Does Pope Francis have a fantasy-prone personality disorder?

[Jehanne]

Francis recently stated that, "authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Quran are opposed to every form of violence...":

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/08/isis-...race-islam

It seems to me that Francis is trying to do with Islam something that has been slowly done with Catholicism over the last 200 years, that is, divorce (no  pun intended) the religion from its historical roots.  Now, if the Jihadists are convinced by people like Francis, should historians be "convinced", also?  If one simply looks at the timeline of World history, it is clear that Islam has been a violent religion since its very earliest days, from its initial crusades after the death of Mohamed until being checked at the Battle of Tours, and after that, the continued and attempted conquest of the West until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Are people like Francis a threat to the Enlightenment with their revisionist histories?  Is Francis' recent statement about the Quran equivalent to Holocaust denial?

No, that's ridiculous. I applaud his efforts.

It's not about changing the minds of the jihadists(abhorrent people by the way, why are they so grumpy?), it's about inter-faith diplomacy which, some people think, goes a long way.

K, I'll try and catch up with the thread now, 'cause I spotted a catfight at the end there and I'm terribly interested!

I don't applaud his efforts.  Francis wants political power; that's what he stands for.  He wants to create some quasi-world religion with him at its "head" (the kind of "first among equals") to take on secularism, and with it, the rise of atheism.  Frankly, I don't give a shit, however, his rewrite of the historical record must not go unchallenged.  Of course, I am not at all qualified to carry the banner on this one, but given some of the leftist crap that is coming out of the Academy, I think that the National Review is "dead on" for this issue.  Hopefully, the true scholars will rise to the occasion on this one.

P.S. At least one cat-fight had been resolved. I feel only slightly scathed.