The Vatican Submits to Islam (2006-2016)
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9120/vatican-islam
"[Pope Benedict XVI] has doubted publicly that it can be accommodated in a pluralistic society... and tempered his support for a programme of inter-religious dialogue run by Franciscan monks at Assisi. He has embraced the view of Italian moderates and conservatives that the guiding principle of inter-religious dialogue must be reciprocità. That is, he finds it naive to permit the building of a Saudi-funded mosque, Europe's largest, in Rome, while Muslim countries forbid the construction of churches and missions." — Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times.
In that lecture, Benedict did what in the Islamic world is forbidden: freely discussing faith. He said that God is different from Allah.
Since then, apologies to the Islamic world have become the official Vatican policy. Pope Francis denied that Islam itself is violent and claimed that the potential for violence lies within every religion, including Catholicism. Previously, Pope Francis said there is "a world war" but denied that Islam has any role in it.
"It is clear that Muslims have an ultimate goal: conquering the world...But we find it hard to recognize this reality and to respond by defending the Christian faith (...) I have heard several times an Islamic idea: 'what we failed to do with the weapons in the past we are doing today with the birth rate and immigration'. The population is changing. If this keeps up, in countries like Italy, the majority will be Muslim (...) And what is the most important achievement? Rome." — Monsignor Raymond Burke, US Catholic leader.
If 9/11 was the declaration of jihad against the West, 9/12 will be remembered as one of the most dramatic knee-bends of the Western cultural submission to Islam.
On September 12th 2006, Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) landed in Bavaria, Germany, where he was born and first taught theology. He was expected to deliver a lecture in front of the academic community at the University of Regensburg. That lesson would go down to history as the most controversial papal speech of the last half-century.
On this, the 10th anniversary of the speech, the Western world and the Islamic world both owe Benedict an apology, but unfortunately, the opposite happened: the Vatican has apologized to the Muslims.
In his lecture, Pope Benedict clarified the internal contradictions of contemporary Islam, but he also offered a terrain of dialogue with Christianity and Western culture. The Pope spoke of the Jewish, Greek and Christian roots of Europe's faith, explaining why these are different from Islamic monotheism. His talk contained a quote from the Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman".
This keg of dynamite was softened by a quotation from a Koranic sura of Mohammed's youth, Benedict noted, "when Mohammed was still powerless and under threat", and which says: "There is no compulsion in religion."
Pope Benedict's talk was not a surprise. "It is no secret that the Pope worried about Islam", Christopher Caldwell noted in the Financial Times.
"He has doubted publicly that it can be accommodated in a pluralistic society. He has demoted one of John Paul II's leading advisers on the Islamic world and tempered his support for a programme of inter-religious dialogue run by Franciscan monks at Assisi. He has embraced the view of Italian moderates and conservatives that the guiding principle of inter-religious dialogue must be reciprocità. That is, he finds it naive to permit the building of a Saudi-funded mosque, Europe's largest, in Rome, while Muslim countries forbid the construction of churches and missions".
In Regensburg, Benedict staged the drama of our time and for the first time in the Catholic Church's history -- a Pope talked about Islam without recycling platitudes. In that lecture, the Pope did what in the Islamic world is forbidden: freely discussing faith. He said that God is different from Allah. We never heard that again.
The quotation of Manuel II Palaeologus bounced around the world, shaking the Muslim umma [community], which reacted violently. Even the international press was unanimous in a chorus of condemnation of the "Pope's aggression on Islam."
The reaction to Pope's speech proved that he was right. From Muslim leaders to the New York Times, everybody demanded the Pope's apologies and submission. The mainstream media turned him into an incendiary proponent of Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations." In the Palestinian Authority area, Christian churches were burned and Christians targeted. British Islamists called to "kill" the Pope, but Benedict defied them.
At the same time, in Somalia, an Italian nun was shot. In Iraq, a Syrian Orthodox priest was beheaded by al-Qaeda and mutilated after the terrorists demanded that the Catholic Church to apologize for the speech. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood pledged retaliations against the Pope. A Pakistani leader, Shahid Shamsi, accused the Vatican of supporting "the Zionist entity." Salih Kapusuz, number two in the party of the Turkey's then Prime Minister (now President) Recep Tayyip Erdogan, compared Pope Benedict XVI to Hitler and Mussolini. The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, insisted that the words of the Pope belong to "the chain of US-Israeli conspiracy," and accused Benedict of being part of the "Crusader conspiracy."
