Edward J. Weisenburger, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit, means well. In fact, he almost certainly feels a certain moral superiority, and even a temptation to smugness, when comparing himself to those grubby, greasy little people who, in his view, preach “hate” and “division.” Edward J. Weisenburger, Archbishop of Detroit, is above all that. He is just what this age calls for. He is an apostle of love, a missionary of mutual understanding, a dealer in dialogue. While lesser men waste their time sounding warnings about a civilizational threat and the looming prospect of subjugation and dhimmitude, Edward J. Weisenburger, Archbishop of Detroit, knows better, and does all he can to ensure that those warnings go unheeded. For Edward J. Weisenburger — please, call him Ed — knows that the idea of a subversion of Western civilization from within is absurd. He knows that any idea that any group, aside from the far right, would want to destroy the existing society and establish its own authoritarian hegemony over what remains, is simply “racist,” “bigoted,” and “Islamophobic.” He knows that Sayed Hassan Qazwini and the people of the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque are the salt of the earth, unjustly placed under suspicion and long-suffering, due to the malign influence of those racist “Islamophobes.” He knows that the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque preaches peace, love, and tolerance.
What Edward J. Weinburger almost certainly doesn’t know is that the Qur’an, the holy book that his friends at the mosque revere, teaches that “hate” and “division” that he abhors. It teaches that he, as a Christian, is “the most vile of created beings” (98:6), while the Muslims are the “best of people” (3:11o). It teaches that those who say that Jesus is divine are unbelievers (5:17, 5:72) and that those who say that Jesus is the Son of God are under the curse of Allah (9:30). It says that Jesus was not crucified (4:171), and that Muslims should be merciful to one another but ruthless to unbelievers (48:29). It says that Muslims should “strike the necks” of the unbelievers (47:4) and “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, 4:91, 9:5). It says that Muslims should fight against Christians until they pay a special tax and submit to Islamic hegemony (9:29).
Ed — please! Let’s not stand on ceremony — almost certainly neither knows nor cares that such passages and others like them exist. If he does know they exist, he dismisses them by likening them to the violent passages in the Old Testament, and ignores the fact that the Old Testament passages describe acts of violence but do not call upon believers of all times to engage in them. He doesn’t know (again, almost certainly) about the Islamic interpretative traditions and the classic tafasir (commentaries on the Qur’an) that teach that the violent passages are valid for all time, while more tolerant passages are not. He also assumes that his Muslim friends don’t consider these passages to have any validity in the modern world. And hey, remember, they’re the salt of the earth.
And so, overjoyed at his own generosity of spirit, he said at the mosque: “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity and kindness. From the moment I entered this beautiful site, I felt a profound divine presence.”
He didn’t think once about the Christians in Nigeria and elsewhere who suffer from jihad violence on a near-daily basis. If they did cross his mind, he reminded himself that jihad terrorists have hijacked the beautiful religion of peace. He never thought that praising the “divine presence” he claims to have felt in this mosque might demoralize his fellow Christians who are suffering persecution from Muslims. He never thought that his experience of the divine in the mosque might confuse his fellow Christians in Detroit and elsewhere who are being told about an Islam that is quite different from the one they experience from arrogant, supremacist, aggressive adherents of the religion, or might lead seekers to convert to Islam. The fact that so many converts to Islam have become jihad terrorists is likely yet another thing that he doesn’t know. He is an apostle of kindness. He is a force for the good. Go back to sleep.
“Hundreds gather for grand opening of the Imam Al-Hasanain mosque and Islamic Institute of America’s new campus in Dearborn Heights,” by Ebtissam Khanafer, Arab American News, June 12, 2026:
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Hundreds of community members, religious leaders, elected officials and dignitaries gathered in Dearborn Heights earlier this month to celebrate the grand opening of the new headquarters of the Islamic Institute of America (IIOA) and the inauguration of the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque, a $16 million project that community leaders describe as one of the largest and most significant Islamic developments in Michigan in recent years.
