Few Christians in the West say anything about the Muslim persecution of Christians, and those who do generally ignore the root causes of that persecution. They don’t want to harm the “Muslim-Christian dialogue” in which they place so much hope, and which has not saved one single Christian from being murdered.
Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, said it on February 8, 2013 as he was suppressing a planned talk (by me) at a Catholic conference on that persecution: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.”
Remember that Mohamed Atta, about the plane he had hijacked on September 11, 2001, told passengers over the intercom: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.” The Catholic Church appears to have adopted that statement as its policy regarding Muslim persecution of Christians.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
More comments from me below.
“Francis Spins Failed Treaty with Grand Imam,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, February 4, 2022:
VATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) – Pope Francis is trumpeting his concordat with Grand Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb as a triumph — despite the dramatic rise in Islamic persecution of Christians since the two leaders signed the Abu Dhabi declaration three years ago.
In a video message marking the third anniversary of the declaration on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, signed by Francis and el-Tayeb on Feb. 4, 2019, the pope saluted the world’s preeminent Sunni Muslim leader for walking with him over the last three years.
“This is a good day to extend a hand, to celebrate our unity in diversity — unity, not uniformity, unity in diversity — in order to say to the communities in which we live that the time of fraternity has arrived,” Francis declared.
Contradicting the biblical teaching that confers God’s promise to Abraham on those who “belong to Christ” (Galatians 3:7, 29), Francis included Muslims in “the promise of his descendants.”
The “promise has also been fulfilled in our lives, that of a fraternity as vast and bright as the stars of heaven!” Francis exclaimed, citing his own March 2021 address, delivered during the “Interreligious Meeting at the Plain of Ur.”
Speaking to Church Militant, Islamic historian Robert Spencer said that the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries had skyrocketed since Francis signed his declaration with el-Tayeb.
Spencer, author of bestselling The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, elaborated:
The pope is whistling in the dark. The pact has not been a success — except from the standpoint of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb, who emphasized that building bridges with non-Muslims was solely for the purpose of bringing them into Islam, not for any genuine dialogue.
This is exemplified by the fact that the pope keeps telling Christians they must live fraternally with Muslims, while the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, his great friend, has made no comparable call to Muslims not to destroy churches, persecute Christians, etc.
Persecution Worst in Sunni Countries
Spencer also observed that “the persecution of Christians is most severe in Sunni nations, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria,” and that “if the al-Azhar’s pact with the pope had any substance at all, this wouldn’t be true, as al-Azhar is the world’s foremost Sunni institution.”
The 2022 World Watch List, released in January by Open Doors International, records a significant increase in persecution against Christians, with Sunni countries dominating the list of persecutors.
Four out of the five countries with the highest rates of anti-Christian violence are predominantly Sunni Muslim (Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen). Afghanistan is now the most dangerous country in the world for Christians, with communist North Korea ranking second. The five highest persecutors are followed by Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria — where Sunni Muslim majorities persecute Christians.
Lower on the list of persecutors are the predominantly Shia Muslim countries of Iran and Iraq and the overwhelmingly Hindu nation of India.
Francis has remained silent on the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries and did not refer to the emerging Christian holocaust in his speech.
The pope famously uttered a single (and feeble) sentence on the Islamic takeover of the world’s largest Byzantine basilica by Turkey’s Sunni Muslim president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in July 2020.
Two months later, Erdoğan ordered the conversion of the Church of the Holy Savior (the nation’s best-known Byzantine monastic church) in Chora, Istanbul, into a mosque.
“The document on human fraternity that the pontiff signed with el-Tayeb states that ‘the protection of places of worship — synagogues, churches and mosques — is a duty guaranteed by religions, human values, laws and international agreements,'” Spencer noted….
CogitoErgoSum says
I think one, or maybe both of these guys, has mistaken the other for his girlfriend.
Infidel says
Well, since muslims have started mistaking 90 year olds as their girlfriends, why not the pope? 😈
somehistory says
He’s close to that age, is he not? and kind of wears a dress.
Infidel says
Maybe he should have a beard? But then again, the imam here does, and that’s not saved him 😈
gravenimage says
Yes–a reference to this grotesque story:
“Spain: Muslim migrant rapes 95-year-old woman, says ‘I confused her with a girlfriend of mine’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/02/spain-muslim-migrant-rapes-95-year-old-woman-says-i-confused-her-with-a-girlfriend-of-mine
Bruce Stanton says
The problem, as Josef Stalin so observed, is that the Pope has no (army) divisions.
Wellington says
No, that is not the problem and Stalin was wrong (N.B., the papacy is still around and the USSR is not) .
