Archbishop Ieronymos II describes Islam as a political ideology and not a religion
The Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece, Ieronymos II, separated spirituality from Islam, describing it as a mere political ideology that intends to wage war. He went on to say that “Islam is not a religion but a political movement, and its followers are people of war.” The primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece also referred to Muslims as the people of ‘expansion’. “They are people who spread, this is a characteristic of Islam,” he said in a televised presentation on 15 January 2021. The Archbishop spoke the words in the context of and with reference to the Ott...