The two-day celebration marked a major milestone for the Islamic Institute of America, founded in 2015 by Sayed Hassan Qazwini. The festivities included the first official Friday prayer service at the mosque on June 5, followed by a formal dedication ceremony and gala dinner the following evening at the newly completed Imam Al-Muttaqeen Hall.
Built on seven acres, the new complex encompasses approximately 60,000 square feet and includes the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque, educational and youth facilities, cultural and community spaces, a commercial kitchen and parking for more than 500 vehicles. The mosque itself can accommodate more than 1,100 worshippers and features striking golden domes that have already made it a prominent landmark in Metro Detroit’s religious landscape….
The opening ceremony attracted a diverse group of religious leaders and public officials, including Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger; Dearborn Heights Mayor Mo Baydoun; Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud; U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib; Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed; Iraqi Consul General in Detroit Mohammed Hassan Saeed Mohammed; Imam Fadhel Al-Sahlani, serving as the representative of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani in North America; and Imam Mohammad Mardini, founder of the American Muslim Center in Michigan. Archbishop Weisenburger praised the spirit of interfaith understanding reflected in the new institution.
“There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity and kindness,” Weisenburger told the gathering. “From the moment I entered this beautiful site, I felt a profound divine presence.”
He described the mosque as a sacred place that would help strengthen relationships among people of different faiths and deepen their connection to God….
Rod Elliott says
No is no fool like an old fool.
ploome says
in my mamaloshen, he is a schmuck
ploome says
maybe he felt a tingling up his leg
(who was it that said that?)
gravenimage says
Ploome, I think it was “journalist” Chris Matthews nattering on on how exited he felt listening to Obama pontificate.
Siddhi Nasranni says
I feel a profound Satanic presence on entering a Cathedral or Mosque !!!
ploome says
as an undergraduate I spent some time in the library of a Dominican institution….
I felt the same
࿗Infidel࿘ says
As a Hindu kid, I had to enter cathedrals during my school years, since I went to a missionary school. But as an adult, the only time I’ve entered a church was during my former roommate’s wedding: he himself was Agnostic, but his bride a Filipino Catholic. Otherwise, on principle, I don’t enter houses of worship of deities that I don’t believe in. The way I see it, they are residents of their deities (that’s the case w/ Hindu temples, but I extend that courtesy to other faiths – churches, synagogues, stupas/pagodas/… (mosques is another story)
I just don’t get why any non-believer enters, or has to enter, a place of worship of a deity s/he doesn’t believe in
gravenimage says
Yes–just what I was thinking, Siddhi.
David Lakatos says
The Pope has become a grave offence against God and his Son.
ploome says
always was
roger says
Never trust a celibate man in fancy dress and a silly hat who considers himself a spiritual authority.
ploome says
what about red satin slippers?
roger standen says
Satanism
Joe1 says
Celibate? These days, nearly every practicing archbishop practices sodomy. Otherwise, they wouldn’t get the promotion.
Wellington says
The Catholic Church ain’t what it used to be.
40 rounds says
Clearly he didn’t pay attention in seminary
abu taleb says
Catholic Church used to be abusing altar boys, Or is it still going on?
My point is Catholic Church has been long teaching and doing the wrong things, it changes but not to the better direction.
Wellington says
The Catholic Church used to be a bulwark against Islam and also created a great intellectual and artistic tradition. As for abuse of altar boys, this was done in spite of Catholic dogma and not because of it. Might as well cite some Protestants doing bad things as evidence that Protestant Christianity is a negative. Really, this is elemental stuff to figure out.
Winston 101 says
Wellington, abu taleb and all,
Wellington’s point is a much larger and very important point in Islam’s War on the West and how we, as Infidels, deal with Islam’s Propaganda Jihad.
When horrors are committed by any Infidel, you can point out the hypocrisy of their actions by pointing to the laws and beliefs they purport to practice. For example: Child rape and abuse by Catholic priests and the cover up by Catholic hierarchy. The horrors are clearly NOT what those abusers preach and say they believe, according to their written theology and the Bible.
But with Islam it is exactly the opposite.
When you look at the Rape & Torture Grooming gangs of Islam, the horrors committed by believers in Islam are NOT hypocrites.
