Vatican shocked over Paris terror attacks, calls for global response [CNA]

[graciew]

If these ISIS Islamists were all European nationals, and not from Syria or the ME at all, then what kind of global response is the Vatican calling for exactly…? To clean up Brussels and other Islamist breeding grounds? Might be a smart idea…

…Because going into syria, or stopping migrants has little effect on homegrown problems.

mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0T504J20151116

Let me read the article in more detail,please.

 

[Thomas_White]

I would think Pope Francis’s concerns about conservatism/fundamentalism would apply to Islam as well as Christianity, especially when it becomes a militant ideology.

 

[7_Sorrows]

I would think Pope Francis’s concerns about conservatism/fundamentalism would apply to Islam as well as Christianity, especially when it becomes a militant ideology.

good point.

 

[Thomas_White]

good point.

I am absolutely certain of it, truly.

 

[Landon_Caeli]

Works for me.

 

[Darryl1958]

I think the first step is for politicians to start calling it what it is.

I was listening to a radio show by Milt Rosenburg the other day, and a few of the guests just couldn’t understand why so many people thought that it was so important that leaders like Obama, or the Democratic candidates at their last debate for that matter, to address the phenomena with some kind of adjective of Islam in it.
I don’t think that they would have a problem understanding why it was so critical for Christians to be confronted and be held accountable by name for the past millenium or so of European anti-semitism though.

The religious beliefs of religious people are so integral to the way that religious people deal with the world, and only people who have been fully secularized fail to understand this.

Muslims of the old world at any rate tend to be believers and Islam is important to them. The methods of the modern Islamists are not outside of the range of historic Islamic practice. If there is ever going to be change in the world that we live in, the reality of religion as it is, and not as how we would like it to be, needs to be dealt with.

The same people who have no trouble at all understanding that about their co-religionist Christians have hopelessly blinded themselves to the difficult cultural and religious behaviors that Islam brings to the world.
What a wonderful way, for example, Pope Benedict dealt with Christian verses with his simple statement that the Blood of Christ could never be a curse, but only a blessing, even for those who called for the blood of Christ to be on their heads, and the heads of their children.
But, it is only through recognizing how such Biblical verses have been problematic over the centuries that such a theological statement becomes necessary in the first place.

Anthropologist Rene Girard theorizes that much of the critical thinking that has come into the Western world developed through the fact that Christians see themselves as killing Christ, and not being able to discern the difference between the Son of man, Jesus, and the son of God, Barabbas. It is that kind of self-critical attitude that leads to the statements of Pope Benedict as above.
And it is that kind of self-criticism that is sorely lacking in Islam today. By assuming the role of patronizing dhimmis, the western apologists of Islam ensure that Islam will never find the methods of bringing their religion as a whole forward in a world marked by diversity.