[ April 22, 2024 ]
Pope Francis appreciates Bangladesh’s inter-religious harmony and cultural diversity, which he will celebrate during his visit here next week, Catholic Church officials said yesterday.
“People of various faiths and ethnicity are living here peacefully. This is our tradition and culture,” said Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario during a view exchange [“exchange of views”] with journalists at Ramna Cathedral [in Bangladesh].
More on the Pope’s upcoming visit to Bangladesh can be found here. We have all heard Pope Francis over the years repeatedly utter disturbing words of praise for Islam. Some have wondered if perhaps he was playing a subtle game, trying to convince Muslims to be not as they are, but as he described them — to “measure up” to the Pope’s imaginary Islam. Others thought he was simply ignorant. Still others assumed that he was unable to come to grips, emotionally, with the malevolent reality of Islam, and could not face what Europe had so unnecessarily done to itself by admitting millions of Muslims, who were now impossible to dislodge, into its nations. For the tens of millions of Muslims now in Europe are outbreeding the indigenous non-Muslims, and by their large-scale presence have created for those non-Muslims a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous than would be the case without that large-scale presence.
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The Pope has in the past defended Islam so stoutly that he was once thanked by Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar, for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.” It’s not praise for which he should be proud.
Pope Francis has even seemed to defend, albeit obliquely, the killing of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists, by saying that “it is true that you must not react violently, but even if we are good friends, if [an aide] says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal. You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others. These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression there are limits.” Let’s look that over: Pope Francis is comparing his landing a “punch” on someone who maligns his mother to the cold-blooded premeditated murder of a dozen people because they dared to draw Muhammad. And since he’s Pope, no one in his entourage will dare attempt to morally set him straight.
Last February, Pope Francis insisted that all religions are equally innocent of the charge of terrorism: “Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist. There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia.” So if we make “intolerant generalizations about Muslims,” this only strengthens the terrorists — it’s that “intolerance” that creates the terrorism the Pope steadfastly refuses to describe as “Islamic.” Does the Pope not know of the verses in the Qur’an that explicitly command Believers to “strike terror” in the hearts of Unbelievers? Apparently not. He could start with 8:12: “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.” Or 8:60: “Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides.” Is the Pope aware that in the collection of hadith that Muslims themselves deem to be the most trustworthy, we find Muhammad himself claiming that “I have been made victorious through terror”? (Al-Bukhari 4.52.220)
Has Pope Francis not seen on television the killers of Drummer Lee Rigby holding up the Qur’an? Has he never heard the many terrorists, from ISIS, from Al-Qaeda, from Boko Haram, who recite verses from the Qur’an that justify their acts? Is he deliberately keeping himself in the dark about this? Muslim terrorism is not a product of lone madmen, but of those Muslims who have become especially devout, and take to heart the Qur’anic commands to wage Jihad, and to strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah. They feed on the Islamic texts themselves; they have no need to “feed on hate and xenophobia” from Unbelievers. And the vehemence of the Pope’s dismissal of critics of Islam as offering not reasoned critiques but only ‘’hate and xenophobia’” sounds like something Linda Sarsour herself might have spewed.
What “hate and xenophobia” had Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri experienced? Or the two killers of Drummer Rigby? Or the Muslim who mowed down pedestrians on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, or the Muslim who plowed through crowds on Las Ramblas in Barcelona? Had Major Nidal Malik Hassan, who had his complete medical education paid for by the U.S. army, and was earning a salary of $90,000 a year, been treated at all badly by anyone with whom he worked, or was he merely fulfilling Qur’anic commandments when he slaughtered twelve fellow servicemen? What grievances did Mohamed Atta and his 18 co-terrorists have against Americans, other than that they felt murderous hate for all Infidels, precisely for being Infidels? What grievances, what experience of “hate and xenophobia,” explain the behavior of the couple who killed their fellow coworkers at a Christmas party in San Bernardino? What “hate and xenophobia” did Aafia Siddiqui, who received scholarships to Brandeis as an undergraduate, and to MIT for graduate study, have to endure, she who led a charmed academic life as a cosseted student, until she threw in her lot with Al-Qaeda?
The Pope claims that he finds unacceptable the very phrase “Islamic violence,” because, of course, there are non-Muslims who commit violence:
“I don’t like to talk about Islamic violence, because every day, when I read the newspaper, I see violence.” He said, according to Crux, that “when he reads the newspaper, he reads about an Italian who kills his fiancé or his mother in law.” The pontiff added: “They are baptized Catholics. They are violent Catholics.” He said that if he spoke about “Islamic violence,” then he would have to speak about “Catholic violence” as well.