They are doing as their written theology tells them it is permissible to do
and their actions are sanctioned by Muhammed: Inflict rape, torture and group abuse on unbelieving females.
Their’s was a group activity and there was no shame attached to it. The perpatrators were not shunned by their community, in fact, they were protected by it. It was seen as persecution of Islam in the cause of Infidel sluts.
Thank you for pointing this out. I think this is a point that it would be good to reference when dealing with what we see as crimes but followers of Islam do not.
If it follows their Quran and Sharia point that out.
Kepha says
I don’t deny that clergy abusing the young is a problem, and that men need to be defrocked and face legal consequences over it. I also refuse to see the issue as limited to the RCC–even if I am a God-Bless-King-Billy Protestant who is humbly grateful to be one.
But the sexual abuse of the young is by no means limited to
hypocritical religionists” (oooooh, what an easy target for our professional clevers!) My younger son’s 7th grade English teacher was busted for diddling one of his charges; in the district where I teach, a kindergarten aide abused a small child; and one of my colleagues was recently dismissed and arrested for an affair with an underage girl.
Yet, I am perplexed. From young manhood on, I’ve heard sexual revolutions from Hugh Hefner on to those who want biological males in females’ bathrooms and lockerroms calling for an end to “outmoded inhibitions”, sexual experimentation, early initiation of the young, etc. etc. etc. If such people had an ounce of courage of conviction, they’d be praising the ephebolphile preists as bold pioneers bringing the sexual revolution into the belly of the beast and advancing the Gramscian march thorugh the institutions.
FTR, Uncle Kepha condems such abuse and sees it as a huge offense against God and man.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
ploome says
it’s much better now
࿗Infidel࿘ says
In terms of tolerance, yeah, but they’ve gone overboard in that direction by tolerating islam and jihad
ploome says
well, they stopped burning people at the stake
and forcing conversion
now they concentrate on their theater…costumes, processions, rites and wafer snacks
transubstantiation
Winston 101 says
The adherents of the Islamic Government have built a major fort in the United States. The fort,
Fort Al-Hasanain, is located in the State of Illinois, in the City of Detroit.
In attendance at the celebrations for the opening of the fort was a guy named Ed.
Ed claims to be a Christian. Ed claims that he could “feel a divine presence” but could not discern the tenants of the Government he is speaking in support of.
Ed doesn’t seemed to have read any of the foundational texts that explain this Government he supports. Ed claims the ability to “feel divine beings” but doesn’t have the ability to “read and comprehend” Islamic texts, even in English.
Surely Ed is aware that the proponents of this Islamic Government are presently slaughtering, on a daily basis, Ed’s Christian brothers and sisters in Africa and elsewhere.
Ed does not seem like a very intelligent, wise or courageous man. Not a man at all really. I think he is what C.S. Lewis meant when he referred to men like Ed as “men without chests”. Just a cosplaying actor, in his dress up robes, blathering on about being nice. Unfortunately, Ed seems to have some influence over other Christians who are being misled by him and his willful ignorance.
Meanwhile the Government of Islam continues its Jihad Invasion phase, in it’s the War on the West. A war Islam declared 1400 years ago. The war that Ed, and his ilk, flatly refuse to acknowledge. That would not be nice.
Juno says
Detroit is not in Illinois, it is in Michigan
F says
I went to the Vatican and felt the opposite of a “divine presence”. Same when I went to a Mosque.
God is not in the buildings and he is NOT “Allah”. Despite Muslims claiming that name only means god they have the wrong one.
Siddhi Nasranni says
Well it difficult to to choose from, but estimates suggest that over 20,000 deities, spirits, and divine figures have been revered across human cultures.
Now which one is Allah ?????
somehistory says
the demon snake is the same one the Canaanites, the Philistines, Babylonians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Moabites, etc. worshipped and called by various names.
