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Pope: Not right to talk about a ‘violent, terrorist’ Islam

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Pope Francis (Photo by Martin Schulz/Flickr)

Pope Francis (Photo by Martin Schulz/Flickr)

Pope Francis on Sunday said he won’t label Islam as “terrorist” because that would be unfair and not true.

Reporters aboard the papal plane flying him home after a pilgrimage to Poland, the day after extremists slit the throat of an elderly priest celebrating Mass in a French church, asked him why he never uses the world “Islam” to describe terrorism or other violence.

While in Poland, Francis made an unscheduled stop at a church in Krakow to implore God to protect people from the “devastating wave” of terrorism in many part of the world.

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When asked why he didn’t describe the priest’s murder and other attacks as Islamic terrorism, Francis replied he won’t do that because “it’s not right to identify Islam with violence.

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It’s not right and it’s not true.”

“I believe that in every religion there is always a little fundamentalist group.”

“I don’t like to talk of Islamic violence because every day, when I go through the newspapers, I see violence, this man who girls his girlfriend, another who kills his mother-in-law,” Francis said, in apparent reference to crime news in predominantly Catholic Italy. “And these are baptized Catholics. If I speak of Islamic violence, then I have to speak of Catholic violence.”

“In Islam, not all are violent, not all the Catholics are violent. It’s like a fruit salad, everything’s in there.

Noting he has spoken with imams, he concluded: “I know how they think, they are looking for peace.”

As for ISIS, he said, the Islamic State group “presents itself with a violent identity card, but that’s not Islam.”

Francis spoke on the day when Muslims in France and Italy flocked to Mass to Sunday Mass in a show of interfaith solidarity following a string of extremist attacks threatening to sharpen religious divides across Europe.

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