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Saturday, August 6th, 2016

Pope Francis reveals why he doesn’t discuss ‘Islamic violence’

Author:     CLAUDIO LAVANGA
Source:     Aol.
Publication Date:     Aug 1st 2016 6:02AM
 Link: Pope Francis reveals why he doesn’t discuss ‘Islamic violence’
Stephan:   Pope Francis makes what I think is the relevant point about Muslim terrorists. The bitter truth is you are 150 times more likely to be killed in a non-terrorist gun incident than you are by a terrorist. The specific numbers:  2,961 terrorist deaths occurred on American soil from 9/11/2001 through 12/31/2014. In that same time 462,000 Americans killed themselves with a gun, or were killed by someone else, frequently someone they knew. Yet we constantly see our public figures running around with their hair on fire about terrorist threats, and strangely silent about the gun death epidemic that is the hallmark of American culture.
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Pope Francis at Polish Nazis Death Camp Credit: VOAnews

Pope Francis at Polish Nazis Death Camp
Credit: VOAnews

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis said he doesn’t like singling out violence carried out by Muslims because people of all religions are guilty of deadly crimes.

He told reporters the situation was like “a mixed fruit salad” and that there were “violent people in all religions.”

“I do not like to talk about Islamic violence because every day when I skim the papers … I read about violence in Italy: this one who killed the girlfriend, another killed the mother-in-law … and they are all baptized Catholics,” he said aboard a Rome-bound flight from Poland on Sunday.

“If I talk about Islamic violence, then I also have to talk of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent, just like not all Catholics are violent,” the pontiff added. “It’s like a mixed fruit salad. There is a bit of everything. There are violent people in all religions.”

Pope Francis was responding to a question about an ISIS-linked attack on […]

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2 Comments

  1. Steve Hovland on Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 8:38 am

    Haven’t seen too many terror incidents conducted by Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Buddhists, or Pagans. Howard Bloom reported on Coast that Mohammed personally led 65 campaigns to expand his religion by the sword.

    • Stephan Schwartz on Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 9:07 pm

      Really, what did you think Oregon was, what do you think the White militia movement is? What do you think the Christian Nationalist movement is?