“We have to understand that totalitarianism based on Islamic creed is the worst among all systems of government. Yes, my friends, the very survival of Christians in the cradle of Christianity is quite in danger.” Yet the West is silent. Why? Why are Church leaders in the West so uniformly silent about the Muslim persecution […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis To ISIS: Tell Us What You Really Think
Dada and Surrealism may have outlived their welcome in Parisian salons, but they have found a warm welcome on Papal planes, and at the Vatican itself. The Pope has yet again delivered himself of more of his no-longer-surprising, but always disturbing, comments on Islam. He has said in the past that Islam is a “religion […]
ISIS to Pope: “Our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam”
This will change nothing. The Pope and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the rest will continue to assume that they know the Qur’an and Islam better than the Islamic State does, and that at its core it teaches peace, and that ISIS, for all its ostentation in Islamic observance, somehow misunderstands or disregards […]
Islamic State: Jesus is a “slave to Allah” who will wage jihad once he returns to earth
In its magazine issue entitled “Break the Cross”, the Islamic State commands Christians to abandon Christianity, on the grounds that Jesus himself was “a slave of Allah” who will “wage jihad” when he returns to earth. Among what the issue states is that Jesus was never crucified, and that Paul was a “criminal, treacherous Jew” […]
Pope Francis: “It’s not fair to identify Islam with violence. It’s not fair and it’s not true.”
The Pope is once again ignoring a simple distinction: while people of all faiths and backgrounds commit acts of violence, Islam is unique among world religions in having a developed doctrine, theology and legal system mandating warfare against unbelievers. Unless and until that is confronted, Muslims will continue to commit acts of violence against non-Muslims, […]
France: Church of priest murdered by jihadis donated land for mosque; “relations are normally very good”
“Relations are normally very good” — aside from that priest with his throat slit, that is. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? “The head of a religious order in Co Down who knew slain Father Jacques Hamel has revealed that Church land beside the scene of the murder was given by Catholic […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Pope Francis and Jihad: Credo Quia Absurdum, And How
A glutton for punishment, I turned to the Vatican paper, L’Osservatore Romano, to read the Pope’s exact words, in the original Italian, about the killing of the indomitable priest in Rouvray. Here is what the Pope had to say to the journalists flying with him to Cracow: “Quando io parlo di ‘guerra’, parlo di guerra […]
Pope declares “the world is at war” but denies Islam has any role
Pope Francis declared that “the world is at war” following the slitting of the throat of an 86-year-old priest by two Islamic State-linked jihadists, right in the middle of a mass in France. The jihadists shouted “Allahu akbar” during the barbaric drama, during which they also took two nuns hostage. The Pope went on to […]
France: Church where priest was beheaded was on jihadi hit list of Catholic churches
“The building was one of a number of Catholic churches on a terrorist ‘hit list’ found on a suspected ISIS extremist last April.” So we have a church that was on a jihad hit list and a jihad killer who was monitored by police, and still this happened. Why weren’t there guards at the church? […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Cardinal Burke Breaks Ranks
We have heard many disturbing statements in recent years made by Catholic clerics, from bishops and cardinals right up to Pope Francis, who seem to believe that Islam is a religion like any other, that criticism of Islam is unjustified and based on the motiveless malignity of “Islamophobia,” and that the main duty of Catholics […]