Pope Stop Terrorism - Pope Francis spent three days in Turkey and on the plane back, he revealed he had spoken to Muslim leaders in order to suggest a global condemnation against terrorism.
With ISIS, Islam has fallen into the stereotype of a violent religion that seeks terrorism. Instead, the Pope believes and knows the truth is different and so he spoke to Turkey's president on Friday, Tayyip Erdogan.
"I told the president that it would be beautiful if all Islamic leaders, whether they are political, religious or academic leaders, would speak out clearly and condemn this, because this would help the majority of Muslim people," Francis answered to a reporter and Yahoo News noted.
"But this must come from the mouths of their leaders, from religious leaders, academic leaders, intellectual and political leaders," he added.
The idea behind stopping terrorism is rather simple. Muslim people are criticized to have a "natural" terrorist nature due to their beliefs and basically, the Pope suggests that by breaking this stereotype, there wouldn't be false allegations against people for the simple fact of being Muslims.
On another note, while being in Istanbul, Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew, the leader of the Orthodox Church, called for an end on the prosecution of Christians in the Middle East.
While there are 80 million Muslim citizens in Turkey, only 120,000 christians remain and Istanbul used to be Constantinople once, the center of Orthodox Christianity, according to the BBC.
Going back to Islam, the Pope made a comparison between Christians and Muslims by stating that as not all Christians are fundamentalists, the same generality shouldn't be done with Muslims.
In addition, he stated the Muslims' belief in the Koran is a misinterpreted one, as the Koran is a book of peace.
The Pope's proposal to stop terrorism is basically to stop condemning people due to their beliefs and not make assumptions on generalities.
