Islam has been quietly growing among the indigenous population in southern Mexico.
as if they don’t already have enough decapitations.
This is in Chiapas, former home of the terrible bishop Samuel Ruiz. Many of these converts actually became Evangelicals first, after the left-wing lunacy of Ruiz took effect and destroyed the Catholic faith in that area. Ruiz was big buds with “Comandante Marcos,” if you recall him.
Latin American Evangelical churches are very emotional and “pastor-centric,” so a lot of times, if there was an argument or rivalry between two charismatic preachers, the churches would end up by imploding. The Muslims, who always hang out around leftist causes in Latin America because of the PLO connection, were right on the spot and swept in to convert these former-Catholic former-Evangelicals. Most of the converts are Indians, which is what constitutes the majority of the local population.
And guess what - when Francis visits, he has announced he is going to make a “pilgrimage” to the grave of Samuel Ruiz. The current bishop, appointed under BXVI, is very good, but Francis is expected to undermine him by making his statement authorizing married clergy there. Ruiz was the one who ordained hundreds of completely ignorant men to the diaconate as sort of “barefoot clergy” and planned to ordain them to the priesthood but was prevented from doing so by JPII and BXVI. Ruiz was a bad bishop who should have been removed by JPII, but the latter Pope rarely took any action on problems like that. So now we have a Muslim hatchery down in Chiapas.
Many of the indigeous population STILL worship the Aztec gods so their taking on Islam doesn’t make any impression on me. They will, without doubt, add their beloved Aztec gods to Islam as well.