alcohol, and sign up with fundamentalist groups?” he asked.

(The Telegraph)

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