Why do so few Christians in the West speak out about the rampant persecution of Christians in the Islamic world? Because they don’t want to harm the “dialogue.” Yet this “dialogue” has not saved one single Christian from being murdered. Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, said it on February 8, 2013 as he was suppressing a planned talk (by me) at a Catholic conference on that persecution: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.”
Remember that Mohamed Atta, about the plane he had hijacked on September 11, 2001, told passengers over the intercom: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.” The Catholic Church appears to have adopted that statement as its policy regarding Muslim persecution of Christians.
“The chasm between Islam and Jahiliyyah [the society of unbelievers] is great, and a bridge is not to be built across it so that the people on the two sides may mix with each other, but only so that the people of Jahiliyyah may come over to Islam.” — Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, chapter 10. (Mother Mosque Foundation edition p. 140)
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Saudi religious center chief visits Vatican to promote interfaith dialogue,” Arab News, May 23, 2023 (thanks to Tom):
RIYADH: The head of the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue recently visited the Vatican as part of a trip to promote interfaith cooperation.
During his official visit, KAICIID Secretary-General Dr. Zuhair Al-Harthi met with Cardinal Ayuso Guixot, the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and a member of center’s board of directors at the Vatican department.
Al-Harthi thanked Guixot for his ongoing support for the center, and both highlighted the importance of interfaith dialogue and understanding….
Ray Jarman says
When and only when the members of the Vatican can go to a local Christian chapel to receive guidance from the Heavenly Father in say Saudi Arabia or Iran, should there be a mosque for those who wish to kill us exist. When will Christian church leaders wake up? I know, never until it is way too late.
FYI says
It must be an islamic joke.
The koran refers to us non-muslims as ‘the WORST of created beings” koran 98:6
And in koran 5:51 allah insists that muslims must not be friends with christians or Jews.
A Non-muslim is an infidel
An Ex-muslm is an infidel
But a muslim who is friends with an infidel{according to koran 5;51} is ALSO an infidel.
So if you happen now to be an ex-muslim consider this;if you were STILL a muslim and any of your friends were non-muslims you would be considered ‘one of them’;an infidel and ‘the WORST of created beings”
So a devout muslim who has infidel friends is in the same category as an ex muslim:you are both infidels.
Take a moment to consider how nuts that is.
I think francis is far too concerned about Global Warming to be bothered with the plight of persecuted Christians.He is busy waging war against Traditionalist catholics.It seems he wants a more progressive church perhaps one in his own Leftist Marxist Jesuit image.
tim gallagher says
I think that all the Christian churches should be calling islam out as the evil, murderous religious ideology that it so plainly is and ditching this nonsense about having a dialogue with the Muslims. I don’t think that Christians are meant to spend their time having a useless dialogue with satanically evil ideologies such as islam. I suppose that they tend to think that having dialogue might change the murderous attitude of islam towards Christians but I believe that the Muslims would be laughing at the naive Christians and they will never change and never stop killing Christians. It is basic islam, straight from the Koran, to kill the hated non-believers when the opportunity arises.
FYI says
“The saudi center for interreligious dialogue”
They are having a laugh with us.They guy in the photo looks like he is in on the joke.
What next can we expect from the islamic world?
The Saudi center for irreligious cartoons
The Iranian islamic shi’te comedy festival
The Life of Brian muhammed:a convert’s story
Holes in the Narrative:a critical analysis of islam’s holey book.
Marg ba Amrika:a musical based on the life of ayatollah khomeni.
muslima calender girls and the Burq ababes
of course not.It is too soon after 711.
Ray Jarman says
+1
FYI, I would change the laugh “with us” to laugh “at us” for the stupidity shown by some church leaders. The poor Christian farmers and merchants in Nigeria certainly aren’t laughing as they are killed on a daily basis.
FYI says
Al Harthi does LOOK like he might have a sense of humor.And you would need that to be able to cope with the absurdity of islam: sort of like being a salesman who is trying to sell square tires to the auto industry.
How to sell islam as a peaceful,tolerant creed:that would tax anybody.A sense of humor would be necessary.