I can certainly understand that you wouldn't want to claim him. But his interesting background that you uncovered, certainly should pose some additional questions:
From google: "Alberto Melloni teaches at the Third University of Rome and directs the Higher Research Training School of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences in Bologna.
Don't you agree that it is very strange that one with such a niche would thrust himself forward as a spokesmen for which massacres should be taken seriously? I suppose that he would respond that his training goes to determine whom is properly considered a martyr, but he has distinguished massacres that really are not so distinguishable.
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I find it odd, indeed. Catholics, however, are obviously not immune to the relativism that has pervaded western culture so completely. No doubt though, some at the ACLU would agree with his ridiculous statements. It really is coming down to a small core group of true faithful in both Christianity and Judaism. I am in the mood to hunt down his e-mail address and send him a letter asking him what he is smoking.