Pope Leo Visits Muslim Memorial to Killers of Christians

Of all the memorials in all the world…..

This isn’t about honoring the dead—it’s about legitimizing the wrong ones. Standing at a state monument in Algeria and praising those who died “for their people,” without distinguishing between freedom fighters and those who slaughtered Christians and Jews, is moral confusion at best and abdication at worst. In a place where the Church was nearly wiped out, that kind of gesture doesn’t signal peace—it signals that the suffering of Christians is secondary. A pope is supposed to bring clarity. This brings cover.

Pope Leo Visits Muslim Jihadist Memorial to Killers of Christians

By: Daniel Greenfield, April 16, 2026:

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“They gave them up for the love of their own people.”

Imagine that Hamas had won on Oct 7 and the victims were Christians. That’s what happened in Algeria. Islamist and Marxist terrorists during the Algerian War waged a ruthless campaign against the non-Muslim population. Including Jews.

The atrocities by Muslim terrorists included the slitting of women’s throats and babies being murdered by having their heads smashed against walls. The massacres climaxed in the Oran Massacre in which De Gaulle’s corrupt regime refused to protect Christians and Jews from the Muslim mob.

The Catholic Church virtually disappeared in Algeria after the Islamic takeover. The dead included martyred members of the church.

The memory of violence during Algeria’s civil conflict in the 1990s is central to the identity of the Catholic Church in the country. During that period, several clergy and women and men religious were killed, including monks murdered during the Tibhirine abbey massacre in 1996 and Bishop Pierre Claverie of Oran. Catholic monk Jean-Pierre Schumacher was left to tell of the ill-famed 1996 massacre at the Algerian monastery of Tibhirine in which seven of his confreres were brutally killed.

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The Church’s position on these massacres has been surreal, at once honoring the dead and their killers.

Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria by Islamists between 1994 and 1996, were beatified Saturday during a Mass in Oran.

Archbishop Paul Desfarges of Algiers noted the “thousands of victims of the Algerian civil war,” calling them anonymous heroes.

“We did not want a beatification between Christians, because these brothers and sisters died among tens and tens of thousands of Algerian” Muslims, he stated.

Algeriaʼs population is almost entirely Muslim.

… because the Christians were killed or driven out.

Relatives of those beatified were received by Muslim dignitaries at the Ibn Badis Grand Mosque, where Mostapha Jaber, an imam, said, “We Muslims associate this event with much joy.”

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Pope Leo, in between berating President Trump for standing up to Islamic Terror, paid tribute to the killers.

At his first public event in Algeria, Pope Leo XIV visited the Martyrs’ Monument, “Maqam Echahid,” which commemorates those who lost their lives in the Algerian War for Independence in 1954-1962.

The visit to the monument is a moment to pay tribute to the history of Algeria and the spirit of those who fought for independence, dignity, and sovereignty.

Pope Leo stressed that the people being honored at the monument “have already given their answer. They lost their lives but in doing so, they gave them up for the love of their own people.”

Their people being… Arab Muslims. They did indeed love their own people and hated Pope Leo’s people. Pope Leo hates his own people and loves their Muslim killers.

It’s important to note that the Martyrs Monument doesn’t honor those who “lost their lives” in the war. It honors the terrorists and killers.

Underneath the ‘Monument’ is the El Mujahid Museum. That means Jihadis. This is an evil madness. But then so was the French treatment of its own citizens in Algeria, the British government’s treatment of the girls being raped by Pakistani Muslim sex grooming gangs and the treatment of Americans standing up to Islamic terrorism after 9/11.

Evil’s greatest trick is to pretend that it stands for peace even as it empowers the monsters and the killers.