In discussing a Catholic bishop’s recent construction of a mosque in Nigeria, I said it was an act of charity, albeit a foolish one, but I was wrong. Neither that action in Nigeria nor this one in France is an act of charity. It is not doing the Muslims any favors to affirm them in a belief system that tells them that hatred, contempt, and violence are blessed by the deity. Nor is either bishop acting charitably toward his own people who may bear the consequences of what is taught in the mosques built with Church funds. This mosque-building by Catholics is a mistaken idea of what constitutes charity, not surprising amid the general confusion of our age, in which being nice is routinely conflated with being charitable, when there are numerous instances in which they are not the same thing.
“French Diocese Finances Mosque,” Gloria.tv, April 17, 2021 (thanks to Tom):
Tours Diocese donated money for the construction of a local mosque, LaNouvelleRepublique.fr (April 13) reported.
Tours Bishop Vincent Jordy justified his donation on April 15 with the fact that for John Paul II’s 1996 visit to the city, the local Muslims made a symbolic donation which the diocese wanted to reciprocate. Riposte-Catholique.fr adds that in 2015, Auch Diocese – where John Paul II never visited – donated €5000 for a mosque.
In 732, Charles Martel won the famous Battle of Tours against Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi’s large army of horsemen preventing an Islamic conquest of France. Today, Tours city has 5 well attended mosques, and 17 mostly overaged parishes.
Rev G says
They would be better served using the shovels to dig their own graves.
gravenimage says
Grimly spot on.
mortimer says
The most ‘charitable’, loving thing the church can do for Muslims is to share the good news of salvation through Christ which is the church’s message to the world. It is ‘UNCHARITABLE’ to encourage Muslims to remain in this deceptive, misogynistic, xenophobic, Bronze-Age Death Cult!
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Yes, ‘digging their own graves’. The ‘shovel’ they use is ‘DHIMMI THEOLOGY’ that accepts a cowering acquiescence to Islam.
But Muslims think that COWERING ACQUIESCENCE is not enough. They want this pope to grovel even more.
Yohannes says
Jihad Watch hasn’t yet put an article about an Indonesian-German apologist (Joseph Paul Zhang) is chased by Indonesian police and even by Interpol for claiming to be “26th prophet” as well “blasphemy”
Wellington says
Must JW do everything? Isn’t the very existence of JW over the years evidence of how much JW has done to combat ignorance and evil?
What? You still think JW is deficient? That’s your call, certainly not mine.
somehistory says
No one can do everything. I agree with you, Wellington.
Imagine if Mr. Spencer and company put everything concerning islam’s mad mozlum world on these pages. We’d never get done reading all of it, and so no time to comment or even contemplate their meaning for us, our families, out friends, etc.
There is just too…way too…much evil with which mozlums engage, daily.
And, it is possible to alert the crew to the story, account, etc., so they might be able to get something up here for all to see.
gravenimage says
Yohannes, you can send that story to Robert Spencer at the “Contact Us” box on the right-hand side of the page. I’ve sent in quite a few stories over the years, and some have been picked up.
Thomas Syseskey says
Both are acts of dhimmitude par excellence!
john theo says
Feeding the crocodile in the hope that it will eat you last.
As a Catholic I am appalled by the lack of knowledge (and failure to understand history) on the part of today’s church.
Vyx says
I suspect that Francis has been promised he will be the head of ‘All Religion’ when the New World Order comes to pass. Outreach to “Islam” is probably part of that promise.
gravenimage says
I don’t think there is any reason to suppose that Francis thinks there wiull be a Muslim pope.
mortimer says
The RCC has a divine mission to encourage Muslims to LEAVE Islam, rather than stay stuck in its backwardness.
Wellington says
Dumb as dumb can be.
Might as well suck up to Nazism or Marxism as suck up to Islam. The largely stupid modern West serves as the paramount example in all of history, I think it could be argued, of success in sundry areas of human endeavor by the “initiator” fallaciously assuming others mostly think and act as the successful have.
A huge error. Immense. With consequences of such error still not fully realized.
Look for confirmation of this hypothesis in the aggregate to Sweden, at the individual level to the immensely vapid nothing who is the 46th POTUS.
mortimer says
Pope Francis is misled by DHIMMI THEOLOGY.
The captain is steering the ship onto the rocks. He refuses to listen to experienced skippers who knows the waters of Islam PERFECTLY … including the mighty Robert Spencer who is able to teach the pope EXACTLY where his ‘dhimmi theology’ is wrong.
tim gallagher says
More idiocy. Robert Spencer says it perfectly when he says, “It is not doing Muslims any favours in affirming them in a belief system that tells them that hatred, contempt, and violence are blessed by the deity”. That says it all about Islam. Muslims should be told constantly that their hate filled and murderously violent religion is a disgusting, evil load of crap. You don’t make deals with the devil, which is what is being done here. The Catholic Church should call out evil, which Islam definitely is, wherever it sees it.
somehistory says
When Jesus was walking about the Land of Israel, He had the disciples, whom He named as Apostles, and a group of disciples of both genders, going about with Him. Judas Iscariot had a box in which they kept money….donated by those who recognized that money was needed for food and lodging, etc., and yet, Jesus was said to “have nowhere to lay down His head.”
Now, the people who believed Jesus seemed to be mostly the poorer population. How would it have been to them if Jesus had said, “Let’s give some of the donated funds to the Sanhedrin, to the Pharisees, to the money-changers, to the Sadducees, to the Romans, so they can keep fighting against me, and when I have returned to my Father, they will be able to follow you about to persecute you”? Even if His followers had all been rich as the money-changers and tax collectors, He would not have ever suggested such a thing.
