[ April 24, 2024 ]
According to a French-language report in Riposte catholique, it happened on May 20, Pentecost Sunday for Roman Catholics, in Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Nantes, France: a Muslim grabbed the microphone during the sermon by Bishop Jean-Paul James and screamed “Allahu akbar.”
However, in yet another example of dhimmitude and willful ignorance from a Catholic bishop, Catholic officials deny that the intruder said “Allahu akbar” at all. Presse Océan reported:
It took only one publication that was wrong, so that the rumor remains on the web: a man tore the microphone out of the hands of the bishop of Nantes on Sunday, in the middle of the solemn Mass of Pentecost, to shout “Allahu akbar” in the cathedral “packed to the rafters.” Relayed several hundred times over the Internet, what is then presented as an “info” from a “very reliable source” has begun to fuel fantasies. However, it cannot stand up to the “objectivity of the facts.” Father Benoît Bertrand, Vicar General of the Diocese of Nantes, was “on the right” of Bishop Jean-Paul James when a man was “on the podium.” It was “about 10:30 am,” and the bishop began his homily in front of “1,500 to 2,000 people […] The man grabbed the microphone and made remarks in a foreign language. He did not shout ‘Allahu akbar’ at all, says the vicar. Clinging to the microphone, he was determined to speak and seemed especially extremely fragile psychologically […] There are always malicious people who seek to fuel this kind of rumor and excite people’s minds when they should rather seek to calm them. It is not a matter of being naive, we remain vigilant in the national context, but everyone must stick to the reality and the objectivity of the facts.”
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So it didn’t happen, right? Not so fast. Journalist Daniel Hamiche spoke to people who were in the cathedral for Pentecost Mass, and reported:
All that Presse Océan has written, on the strength of the declarations of the vicar general, is contradicted. Yes, as stated and confirmed by the faithful present at this Mass of Pentecost in the cathedral of Nantes, the disrupter of the worship service said “Allahu akbar” into the microphone…Father Benoît Bertrand, vicar general, who argues the contrary, is either deaf or is not telling the truth. The troublemaker, a 25-year-old black man, climbed to the pulpit about five minutes after the beginning of the bishop’s homily….The agitated young man spoke into the microphone in Arabic without pronouncing a single word of French. A deacon, the rector, the vicar general and two young people from the parish finally overpowered the disrupter and kicked him out, where he was undoubtedly detained by the police stationed in front of the cathedral. The bishop resumed his homily by saying, “Well, I’m resuming.” On the recording of his homily that was put online the next day, Monday, May 21, nothing is apparent: the recording has been edited, which is quite outrageous if this incident happened as reported. But is it surprising?
No, it isn’t surprising at all. In denying that the intruder screamed “Allahu akbar,” Father Benoît Bertrand is following the line set by Pope Francis, who has risibly claimed that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” It has become a superdogma in the Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace, you will be ruthlessly harassed and silenced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the hierarchy elsewhere as well. The bishops of the Catholic Church are much more concerned that you believe that Islam is a religion of peace than that you believe in, say, the Nicene Creed.
And so Father Benoît Bertrand has every reason to cover up what happened in the Nantes cathedral on Pentecost Sunday. To tell the truth would make his boss, and the entire Catholic Church’s position on Islam and mass Muslim migration into Europe, look bad.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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44 Comments
5 years ago
Worthless enablers. Their heads will roll first under islamic supremacy. ????
5 years ago
Reply to
Sara B ????????
Appeasement will not work with Muslims.
Appeasement is weakness and emboldens them.
Just like a hostile take over of a company, upper management is the first to go! Muslims will execute them first.
5 years ago
Reply to
Rocinante44
After 70 years of unending islamic terrorism I think you’re wrong. MYANMAR has the only solution to the f’ing muslum vermin.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The atheist left will never be executed they’ll convert to islum long before it comes to that because “all religions are the same.”
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Appeasement will not work with anyone
And because of the many appeasements done by the Western White Liberals, the White Race has suffered a tremendous loss of dignity all around the world
People of color, no matter if they are from India or Peru or Japan all look down on the White people, thanks to the idiotic White Liberals !!!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Absolutely right. As much as Muslims are by nature cowards themselves they do absolutely hate cowards and appeasers and will certainly knock them off first.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Appeasement has already destroyed the UK, Sweden, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc. and is fast eroding the rest of Western Europe. Fortunately, we Americans are (still) armed and ready to protect our republic. If, or rather WHEN, TSHTF, violent sheet-heads living amongst us had better have their running shoes on and tightly laced!
5 years ago
Reply to
durabo
durabo writes: “Appeasement has already destroyed the UK…..we Americans are (still) armed and ready to protect our republic…” I’d be willing to bet that a certain group or two in Northern Ireland would emerge from the shadows to protect their own as well.
5 years ago
Reply to
Sara B ????????
Likely they won’t, as they are the ones likely giving orders to the muslims.
5 years ago
I truly can not rap my mind around this insane denial of Islam or not being concerned about a Muslim, interrupting a service with, “Allahu akbar” and then covering it up!
