Archbishop Urges Christians to Respond to "Islam's Crisis" With "Love, Not War"

June 11, 2004

Source: Zenit

https://zenit.org/2004/06/11/islam-s-crisis-needs-a-truly-christian-response-says-prelate/

On June 11, 2004 Zenit reported, "Archbishop Fouad Twal of Tunis has written an open letter explaining that Islam is going through a crisis to which Christians should respond with love and hope, not war. In the letter to Christians of the West, the bishop says that 'after the attack on the twin towers and the war in Iraq, confidence in international justice and serenity have diminished...The issue is not only Saddam's Iraq; there are other interests at stake and, above all, the whole of the Middle East cannot be changed by force. Time is necessary to do good and to continue with a dialogue which, on the part of the Christian community, has never been interrupted,' Archbishop Twal writes. The Italian weekly Tempi published the full text of his letter. 'Today,' the 63-year-old prelate said, 'Islam is a world in crisis, which at times believes that it finds strength and security in fanaticism. We do not have to cure it with war, but with love and hope, within a world situation that is not helpful.'"