French Sufi imams return pope after the Vatican Audience
A French imams group attended a general audience with Pope Francis recently, indicating that they saw the Catholic leader as a figure of reconciliation.
"We feel something strong with this pope. We, the minorities need him," said Hassen Chalghoumi, a Tunisian imam in Drancy, outside Paris. "Moderates should be supported. We should not be grouped together with extremists who burn churches, "he said. The visit was organized by Marek Halter, a French writer of Polish Jewish origin, who briefly met the Pope at the hearing on St. Peter's square. There were a total of eight imams seven of Paris and the suburbs and Marseille. Chalghoumi said they were all "Sufis." cinema and Tunisian television tycoon, Tarak Ben Ammar introduced the imams in his private plane and said the visit would strengthen inter-religious dialogue. "We have a problem to solve us. Christians had it in the Middle Ages. Political Islam is to gain the upper hand, "said Ben Ammar. Halter said Francis "can do what Benedict XVI has never managed to do: to reconcile Christianity and Islam."
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