Pope refuses to describe Islam as being ‘terrorist’

Pope Francis has refused to describe Islam as “terrorist”, because it is “not fair and not true”.

Francis was asked by reporters on the papal plane returning to Rome from Poland why he never used the word “Islam” when condemning killings by extremists like that of an elderly priest in France last week.

The Pope said: “It’s not right to identify Islam with violence”, adding that every religion had its “little group of fundamentalists”.