The Pope is not a dupe. He is a lifelong subversive. He hates Catholicism, and the West. He is a fully conscious adherent of globalist tyranny and its alliance with jihad. He has been embedded deeply into the hard left his entire adult life.
“The Pope” is used as a generic term here-—does not necessarily refer to the presiding one.
Islam has a centuries-long history of a special hatred for Catholics.
Some Catholic churches have been turned into mosques .....then later reconquered and turned back into churches.