{"id":27381,"date":"2016-08-02T02:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T02:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pope-francis-not-right-to-identify-islam-with\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T02:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T02:51:27","slug":"pope-francis-not-right-to-identify-islam-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pope-francis-not-right-to-identify-islam-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Not right to identify Islam with violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The pope says it is not fair to speak about violence by Muslims without talking about violence committed by Catholics.}<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has condemned the habit of linking Islam with terrorism, saying that &#8220;nearly all religions&#8221; have a &#8220;small group of fundamentalists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters aboard the Catholic leader&#8217;s plane flying him back to Rome on Sunday after a pilgrimage to Poland, asked him why he never uses the world &#8220;Islam&#8221; to describe terrorism or other violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not right to identify Islam with violence. It&#8217;s not right and it&#8217;s not true,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n<p>The pope was in Poland from July 27 until July 31 for World Youth Day, a week-long event attended by over a million pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>A day before he left, an elderly Catholic priest was killed in Northern France during Mass, in an attack that was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like to talk of Islamic violence because every day, when I go through the newspapers, I see violence,&#8221; the pope said, in apparent reference to news of crime in the predominantly Catholic country of Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And these are baptized Catholics. If I speak of Islamic violence, then I have to speak of Catholic violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Noting he has spoken with imams, he concluded: &#8220;I know how they think, they are looking for peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant group, he said it &#8220;presents itself with a violent identity card, but that&#8217;s not Islam&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13917 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/113cc516884a4509b9d3e366b471e7b5_18.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis has also repeatedly called for the protection of refugees trying to reach Europe\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The pope says it is not fair to speak about violence by Muslims without talking about violence committed by Catholics.} Pope Francis has condemned the habit of linking Islam with terrorism, saying that &#8220;nearly all religions&#8221; have a &#8220;small group of fundamentalists&#8221;. 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