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Posted on 05/03/2025 6:37:11 AM PDT by george76
Will the Roman Catholic Church continue its policy of ignoring jihad and appeasing Muslims?
Will the next pope continue the last pope’s consistent record of appeasing Islam?
The late Pope Francis had a long record of whitewashing Islamic jihad violence and making moral equivalence arguments in order to downplay jihad terror. Back in 2017, Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, noticed the pope’s yeoman service for the Islamic cause and thanked him for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.”
Francis was not just a defender of Islam but also a defender of the Sharia death penalty for blasphemy. After Islamic jihadists in Jan. 2015 murdered the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who had drawn Muhammad, Francis obliquely justified the murders by saying that “it is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends if [an aide] says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal. You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others. These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression, there are limits.”
Pope Francis apparently believed that murdering people for violating Sharia blasphemy laws is “normal,” and wasn’t terrorism. “Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist,” he said in a 2017 speech. “There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia.”
So there was no Islamic terrorism, but if you engage in “intolerant generalizations,” you could “expect a punch.” Pope Francis, like the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, apparently thought that the problem was not jihad terror, but non-Muslims talking about jihad terror; Muslims would be peaceful if non-Muslims would simply censor themselves and self-impose Sharia blasphemy restrictions regarding criticism of Islam.
Pope Francis also had no patience with those who discuss such matters, saying: “I don’t like to talk about Islamic violence, because every day, when I read the newspaper, I see violence.” He added that he often saw stories in newspapers about Italians being violent. “They are baptized Catholics,” he insisted. “They are violent Catholics.” He concluded: “I believe it’s not fair to identify Islam with violence. It’s not fair and it’s not true.”
Yet the pontiff’s comparison made no sense, for Italian Catholics who behaved violently were not acting in accord with the teachings of their religion, while the Qur’an and Islamic teaching contain numerous exhortations to violence.
But Pope Francis, defender of Islam, did not concern himself with such minutiae. Nor did he appear to be particularly concerned about the fact that all his false statements about the motivating ideology behind the massive Muslim persecution of Christians over the twelve years of his papacy only enabled and abetted that persecution, for if that ideology is not identified and confronted, it will continue to flourish.
In line with his willful ignorance regarding Islam, Pope Francis was a strong advocate of mass Muslim migration into the West. Reuters reported in Aug. 2024 that he “strongly decried the treatment of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to enter Europe.” The pope lamented: “There are those who work systematically and with every means to reject migrants. And this, when done with conscience and responsibility, is a grave sin.” The solution to this evil, he said, would be “global governance of migration based on justice, brotherhood and solidarity.” Yeah, that would fix everything.
This followed his May 2024 statement that “migration is something that makes a country grow.” He decried historical stereotypes about migrants: “They say that you Irish migrated and brought the whiskey, and that the Italians migrated and brought the mafia. Migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.” He made it clear that he didn’t like any criticism of open borders: “To close the border and leave them there, that is madness.”
Back in April 2022, the pope claimed that opposition to mass migration was really all about racism: “It is true, refugees are subdivided. There’s first class, second class, skin color, [if] they come from a developed country [or] one that is not developed. We are racists, we are racists. And this is bad.”
Of course. What else could we possibly be but racists? The pope doesn’t seem to have considered the possibility that there might be reasons for opposing mass migration other than racism. He has consistently framed the acceptance of mass migration policies, with no regard for the cultural identity or integrity, much less the security, of the host nation, as a core aspect of the Christian commitment.
Will the new pope follow Pope Francis in these positions that lead to civilizational suicide, or chart a new path? If Europe is to survive as a home of free societies, the new pope must represent a sharp departure from Francis’ line.
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It’s gonna be a shame if the liberals and there toads in the “media” make us accept another Frankie. Frankie was never a Pope. He was a far left politician wanting to spend U.S. taxpayer dollars.
I wonder if the Cardinals are discussing perhaps naming a Chinese Pope. The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) could be an organization that has tried to influence the Pope of Rome. Francis spent a lot of his time trying to ‘Globalizing’ the Church, and his clique in the College of Cardinals would like nothing better than to try to incorporate 1/6 of the world’s population. Francis had NO problem throwing away the traditions of the Church or its doctrine. It would be a sad day to see the Roman Church further degraded in this way.
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Rome has bigger issues if they believe the God of the Bible and the god of the Koran are the same.
And they do as it's in their catechism.
maybe president trump really should be the next pope. it’s pretty funny to see his truth social ai generated post of him as pope.
Sadly, yes. He stacked the vote.
Send in the Pope of Greenwich Village!
The Zoroastrians of Persia (pre-Muslim) had a much closer tie to the Judaic tradition than the cult created by the Prophet Mohammed (P*ss be on His Name). Only threat of death, did the Farsi people change their belief system, while a sizable minority escaped to India, where a small remnant remains to this day.
I spell "Sodomy" with a capital-S because it is the name of a religion.
I'll go put on a limb and predict *no* to both.
Muslims don’t get a pass on Ten Commandment violations because of a green book and a guy who had quite a few bad days as a result of being headstrong.
I’m praying for the Church and that the spirit of anti-Christ is rebuked far away from them especially at this critical moment.
The globalists are stacking the deck against the USA and President Trump. We already have the Davos worshipers surrounding us.
The candidate most closely associated with the WEF will be the likely installation.
He’ll be a tool of china
I am praying for a crusty old Italian Pope to bring us back from the spell of Colonial guilt that is wrecking all of Western Europe.
You’re right. Frankie was predominently a Social Engineer.
I’m a Methodist, but I urge the Catholics to choose another Pius V, who rallied Christendom to fight against and defeat the Ottoman Turks.
How many Islamic terrorists (or any Moslems at all) did Pope Francis let move into the Vatican City State?
just wondering
he seemed to have a bad case of “do as I say, not as I do...”
And I will keep praying for anyone to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches.
They hour is getting late. They need our help.
In Revelation 2 and 3. This phrase signifies the Holy Spirit is speaking specific messages urging them to be attentive and receptive.
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Revelation 3:22
"NOT MY POPE".
The Church needs Vigano now to survive.
With every policy he pushed he revealed himself as a fundamentally evil man. I am not glad of his death. Wish he could have lived on to see everything he worked for burn.
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