Dina Collins says
the god with no name !
ploome says
as my art hist prof used to say, visual indigestion
designed to overwhelm reason and logic and
along with smell of incense and vast space
inspire awe and helplessness
and demand faith to endure
somehistory says
The false shepherd may not know anything about the slime. He also doesn’t present any evidence to show he knows Christ or His Commandments, or the instructions of Christ’s Apostles
Jesus said to “watch out” for people like this guy. He also warned those ones, in Matthew 7, that they would be told to “get away from me, you workers of lawlessness” no matter how much they claim to have done good. He commanded those who follow Him, “do not give what is holy to dogs, nor throw pearls before swine.”
Peter wrote about satan the devil “seeking to devour” and that Christians should “oppose” the demon.
Paul wrote and warned not to be “sharing a table with the demons; eating and drinking at the table of demons'”
James wrote about “keeping oneself without spot from the world.” According to him, this includes taking care of *widows and orphans.* (muzlims are murderers of widows and orphans. muzlims make widows and orphans when they murder husbands and parents.)
What this false shepherd ‘felt’ and praised was an evil presence. It certainly was not “divine.” He’s so loaded up on lies that he can’t tell the difference.
On the topic of the ‘church,’ I read part of an article about ‘only 7 women are allowed to wear white when before the pope.’
and it’s all based on politics….political theater between the vatican …the ‘church’….and those in so-called positions of royalty.
Those “royal” Catholics are seen as being better than the average Catholic, so are deserving of special privileges. That is so very far from what Jesus said about all Christians being ‘brothers’ and not to give titles or show preference.
the words and actions of this creature who pretends to lead others to Christ, are also political. Many of those attending are politicians in positions of power in the U.S. government, local and national. And they all seek to make the rest of us bow down to their political “wild beast.” or else.
The creature who has taken what Jesus commanded not….a high-falutin title…is producing a lot of rotten fruit. He will reap as he is sowing. As will his associates there at that shrine to satan, a fort in the demon’s evil war.
James Lincoln says
Excellent post, somehistory.
somehistory says
Thank you, James.
Victoria says
Mr. Ed knows exactly what the quran orders, and that its adherents are here to act upon those instructions.
People like Mr. Ed are carefully chosen to do what they do and imbue that layer of plausible deniability.
We have to stop giving the Mr. Eds of the world so much credit.
Siddhi Nasranni says
It seems to me that Mr Ed is a Communist & in league with Iszlam.
Read this book.
United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror
by Jamie Glazov (Author)
United in Hate analyzes the Left’s contemporary romance with militant Islam as a continuation of the Left’s love affair with communist totalitarianism in the twentieth century. Just as the Left was drawn to the communist killing machines of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Castro, so too it is now attracted to radical Islam. Both the radical Left and radical Islam possess a profound hatred for Western culture, for a capitalist economic structure that recognizes individual achievement and for the Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States. Both seek to establish a new world order: leftists in the form of a classless communist society and Islamists in the form of a caliphate ruled by Sharia law. To achieve these goals, both are willing to wipe the slate clean by means of limitless carnage, with the ultimate goal of erecting their utopia upon the ruins of the system they have destroyed.
That about sums it up very well.
jimjames says
Roman Catholic priest with what experience to tell a Divine Celestial emanation from a demon? One is going stand and say that Islam represents the Divine when their conduct spews forth absolute oppression and the practice of rape and mutilation? How stupid are we suppose to be to accept such words from an organization that has lost its political power as the empire has evaporated in its pedefied mist!
Infidel lives matter says
I´m sure Fucker Qatarlson og Candace Owens would feel the same.
Siddhi Nasranni says
And don’t forget, O’Bummah.
GE says
This archbishop is one of the reasons my Eastern rite priest says he doesn’t pay attention to anything the western churches do.
These Catholic apologist clergy members are either ignorant, in denial, or have been hitting the grape a little too hard in the sacristy.
Persecuted Catholics must be so happy for his feeling a “divine presence” in a mosque. He shouldn’t have even been there.
James Lincoln says
GE,
I recently attended a Greek Orthodox Church service – and I was impressed.
GE says
It’s something I have considered—I have Mr. Spencer’s book on the pope and the church. He was Eastern Rite (Greek Melkite, I think). We use the same Liturgy, so it wouldn’t be that much of a change. Just no pope.
gravenimage says
GE, Robert Spencer grew up Melkite Catholic and worshipped this way for decades. Because of the same sort to insanity here he converted to–I think, if I remember correctly–Greek Orthodox a few years ago.