Security around Pope Benedict was soon massively increased. Two years later, the Pope had been barred from speaking at Rome's most important university, La Sapienza. After the Regensburg affair, Benedict would not be the same anymore. Islamists and Western appeasers had been able to close his mouth.
A few days after the lecture, exhausted and frightened, Pope Benedict apologized. I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address ... which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims," the Pope told pilgrims at his Castelgandolfo summer residence. The quote did not "in any way express my personal thoughts. I hope this serves to appease hearts."
The Pope may have said that to stop further violence. But since then, apologies to the Islamic world have become the official Vatican policy.
"The default positions vis-à-vis militant Islam are now unhappily reminiscent of Vatican diplomacy's default positions vis-à-vis communism during the last 25 years of the Cold War," wrote George Weigel, a US leading scholar. The Vatican's new agenda seeks "to reach political accommodations with Islamic states and foreswear forceful public condemnation of Islamist and jihadist ideology."
Ten years since the Regensburg lecture, relevant as ever after ISIS's attacks on European soil, another Pope, Francis I, has tried in many ways to separate Muslims and violence and always avoided mentioning that forbidden word: Islam. As Sandro Magister, one of Italy's most important journalists on Catholic issues, wrote: "In the face of the offensive of radical Islam, Francis's idea is that 'we must soothe the conflict'. And forget Regensburg."
The entire Vatican's diplomatic body today carefully avoids the words "Islam" and "Muslims," and instead embraces a denial that a clash of civilization exists. Returning from World Youth Day in Poland last August, Pope Francis denied that Islam itself is violent and claimed that the potential for violence lies within every religion, including Catholicism. Previously, Pope Francis said there is "a world war," but denied that Islam has any role in it.
In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI (left) said what no Pope had ever dared to say -- that there is a link between violence and Islam. Ten years later, Pope Francis (right) never calls those responsible for anti-Christian violence by name and never mentions the word "Islam." (Image source: Benedict: Flickr/Catholic Church of England | Francis: Wikimedia Commons/korea.net)
In May, Pope Francis explained that the "idea of conquest" is integral to Islam as a religion, but he quickly added that some might interpret Christianity, the religion of turning the other cheek, in the same way. "Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence," the Pope claimed in 2013. A year later, Francis declared that "Islam is a religion of peace, one which is compatible with respect for human rights and peaceful coexistence." He claimed that it is the ills of global economy, and not Islam, that inspire terrorism. And a few days ago, the Pope said that "people who call themselves Christians but do not want refugees at their door are hypocrites."
Pope Francis's pontificate has been marked by this moral equivalence between Christianity and Islam, which also obfuscates the crimes of Muslims against their own people, Eastern Christians and the West.
But there are brave cardinals who still speak the truth. One is the US Catholic leader Raymond Burke, who is featured in a recent interview with the Italian media, in which he said:
"It is clear that Muslims have an ultimate goal: conquering the world. Islam, through the sharia, their law, wants to rule the world and allows violence against the infidels, such as Christians. But we find it hard to recognize this reality and to respond by defending the Christian faith (...) I have heard several times an Islamic idea: 'what we failed to do with the weapons in the past we are doing today with the birth rate and immigration'. The population is changing. If this keeps up, in countries like Italy, the majority will be Muslim (...) Islam realizes itself in the conquest. And what is the most important achievement? Rome."
Unfortunately, Rome's first bishop, Pope Francis, seems deaf and blind to these important truths. It took five days for Benedict XVI to apologize for his brave lecture. But he opened a decade-long season of the Vatican's excuses for Islamic terrorism.
Pope Francis is still awaited for a visit at the church of St.-Étienne-du-Rouvray, where Father Jacques Hamel was murdered by Islamists this summer. That killing, ten years after the Regensburg lecture, is the most tragic proof that Benedict was right and Francis wrong.
Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for Il Foglio, is an Italian journalist and author.
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James Stamulis • Oct 23, 2016 at 09:02
With all respect to the millions of good Catholics this pope from the start made it clear his Marxist NWO views are in step with Obama's and he seems to care very little for the real victims Christians but is obsessed with being the one world religion for the demonic NWO.
Charles Lutz • Oct 18, 2016 at 19:06
I urge my fellow Catholics not to leave the Church because of Francis' atrocious position on Islam. Popes come and go. Jesus is always the same and He wins in the end (over Satan and other false gods) even if this man or that man loses his head.
