In this event we see yet again the Catholic hierarchy’s endless solicitude for Muslims and Islam, and its disdain for actual Catholics. What is unusual in this case is that some Catholics stood up against this exercise in a self-defeating and pointless dialogue that has never saved one single Christian from Muslim persecution, or prevented any jihadists from destroying even just one church.
An update on this story. “Irish Petition to Excommunicate Top Prelate,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, August 3, 2020:
DUBLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) – Thousands of Irish Catholics have signed a petition calling for the excommunication of Dublin’s archbishop after the primate of Ireland participated in Muslim prayers on Eid Al-Adha Friday citing Pope Francis’ Abu Dhabi declaration.
“How can we accept an archbishop who gives his blessing to an Islamic celebration of animal sacrifice? Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross was the final sacrifice, yet Martin has decided that this barbaric Islamic festival deserves the endorsement of the Catholic Church,” the petition stated.
Scuffles broke out outside Croke Park Stadium hosting the Islamic service as police and leftwing activists attempted to silence a group of Catholics praying the Rosary and protesting Abp. Diarmuid Martin’s participation in the Muslim festival.
Police arrested two women and one man, charging them with public order offenses. “All have been released without charge with files being prepared for the director of public prosecutions (DPP),” a Gardaí (Irish national police) statement said. Two of the three arrested were leftist counterprotesters, a source said.
A counter-protester assaulted a Catholic youth carrying a “No Sharia in Ireland” banner.
As Abp. Martin approached the stadium’s entrance, his car was blocked by Catholics waving Rosaries at his window and shouting “traitor” and “You are going to Hell!”
The Gardaí had to clear a path as protesters holding signs saying “Islam is evil,” “Defund Soros Shills” and “God bless Ireland” pounded on his car as the archbishop proceeded to join Muslims in prayer.
“I attended the ‘Rosary at Croke Park’ as a way to demonstrate against the encroachment of Islam into the daily life and institutions in Ireland,” Irish Freedom Party candidate Daithí Ó Fallamháin, told Church Militant.
“Many Irish people are aware of the cruelty involved in halal slaughter. Unfortunately, it was not made clear from the start that all-too-common animal slaughter, which is part of Eid al-Adha worldwide, would not be included in the celebrations at Croke Park, so there was understandable speculation,” the politician, who has been an educator in Ireland, Japan and South Korea, explained.
Leftwing activists tried to drown out Catholic journalist Gemma O’Doherty as she called for a “new decade of the Rosary” and condemned Abp. Martin entering Croke Park — “a land that is so sacred to Irish patriots.” O’Doherty later had her account blocked by Twitter.
“We in Ireland will treasure the memory of Abp. Croke” O’Doherty stressed, calling out the lack of civil liberties “for the victims of genital mutilation” and “child marriage” and “animals that will be slaughtered today.”
Demonstrators unfurled a large banner declaring: “No to child marriage. No to grooming gangs. No to live slaughter. No to barbaric halal. No to jihad against Christians!”
Meanwhile, the “Excommunicate heretical Archbishop Diarmuid Martin” petition on the Irish Patriots website garnered over 4,000 signatures by Monday as it denounced the prelate for “giving his blessing to an Islamic celebration at our sacred Gaelic grounds in Croke Park!”
“This is not merely a scandal, it is a mortal sin,” the petition stressed, attacking the archbishop for “having forgotten the First Commandment.”
Church Militant reported Friday that Martin had participated in the Islamic festival of Eid Al-Adha, which falsifies the Bible by declaring that the patriarch Abraham took Ishmael, not Isaac, to be sacrificed on Mount Moriah.
“This story is yet another instance of Islam correcting Judaism and Christianity and holding the Judeo-Christian tradition to be corrupted and erroneous,” Islamic scholar Robert Spencer told Church Militant, lamenting that Martin’s participation “shows the priorities of the Catholic hierarchy today and of leftist clerics in general.”
The petition blasted the archbishop for “engaging in outright apostasy” and insisting “he must be not only laicized but excommunicated.”…