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German
Catholic leader warns against anti-Muslim incitement
Tuesday December 28, 2010 10:03:26 PM,
DPA
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Freiburg (Germany): The
leader of Germany's 26 million Catholics spoke out Tuesday in
defence of Muslims and warned Christians to stay on their guard
against hatemongers.
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, the head of the Catholic Bishops'
Conference, told DPA that his church wants more dialogue with
Muslims.
Asked if current anti-terrorist alerts might lead to discord
between Christians and Muslims, he said "there has been no sign of
it" as far as he can tell.
"Christians as well as non-religious people in our country can
differentiate perfectly well between terrorists, whatever ideology
they follow, and their Muslim neighbours," he said.
Zollitsch also noted that Muslims in Germany "are just as much
endangered by the (terrorist) threat as everyone else".
"They have the same interest in effective and at the same time
moderate policies by the state as the rest of the population," he
said.
Zollitsch said that a key to keeping relations between Christians
and Muslims in Germany harmonious is "preventing political
troublemakers from exploiting fears and from inciting people to
hate one another".
"To date, our society has demonstrated good resistance against
this. We have to keep working on it," he added.
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