Photos: Muslims protest against ISIS by attending Sunday Mass

Okoooo....Muslims in France and Italy took a stand against the recent barbaric attacks carried out in the name of Islam by ISIS by showing up to Sunday Mass in churches and cathedrals yesterday.Pictured above are Muslims gathered at the towering Gothic cathedral in Rouen, where 85-year-old French priest Rev Jacques Hamel had his throat slit by two teenage Islamic extremists on Tuesday .members of the congregation in the Santa Maria Caravaggio church in Milan

Some of the Muslims sat in the front row, across from the altar where Adel Kermiche and Abdelmalik
Petitjean, both 19, filmed themselves performing an Islamic sermon before slitting the elderly priest's throat.

Among the parishioners was one of the nuns who was briefly taken hostage at Hamel's church when he was killed.

She joined her fellow Catholics in turning to shake hands or embrace the Muslim churchgoers after the service.

Outside the church, a group of Muslims were applauded when they unfurled a banner: 'Love for all. Hate for none.'

'We are very moved by the presence of our Muslim friends and I believe it is a courageous act that they did by coming to us,' Dominique Lebrun, the archbishop of Rouen, said after the service.

Churchgoer Jacqueline Prevot said the attendance of Muslims was 'a magnificent gesture.'

'Look at this whole Muslim community that attended Mass,' she said. 'I find this very heartwarming. I am confident. I say to myself that this assassination won't be lost, that it will maybe relaunch us better than politics can do. Maybe we will react in a better way.'

Many of the Muslims who attended the service in Rouen - including those with the banner - were Ahmadiyya Muslims, a minority sect that differs from mainstream Islam in that it doesn't regard Muhammad as the final prophet.

Similar interfaith gatherings were repeated elsewhere in France, as well as in neighboring Italy.

 Pope Francis has refused to describe Islam as “terrorist”, because it is “not fair and not true”.

Francis was asked by reporters on the papal plane returning to Rome from Poland why he never used the word “Islam” when condemning killings by extremists like that of an elderly priest in France last week.

The Pope said “it's not right to identify Islam with violence”, adding that every religion had its “little group of fundamentalists”.

He said that if he spoke of violent Islam, he would have to speak of violent Catholicism, since Catholics kill too.

Referring to the Islamic State group, Francis, 79, said it “presents itself with its violent identity card, but it's not Islam”.

During his five-day pilgrimage in southern Poland he prayed privately in a church that God protect people from the “devastating wave” of terrorism in many parts of the world.

Francis told young people who flocked by the hundreds of thousands that they needed to “believe in a new humanity” stronger than evil and warned against concluding that one religion was more violent than others.

Source: Mirror