Cardinal Pell "Keen to Provoke Islam Debate"

Good. This means he's doing his job of teaching the truth:

Australia's most senior Catholic, Cardinal George Pell, would rather provoke debate than have sensible discussions about Muslims, the Islamic Council of NSW (ICNSW) says.

In an interview with a US Catholic newspaper, Dr Pell again declared Islam was more warlike than Christianity.

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney told the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) Australia hadn't been affected much by Islamic threats following the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.

But he said this could change depending "on how many terrorist attacks" Muslim fundamentalists could "bring off successfully", Fairfax newspapers reported.

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In the NCR interview conducted in Rome, Dr Pell said "the million-dollar question" was whether intolerance was a modern distortion of Islam or arose out of internal logic.

"It's difficult to find periods of tolerance in Islam," he was quoted as saying.

"I'm not saying that they're not there, but a good deal of what is asserted is mythical."

It is the second time in a month Dr Pell has made controversial remarks about Islam.

In early April, the religious leader commented that the Koran contained "invocations to violence" and that Islam was an intolerant faith.

Preach it, Your Eminence!


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