Re: Vatican' comments on Muslim vs unbelievers
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He has also expressed concern about the treatment of Christians in Muslim-majority countries, highlighting the "extreme" case of Saudi Arabia where freedom of religion was "violated absolutely" with "no Christian churches and a ban on celebrating Mass, even in a private home".
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...fair enough...
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Though he did not make a direct link between Islam and violence, Cardinal Tauran described it as the duty of believers to "reject, denounce and refuse every recourse to violence, which can never be motivated by religion, since it wounds the very image of God in man".
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Can't be taken seriously. The vatican espouses a just war doctrine, so can hardly be considered pacifist. Given that modern warfare often results in civilian casualties (which are more often than not taken for granted, and calculated as an acceptable loss), much more needs to be said against Western nations and their willingness to use brutal force on an unparalleled scale to pursue arcane foreign policy.
Until that day arrives, the good cardinal can stow it. And that should be the response of Muslim leaders....if they had any bloody backbone.