Posted on 10/15/2012 6:51:14 PM PDT by iowamark
(Reuters) - A Roman Catholic cardinal has caused an uproar at the Vatican by screening a spurious YouTube video that makes alarmist predictions about the growth of Islam in Europe.
The seven-minute clip, called "Muslim Demographics," was the talk of an international gathering of bishops on Monday, two days after Cardinal Peter Turkson screened it during a free discussion period.
Turkson, a Ghanaian who is based in the Vatican and is president of its Council for Justice and Peace, sparked consternation among his fellow bishops over the clip.
"As we were arriving this morning I was asked several times 'Who planned it? Whose was it? Who is behind it?" Father Thomas Rosica said at a briefing for journalists, who are not allowed to attend the synod sessions, the first since the screening.
He said the clip had sparked "the most animated" discussion so far at the three-week conference, and one bishop said he would rebut Turkson by presenting a report with contrary data.
The clip has brought Islam to the top of the agenda at the synod, attended by 262 bishops. "Islam is the buzzword," Rosica said.
Turkson could not be reached for comment on why he chose to screen the video during the Vatican meeting, where the bishops are discussing ways of winning back lapsed Roman Catholics in developed countries...
The Holy See's relations with Islam have not always been smooth. In 2006 Pope Benedict gave a speech in Regensburg which was perceived by some Muslims as an attack on Islam.
Asked about his reaction to the cardinal showing the video at the Vatican, Yahya Pallavicini, vice president of the Islamic Religious Community of Italy, warned against a numbers war based on scare tactics by any side...
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Well, to gain votes from idiot women who are under the impression that they are thinking.
But, duh. Now that you mention it.
And read anything truthful about Margaret Sanger, their late leader. you can find such in the annals of any scholarly, authentic Roman Catholic collection
Alarmist???
John Quincy Adams wrote:
"In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar [i.e., Muhammad], the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle.
Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind.
THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE (Adams's capital letters)…
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. The war is yet flagrant… While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and goodwill towards men."
>Let’s hope the sleepy Europeans get the message.<
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Is not going to happen.
Europe and the US seem to be in the same coma.
That is an weighty and sound appraisal, but being a bit of a collector of such it is my practice to try to documented it and its authorship by older sources, and the only one i have found it in was in “The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9,” (1830) by an unknown author, and edited by Joseph Blunt: http://books.google.com/books?id=7GoTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=In+the+seventh+century+of+the+Christian+era,+a+wandering+Arab+of+the+lineage+of+Hagar+the+Egyptian,+combine&source=bl&ots=P78-Q2daAX&sig=uI6pRqMdD2w5JEN4cQ6P9MO17ks&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BN18UJa8BceY0QGggYGICg&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=In%20the%20seventh%20century%20of%20the%20Christian%20era%2C%20a%20wandering%20Arab%20of%20the%20lineage%20of%20Hagar%20the%20Egyptian%2C%20combine&f=false
Then i found it in Wiki quotes, which lists it as Misattributed, saying
Passage on Muhammad by an unknown author in The American Annual Register for the Years 1827-8-9 (1830), Ch. X, p. 269; wrongly attributed to Adams in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (2005) by Robert Spencer, p. 83 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams)
But it is a good quote anyway. Thanks
It is also of note that the rather extensive article Wikipedia has on TK has zero on his religion, even though some see him as the most religiously observant President of all. This has more, and with others here: HISTORICAL QUOTES IN CONTRAST (PDF)
Hispanics are family oriented and Christian.
I am thinking maybe we should thank God for them.
The pieces begin to come together. Possibly.
At the very end of the video, after all the demographic panic, it says “Spread the Gospel.” And that is, of course, the answer—not trying to outbreed another group.
They need to be worried. Many prophecies by catholic saints tell of a massive war in which the Muslims and Communists will lay waste to western Europe.
No catholic is required to believe these prophecies but they sure are accurate in describing the state of the world today. I personally think that WW3, is on our doorstep.
Many predicted that 3/4 of humanity would be killed.
AMEN to that and SECOND IT!
The best way to take the west back is to “spread the GOSPEL of Jesus Christ” and get it (the west, USA, Europe, etc., back to its) Judeo/Christian heritage.
The begining of a bringing back of the Gospel to the west via missionaries from the “global south” who are Christain.
Doing what Jesus COMMANDS of him, preach the GOSPEL.
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