Pope Francis declares Capitalism as terrorism against humanity By Dr. Abdul Ruff

Almost every nation today pursues capitalism and funds the spread of imperialism globally, seeking to help the US led NATO forces invade and occupy as many nations as possible with abundant energy resources. America’s choice of Arab nation has been deliberate and awfully focused. Since the terror wars have been to pump oil to USA, like from Libya and Iraq, USA has decided to make the terror wars a permanent feature of US foreign policy.
USA introduced economic terrorism as sanctions on those who refuse to support US capitalism and its imperialist wars.
Pope Francis has on several occasions been critical of capitalist exploitative mechanisms and defended the poor, deprived and vulnerable sections of humanity. He calls capitalism the “god of money” and at times ridicules those who promote wars and capitalism.
Pope Francis argues that modern economy’s worship of ‘god of money’ leads to disenfranchisement and extremism. It is indeed marvelous that Pope Francis has now clear views about who the real terrorists are and how to defeat them. Earlier popes had condemned Islamic terrorism, like the anti-Islamic leaders do.
Pope Francis surprised everyone on a flight from Krakow to the Vatican late July 31 when he blamed the “god of money” for extremist violence in Europe and the Middle East, saying that a ruthless global economy leads disenfranchised people to violence. “Terrorism grows when there is no other option, and as long as the world economy has at its center the god of money and not the person,” the pope told reporters. “This is fundamental terrorism, against all humanity,” he remarked with clear insight.
The pope was responding to a journalist’s question about whether there is a link between Islam and terrorism, particularly focusing on the fatal attack on a priest by Muslim extremists in France last week. “I ask myself how many young people that we Europeans have left devoid of ideals, who do not have work. Then they turn to drugs and alcohol or enlist in [the Islamic State, or ISIS],” he said.
The pope said that no religion has a monopoly on violence: His own experience in interreligious dialogue had shown him that Muslims seek “peace and encounter,” he said. “It is not right and it is not just to say that Islam is terroristic.” And he said no religion had a monopoly on violent members. “If I speak of Islamic violence, I should speak of Catholic violence. Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent,” Pope Francis said, dismissing Islamic State as a “small fundamentalist group” not representative of Islam as a whole.
In fact, all terrorist factions are the creation of America and CIA. It was USA that created Al-Qaeda and Taliban to defeat Soviet military occupied Afghanistan. Pope said terrorists are everywhere, in every religion. “In almost all religions there is always a small group of fundamentalists,” even in the Catholic Church, the pope said, though not necessarily physically violent. “One can kill with the tongue as well as the knife.”
The remarks followed similar comments made last Wednesday, when Pope Francis argued that the current Middle East conflicts are wars over economic and political interests—not religion or so-called “Islamic terrorism.” “There is war for money,” he said on Wednesday. “There is war for natural resources. There is war for the domination of peoples. Some might think I am speaking of religious war. No. All religions want peace; it is other people who want war.”
That the terror wars in Mideast are being fought not only to demonstrate military prowess, but also for oil and transport routes. Wars have killed millions of Muslims as per the Neocons’ plan of slashing Islamic population in wars and generating Islamophobia to keep the remaining Muslims on the runs.
When Pope Francis made a comment about terrorism and Islam it was bound to get attention. However, the sentiments expressed by the man who has been described as the “world’s most popular leader”, was not welcomed by all. While general public welcomed the Pope’s genuine sentiments, all anti-Islamic, capitalist and imperialist minds criticized the Pope’s open heart comments.
Speaking onboard the papal plane as he returned to Rome from Poland, the Pope told reporters why he doesn’t uses the word “Islam” when discussing terrorism. “It’s not right to identify Islam with violence. It’s not right and it’s not true,” he said. “I believe that in every religion there is always a little fundamentalist group.” And referring to organised crime in Italy, he added: “These are baptized Catholics. If I speak of Islamic violence, then I have to speak of Catholic violence as well.”
All these years, aided by global media spreading Islamophobia, every anti-Islamic source rejoiced criticism of Islam and targeting Muslims, but now this true validation of capitalism being the cause of terrorism is not good news for them.
This for the first time an important world leader has tried to expose the hidden agenda of capitalist nations under the NATO terror syndicate.
Hopefully, US president Obama and his western political allies endorse the views of Pope and wind down all terror wars for promoting capitalism.
Pope Francis’s understanding of essence of capitalism would go a long way in making the common masses know the whole truth about terrorism that began with the Sept-11 hoax, carefully executed to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, on the one hand and, promote NATO terror syndicate, on the other, against the will of Russia. .
Had terror war been the response to the so-called Osama war on USA, it would have ended long ago. But USA also talks about Islamic fundamentalism in order to target all Muslims and possible try for a holocaust- beyond genocides.
Pope Francis has clearly come out of western illusionary understanding of Islam and gone deep into the real cause of terrorism.
Dr. Abdul Ruff is prolific writer, Independent Analyst and Columnist contributing articles to many newspapers and journals on world politics.