The institution of the papacy traditionally had something at least the equal of standing armies and that was the great ally which is boldness and courage about ethical and ancillary matters related to ethics. Unfortunately, Vatican II (1962-1965) began the destruction of the papacy and the Catholic Church in general. This is a profound tragedy but in no way does it prove the contention put forth by the mass murderer and cynic who was Joseph Stalin.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Wellington.
mortimer says
In Islam, the DECEPTÙION of the kafir is permissible if it advances Sharia supremacism. Mullahs use TAQIYYA to neutralize the suspicions of the KUFAAR by making non-Muslims believe that Islam is BENIGN. Islam is NOT ‘benign’ towards the kafir.
Pope Francis appears to have NO AWARENESS whatever of Islam’s canonical teaching of TAQIYYA.
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– “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – former sheikh Sam Solomon
– “Taqiyya is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it … We can go so far as to say that the practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream … Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era.” – Sami Mukaram, At-Taqiyya fi ‘l-Islam (London: Mu’assisat at-Turath ad-Druzi, 2004)
– “Taqiyya in order to dupe the enemy is permissible.” – from Mukaram, At-Taqiyya fi ‘l-Islam, p. 32
– ‘One who does not lie has no Islamic Faith (Iman)’ . [Muhammad Ibn al-Hanafia in Al-Musanaf, Volume 7 page 642]
– “The Taqiyya is my religion, and the religion of my ancestors … He who doesn’t practice al-Taqiyya, doesn’t practice his religion.” – Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq
– Abd Ibn Hameed, on the authority of al-Hassan, said: “al-Taqiyya is permissible until the Day of Judgment.” Reference 12. Narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, v7, p102,
– Abu al-Darda, a companion of Mohammed said: “(Verily) we smile for some people, while our hearts curse (those same people).” Reference 13. Narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, v7, p81
– Allah is the greatest deceiver – “Allahu khayru al-makireena” – K. 3:54; cf. 8:30
gravenimage says
Fine post, Mortimer. Thank you for those quotes.
somehistory says
“Contradicting the biblical teaching that confers God’s promise to Abraham on those who “belong to Christ” (Galatians 3:7, 29), Francis included Muslims in “the promise of his descendants.””
There is so much this nasty, evil creep does in “contradicting Biblical teaching,” he should be run out of town on a rail, all the way to whatever mozlum stinkhole would accept his ugliness.
His kissy-face with this mozlum creep is enough to make maggots vomit.
Does he believe he really can fool our Lord, Jesus Christ and His Holy, Heavenly Father? Does he actually believe that he can make them think he’s a righteous guy, shepherding the Flock?
satan the devil has his name, just as he does the mozlum creep’s.
born saturday says
its sickening, and treacherous!!!!
Infidel says
Francis and Tayeb sitting on a tree
K I S S I N G…..
😈
abu taleb says
Jesus did not try to appease the Pharisees who were evil, he rebuked them harshly. Nor should any Christian. The Pope clearly is not a follower of Christ.
somehistory says
Clearly.
Wellington says
The photo above kinda’ says it all. It encapsulates so much.
I am sorry that the Roman Catholic Church has come to the state that it is in. It is a tragedy not only for Catholicism, not only for Christianity in general, but also for the best that mankind has represented from remote antiquity, even back to pre-history onwards.
I will now state something that gives me no pleasure to state and it is this: Vatican II (1962-1965), called by a fool of a Pope, one John XXIII (and I would add here that the vast majority of Popes have not been fools though the present one is most definitely a fool of the first order), began the destruction of a 2,000 year-old religion and which religion I do not think will outlast the ancient Egyptian religion which itself prevailed for over 3,000 years. Look to Vatican II for the principal cause and genesis of this unnecessary self-destruction.
And believe me when I say, as the devout agnostic that I am, that I hope I am dead wrong about what I have just written above because traditional Catholicism, whatever its faults (and it had its share), was nonetheless a bulwark of Western Civilization (and which also had its share of faults as all civilizations have, though in this Age of Nonsense in which we live, and because an agenda is sought and not the truth, we are being told that only the West erred—what a lie and what monumental stupidity), and which civilization is easily the greatest civilization of all time. Hey, did any other civilization invent, let’s see here, philosophy, democracy, the scientific method and even remotely the technology that the West did, in addition to exploring women’s rights as no other society has or the capacity to apologize for past wrongdoings and which wrongdoings the Islamic world, the Asian world, the sub-Saharan African world, the American Indian world, et al. HAVE NEVER apologized for?
Just as the magnificence of the classical world had many faults, the greatness of ancient Judaism too, nevertheless institutions and civilizations like the Roman Catholic Church, ancient Greece and Rome, the Judaic world throughout history, the Protestant world at its best, et al. stand as beacons of light, the brightest of lights, in all of man’s history. And they are all a “product” of the West, the likes of which no other civilization or society has remotely matched.
