Oy
Let the CRUSADE begin!
The only person to stop a bad person with a gun, is a good person with a gun.
“a professional, well-equipped army”
Or when it happens here: 10,000 righteous Americans using the stuff from their own gun safes.
This is amazing! Does anyone know when was the last time a Pope called for an armed response?
Turn the other cheek. It gives you a better sight picture.
Doesn’t have those cute Swiss Guards he can send?
First step towards the (8th??) crusade?
Thank-you your holiness for waking up and smelling the coffee!
I doubt the Swiss Guards could accomplish much.
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The eighth Crusade?
Lepanto, 1571: The Battle that Saved Europe
The clash of civilizations is as old as history, and equally as old is the blindness of those who wish such clashes away; but they are the hinges, the turning points of history. In the latter half of the 16th century, Muslim war drums sounded and the mufti of the Ottoman sultan proclaimed jihad, but only the pope fully appreciated the threat. As Brandon Rogers notes in the Ignatius Press edition of G. K. Chesterton’s poem “Lepanto”: Pope Pius V “understood the tremendous importance of resisting the aggressive expansion of the Turks better than any of his contemporaries appear to have. He understood that the real battle being fought was spiritual; a clash of creeds was at hand, and the stakes were the very existence of the Christian West.” But then, as now, the unity of Christendom was shattered; and in the aftermath of the Protestant revolt, Islam saw its opportunity.
The Ottoman Empire, the seat of Islamic power, looked to control the Mediterranean. Corsairs raided from North Africa; the Sultan’s massive fleet anchored the eastern Mediterranean; and Islamic armies ranged along the coasts of Africa, the Middle and Near East, and pressed against the Adriatic; Muslim armies threatened the Habsburg Empire through the Balkans.
The Ottoman Turks yearned to bring all Europe within the dar al-Islam, the “House of Submission” — submissive to the sharia law. Europe, as the land of the infidels, was the dar al-Harb, the “House of War.”....
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7391
Wow. This is stunning and unexpected - at least by me. In my lifetime I’ve not heard of a pope making a statement even close.
I remember back when Al-Zarqawi of Al Qaeda pushed the violence a bit too far in Iraq by killing scores of civilians.. This backfired bigtime and Al Qaeda suffered heavy defections within its ranks. I think ISIS has really pissed off a lot of sleeping giants.
Did he really say that? Really?
I’m stunned. Very supportive, of course, but still stunned. And he is absolutely correct.
We have a mosque in my town. On the message board out front today, it said “Observe Ramadan Faithfully.” OK, fine. What do the message boards say on Christian churches from Libya to Pakistan? What do they say on the churches in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan?
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The Pope more willing to fight than The Emperor? Whoda thought!
So he gets it.