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| King Phineas when he was a a Prince with a red hat |
In an impassioned address Friday, Pope Francis denied the existence of Islamic terrorism, while simultaneously asserting that “the ecological crisis is real.” In a kingdom far away on a hill lived a king named King Phineas T. Bluster. When the former king "retired"
“Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist,” Francis said in his speech to a world meeting of populist movements. As soon as he became king, Phineas tossed out the former king's administration
and assembled his closest allies as the Peanut Gallery, who cheered him on at every blunder and booed the opposition.
What he apparently meant is that not all Christians are terrorists and not all Muslims are terrorists—a fact evident to all—yet his words also seemed to suggest that no specifically Islamic form of terrorism exists in the world, an assertion that stands in stark contradiction to established fact. Phineas soon saw himself as the great smoother overer of all things evil - evil being not what it was but what Phineas thought it was. Hence, after many months, yea, years, came the day when Phineas endorsed acceptance of an evil kingdom whose subjects were trying to - and had always tried to - take over Phineas' own kingdom.