Thus, what a damn shame, an utter shame, that a complete fool like Francis is the head of an institution that did so much for so many centuries to preserve the best that mankind has ever produced. A tragedy of the first dimension if ever there were one. Words sometimes escape me to properly characterize how destructive the monumental fool from Argentina has been for the West, for all the world, for mankind.
Rufolino says
The Roman Catholic Church is no longer the institution which did so much for Western civilisation. That institution had vanished under an avalanche of corruption of all kinds. Some good Catholics still survive, but Francis is a not unfitting pope for the current Catholic Church.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Pope Francis celebrates ‘unity in diversity’ as Muslim persecution of Christians escalates worldwide
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This is only a “triumph” if you ignore the Islamic genocide against Christians…
Note that Imam Ahmed el-Tayeb regularly denounces Christians and Jews as “Kuffar”–not just non-Muslims, but “deniers” of the ‘truth’ of Islam. He also constantly claims that Jews and Christians have “corrupted” their scriptures so they are not Islamic.
But he does not consider ISIS unbelievers–and acknowlwdgment that the horrors of the Islamic State are orthodox Islam. He has approved of the killing of apostates from Islam. He blames Jihad terror on the West for not hating Israel enough, and has claimed that opposition to Jihad terror is just the aim to destroy anything that is non-Zionist. He has condemned human rights as opposed to “Islamic values and culture”. He has condemned the adoption of children as a “Western deviation”. He condemns the right to offer *any* criticism of Islam–and acts to imprison those who do. He has said that Muslims in the West may not abandon Shari’ah. He glorifies bloody Islamic conquest, along with pillaging and looting.
He constantly attacks the West, including equal rights for women and for gay people, who he believes must be executed. He regularly crushes art and creativity.
Pope Francis either does not know this, or–worse–*does* know but chooses to ignore it in order to pretend that “interfaith dialog” with this thug accomplishes anything other than the whitewash of Islam.
Rafael says
Great post, Gravenimage, I couldn’t agree more. This Tayeb is the Egyptian version of Tayyip Erdogan. Pope Francis is a traitor noy only to Christianity but as Wellington clearly stated, he is a traitor to all of humankind. As you greatly stated, this Imam Tayeb and the Al-Azhar in general are a stain on humanity. They don’t accept the UN human rights decleration, instead they accept the so-called “human rights in Islam” which is nonexistent.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Rafael.
Incidentally, Tayeb and Tayyip mean “benevolent and kind”. But then, this is how the vicious “Allah” is often absurdly described.
Frances Weingarten says
I don’t understand the concept of “unity in diversity” when Muslims are totally unattached to any group other than Islam! Theyhave nothing whatsoover to do with Christians or Jews orany other group and consider Islam the only acceptable religion in the world!
Howeveer, they must be aware that Christians, Jews and others have not become vassals of Islam, but continue to accept their own religions!
gravenimage says
They are just using this Western concept for now. When they take over, no more diversity.
This is similar to Erdogan who said, “Democracy is like a tram ride: when you reach your stop, you get off”.
Muslims are always happy to use the values of the West against us.
Jon Sobieski says
What is that piece of metal or wood between their lips?
gravenimage says
I wondered about that myself.
Col. Bill says
Francis has forgotten or deliberately ignored the historical fact that a Muslim martyred Saint Francis.
As Ron White said, “you can’t fix stupid.”
James Lincoln says
Col. Bill says,
“As Ron White said, “you can’t fix stupid.””
True enough, but at least you used to be able to – at least – marginalize it.
gravenimage says
A small point–St. Francis feared being martyred–with good reason, so many were–but this did not happen. He was able to return to Italy from the Holy Land.
OLD GUY says
I thought being gay way prohibited in Islam and here we have the leader of islam kissing another man.
I guess that the POPE thinks there is diversity under Islam?
The only unity under Islam is if Christianity becomes Islamic. Or maybe the Pope thinks Islam will convert to Catholics.
Infidel says
Maybe he can have qur’an and sunnah added to the texts that are considered sacred in Catholicism, after getting all that translated to Latin?
E T says
Just a few “holy” men are changing religion – shame, shame, the Archbishop of Canterbury says unvaccinated may not enter the church. So do we now call him the Globalists Archbishop?
E T says
Picture reminds me of RIBA sing “Come on and Kiss Me, Kiss Me like you used to.
E T says
Or it could be “Cuddle up a little closer lovey mine.
E T says
or it could be Leonard Cohen singing “I’m Your Man”.
E T says
Or Elvis singing “Love Me Tender”.
E T says
Or maybe it was Louis Jordon singing “ lS you is or is you ain’t my baby?”
gravenimage says
🙂