Neville J. Angove • Oct 17, 2016 at 09:51
I wonder if Pope Francis has a hidden agenda? If he considers that a war with Islam is necessary, similar to what happened in Spain a millennium ago, in order to make the Western moderates fight for freedom, is the Pope just advancing the occurrence of what most sensible people feel is inevitable. Perhaps a war soon, before Islam is more entrenched in society, is something he considers the least worst option, before Islamic apologists control too many governments?
Peter Terry • Oct 17, 2016 at 03:34
A little over a year ago, Pope Francis visited the United States, spoke to Catholics, spoke to the press, and spoke to the Congress. We were all expecting him to challenge Americans to lead the world by sharing our great wealth -- of knowledge, of know-how, and of financing -- with the poorest of the poor. Prior to arriving, he did lots of writing and talking about such things.
But when push came to shove, he backed down, he sought to placate and encourage and not to tell truth to power. It was very disappointing, for millions of Americans. And doubtless for billions elsewhere.
When apprized of the gross and very widespread abuse of children by priests and cover ups by bishops, archbishops and cardinals, Pope Francis was slow to recognize the damage already done, and even slower to bring about changes that would protect Catholics from further predatory behavior.
And now this...with Christendom under unprecedented attack from Islam, of far greater danger to the survival of Western civilization than the invasion of France by the Moors in the 8th century stopped by Charles Martel, and the invasion of Austria by the Ottomans in the 17th century stopped by King John Sabieski...the Pope, head of the largest Christian denomination chooses to capitulate. While his predecessor understood that Islam must be resisted or it will take over, this Pope prefers peace over freedom. The only peace that Islam provides to Christians is this -- the peace of slavery, or the peace of death.
There are many Neville Chamberlains in our time...and, unfortunately, one of them resides in Rome.
Dajjal • Oct 17, 2016 at 02:26
This otherwise excellent article lacks scriptural evidence of the error of Pope Francis.
When he tries to separate conquest & terror from Islam, Al-Anfal 8.39, 57, 60 & 65 stand as proof along with Surah At-Taubah 9.5, 14, 29, 111, 120 & 123. Sahih Bukhari 1.8.387, 4.53.386 & 4.52.220 afford ample confirmation of the obvious. The whole bloody mess is codified in The Reliance Of The Traveller, Book O, Chapter 9 and echoed in Risla, Ch. 30 and Hedaya Vol. 2, Book 9.
Marlene Wall • Oct 16, 2016 at 19:36
In February 2006, Cardinal George Pell delivered the above address Ïslam & Western Democracies" to Legatus Summit, Naples, Florida.(I found it online) He clearly states views formed after serious study of the Koran, Meotti's views are very similar. The Muslim Brotherhood's own website used to clearly state their aims of "World-wide Sharia Law, to be achieved by war and immigration". The silence about this throughout the Western World is deafening; I call it neville-chamberlainitis.
Mike Ramirez • Oct 16, 2016 at 19:07
FYI: Allah is NOT Yahweh and the Islamic god is not the Judeo-Christian God. Read what Islam teaches:
"The Jews call Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! (Qur'an, 009:030)
"That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah.;- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them,...for of a surety they killed him not..." (Qur'an 004.057)
NOTE: For those who have been told that "We worship the same God", please consider the following:
1.) Yahweh NEVER commanded His angels to bow down prostrate to Adam.
Al'lah Did: Qur'an: (002.034) (007.011)
2.) Yahweh NEVER authorized mankind to honor and kiss a stone as a reverence of faith. (Ka'ba stone in shrine at Mecca, Saudi Arabia)
Muhammad Did and Muslims still follow his tradition to this day.
3.)Yahweh NEVER authorized men to beat their wives.
Al'lah Did: Qur'an: (004.032)
4.) Yahweh NEVER authorized His prophets to have multiple wives- as many as the prophet desired, nor did Yahweh authorize men to have up to four wives.
5.) Yahweh NEVER promised a "paradise" filled with dark-eyed voluptuous women (virgins) as a "reward" to the "righteous Muslim."
Al'lah Did: Qur'an: (037.040-.049) (056.035-.036) (078.031-.033)
6: Yahweh NEVER said that women were second-class citizens and comprised the greatest amount of residents in hell.
