NC•GETTY ISIS fanatics have blasted Pope Francis after he said their war is not religious

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Using its latest edition of Dabiq, the group’s online propaganda magazine, ISIS jihadis told the pontiff they are motivated by religion. The Pope had said the world is at war but “it’s a real war, not a religious war”.

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He added: “It’s a war of interests, a war for money. A war for natural resources and for the dominion of the peoples.” But the heinous death group said its war against the world has been sanctioned by Allah in the Koran.

Francis continues to hide behind a deceptive veil of ‘good will' Dabiq

In an article named By the Sword, the blood-thirsty militants said the war is a “divinely-warranted war between the Muslim nation and the nations of disbelief”. The fanatical authors went on to attack the Pope, writing: “Francis continues to hide behind a deceptive veil of ‘good will’, covering his actual intentions of pacifying the Muslim nation.”

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They added the religious figurehead “has struggled against reality” in his attempts to portray Islam as a religion of peace. The article reads: “Many people in Crusader countries express shock and even disgust that Islamic State leadership ‘uses religion to justify violence’.

“Indeed, waging jihad – spreading the rule of Allah by the sword – is an obligation found in the Koran, the word of our Lord. “The blood of the disbelievers is obligatory to spill by default. The command is clear. Kill the disbelievers, as Allah said, ‘Then kill the polytheists wherever you find them’.”

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