@coldjoint,
We have seen here, in Germany, a recent rise in anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic incidents, symptomatic of rising nationalism across Europe and the world.
Cardinal Reinhard Marx [I know since our grammar school times], the head of the German Bishops' Conference, has called on Christians to seek contact to Muslims and non-believers in view of what he described as an era of "verbal, political and military rearmament."
In comments to be delivered today at the religious procession ("way of the cross of peoples") in Munich on the Christian holy day of Good Friday, Marx said Christian believers should say "no" when hate and violence were preached and condemn attacks on churches, synagogues or mosques.
"For we know from our own experience as Christians in Europe and the world: Without friendship, without encounters, without openness for others, there is no understanding, no reconciliation, no community, but instead the creation of mistrust, fear and violence," he said.
"People want to create peace with more and more weapons, they say. Where is that to lead? I cannot accept a logic of this kind," he said, adding that Christians were called upon to advocate peace and non-violence.
