[DAWN] Pope Francis has denounced the slaying by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Egyptian Copts in Libya, saying they were "assassinated just for being Christian".
That's not the same thing as saying "they're animals who need exterminated like the vermin they are."
Francis spoke off-the-cuff on Monday during an audience with a Scottish ecumenical delegation. He said: "They only said 'Jesus help me ...' The blood of our Christian brothers is testimony that cries out. Be they Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it doesn't matter: They're Christian!"
Militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group released a video late Sunday purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages held for several weeks. The killings raised anxieties in Italia, given Libya's proximity just across the Mediterranean Sea and because one of the hard boyz in the video said the group plans to "conquer Rome", the seat of Catholicism. |