Pope on priest killing: World at war, but it's not religious
Jul 27, 2016 16:23:55 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Jul 27, 2016 16:23:55 GMT -5
Someone needs to tell this old fool that "jihad" means HOLY WAR! Oh, that's right...he claims the Muslims are his brothers and sisters...
Pope on priest killing: World is at war, but it's not a religious one
By Tim Hume, Margot Haddad and Alexander Felton, CNN
Updated 4:29 PM ET, Wed July 27, 2016
St.-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France (CNN)Pope Francis said Wednesday that "the world is at war" as he addressed the slaying of a Catholic priest by radical Islamists in France, but he stressed it was not a war of religion.
The killing of the priest -- by two attackers who struck in the name of ISIS -- is the latest terror atrocity to roil Europe in recent weeks.
On Wednesday ISIS' media wing, Amaq, posted a video on the Telegram messaging app that showed the two attackers pledging allegiance to the terror group.
Speaking on the papal plane en route to Krakow, Poland, for World Youth Day celebrations, Francis said the world had been in "a piecemeal war" for some time.
He said Tuesday's killing of the Rev. Jacques Hamel, 86, in St.-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, was one casualty in this conflict.
"The world is at war because it has lost peace," he said.
"There is a war of interest, there is a war for money, a war for natural resources, a war to dominate people," he continued.
"Some might think it is war of religion. It is not. All religions want peace. Others want war."
Security services stretched
French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that the attackers acted in the name of ISIS, and Amaq released a statement, posted by the group's supporters, claiming the Normandy attackers were the terror outfit's "soldiers."
CNN has not independently confirmed the claim, and no evidence has surfaced showing that ISIS had a planning role in the attacks.
Coming less than two weeks after the Bastille Day terror attack that left 84 people dead in Nice, France, the slaying has fueled public anger and highlighted apparent shortcomings in the French government's ability to respond to the domestic jihadist threat.
One attacker, Adel Kermiche, had been flagged as a radicalized Islamist and was under house arrest at the time of the attack, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
The 19-year-old was forced to wear an electronic monitoring tag after he traveled abroad to try to fight in Syria. Under the conditions of his house arrest, he was allowed out of his parents' home, not far from the church, for four hours each day -- a window he used to carry out the attack.
A friend of Kermiche's told CNN French affiliate BFMTV that the teen had previously spoken of attacking a church.
"We laughed at him. We thought it was a joke," said the friend, who did not want to be named. "Me and my friend regret it. We should have warned the police, it could have maybe changed something."
He said Kermiche had always been "a bit cuckoo, but we couldn't know he was going to get to that point."
"He changed. He started talking about jihad -- we didn't take it seriously, but it took over the situation," he said. "He met bad people that convinced him."
French authorities have struggled to monitor thousands of domestic Islamic radicals who, like Kermiche, are on a list used to flag radicalized individuals considered a threat to national security.
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Pope on priest killing: World is at war, but it's not a religious one
By Tim Hume, Margot Haddad and Alexander Felton, CNN
Updated 4:29 PM ET, Wed July 27, 2016
St.-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France (CNN)Pope Francis said Wednesday that "the world is at war" as he addressed the slaying of a Catholic priest by radical Islamists in France, but he stressed it was not a war of religion.
The killing of the priest -- by two attackers who struck in the name of ISIS -- is the latest terror atrocity to roil Europe in recent weeks.
On Wednesday ISIS' media wing, Amaq, posted a video on the Telegram messaging app that showed the two attackers pledging allegiance to the terror group.
Speaking on the papal plane en route to Krakow, Poland, for World Youth Day celebrations, Francis said the world had been in "a piecemeal war" for some time.
He said Tuesday's killing of the Rev. Jacques Hamel, 86, in St.-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, was one casualty in this conflict.
"The world is at war because it has lost peace," he said.
"There is a war of interest, there is a war for money, a war for natural resources, a war to dominate people," he continued.
"Some might think it is war of religion. It is not. All religions want peace. Others want war."
Security services stretched
French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that the attackers acted in the name of ISIS, and Amaq released a statement, posted by the group's supporters, claiming the Normandy attackers were the terror outfit's "soldiers."
CNN has not independently confirmed the claim, and no evidence has surfaced showing that ISIS had a planning role in the attacks.
Coming less than two weeks after the Bastille Day terror attack that left 84 people dead in Nice, France, the slaying has fueled public anger and highlighted apparent shortcomings in the French government's ability to respond to the domestic jihadist threat.
One attacker, Adel Kermiche, had been flagged as a radicalized Islamist and was under house arrest at the time of the attack, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
The 19-year-old was forced to wear an electronic monitoring tag after he traveled abroad to try to fight in Syria. Under the conditions of his house arrest, he was allowed out of his parents' home, not far from the church, for four hours each day -- a window he used to carry out the attack.
A friend of Kermiche's told CNN French affiliate BFMTV that the teen had previously spoken of attacking a church.
"We laughed at him. We thought it was a joke," said the friend, who did not want to be named. "Me and my friend regret it. We should have warned the police, it could have maybe changed something."
He said Kermiche had always been "a bit cuckoo, but we couldn't know he was going to get to that point."
"He changed. He started talking about jihad -- we didn't take it seriously, but it took over the situation," he said. "He met bad people that convinced him."
French authorities have struggled to monitor thousands of domestic Islamic radicals who, like Kermiche, are on a list used to flag radicalized individuals considered a threat to national security.
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