This is a beautiful, generous gesture. The bishop explains: “Well, not all the Muslims are Boko Haram (members), not all of them (Muslims) are evil.” And of course that is true. It is odd, however, for a Christian entity to spend money on building a structure in which the following things will be taught: Jesus […]
Nigeria: Catholic bishop accuses government of spending billions to rehabilitate jihadis while their victims suffer
The Nigerian government supposedly rehabilitates and then frees the jihadis. The reality behind this, however, is that deradicalization programs are an abysmal failure everywhere they have been implemented. From the Jihad Watch archives: Austria: Vienna jihad murderer had gone to deradicalization program, was not considered a terror threat UK: Libyan migrant who went on stabbing […]
ISIS Branches Out Into Comedy, Accuses Pope Woke I of Trying to Start New Crusade
My latest in PJ Media: What’s the absolute last thing in the world that Pope Woke, aka Francis, would want to do? What would cause him to recoil in the most spine-tingling horror imaginable? That’s right: the prospect of following in the footsteps of his long-gone predecessor, Pope Urban II, and calling for a […]
Nigeria: Muslims attack church, murder seven, including priest on his way to renew his priestly vows
Nothing to be concerned about. Why, I’m sure that Pope Francis is right now on his way to Benue State, in order to explain to those who killed Fr. Ferdinand Fenan Ngugban and the others at St. Paul’s Catholic Church that authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Qur’an reject every form of violence. […]
Islamic State: Pope’s Iraq trip a ‘crusade’ to ‘remove the Sharia of Allah from this land’
The ISIS guys can relax: the last thing the Pope wants to do is remove Sharia from Iraq or anywhere else. Extensive comments from me below. “Islamic State: Pope’s Iraq Trip Is New Crusade,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, March 23, 2021: MOSUL, Iraq (ChurchMilitant.com) – Islamic State (ISIS) is threatening fresh attacks on Iraqi churches following […]
Sunni cleric: Pope’s Iraq trip was meant to bless ‘mistreatment of Sunnis Iran’s lackeys perpetrated under ISIS’
The Pope has become embroiled in matters he knows nothing about. As I explained below to Church Militant: Whatever can be said about the pope’s naïveté (and worse), there is no doubt that he did not intend to strengthen any alliance between the Church and Shiites against Sunnis any more than he intended to strengthen […]
Why the Pope’s ‘Interfaith Dialogue’ in Iraq Excluded the Jewish Community
During Pope Francis’ recent apostolic pilgrimage to Iraq, many Iraqi political and religious representatives — including the country’s president, Muslim religious leaders, and Christians of various denominations — were present, except for one community: Iraqi Jews, who are also one of the world’s longest surviving Jewish communities, with a history of around 2,700 years. […]
Video: Robert Spencer on Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq
Yesterday, on Securing America with Frank Gaffney.
Hezbollah Attacks Maronite Patriarch
The Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon, Bouchara Boutros Al Rai, has seen his country brought to economic, political, and moral ruin by the presence of Iranian proxy Hezbollah. It is Hezbollah that continues to support the mismanagement and colossal corruption of the Lebanese government, run by the same group of grifters who may exchange portfolios, […]
In Iraq, pope views mosques and churches destroyed by the Islamic State, laments ‘our cruelty’
The pope was making a theological point, that all human beings are sinful, and that this destruction is a manifestation of that sinfulness. But it is also noteworthy that he ascribed the destruction he saw to all of humanity, and decried nations that sell weapons, but never said a word about why the ruined buildings […]