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Taliban Think Crusades Never Ended, Says Pakistani Archbishop
Aleteia ^ | 4/1/15 | Diane Montagna

Posted on 04/02/2015 4:20:52 AM PDT by marshmallow

Recounts latest attacks on Christians

ROME — Pope Francis on Sunday, March 16, condemned the bombings of two Churches in a Christian neighborhood in Lahore, Pakistan. The twin bombings — at one Catholic and one Protestant church —came as local Christians were attending Sunday Mass and services. The deadly blasts left 14 people dead and 78 wounded.

The attack followed last December's Peshawar school massacre, when 7 gunmen — including one Chechen, two Arabs and two Afghans — entered the Army public school in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire on staff and children, killing 145, including 132 children between 8 and 18 years of age.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for all the attacks.

Now they are targeting all schools. Aleteia has obtained from sources in Pakistan a note to schools, addressed to “Apostate Rulers”, “Fools of Civil Society”, and “Appeasers of the Crusaders,” threatening further attacks on schools throughout Pakistan, including “Christian missionary ones, Army-owned, and those associated with the Western educational system.”

The note, pictured above, was recently disseminated throughout Pakistani schools and at other locations. According to sources, many people who received it had no idea how, or by whom, the notes were delivered, suggesting that the Taliban has penetrated into the fabric of the system.

(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Islam
KEYWORDS: crusades; taliban; talibancrusades

1 posted on 04/02/2015 4:20:52 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Guess what. They didn’t.

L


2 posted on 04/02/2015 4:22:28 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Well, then, we need to end it.

And have enough firepower to do so.

Since that’s all they understand, we need to speak their language, if you get my drift.


3 posted on 04/02/2015 4:24:17 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

Firepower is useless without the will to use it.

L


4 posted on 04/02/2015 4:27:06 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Right ....to the Muzzies it never ended. To the Christians it did. That was the mistake


5 posted on 04/02/2015 4:28:37 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: metmom
You can kill a living being with firepower, but the enemy is not only a human being...it is also a demonic spiritual and political force.

There is no doubt that in the end we will have to kill ALL islamists (orthodox muslims), but we will also have to take action to purge the planet of islam or new islamists will simply keep rising up.

Even now, our prisons are pouring new converts back onto the streets...and these are very dangerous people.

WWIII has begun. Many people will have to die.

6 posted on 04/02/2015 4:44:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: marshmallow

Our preezy thinks it was still going on just the other day.


7 posted on 04/02/2015 5:09:11 AM PDT by optiguy (If government is the answer, it was a stupid question.)
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To: marshmallow
“We can’t get to the army, but there is an army school up north, where most of the kids are children of army officers. We’ll hit them where it hurts.”

That was such a brutal attack. Little children in school, hiding under the desks, another guy coming around, saying “that child is still moving” — bang. They were shooting them as if they were shooting animals. It was so bad. One hundred and thirty kids plus they burned one teacher, and they did it intentionally in front of the kids, so you can imagine.

NEVER FORGET BESLAN!

8 posted on 04/02/2015 5:28:20 AM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: RoosterRedux

I believe you are absolutely correct.


9 posted on 04/02/2015 11:46:07 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

D@mn shame...but there it is.


10 posted on 04/02/2015 12:44:31 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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