Oddly enough I'm not seeing a lot of Catholic suicide bombers in Europe blowing things up in Pope Francis' name. Maybe he could explain that. Either that or double down on the whitewashing.
Aboard the papal plane (AFP) - Pope Francis said Sunday that Islam could not be equated with terrorism and warned Europe was pushing its young into the hands of extremists.
"It's not true and it's not correct (to say) Islam is terrorism," he told journalists aboard the papal plane during the return journey from a trip to Poland.
"I don't think it is right to equate Islam with violence".
Francis defended his decision not to name Islam when condemning the brutal jihadist murder of a Catholic priest in France in the latest of a string of recent attacks in Europe claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
"In almost every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. We have them too."
"If I have to talk about Islamic violence I have to talk about Christian violence. Every day in the newspapers I see violence in Italy, someone kills his girlfriend, another kills his mother-in-law, and these are baptised Catholics."
Except these Catholics are not doing it in the name of the Catholic church. Is Pope Francis really unable to grasp this simple and elementary distinction?
Lots of Christians kill people. The key point is specifically killing non-Christians in order to impose Christian law and rule upon them. Has Pope Francis seen a rash of that sort of thing in Italy? The Pope is a smart enough man to know that he's spouting nonsense, that his excuses are ridiculous and ridiculously dishonest. It is a testament to the supremacy of belief in the narrative about Islam that he's comparing ISIS Jihadists to somebody in Italy killing their mother-in-law.