Pope Francis has repeatedly branded those who oppose mass Muslim migration into Europe as un-Christian. He seems to be completely unconcerned about facts such as the following: all of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: What Does the Pope Know About His “Friend and Dear Brother” El-Tayyeb? (Part Two)
Further, does the Pope agree with El-Tayyeb that Islam has shared 1,400 years of “peaceful coexistence with the Christians”? In no land that Muslims conquered has there been “peaceful coexistence” with Christians (or with any other subjugated non-Muslims), including Islamic Spain, which is so often held up as an inspiring example of “convivencia,” even though […]
Pope Francis to visit imam training institute in Morocco to boost moderate Islam
When is the Pope going to boost Christianity? And if this school to train moderate imams is so successful, why do so many Islamic State jihadis come from Morocco? Pope Francis last year met in the Vatican with Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, the secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: What Does the Pope Know About His “Friend and Dear Brother” El-Tayyeb? (Part One)
Just before he left for to the U.A.E. earlier this month, Pope Francis sent a video message to the Emirati people: “I thank the friend and dear brother the Grand Imam Sheikh el-Tayyeb and those who have organised this meeting for the will and courage to affirm that faith in God unites and does not […]
U.S. Catholic-Muslim Dialogue top dog applauds deceptive “living together” document signed by Pope and Grand Sheikh
The document is full of deceptions and deflections, but Cupich and Bambera would dismiss such concerns as “Islamophobic.” It has become a superdogma in the Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace, you will be ruthlessly harassed and silenced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the hierarchy […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis of Arabia
Pope Francis has said many false things about Islam. He has said that “there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism” and that ‘“authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Quran are opposed to every form of violence.” He has, in turn, been praised by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed al-Tayeb, who thanked […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Grand Sheikh Francis of al-Vatican
The Pope of Islam goes to the UAE and gets played for a fool by Muslim sharpies. My latest in FrontPage: Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, have published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” during the Pope’s trip to the United Arab Emirates. It’s as […]
Pope: “Christian and Islamic worlds protect common values: life, family, religious sense, honor for the elderly”
Life? Yes, unless you’re not Muslim. In Islamic law, Muslim lives are explicitly worth more than those of non-Muslims. The Shafi’i Sharia manual Reliance of the Traveller dictates: “The indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is […]
Pope: My trip to UAE wrote a “new page in history of the dialogue between Christianity and Islam”
We will be able to put these claims to an empirical test. Will Pope Francis’ trip to the UAE and the misleading document he signed with the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, turn one jihadi away from his jihad? Will it prevent one Christian from being persecuted, or one church from being destroyed? We […]
Pope and Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh: “The fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion must be rejected”
Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, have published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.” Here is another of its statements that raise questions about el-Tayeb’s sincerity: Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism […]