It\u2019s been a few weeks since the pope\u2019s trip to Iraq and his historic visit to Mosul. And the impact of his visit is already visible in this city.<\/p>\n
OMAR MOHAMMED Muslim historian Omar Mohammed lived in Mosul when the city was under ISIS occupation, from 2014 to 2017.<\/p>\n In those years he created an anonymous blog to show the atrocities carried out by the terrorists.<\/p>\n OMAR MOHAMMED For Omar Mohammed, the pope is the person who has best understood this city\u2019s suffering.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s because the pope didn\u2019t focus on the ruins but on how Muslims and Christians are working together to rebuild.<\/p>\n OMAR MOHAMMED As a concrete initiative, Omar Mohammed proposes reinventing education programs, to eliminate everything that could foster suspicion and hatred toward people of other religions or with different opinions<\/p>\n It\u2019s an initiative already underway thanks to Sunni and Shia Muslims, and Christians working together to rebuild the city\u2019s mosques and churches.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 20, 2021. Omar Mohammed is a Muslim historian from Mosul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u_9tpUrDn2E","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstmosuleyeeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstmosuleyeint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Mosul Eye
\n\u201cIt\u2019s the only time, the first time since the destruction of Mosul, that despite the destruction of Mosul, I saw Mosul as the most beautiful city in the world. I saw it through the eyes of the Santo Padre.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mosul Eye
\n\u201cWhat comes to mind is the question he asked, \u2018Who sold the weapons to the destroyers, and who is selling the weapons to the destroyers?\u2019 This is a question that has been asked by Pope Francis on behalf of the people of Mosul.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mosul Eye
\n\u201cI found out that the only way to live in peace with yourself is to tolerate the other. And to try to find reasons why they do something. And that hate not only destroys things around you; it destroys you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n