Posted on 12/20/2016 4:21:25 PM PST by marshmallow
Despite appearances to the contrary, the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara and the Berlin massacre in a Christmas market have nothing to do with religion but are economically motivated, according to the secretary general of the Italian bishops’ conference.
On Monday, a gunman shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, at an art exhibition in Ankara, reportedly shouting “Allahu akbar” while he gunned him down. Later in the day, a Muslim Pakistani “refugee” drove a semi through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring many others.
In an interview with the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, Bishop Nunzio Galantino, said the Berlin and Ankara terrorist attacks were not motivated by religion but by money.
“At bottom, there is just selfishness and oppression,” Galantino said. “Wars benefit those who have power or money, those who trade in weapons.”
In the end, he said, “poor people die in wars, while the well-off are enriched.”
The solution, the bishop contends, “is to be all the more united, more tolerant” and to “beware of violence, even in the use of language.”
“Vulgarity and aggressiveness in language fuel a climate that brings out the worst in people and impedes efforts toward a peaceful coexistence. There is a terrorism of language, and you can kill with calumny,” he said.
“Look at the media, on TV and in politics, and even more on social networks. The word of an imbecile is worth as much as that of a Nobel prize winner,” he said, “and often the words of a violent person or a warmonger have even more impact.”
It is not a clash of civilizations, he said. “I do not believe it.”
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Islam is the cause of all this evil:
http://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch15_islam_and_the_goal.htm
Effing idiot.
Hey bishop, why don’t you ask the fiends - the ones actually committing the terror - why they do it?
Me: Top Italian bishop has nothing to do with religion
Bishop, you are in denial. Muslms are evil.
A single Knight can crush this moronic Bishop. Go stick yer butt to mecca moron. ESAD.
Because they will tell him their religion commands it.
How could this idiot possibly have the answers to these vile acts, this soon after they happened?
Their is no way he could know what was in these terrorist hearts and minds.
Think about how many people a statement like this from this idiot influences!
What an idiot. Nothing ‘Christian’ about this turkey.
In a way he is correct. Islam is not a religion. It is a war plan.
So it’s not about religion.
The Church today has little to do with religion.
He needs to get the preceding thread with the story out of Austria about the Muslim scaring the kids on the stage with the Nativity scene.
Of course Bishop Nunzio Galantino has provided proof of his claims right? /sarcasm
The bishop, Merkel and others who deny the obvious are also evil. This is a war. They must be treated as the enemy until the war is over.
ML/NJ
I say nip it in the bud. Too late. What if Trump knocked off the remaining Gitmo prisoners? Get away with it? That would send a message.
This guy sucks as much as the Pope does.
The Bishop is right, Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with religion, and if the civilized world is to survive, Islam must be understood for what it really is: It’s not a religion, form of government, or anything recognizable to the civilized mind. Islam is a disease, an incurable disease of the mind that is highly contagious among the feeble minded and is now spreading among the world’s feeble minded at an epidemic rate. As with any disease, one can’t reason with this disease, negotiate with it, or treat in a manner other than how one would treat any other incurable disease.
As past efforts to contain this disease have failed, carriers of this Plague of Islam must be eradicated wherever they’re found, for if they’re not, this disease will eventually end not just Western Civilization, but it could undo over 5,000 years of human civilization.
When Catholics commit a sin they confess it to God and the Priest.
When Muslims sin, it has nothing to do with religion?
Either it is a sin, or it is not a sin and it is God’s will.
If it’s God’s will, then is it connected to religion?
Maybe not religion but they have everything to do with Islamic theocratic rule and ridding the world of the kufir.
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