Muhammad Did: (Sahih Bukhari: Vol. 7, Book 62, No. 126)
Conclusion: Allah is NOT the God of the Tanakh (Old Testament)nor of the New Testament. Muslims worship a different deity altogether.
Dajjal Mike Ramirez • Oct 17, 2016 at 22:28
Full quotes & links to source texts are contained in "Allah Is Not God".
Surah Al-Kaafiroon 109.1-6 tells us that Moe and Kaffirs did not worship the same deity. Christians and Jews are members of the set of Kaffirs. We do not worship his deity and he did not worship ours.
Sahih Bukhari 4.52.164 informs us of Moe's salat at Badr: ..."O Allah! I ask you the fulfillment of Your Covenant and Promise. O Allah! If You wish (to destroy the believers) You will never be worshipped after today." if the Christians of Egypt,Ethiopia,Iraq,Syria & Yemen worshiped Allah, that threat would have been blasphemous and void.
When we delve deeply into Ishaq's sira, we discover that, at Badr, Moe prayed for the caravan "as a prey". At Khaibar Oasis, he prayed for the conquest of the wealthiest fort to provision his companions with spoils. Before each ghazwa, he prayed to "The Lord Of the Devils and all into error they throw" for "the good of this town and all that is in it". The meaning of that last clause is provided in Surah Al-Anfal 8.67.
Juanita Skelton • Oct 16, 2016 at 19:02
No one knows the future, except G-d. The Catholic Religion would not even exist were it not for the Jewish people, their G-d, and their faith. So, what do we have to do with Islam, Muslims, and their Koran? If you misperceive Islam, you appease Muslims, and rightly so...since violence has been one of G-d's earliest condemnations of mankind's sin, and proof of evil itself.
Nathan • Oct 16, 2016 at 17:27
Why is the Vatican, the Pope, or the Catholic Church always looked upon to provide "Christianity's perspective" or "the church's view" on any subject? This is a semi-rhetorical question. I realize that shouldn't be so surprised. Yet it is still frustrating that the secular world (the majority of people out there) cannot differentiate between Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, etc. I guess we can only look within and blame ourselves for not effectively getting the word out to the rest of the world.
Dorothy Davies • Oct 16, 2016 at 17:00
I cannot find any potential for violence in the teaching of Jesus, so I wonder where the Pope gets that one from! The potential for violence is certainly in human nature and in the past unregenerate man has hijacked the "church" for his own ends, but the true church remains, following Jesus' life and example.
Mohammed taught violence and demonstrated it in his life and example, as do his followers who seem to me to be at the least, unhinged. They rush into violence at the least criticism and take it out of course on the unarmed and vulnerable, as do all bullies. Why are they unable to face rational debate?
Dajjal Dorothy Davies • Oct 17, 2016 at 22:39
Islam is false & fabulistic. Logic & reason shatter its shell and cause doubt, which leads to apostasy. That is its weakness! Ash-Shifa has a chapter on the necessity of killing anyone who disses the Profit. Reading that chapter will increase your understanding.
Wallace Schwam • Oct 16, 2016 at 16:58
It would have been better had Pope Benedict said that "Our interpretation of God is different than the Muslim's interpretation". Interpretation, not absolute knowledge, is what this is all about. Question: How did the West get so weak so fast?
Dajjal Wallace Schwam • Oct 17, 2016 at 22:33
I lay it to a combination of white guilt over slavery, colonialism & Shoa. Mark Steyn probably has a superior explanation in "America Alone".
Mark Anderson • Oct 16, 2016 at 16:45
Pope Benedict was absolutely correct at Regensburg. Based on the factual statements he made, there was no need for him to apologize or backtrack from his comments. I understand that he might have tempered his remarks to prevent violence by Muslims but there was nothing factually wrong with what he said at Regensburg.
All I've seen from Pope Francis, on the other hand, is equivocation and appeasement toward Islam. I'm Catholic but I wish Pope Francis would take a clear stand against an ideology which seeks world domination and the sujugation of non-Muslims.
One just has to read Sura 9:29 of the Koran to see what Islamists have planned for Jews and Christians.
I will not submit to the dhimmi status described in Sura 9:29 no matter what Pope Francis says.
crotalus • Oct 16, 2016 at 16:18
There are no Western governments or institutions whose public positions are more than burnishing bronzed horse-apples. We are in a war declared, unequivocally, except for gibberish and taqiyya, by Islam. ENOUGH from the Larrys and Curlys!
