Those words were uttered by Greek Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens. He said, “Islam (is) not a religion but a political party. They are the people of war.”
Oooooo! Did he touch off a firestorm.
First, from Greek Muslims
“We condemn the statement of the Archbishop of Greece, Mr. Ieronimos….We hope a more peaceful language to be used instead of anti-Islamic discourse
From the Turks
“The fact that these statements, filled with insults, came from the number one name in the Greek church increases the gravity of the situation. We see this move as one of the typical examples of the rising Islamophobia and xenophobia in Greece in recent years.” They labeled the Archbishop’s words as an “Islamophobic attack” and a “hate crime.”
Other prominent Muslims stated
“We are leaving the examination of the psychological state of this person, who uses words that even the most ordinary people wouldn’t use, to the experts. We are condemning such a hostile attitude.”
Note: These are the same tactics used by the Dems against Trump. “He’s crazy!”
Also this, from Ahmet Ibram
“One of Islam’s basic beliefs is to have life based on peace between religions. It can never be accepted to have grudge and hostility against other religions’ members.”
However, “In November 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “Our God commands us to be violent towards the kuffar (infidels). Who are we? The ummah [nation] of Mohammed. So [God] also commands us to be merciful to each other. So we will be merciful to each other. And we will be violent to the kuffar.”
Erdogan
As would be expected, the Archdiocese of Athens issued a ‘clarification’, saying that the Archbishop was “meaning nothing more than the distortion of the Muslim religion itself by a handful of extreme fundamentalists, who wreak death and destruction all over the world.These are exactly the people the Archbishop was referring to, that is, people who instrumentalize Islam and turn it into a deadly weapon against all those who have a different view from that of ‘unbelievers,’ even that of believers.”
In other words, ‘don’t kill us, religion of peace. We bow in humble submission’.
Forget what the apologists claim that the Archbishop meant. I believe that he said exactly what he knows. ‘Islamists are the people of war’.
