On his way back from Poland for World Youth Day, Pope Francis questioned whether Islam should be identified with violence — in contrast to ISIS, which he says is a fundamentalist sect of the religion, Catholic News Agency and other outlets reported.

“I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence,” the pope said during his July 31 papal flight back to Rome. “This is not right and it is not true.”

“Terrorism is everywhere,” said the pope. “Terrorism grows when there are no other options.”

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“I don’t like to speak about Islamic violence,” Pope Francis also said. “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.”

He said every religion has its fundamentalist groups, including Catholicism — and such fundamentalism can “kill with language,” the pope claimed, quoting the Apostle James.

Francis’ remarks came in response to a journalist’s question regarding the murder of a French priest by Islamist militants, an attack the pope has  condemned. The journalist asked Francis why he never refers to Islam when decrying these terrorist acts committed by Islamist militants.

Fr. Jacques Hamel was murdered last Tuesday during Mass by two gunmen who stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by two 19-year-olds.

Acknowledging fundamentalist groups, the pope also stressed that there are many young people, including Europeans themselves, who “have left empty of ideals, who have no work,” and who turn to drugs and alcohol and “enlist in fundamentalist groups,” Catholic News Agency reported.

“One can speak of the so-called ISIS,” the pope added, “but it is an Islamic state which presents itself as violence.”

The group thus shows its “identity card,” he said, making reference to the group of Egyptians whose throats were slit on the coast of Libya.

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“This is a small fundamentalist group called ISIS,” he said. But “I do not believe it is true or correct that Islam is terrorist.”

“Terrorism is everywhere. You think of tribal terrorism of some African countries,” he said. “Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is a god of money and not the person — men and women — this is already the first terrorism!” He added, “You have cast out the wonder of creation — man and woman — and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!”