Dean • Oct 16, 2016 at 15:12
The strongest statement the Pope could make at this time (and I do not think such a socialist Pope would utter the following) is that we will only respond to kindness. If you try conquest, jihad, and submission, we will respond in kind by defending our house.
A Pope would be wise to say that legitimate refugees can best be helped in situ in their own Islamic countries by their own wealthy Islamic countries and not by coming to the West. We will help if you tell us that you accept others as equals and not as dhimmis or inferiors to be ethnically/religiously cleansed.
The Pope must support Israel because, as it stands, if he continues to placate the Islamists by weakening and undermining Israel, then he is undermining the foundations of Christianity and giving the Islamists an open door to conquering all their ideological, political and religious enemies at once. he can't rely upon the Obama's and the Clinton's and Ban Ki Moon's of the world to do the right thing because they have proven through their actions that they side with Islam against civilization.
JIMJFOX • Oct 16, 2016 at 13:59
"when Mohammed was still powerless and under threat", and which says: "There is no compulsion in religion."
ABROGATED--
In Medina, Muhammad said-- "If a man leaves his religion [Islam], then KILL HIM."
Deirdre Cripps • Oct 16, 2016 at 13:57
I wonder if this is a general problem for non-Muslim leaders -- if they were to speak the truth about Islam as savvy non-Muslims would wish to hear it, as group representatives they would risk the political consequences (including to other non-Muslims) of being seen to declare civil/cultural/political war, so they try to smooth things over. The non-Muslims who look to them for upfront speech are bitterly disappointed, yet it may be that those who are not 'heads' are actually in a better position to say it as it is and mobilise. If this were understood as a political warfare tactic then perhaps one could knowingly enter into an arrangement where the person 'at the top' says publicly that everything is fine while others communicate the facts and organise.
Maria • Oct 16, 2016 at 12:58
I could not agree more with your article and it makes me sick to my stomach when I see what the Pope is doing. I am Catholic and can not stand the official position of the Church towards Islamization of Europe and slaughter of Christians in the Middle East and around the world whenever they have to coexist with Muslims. I loved this Pope when he was first elected because of his somewhat progressive approach to issues of divorced people position in the church, treatment of homosexuals, women place in the church etc. But how he bluntly embraced Islam as a religion of peace and does absolutely nothing to protect or even acknowledge faith of Christians under Muslim countries administration - is beyond understanding and common decency. He is preaching compassion and love for refugees - but what about the same for Christians that are killed in their own houses of worship, tortured or at best expelled from places where they lived for centuries?! This self destructive approach of the leader of Catholic faith is making people even more reluctant to embrace the church or participate in it's mission. Why would they even want to, if they know that the Pope is not interested in spreading the faith or supporting it's members? The damage he is doing to the Church, on so many levels - can not be underestimated and it's truly frightening. I was wondering if there is any Christian (not necessary Catholic)organization that is voicing it's opposition to this policy and providing support to the clergy and people that are sick and tired of being betrayed by their own faith leaders? I truly appreciate the work you as an organization are doing by talking about really important issues in your publications and excellent article, including this one. Public debate should be encouraged and if anybody can keep it alive it's your organization. Best regards to the author of this article.
Dennis White Maria • Oct 21, 2016 at 10:32
I agree with Your comment(s)/Statement(s). What has happened ? Where is the Shepard on Earth that was to protect his Flock? Where is the Good that is to PROTECT against EVIL? How can one (1) preach "mercy, mercy, mercy... peace, peace, peace" when the Predator tortures, murders and expels Catholics from their (ALL) lands under their repression. He allows those to infest his lands and DOES NOTHING to SAVE his own. With this kind of papal leadership, one day the greatest mosque will over shadow the Vatican in Rome and then there will no more be a Vatican or a Christian religion. And as in one obscure poem, it will be said,
"we were the greatest nation that ever was (Christianity) and now there are the rats and crows scratching in its' sands..."
In Heaven, God recognized Lucifer for what he was, and sent him into the netherworld....
On earth, the leader(s) failed the recognize radical Islam and treated it as a religion of peace...
That future is before us as written in the "Vatican Response to Islamization of Europe by Maria.
Michael Waugh • Oct 16, 2016 at 12:41
If a connection between Islam and violence is recognised by the Pope it must be obvious to the World. Immigration into the West by these people coupled with their breeding rate is another frightening prospect. Are we all blind ?
