“Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi of Qom wrote in a letter to the Pope: ‘I am really delighted to have heard your comments during your last trip to Poland in which you stated “Islam is not equal to terrorism” and further dismissed the association of violence and harshness with any and all divinely-sent religions.’” Grand Ayatollah […]
#NotMyPope trending in Europe as Church handles Islamic crisis worse than sex abuse crisis
“The Pope and others in the Church are not telling the truth about Islam. Some think they are doing so deliberately as part of a strategy to prevent further radicalization. Some (myself included) think they are doing so out of sheer naïveté. In either case, if they continue to defend Islam as a peaceful religion, […]
Must Catholics believe that Islam is peaceful?
The controversy over my debate with Msgr. Stuart Swetland, about which I wrote here, continues. William Kilpatrick here ably explains what is at stake. “Must Catholics Believe that Islam Is Peaceful?,” by William Kilpatrick, Crisis, August 16, 2016: The Apostles’ Creed (updated version): I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion […]
Imam thanks Pope for saying Islam is a religion of peace
“The imam of Perugia, Abdel Qader Mohammed…thanked the Roman Pontiff for his recent statement that true Islam is not a religion of violence, but of peace.” The imam of Perugia, Abdel Qader Mohammed, must know better. He must know that the Qur’an and Sunnah teach warfare against unbelievers, as I demonstrate here and in many […]
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 […]
The Islamic State reveals why it hates us, and so do their Islamic supremacist cohorts
The article below discusses “Why We Hate you and Want to Fight You” from the ever untruthful, untrustworthy and unreliable Islamic State brutes, who delivered a message to the West in hopes that Westerners will actually take them at their word. Leftists actually do, and herein lies (no pun intended) the problem. The six reasons […]
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, […]
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 […]