Italian Bishop: Islamic Extremism has Nothing to do with Religion

One Italian bishop isn’t convinced that Islamic terrorists are motivated by religion. He thinks it’s all about the money.

Despite appearances to the contrary, the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara and the Berlin massacre in a Christmas market have nothing to do with religion but are economically motivated, according to the secretary general of the Italian bishops’ conference.

On Monday, a gunman shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, at an art exhibition in Ankara, reportedly shouting “Allahu akbar” while he gunned him down. Later in the day, a Muslim Pakistani “refugee” drove a semi through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring many others.

In an interview with the Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, Bishop Nunzio Galantino, said the Berlin and Ankara terrorist attacks were not motivated by religion but by money.

“At bottom, there is just selfishness and oppression,” Galantino said. “Wars benefit those who have power or money, those who trade in weapons.”

In the end, he said, “poor people die in wars, while the well-off are enriched.”

The solution, the bishop contends, “is to be all the more united, more tolerant” and to “beware of violence, even in the use of language.”

It seems this bishop doesn’t know much about Islamic extremism. The gunman who killed Andrei Karlov was reportedly motivated by al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda isn’t ruled by “poor people,” but the rich who have devoted their life to religious jihad.

Source: Breitbart