The obvious response to this is simple: Italian Catholics, or Swedish Protestants, who kill their wives, or fiancés, or mothers-in-law, are not following the teachings of their religions. But Muslims find, in more than a hundred verses of the Qur’an, calls to commit violence against Infidels. The Pope’s inability to make that simple distinction is deeply disturbing.
Pope Francis can hardly be unaware that all over the Muslim lands, Christians, whether they are converts or born into the faith, have been persecuted, attacked, killed by Muslims through the centuries, and in our own time. Such killings have taken place in Iraq, in Syria, in Egypt, in Pakistan, in Libya, in Somalia, in Yemen, in Iran, in Sudan, in Eritrea, in Afghanistan, in Indonesia. Even Angela Merkel, so tireless in her efforts to increase the Muslim population of Germany, has admitted schizophrenically that “Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world.” She knows perfectly well who is doing the persecuting. The Pope appears not to recognize this, leaving his flock to fend for itself. He has certainly never wanted to believe that the Muslim persecution of Christians arises naturally from the texts and teachings of Islam. He avoids all mention of what is in the Qur’an. Instead, the Pope exculpates Islam at every term. He insists there’s no specifically “Muslim terrorism,” but only the terrorism of disturbed individuals, Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. He finds it perfectly understandable why Muslims would take violent offense at someone dissing their Prophet. But while Muslim violence would in such a case be perfectly understandable, he has made it clear, back in 2013, that he believes that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” It’s quite something for him to presume to know what is “authentic Islam” and what constitutes a “proper reading of the Qur’an.”
Now we come to the latest travesty of the truth emanating from the Vatican. At the end of the year the Pope will be visiting Bangladesh. His officials have just put out the following (with which I began this piece, but it is worth repeating):
Pope Francis appreciates Bangladesh’s inter-religious harmony and cultural diversity, which he will celebrate during his visit here next week, Catholic Church officials said yesterday.
Let’s see about that “inter-religious harmony” in Bangladesh. Is Pope Francis aware that in 1947, Hindus were 35% of the population of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh); now they are 9%? What led to such a staggering decrease? Three things: first, mass killings of Hindus by Muslims; second, mass forcible conversions of Hindus to Islam; third, repeated mass exoduses of Hindus to the safety of India. Has the Pope remained unaware of this history? Perhaps he has forgotten the war for Bangladesh’s independence, in which the Pakistani army, along with killing many Muslims, took special glee in massacring hundreds of thousands of Hindus. Between eight and ten million Hindus fled the country during that war.
But what about Hindus in Bangladesh today? How are they faring? In early November, 2017, a Muslim mob, enraged at the mere rumor that a Hindu had posted something unflattering about Muhammad on Facebook, attacked a Hindu village, but ultimately were driven back by the Bangladeshi police. It did not matter that the Hindu boy they sought to kill was illiterate, and thus incapable of writing anything on Facebook. Nor did it matter that no such anti-Muhammad post could be found. Muslim mobs can be whipped up against Hindus with ease in Bangladesh. They were enraged in November 2016, for a similar rumor about an anti-Islam posting on Facebook, this one showing the Hindu god Siva at a Muslim holy site in Mecca. Fifteen Hindu temples, and hundreds of Hindu homes, were destroyed. Over almost two years, from 2014 to 2016, Islamists carried out a string of attacks in Bangladesh, killing scores of bloggers, foreigners and members of religious minorities. In 2016, a Hindu tailor was murdered, a Hindu priest was hacked to death, and a terrorist attack in Dhaka on Hindus left 22 people dead. 98 Hindus were killed by Muslims that year. In 2014 and 2015, there were even more Hindus killed, more temples and houses of Hindus destroyed. In 2013, after a leader of Jamaat-e–Islami was sentenced to death for crimes committed during the 1971 war for independence, Muslims all over Bangladesh rioted, not against the court, or the government, but against Hindus. Hindu properties were looted, Hindu houses were burnt into ashes, and Hindu temples were desecrated and set on fire everywhere. 50 Hindu temples and 1,500 Hindu homes were destroyed in 20 districts. We could go year by year to show that there has never been a time when Hindus in Bangladesh (and in East Pakistan before it) have not been subject to attacks by Muslims, including mass murder and rape — especially during the war for independence, when hundreds of thousands of Hindus were killed and there was wholesale destruction of Hindu temples and homes.
Yet Pope Francis believes, apparently, that “inter-religious harmony” reigns in Bangladesh. Which brings us back to the statistic with which we began: if there has been such inter-religious harmony, then why have Hindus dropped from 35% of Bangladesh’s (East Pakistan’s) population in 1947, to 9% today?
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40 Comments
6 years ago
Benedict his predecessor was threatened with death if he did not start praising and supporting Islam, so he decided to resign and let some other sucker do the Global Elite’s dirty work. Francis is a mole whose job is to weaken and demoralize Catholics and make their religion a pathetic form of Islam.
