“Co-existence between Christians and Muslims is still possible. I come from a country where they co-habit on good terms”. Pope Francis said this in an interview published in today’s edition of the French Catholic daily “La Croix”. “Today, I don’t think that there is a fear of Islam as such, but of” Daesh and “its war of conquest, which is partly drawn from Islam. It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest”. “In the face of Islamic terrorism, it would therefore be better to question ourselves about the way in which an overly Western model of democracy has been exported to countries such as Iraq, where a strong government previously existed. Or in Libya, where a tribal structure exists. We cannot advance without taking these cultures into account”.