James Lincoln says
This particular Roman Catholic Archbishop – if he makes it to Cardinal – will be woke enough to be considered to be “Pope material”.
Joe1 says
He would need to become a mason.
Walter Sieruk says
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit,who said the he “felt a powerful divine presence” when he was at the opening of a new mosque ” That Archbishop may have really had “felt” that way . This actually shows just how a person can be wrong,but sincere when he goes by his feelings and not the Bible.
tgusa says
The Archbishop of Detroit was aroused at opening of massive new mosque. Geez Archi, get a room.
Juno says
Hasn’t anyone mentioned to him about, say, Muslims slaughtering Christians in, for example, Nigeria on almost a daily basis?
Tim gallagher says
So sick and tired of these fools. There’s no excuse for their complete ignorance of Islam’s evil nature. They surely have staff who could look into Islam and tell them how disgusting and evil it is. And yet all seem to be clueless idiots on Islam.
tgusa says
He is having a later in life crisis and is auditioning to become an imam.
Tim gallagher says
Maybe that’s it, tgusa. I just don’t get it with church leaders who are so ignorant about islam. Anyone who had looked into rotten to the core Islam could never go to a mosque and say they felt that god was there as you say maybe he is a secret convert to the satanic cult Islam.
tgusa says
Pope Leo XIV bestowed the Vatican’s highest diplomatic honor upon the Islamic Republic’s Ambassador, Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari who is a man that slaughtered 42,000 of its own people and imposes the death penalty on Muslims who convert to Christianity.
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2054299550286856571?s=20
Pope Leo XIV appears to be out of his mind.
tgusa says
https://instapundit.com/803530/#disqus_thread
BOB says
Holy crap!
Thanks for breaking this story about the SHARIA POPE. I’ve been warning about this Islamic radical pope but people are scared to stand up and call balls and strikes like me.
Thank you for that one . Christianity is being betrayed by Catholics and nobody wants to say it. I always knew
gravenimage says
It is not just Catholicism, Bob. The Church of England (Anglicanism or Episcopalianism) is also appeasing Islam, as is the Lutherine Church. I wish this was not so common.
Major Tom says
A wolf in shepherd’s clothing!!
Marleen Perret says
At the End the Father of Evil will become more and more overt and visible. Way to go Eddy, the blind!
jerry glenn says
Rampant Islamopandering
Controse says
The good Arch Bishop says to the jihadi, “Here, it is here, the Catholic Church’s jugular vein is right here.”
OLD GUY says
The old saying he’s like a fox in the hen house is reversed here. He is the chicken in the fox den when entering a mosque.
Vary disappointing to see the acceptance of islam as a religion of peace and love by Christians leaders.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is endangering their flock.
JA says
It seems that all or most of the religious orders in the Church have gone political, rather than biblical and like most people, they disguise their politics with biblical passages.
Alkflaeda says
We are told in 1 John 4 how to discern whether spirits are from God. Those that are legitimate will acknowledge that Jesus Christ has “come in the flesh”, i.e., become incarnate. This implies His pre-existence – whilst Islam acknowledges His conception as unusual, it attributes it to Gabriel breathing upon Mary, so there is no possibility of pre-existence.
BubbleBurster says
Oh my God!
This is insanity.
Muslims hate Jews, Christians and any other unbelievers.
He needs to read the Quran!
gravenimage says
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Detroit at opening of massive new mosque: ‘I felt a powerful divine presence’
………………………………………………
As the “Church Lady” used to say, “Could it be…Satan?”
Andrew Blackadder says
I wonder how many of his muslime buddies will come into his Church for some Celebration in the Christian Faith or is that just a one way street to feeling the divine presence…
That wee Bishop fella must love the American Popey fella who has just open a muslime prayer room INSIDE the Vatican.
I sure am glad I was not born into the Catholic Church.
Kirk says
I have no doubt he felt something. It was what we call a demon.