6 years ago
Yes.
6 years ago
Crazy Pope Francis should be concerned with the victims of migrant criminality, declining attendance at services, and the apocalyptic shortage of new recruits to the Priesthood. There’s also an issue of the inevitable takeover of Western Europe by Muslim fanatics, and consequences for its remaining Catholics- tortured, raped, whipped, and killed everywhere else Muslims have attained population thresholds.
More likely than not, RATSINGER (Pope Benedict), the “German Pope” wanted no part of betraying Europe via Germany (most likely why HE was picked), and subsequently resigned, and was rapidly replaced by no-name “CRAZY Pope FRANCIS” more than willing to sell-out to the New World Order.
“Refugees” and Fanatic Zealots have NO CONCEPT of “Liberal Western Social Psychology”. They have survived for millennia in SUBSISTENCE CULTURES where killing for food, insult, or social stature is not only acceptable, but admired qualities of their elite, venerated and aspired to.
Industrialized feminized nations where women of astonishing beauty practically go nude at beaches, religious leaders (like the pope) kiss Muslim feet, politicians eagerly provide housing, free food, and maid service in castles, and smiling teenage girls hug and give “refugees” flowers upon arrival- WHILE domestic “men” (term used loosely) work long hours to pay for it all and allow arson, rape, and assault at “refugee” discretion… are seen by the “immigrant” as an “entitlement” to be exploited.
6 years ago
Reply to
RealEngineer2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya
Jizya or jizyah (Arabic: جزية ǧizya IPA: [dʒizja]; Ottoman Turkish: جزيه cizye) is a per capita yearly tax historically levied by Islamic states on certain non-Muslim subjects—dhimmis—permanently residing in Muslim lands under Islamic law.[1][2][3] Muslim jurists required adult, free, sane males among the dhimma community to pay the jizya,[4] while exempting women, children, elders, handicapped, the ill, the insane, monks, hermits, slaves,[5][6][7][8][9] and musta’mins—non-Muslim foreigners who only temporarily reside in Muslim lands.[5][10] Dhimmis who chose to join military service were exempted from payment,[1][6][11][12][13] as were those who could not afford to pay.[6][14][15]
6 years ago
Reply to
John D. Horton
In some muslum states non-muslims were never allowed to ever carry and arms — incl. for self defense. Timurlane/Tamerlane, the great genocidal muslum hero, fought a war against OTHER muslums because he felt they had become addicted to jizya and weren’t doing enough to convert the kuffar to islum.
Wikipedia is hardly a source to be trusted when it comes to islum, their bias is clear and omnipresent. Wikiislam is a much more reliable source.
6 years ago
I had hopes for this guy early on. He’s been a disappointment.
6 years ago
So called liberation theology has taken complete control of the Catholic church and like all socialist movements will destroy what is remains of it in short order. What took over a thousand years to build will have a shameful end in a relatively short time.
6 years ago
Reply to
cylde
I agree with your premise but not your conclusion It will be a much smaller Church admittedly, but God will not abandon the faithful, no matter how few.
6 years ago
Reply to
Patricia Morin Smith
The faithful are being driven away by the present manifestation of stupid the is the Catholic church.
6 years ago
Reply to
cylde
I can’t believe Cardinal DiNardo of Houston said that it is the job of White working Catholics to babysit all 6 billion people in the Third World and that White Catholics shoud fell guilty if they don’t allow the Third World to move into their houses and rape their wifes and daughters. According to DiNardo (a defacto millionaire as Archbishop of Houston), White working Catholics need to give away everything they own to the Third World so DiNardo can feel good about himself.
Why doesn’t DiNardo move to the Third World and help the beggars himself? DiNardo is not stupid. He knows that colored Third Worlder’s are not going to pay his salary and keep him in a mansion. Third Worlder’s are too smart for that. Only dumb White people in the First World would give DiNardo a dime.
6 years ago
Reply to
John D. Horton
Socialists have infiltrated the church and subverted it over many years because it has a power structure controlled ultimately by the seminaries. There are now recognized pink seminaries that is based on sexual orientation and political persuasion. Young priests eventually become bishops and cardinals then popes. Though elected democratically, the electorate is very restricted and limited involving no lay people. They have done the same with all charitable trusts over time, even those founded by conservatives
6 years ago
Reply to
cylde
It has been stated that one of the first goals of the victorious Communist revolution in Russia in 1917 was to infiltrate the Catholic Church from within:
— 1940s Sal Alinsky teams up with Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil to form the Communist organization called the Industrial Areas Foundation
— 1950s School of Darkness https://lccn.loc.gov/54010204
— 1960s This was successful when Pope John XXIII declared in paragraphs 82 and 83 of his 1963 encyclical “Pacem in Terris” that Catholic could work together with Communists on “humanitarian” projects and it has been Liberation Theology ever since.
