 On 2, August 2014 at a church gathering on Ilindan (St. Elijah's day), Amfilohije stated that Muslims were "a false people with a false religion" and Islamic teachings a "spiritual death".He made comments on the Mountain Wreath, a 19th-century poem written by Petar Petrović Njegoš regarding what Amfilohije described as the "extermination of the Turkifiers".Amfilohije stated that killing people was "horrible, however more terrible is the spiritual death sown around by fake people with false faith."