Pope Francis Against Associating Islam with Violence

Pope Francis Against Associating Islam with Violence

Politics

Pope Francis has condemned the habit of linking Islam with terrorism, saying that "nearly all religions" have a "small group of fundamentalists".

Reporters aboard the Catholic leader's plane flying him back to Rome on Sunday after a pilgrimage to Poland, asked him why he never uses the world "Islam" to describe terrorism or other violence. "It's not right to identify Islam with violence. It's not right and it's not true," he replied.

The pope was in Poland from July 27 until July 31 for World Youth Day, a week-long event attended by over a million pilgrims. "I don't like to talk of Islamic violence because every day, when I go through the newspapers, I see violence," the pope said, in apparent reference to news of crime in the predominantly Catholic country of Italy. "And these are baptized Catholics. If I speak of Islamic violence, then I have to speak of Catholic violence."

Noting he has spoken with imams, he concluded: "I know how they think, they are looking for peace." As for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant group, he said it "presents itself with a violent identity card, but that's not Islam".

Source: Aljazeera

Raila Caught Up In The Hillary Clinton Email Saga?

Raila Caught Up In The Hillary Clinton Email Saga?

Politics

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party candidate for US elections who is entangled in a scandal over her email account, received an email Raila Odinga. The mail includes an article about the CORD party leader.

The email in question dates back to 2009 when the premiere(Odinga) was serving as Prime Minister of Kenya. The email was sent from the a consulting firm within the US Democratic party to Clinton and it highlights an article about Clinton’s trip to Africa.

The email is entitled: “damn this is good…“ The email includes a story that touches on remarks that Odinga made regarding a Hillary’s state visit to several African countries. The CORD party leader had earlier in 2009 said that the then US Secretary of State shouldn’t lecture Africa on democracy.

Odinga’s comments only hours before Clinton arrived in Kenya were: “we don’t need lectures on how to govern ourselves. Lecturing us on issues that deal with governance and transparency is in bad taste.”