Government spokesman George Petalotis said the remarks by Serapheim, bishop of Piraeus, “foment racial and religious hatred.”
Commenting on the New Year’s suicide bombing of a Christian congregation in Alexandria, Egypt, the bishop described Islam as
“a catastrophic worship” that’s incompatible with Greece’s constitution. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has accused foreign groups of being behind the church attack, which killed 21 people and sparked a wave of angry protests by Christians in the country.
Serapheim urged the government to scrap the planned construction of a mosque in Athens for the city’s growing Muslim population.
source: tuscaloosanews