David Bolgiano • Oct 16, 2016 at 12:22
Francis appears to be the epitome of worldly and naive Modernists that Belloc so eloquently condemned in his book The Great Heresies. Pope Benedict XVI was spot-on in Regensburg and The EU's West is foolish to deny the truths he spoke there.
June Getraer • Oct 16, 2016 at 11:41
Islam translated means Submission. Benidict spoke the truth and his advisors dared not to support him. Those in the Vatican, including its present leader Pope Francis, are leading Catholics to their irrelevance and doom.
John Hilger • Oct 16, 2016 at 10:53
Heaven was rejoicing when Pope Benedict spoke at Regensburg. Islam was founded by Satan and is a very evil religion whose goal is to destroy all those who oppose it. Pope Francis is a traitor to the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. He should be immediately removed from office and ex-communicated.
Carolyn • Oct 16, 2016 at 10:43
'We should not be reluctant to assert the superiority of western values' and then hold fast to that mindset. We rarely initiate physical violence but are willing to defend those who are vulnerable ie Christians persecuted in the Middle East now and historically and have the capacity and grace to forgive and forget past sins openly confessed and the freedom to verbalise what has happened! Praise God!
Michael Dable • Oct 16, 2016 at 10:42
You could be forgiven for weeping tears of blood when you read the Vatican tripe espoused by Popes Francis and Benedict the 16th as illustrated in Guilio Meotti's article dated 16.10.16.
From zero in 595 to 2016 the Muslims following Muhammad's lies sit on the very brink of world conquest. Any democratic vote in say - Unesco - will inevitably be bound by Muslim numerical superiority, from countries that were never Islamic at their onward march to civilization. What should be the unacceptable inter family breeding within Muslim polygynous communities is not just allowed to blossom, but encouraged, most especially by Christian clerics who are no longer interested in shepherding their respective flocks.
It can only end in Powell's 'rivers of blood' speech, way back in late 1960's UK history.
geoffrey ben-nathan • Oct 16, 2016 at 10:20
Jews, the Jewish state and Israel are deafened by the silence of the Pope's failure to condemn the UNESCO debacle.
Francis, a nice man, but, so far, weak - not very brave.
robert davis • Oct 16, 2016 at 10:11
Many thanks for this excellent article to Giulio Meotti. It's so good there is nothing to add.
Peter • Oct 16, 2016 at 09:47
It is fair to say that there are a lot of radical Muslims using Islam as a way to conquer land.
It is also fair to say that there are a lot of moderate Muslims who oppose violence.
What needs to happen is for us to challenge all the moderate Muslims to speak out forcefully against violence and show clearly that they are anti radical. Merely saying don't pick on us it isn't fair is not enough to convince us that the moderates are in the majority, and if they are the minority, then what is said about Islam being violent would be correct.
viraj • Oct 16, 2016 at 08:36
One has to remember that the best integration takes place when the immigrants and the locals marry. The Muslim migrants are not only going to take over the European continent and the North America (as well as other areas) with procreation as the major tool but procreation with the local women. Already there are many white women fallen in love with some Muslims who are good looking and charming and I am not referring to the Leftist aid workers. They have seen western women coming to their land as aid workers/tourists and having affairs. They have got the idea.
It's very difficult to prevail upon a woman to NOT fall in love but one can avoid a family from breaking up wherein the woman or grown up children suddenly find a "sympathetic shoulder" who also teaches them about a 'wonderful" religion.
Jeff Page • Oct 16, 2016 at 08:26
Let the Church leaders and Politicians submit and crawl on their knees to Islam, but don't preach to the rest of us that we should do so! Moronic nonentities!
Spineless slugs who have lost the courage (if they ever possessed any) to oppose a threat to the world as we know it!
Do these apologists really want the free people of this world to be used and abused as slaves? Do they want women to be 2nd class citizens? Do they expect men to offer their young daughters to some dirty, greasy bearded pervert? Do they expect all women to wear Islamic clothing? Do they expect us to kill all pigs along with the pig farmers? Do they expect all breweries to close and alcohol be banned? So much for the popes faith in god! He's prepared to sit in the vatican and see the world destroyed around him before he is himself beheaded! And as the head of the Catholic church, make no mistake, he will be!