6 years ago
Reply to
John D. Horton
Wow! You are much better informed on this than me. Thanks for sharing the truth.
6 years ago
I have read the article. I have read those comments that have been posted. Seriously, what else should one expect from the leader of the idol worshipping church of rome?
6 years ago
Reply to
Larenzo1
I have seen some sorry responses in my day. However, this one definitely falls into the 1% of sheer idiocy. Pathetic.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed
Well add this one asscrack! You are a dullard at best, thus your lame response. Now I am blocking you from my account.
6 years ago
Reply to
Larenzo1
Oh, Larenzo1, a blithering idiot’s blithering idiot … Such an erudite little thing, you are. Moreover, ” … Now I am blocking you from my account.” How shall I ever survive?
6 years ago
Excellent article. The bottom line is that Islam is dangerously affirmative in that is motivated by an insane belief that it is divinely superior, absolutely dominating and that all other belief systems are unacceptable. No other religion carries such a banter. When the Pope comes to that conclusion, maybe the world can somehow be saved from this belief system.
6 years ago
By far the worst pope ever.
6 years ago
It is more than necessary for a schism to develop between Christianity and islam, the lame stream religions have all shown that crislam or even outright acceptance of islam is what they sold out for. Real Christians must get away from these destroyers of souls.
6 years ago
Let’s not be too hard on the Pope. Judging by the above photo, he may be suffering from dementia blowcox.
6 years ago
This pope is either woefully stupid, a traitor to his people and his religion, OR he is merely a pawn in the Global Elitist politics placed there to bleat like a lamb. The west have been the mainstay of the world for near a 1000 years so why has someone ordained that they should be invaded, outbred and then taken over by a desert Bedouin dark age ideology? Something is NOT right here. While I am open to the possibility that life exists beyond earth but no more, if you wanted to take over this planet, the best way to so do would be by neutralizing then neutering the west as the Asian will NOT help out while Russia herself is under siege by islam. Why would the global elitists who thrive on the consumer products of the west wish to destroy their golden goose? Something is not right here.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Francis is a “Liberation Theology” Catholic = Communist = part of the Red – Green Axis = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamo-Leftism
“Islamo-Leftism (Persian: چپ اسلامی, French: islamo-gauchisme, Spanish: Islamo-izquierdismo)[1] adjectivally Islamo-Leftist (French: islamo-gauchistes),[2] is a neologism applied to political alliance between political Left and political Islam.”
6 years ago
Reply to
John D. Horton
Much as I distrust Wikipedia, I take your word for it, BUT what is the point of a socialist utopia if it is led by the plutocrats? I think that there is something very wrong here and I am unable to define it.
6 years ago
THE left has learned to BS you. It is NOT about diversity. It’s about you BEING GONE! They cannot rule an independent liberty-seeking people who yearn for freedom.
BUT they can rule TURD world morons who have NO concept of this. With you and your country gone nothing can hold them back from enslaving and controlling brainwashed morons and the planet.
North Korea is a good example of this. The ‘elite wish this kind of EVIL on you. The Pope wants to restore this EVIL on mankind. He wants to be the good Aunty you never had. The Aunty Christ.
6 years ago
This Pope ist an idiot, period!
6 years ago
A usurper!
6 years ago
There is no pope other than John Paul. The current pope hates western civilization
6 years ago
Reply to
tn_tea _ partyer_420
Pius XII, 1939 -1958, was the last descent and orthodox pope. Since then: All modernist heretics in love with Communism including (St.?) JPII who didn’t abolish Vatican II as an anti-council and allowed
Marcial Maciel of the Legionnaires of Christ to screw every guy he would get his hands on and embezzle millions of dollars.
6 years ago
Reply to
John D. Horton
You are 100% correct, John.
“The Oath Against Modernism Betrayed”
http://www.cfnews.org/page88/files/59aa93f4d2f6c0f4599cfb2e19519a69-438.html
6 years ago
This is why Francis is a heretic and anti-pope.
6 years ago
I think Pope Benedict (Arnold) should march into any and all Muslim countries with a passel of Bibles and begin distributing them on the street and preach the message of Christ. I am sure he will be welcomed as a brother and a friend.
6 years ago
“You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others”. Well how about mentioning that to muslims who not only make toys out of every other religion, but break them as well. This pope has no concept of reality, he is not supposed to be an apologist for islam, but a defender of Christianity. He clearly is not capable of doing the job.
6 years ago
The only religious outreach the f’ing muslums offer to the kafir al najjis when they have political power is persecution/oppression/enslavement/murder.
6 years ago
According to this article:
https://hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/hindu_bangla.html
2.4 MILLION Hindus were slaughtered by f’ing muslums in Bangladesh. It’s called genocide.
