Pope Francis told
reporters that it is wrong to equate Islam with terrorism on his
flight back to the Vatican Sunday after spending five days in
Poland for World Youth Day.
"It's not right to identify Islam with violence. It's not
right and it's not true," the pope said when asked about last
week's attack in which a priest was killed in a French Church,
the latest in a string of recent atrocities committed by
Islamist extremists.
"I don't like to talk of Islamic violence because every
day, when I read the newspapers, I see violence, a who man who
kills his girlfriend, a man who kills his mother-in-law.
"These are baptized Catholics. If I speak of Islamic
violence, then I have to speak of Catholic violence".
Thousands of Muslims attended Mass on Sunday in churches
in Italy and France to show the faiths are united against
violence.
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