Francis said, “I don’t like to speak about Islamic violence because every day when I look at the papers I see violence in Italy—one kills his mother-in-law, another kills the fiancée—and these are baptized Catholics. If I were to speak of Islamic violence, I would also have to speak about Catholic violence. It’s like a fruit salad, you have everything in it.”
Echoing remarks he has made on previous occasions, Francis said, “I think there are fundamentalist groups in every religion. We have them. The fundamentalists kill with the tongue and but also with the knife. To identify Islam with violence is not true and is not just.”
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