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Imams, religious leaders voice ‘utter disgust’ after London attack

More than 130 imams and religious leaders wrote in a statement following the terrorist attack at London Bridge that they are “feeling the pain the rest of the nation feels, we have come together to express our shock and utter disgust at these cold-blooded murders.”

Trump’s rhetoric on Islam takes significant steps in a Catholic direction

After President Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, Charles C. Camosy writes that the presidential remarks are more in line with Catholic teaching, which utterly rejects the idea that Christians are somehow in a cultural conflict with Muslims, than the rhetoric he used during the campaign trail, where Trump consistently spoke about “radical Islamic terrorism.”

Trump’s first foreign trip shows the importance of religion
- Commentary, Pope/Trump
- May 20, 2017
Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state for President Bill Clinton, argued that American foreign policy neglected the role of religion, and that it should be engaged as a potential force for peace. No doubt that she would be surprised that Donald Trump would be the president to build his first foreign trip on those premises by choosing to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the Vatican.
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Signs that Egypt may have been a papal trip that mattered
- Analysis, Global Church
- May 17, 2017
Two recent signs suggests that Pope Francis’s April 28-29 trip to Egypt, when he delivered his strongest-yet denunciation of religious violence and extremism, may have captured a mood. One is the construction of a new Christian church with Muslim support, the other legal charges against a powerful Islamic cleric who called Christians and Jews “infidels.”
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Religious freedom and Islamic terrorism
- Church in the US, Commentary
- May 17, 2017
Blasphemy laws are used to persecute critics of Islam in many Muslim countries, whether moderate Muslims, Christians or Jews, and to attack so-called “non-believers,” thus forming an impenetrable barrier to any form of acceptance of other religious beliefs and contributing to the growth of Islamic extremism. Ending these laws could set the stage for free expression of religious opinions in the Muslim world and help modernize Islamic societies.
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