(August 13, 2016 at 3:42 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Francis recently stated that, "authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Quran are opposed to every form of violence...":What Francis is doing is no different that what has been done in the US. Concerning the subject of slavery and the oppression of black people. From the deletion of the roles prominate black men have played in America's history, The nature and life of slavery, to the reason the civil war was fought, to the civil rights movement to today's feign for 'justice'. But rather than incite racial/religious tension He is trying to diffuse it.
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?
Where is the problem in that?