Cairo, Egypt – Pope Francis repeated on Saturday that some migrant holding centers in Europe amount to “concentration camps,” even after Jewish groups urged him to stop using the loaded term.
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A German reporter asked Francis if he had made a linguistic slip when he first made the remarks last week, adding that they had been met with shock in Germany. Speaking en route home from Egypt, Francis appeared to not appreciate the controversy, saying that there are some refugee holding centers where migrants are penned in and prevented from leaving.
He said: “There are refugee camps that are true concentration camps.”
The American Jewish Committee sharply criticized the remarks and urged Francis to use a different choice of words.
In a statement last week, AJC said that while the conditions in some migrant centers might be difficult “The Nazis and their allies erected and used concentration camps for slave labor and the extermination of millions of people during World War II. There is no comparison to the magnitude of that tragedy.”
Stupid boy…
The “Jewish” groups should find something else to worry about besides just criticising people for using terms associated with the Holocaust. Grow up already.
Feh. Imagine the tum’ah on that plane…
I think the pope has something loose in his brain…
the Arabs seem to live in their areas freely and fully, not like the Jews who suffered the tortures in the holocaust and ended up dead of a terrible type of death.