Pope Francis : "It is not right and it is not just to equate Islam with violence."
"It is wrong to associate Islam with violence",said Pope Francis on the way home from Poland when he was asked about the murder of a Catholic priest in France. "I do not think it is right to identify Islam with violence. It is not right and it's not true. Greed and social inequality is the breeding ground for violence", he believes. "Violent acts are also committed in Italy",the Pope said. "Every day when I read the newspaper in Italy I see violence. Someone killing his girlfriend, her mother-in-law. And these are baptised Catholics",he said." (SVT text)
What is Islam? Freedom. It's basic : Structure, law, order.
"The list of legal injunctions and prohibitions is lengthy and includes the care and honour of parents, prohibition against infanticide,, rules governing murder and vengeance, rights of orphans, property rights, trafficking, usury and and so on. The most complete Qur'anic summary of these codes is Quran 17: 22-39 . IN the end , integrity , humility, and kindness are advocated as the attitudes that should govern everyday living."
Page 72 of Solomon Nigosian :Islam: Its History, Teaching, and Practices
I read in Prof Zalanga's facebook article - " But go to the most Christian state and the most Muslim state (population wise) in Nigeria today and ask: is there more fear of God today in public morality and personal interaction than fifty years ago? Guess the answer you will get: Nope. I know this is hard for the average Nigerian to acknowledge. But I am not talking about what someone wants to feel, but the empirical reality. "
Not how much holier (it's difficult to measure) Muslims and Christians are today, than they were in 1960 - but more concretely we can safely say that the world is not the same now, as it was then and that now, because Islamophobia is on the rampage, Islamic (Muslim) identities are probably stronger because in this age of terrorism, the Islamic/ Muslim identity is under pressure and is being constantly challenged; this is resisted by differentiation and counter-distinguishing distinction/ distinctiveness – peaceful, law-abiding Muslim citizens world wide having to constantly assert that terrorism is not one of the essentials of the Islamic Faith and in most cases having to take a distance by condemning / renouncing terrorism, terrorism not being holy.
"Heedfulness leads to cleanliness
And cleanliness leads to purity
And purity leads to self-restraint
And self-restraint leads to holiness
And holiness leads to humility
And humility leads to fear of sin
And fear of sin leads to piety
And piety leads to the Holy Spirit
And the Holy Spirit leads to the revival of the dead
And the revival of the dead comes through Elijah, whose memory is a blessing." Amen. (M. Sotah 9:15)
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