Even as the controversy over Shashi Tharoor MP’s ‘act of terror’ remark continues to rage, the Catholic Church has expressed concern over political Islamists using the Israel-Palestine issue to their advantage in Kerala.
Airing the Church’s concern, bishop Thomas Tharayil, Auxiliary Bishop of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Changanassery, openly expressed displeasure over the perceived attempts to pull a veil over the terrorist character of the Palestinian organisation and using the issue to create communal divisions in Kerala.
“It raises the suspicion that the ongoing debate over the war is a symptom of the communal cataract that has caught Kerala society. We fear that even the secular parties here are competing with each other to blame only Israel, portraying the brutal attack by the terrorist organisation Hamas on a country, where life is going on peacefully, as an act of defence,” noted the bishop on his social media page.
