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August 5, 2016

What Pope Francis Doesn’t Understand about Islamic Terrorism

Sometimes, religions do want war.

In the wake of the murder in a church of an elderly French priest by a supporter of Islamic State, the pope issued a statement declaring that his followers shouldn’t “be afraid to say” that what is happening constitutes a “war.” He then went on to clarify: this is “a war of interests, for money, resources. I am not speaking of a war of religions. Religions don't want war. The others want war." Denis MacEoin comments:

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