I wonder what his flock think of this capitulation. There are millions of Catholics all over the world and I hope they show him the disrespect he deserves for his betrayal of their faith. I think the only safe place free of Islam will be Hungary and maybe a couple of other East European countries. I suggest that everyone makes their plans to relocate there now, before it's too late. The politicians will have already booked their flights and places. They are more than happy for the ordinary people to suffer under Islam, but they won't be around to see it, they'll be long gone! Along with the pope, if he can get out! But remember, when we come across the treacherous church leaders and politicians hiding in other countries, make them pay.
Thomas Hennigan • Oct 16, 2016 at 08:17
There were plenty of Popes throughout history who had a clear idea of the danger of Islam. To mention but a few, we could recall Pope Innocent III, who declared the Spanish Christian resistance to the radical Islamic group called Almohades, which ended in the decisive battle of Navas de Tolosa in 2012, after which Muslim power in Spain never recovered. Likewise, we could mention Pope Pius II, in the mid-fifteenth century, who spent his whole Pontificate promoting a crusade against the Turks and even wanted to go on the Crusade himself. Then there was Pope Saint Pius V, who organized the Holy Alliance which won the also decisive Battle of Lepanto in 1571, and Pope Innocent, who again organized a Holy League which with the decisive intervention of the King of Poland Jan Sobieski routed the Turks at the gates of Vienna on September 11-12 of 1683, a victory which marked the final debacle of Ottoman power in Central and Eastern Europe. The fact is that without the decisive intervention of these and other Popes, Europe would not have been saved from Islamic domination. Pope Francis, therefore, is an anomaly. There seems to be no way that he will get the message about the reality of Islamic terror and its basis in the Quran and the Sunna of Muhammad. All we can do for now is to hope and pray that a Pope who will understand the peril which Islamic jihad entails for Europe and the whole of humanity will be elected the next time round.
Dajjal Thomas Hennigan • Oct 17, 2016 at 22:10
Pope Francis is too old and set in his ways to learn. A few Bishops are aware, but many more are not.
Build for the future, if there is one: lead your local Priest to the fatal facts of Islam and urge him to read. If he does, and if, in the future, he climbs the ladder of fame within the hierarchy, he may have some influence. He will also be able to teach his congregants.
"The Defamation of Jesus Christ" reveals information from the Qur'an, hadith & a Shi'a sira that will make Catholic blood boil. They do not know who Mary is married to in Jannah; I tell them. They do not know that Jesus & Moe are paternal half brothers; I tell them.
They do not know that Allah is Satan, not God; I tell them in "Allah Is Not God" and "Islam Is Demonic". They have no clue that Islam is all about the loot; I tell them in "Islam's Mercenary Mission".
I tell them about Jihad & terrorism in other pdf files, all of which, along with those listed above, are linked in "Islam 101 For Clergy & Congregants".
The congregant who shares a link to that page with his Priest may thereby risk excommunication, but in that case, he will know that he needs to re-evaluate his choice of denominations.
Charles Lutz Thomas Hennigan • Oct 22, 2016 at 19:48
Please note that Giorgio Mario Bergoglio has pleased himself to be called Francis The First while the real "first" Francis was Saint Francis of Assisi who very courageously travelled with one other monk to try and convert the top Muslim man in Egypt. Even though top Muslim clerics clamored for his head he was let go in admiration for his faith and raw courage. Doesn't Bergoglio look small beside the real Francis?
jeb • Oct 16, 2016 at 08:08
Peace has become the g-d of New Age marginal Christianity.
One woman Priest in Canada is attempting to assert her rights as an atheist.
The problem does not arise simply from the venial threat to civil liberties and rule by civil courts, it is also the underlying causes of disbelief in Jesus reducing his cause as that as solely the achievement world peace.
That is the path of anti-Christ.
Virginia jeb • Nov 5, 2016 at 05:26
Thanks to the Gatestone Institute in providing a unique platform for present day prophets. It is the hour we have all been warned about in Holy Scripture. We will be in danger of losing our faith if we look up to popes, cardinals or politicians to help us out of the persecutions which see coming to the whole world. We are alone in oceans of deceit and sinfulness. If we keep our eyes fixed in our Mighty Saviour, fed by His Word we will be able to remain steadfast until our own martyrdom or the coming of our blessed Messiah, whichever comes first. We are all called to be priests and to guide those who are in error, so do not look up to leaders, or for places to hide. There is only one GOD, there is only one SAVIOUR, there is only one TRUTH and his name is Yeshua HaMashiah. COME LORD YESHUA!
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