And yet, some people…namely the idiot in charge of the Catholic church, and his underlings, seem intent on taking the donations given to them….mostly by the poor believers…and use ti to fund the terrorists…namely, mozlums.
mozlums who gladly…are “happy” to…murder those putting faith in Christ and His Father, and need to know just how cotton-picking evil is their belief and their actions in support of it, and the filthy book they adore, and the filthy slave-trading thief, mass-murdering, raper of children, sack of slug slime, sex-mad psychopath, lying son of satan that they worship as a ‘prophet.’
Jesus would tell them if He walked about the earth as He did before the filth was written down and satan had established islam as his wild beast of sexual perversion…just how evil they are and what is going to happen to each one who stays mozlum.
These clergy are doing satan’s bidding, his “desire.” Jesus “will confess to them, “”I never knew you. Get away from you, you workers of lawlessness.”
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
One thing is certain:
Jesus would’ve *never* financed the construction of a non-Christian place of worship…
somehistory says
For certain, J.L.
He met with His disciples on hillsides, spoke from a boat, in an humble home, walking along the road….and for certain would never build …or do anything …to honor satan.
Keith O says
The Catholic church is one of the wealthiest organisations on earth.
Yet they can’t/ won’t put their filthy hands into church coffers to help their own poor and suffering.
Now this pedophile support group expects it’s poor followers to shell out money to build a mudslime barracks???
Getting to the point where I need a stronger term than WTF???
Jim says
They should really make such aid conditional on concessions from the Muslims, such as stopping the muslim call to worship broadcast on loudspeakers, prayer in the streets, polygamy, FGM, child marriages, cousin marriages, wife-beating, honor killings, antisemitic propaganda, anti-Christian preaching and instigation, donations to terrorist groups. The church should get concessions before doing something for them, not give them money and then expect a return. One does not expect reciprocity if one gives money to sociopaths, for example.
gravenimage says
France: Catholic diocese finances construction of mosque
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Building Mosques where Muslims are taught to oppress and murder Chirstians and other unbelievers is suicidal madness.
mortimer says
Muslims get millions for mosque building from rich Muslim oil countries.
gravenimage says
Also true, Mortimer.
Alfredo says
In Muslim lands the slaves of Allah “the merciful” persecute and murder Christians and Jews. In the West the ignorant and incredibly naive Christian priests fund a mosque where Jew and Christian hatred will be the order of the day!? Charles Martel would be turning in his grave in disgust at the stupidity of these spineless dhimmies who pay jiziah “with willing submission while feeling subdued.” Qur’an 9:29
tim gallagher says
Spot on, Alfredo. A very good summary of the situation. Some of the things these Christian church leaders do when, dealing with Islam, are beyond stupid.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
mortimer says
Building mosques is misguided because one of the purposes of a mosque is to fight against Trinitarian Christianity.
Matt. 12.22: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.”
In 1997, as mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan spoke at a rally in the city of Siirt, referencing a poem by the Turkish nationalist Ziya Gokalp:
The mosques are our barracks,
the domes our helmets,
the minarets our bayonets,
and the believers our soldiers.
Andrew Blackadder says
The muslims of the World watched with glee as this current idiotic Pope washed and kissed their feet, and now see a Catholic Bishop pay for the building of a mosque, and this merely tells the muslims that everything is going their way, the plan to take over the World is close at hand.
Meanwhile the Vatican has BILLIONS of Euro and yet seems to do nothing for the Christians stuck in islamic Nations as we watch them being treated like pond scum every day of the week.
Christianity teaches forgiveness.
islam teaches revenge.
OutOf Frogwell Muslim says
They are feeding to those people who do not hesitate in biting the helping hand!
‘They do not know what they are doing, God punish them by the same hands they are helping’. Amen.
Jim says
Why stop with mosques, give them weapons for terror attacks too. Give them training in using them. Blow up churches and synagogues too. Spread Islamist propaganda for them too. Why not instead invest the money in pro- Christian and pro-Jewish propaganda, religious institutions, cultural centers, and do things to spread belief in the traditions of Europe and the West. Let the enemies finance their own armies and soldiers of the faith.
Alfredo says
In Muslim lands the slaves of Allah “the merciful” persecute and murder Christians and Jews. In the West the ignorant and incredibly naive Christian priests fund a mosque where Jew and Christian hatred will be the order of the day!? Charles Martel would be turning in his grave in disgust at the stupidity of these spineless dhimmies who pay jiziah “with willing submission while feeling subdued.” Qur’an 9:29
OLD GUY says
Whats truly sad about this is that Islam received exactly what it wants, the servitude and payment from the non-islamic people. They don’t see this act of kindness and the hand offered in friendship, they see this as the power that Allah has given them over all other people.
gfmucci says
Most Catholics are not dumb s–ts. But some are.
Leonard S. Feinman says
This is either done in the spirit of appeasement or insanity. I think the French have always taken that route and are known for being the first to surrender. They don’t want to fight anybody or anything, which is also why they elect the leadership they have.
These are the people who came to watch (with glee) the burning of Notre Dame.
It has been 200 years or more since the French has had serious thinkers guiding them.
I would tell them to grow a pair, but they would need at least a seed to start that growth.
gravenimage says
Actually, France is restoring Notre Dame, at great cost. Your belief that the French were gleeful at the church burning is not borne out.
Many Muslims were, though.
Mauricio says
I would like to write a letter to Santa Vatican Claus and see if they can build me an orthodox chapel next to my house. But I am sure that they don’t accept this type of requests from anyone, not even their own people… except for muslims.