Posted on 01/31/2022 6:54:40 PM PST by marshmallow
Archdiocese backs the Kerala priest's comments about halal food and love jihad
Police have registered a case against a Catholic priest for allegedly provocative statements about Muslims in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
Muslim groups objected to his comments in a homily at St. Thomas Church in Manikkadavu during a recent feast.
Father Antony Tharakkadavil of Tellicherry Archdiocese was charged at Ulikkal police station in Kannur district on Jan. 25 with wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot.
“Yes, we have registered a case against the priest for his alleged provocative speech. However, he was not arrested,” a police official told UCA News on Jan. 28.
After a Muslim group lodged a complaint against the priest with police, it was withdrawn after consultation with diocesan officials, but a second Muslim group got a first information report registered against him.
It claimed the priest made derogatory remarks about halal food and love jihad.
The Arabic word "halal" means "permissible or lawful." Islam teaches its followers to consume meat processed following permissible methods, including prescribed forms of slaughter.
“Love jihad” is a term used to describe Muslim men feigning love to marry women from other religions and converting them to Islam.
Tellicherry Archdiocese, however, has solidly backed the priest and said that “it will protect the priest in all possible ways.”
In a press release issued on Jan. 28, the archdiocese described the campaign against the priest “as an attempt to create unnecessary controversies and deliberately insult the archdiocese.”
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Can’t have people speaking the truth can we.
Is that like provoking alligators? All you have to do is be in the same country as them.
Anybody who is not a Moslem provokes Moslems. Any Moslem who is not the right kind of Moslem provokes Moslems. So why do we pander to these violent lunatics? ( Hint: Silence! I kill you!)
Just kidding. None of those are real.
They’re bullies, plain and simple.
Our existence provokes muslims.
And if there are no infidels to go after, they turn on each other.
Let me guess, he breathed. THAT was enough to get the mohamedans upset.
Remember, EVERYTHING is provocative to Moslems.
So yeah, maybe from that standpoint he’s guilty!
I want a priest like that.
I’d like a pastor like that.
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