Isn’t there some relationship with Fatima, a daughter of Mohammad, and the Catholic church? Didn’t she supposedly see sightings of Mary or something like that? In Catholic schools they refer to Muslims as “distant cousins.” If there are Catholics here, can you explain this?
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Fatima is the Portuguese town where Mary was said to appear to three Portuguese children with messages .It has nothing to do with Mohammed’s daughter.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nocturn
Okay, I see… He did have a daughter named Fatima but there is no relationship to this town. Thanks!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Our Blessed Mother also appeared to 80,000 Portuguese on October 17 1917. Mary Mother of God warned that unless Russia is consecrated to her Russia will spread her errors to the world.
At the same time Mary was appearing to the children, revolutionaries
were planning the overthrow of the Russian monarchy to establish a
movement that would institutionalize blasphemy against God.
In July 1917 the blessed Mother warned Fatima visionary Lucia, and the entire world, of this gathering darkness:
“Russia will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and
persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father
will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.”
The Bolsheviks violently seized power in Russia in November 1917 one
month after the final apparition at Fatima. The communists launched a
massive persecution of the Church in their zeal to wipe out belief in God and the practice of religion in the Soviet Union and later in Eastern Europe and China.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Mary appeared to 3 shepherd children in the town of Fatima Portugal in May 17 1917. She appeared 5 times on the 17th of the month. Word spread. The children were threatened with death etc. Our Lady announced she would perform a miracle on 17 October same year. The Queen of Heaven appeared with the baby Jesus and Joseph and soon after began the ‘Dance of the Sun’ where it changed colours and careered towards earth in front of 70-80 thousand people skeptics and atheists amongst them. This was the single most significant event since the Birth Death and Resurrection of Jesus-the Saviour of the World
No other human has been afforded the graces showered on the Mother of God.
I guess though it is like the Holocaust. Irrefutable evidence at the time but years on people doubt the truth. I do not.
5 years ago
I am a Catholic and those who knowingly preach lies to the faithful will be called to account. Pope Frank is a Jesuit and the adjective Jesuitical for devious truth-twisting has a basis in reality.
5 years ago
He was asking, “Where’s the snack bar?”
5 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
He was going to wait until sunset .. then mohammed bar the doors …
5 years ago
Lame stream religion damn’s itself through its breaking of the Ten Commandments. Catholics like this enabling priest who deny the truth in the presence of witnesses are destroying the church. This is a good thing, it will have to be replaced by Christians, not bought out by islam liars.
5 years ago
But expect that those “witnesses” will be soon PC corrected by Church “official doctrine” (and who is in authority to pronounce that?) when they will be called, one by one, to “confession” and (perhaps) face excommunication.
5 years ago
Reply to
Voytek Gagalka
That will not happen. Excommunication rarely happens, certainly not for telling the truth.
5 years ago
It seems like the Catholic Church has forgotten one of those inconvenient commandments not to lie or bear false witness because it seems like they did both in the instant case.
5 years ago
“we remain vigilant in the national context,….” said the father. That must mean the church remains ‘vigilant’ in ensuring all immigrants have a place at the microphone. Who does he think will buy this garbage he’s selling. That may have worked in 1523 but, parishioners are a little more enlightened today, than back then.
5 years ago
“allah akbar” should be banned hate speech…. every time someone runs around screaming this phrase at the top of their lungs, really bad things happen.
5 years ago
Last I checked, the pope is the “vicar of Christ” to the church of rome. Call him what you want …. the College of Cardinals elect him and he be what he be:
5 years ago
There are some videos about the Catholic Church you should see about. About their RAPES, MURDERS and PEDOPHILIA. About being bankrupt for paying out so much money to their victims.
About GROWN men crying as they confront the priest that protected their own but not them as children. And in some cases even PRAISED publicly and embraced them openly for all to see.
So, who would you believe?
5 years ago
There’ll be no place for these vicar-wits in the new diversity.
5 years ago
I don’t believe in God but I know that Islam is the greatest evil and enemy of peace in the world today, all I have to say to Christians is don’t expect prayers to help you, turning the other cheek to a muslim will get your throat cut.
5 years ago
Reply to
albert
Start believing. It’s the only thing that will save humanity from these devils.
5 years ago
Reply to
Philliesroll
Prayers help but who knows, maybe His second coming is near? Eventually that will happen but I couldn’t tell you when. Repentance could make a big difference too! The people of Nineveh to Jonah’s chagrin repented and put off judgement.
5 years ago
Reply to
albert
Well Christians know prayers do work!
We may not always get what we want but they are heard and sometimes we do get what we want. While growing up, did you always get what you wanted from your parents? We;; God has the bigger picture too. We also have heaven to look forward to. What do you have to look forward to?
5 years ago
In some states of our blessed USA (AZ and TX, for example) parishioners would have had probable cause to use deadly force, since “Allahu akhbar!” is often associated with terroristic acts. My Anglican pastor says he will back me up with his own pistol.
5 years ago
That Bishop and so many of its followers will believe anything! Ask him about virgin birth (that one never ceases to crack me up)..
5 years ago
There isn’t a day that goes by without reading about this insanity
