Posted on 08/25/2023 3:14:49 PM PDT by ebb tide
About a hundred faithful attended the celebrations held on 20 August to mark Youth Sunday at the Franciscan parish near Derventa in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina. They could not have guessed that the recordings of the speech given by Friar Mato Vincetić would engage millions of people in the Balkans a few days later.
Vincetić, who acts both as Parish Vicar in Derventa and as military chaplain in the nearby Croatian town of Vinkovci, namely spoke in his speech about a topical issue: migration. He tied the acceptance of refugees in his home country to certain conditions. In his opinion, the migrants should give up their faith if they want to get food in the country that takes them in. Vincetić also criticised them for rejecting pork, among other things.
"We cannot take migrants into our home, give them everything, and then they come blatantly, brazenly, disrespectfully and inconsiderately and say, 'I am a Muslim, you must give me the food I want to eat'," Vincetić told worshippers who had come to Plehan near Derventa from different parts of Bosnia and Croatia.
The live broadcast of the Mass could be watched on the local TV station Posavina TV, but was removed from the archive a short time later. However, parts of this recording found their way onto social networks.
"Your God has left you hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot".
"You came from a land hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot. Your God has left you hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot. You have come here to my house, where Jesus Christ lives, whom I thank for all the graces I have in the West. I thank him," reads the speech in which Vincetić addresses a fictitious migrant.
"And now you are imposing your God on me, who left you hungry, thirsty, naked and barefoot, and I have to fulfil his wishes, serve you, instead of saying, 'Hello, I guess it's clear who we have to thank for all the wealth and progress of the West - Christ and the Gospel'," Vincetić told the assembled faithful.
"Let go of your God!"
The monk also criticised the EU: "In the constitution of the European Union, unfortunately, there is no God, no Christ and no Gospel. They have turned away from it and therefore have problems, because they have to endure the insolence of those who come and say: we are human beings and as such we have the right to get something to eat."
This in itself is not a problem, Vincetić spoke: "We will give them something to eat. But then they come and say they can't eat pork, only veal. What an impertinence!" This could not go on, he noted. One would do good to the migrants in his country, but they would continue to worship another God. "No, you can't! Let go of your God, acknowledge faith in the true God, then we will give you everything. You will get everything that we have," Vincetić demanded, triggering an avalanche of discussion.
Bergoglio will probably ax this priest very soon.
Ping
What if they don’t? Uh, oh.
For some reasons, god of Mohammed likes his followers to suffer.
Practically the whole muslim world is full of wars, suffering, dirt, disease and hunger.
Should we kill the illegals that don’t accept God?
No, just send them home. If someone wants to seek shelter in my home he needs to become a member of the family. If does not want to then he can seek shelter somewhere else.
No! Who ever claimed that?
Should the Papal states have just opened their countries to the Muslims 1,000 years ago?
Their theology of “kill the infidel” has never changed.
Why Jihad Watch? Because non-Muslims in the West, as well as in India, China, Russia, and the world over, are facing a concerted effort by Islamic jihadists, the motives and goals of whom are largely ignored by the Western media, to destroy their societies and impose Islamic law upon them — and to commit violence to that end even while their overall goal remains out of reach. That effort goes under the general rubric of jihad.
Jihad (Arabic for “struggle”) is a central duty of every Muslim. Muslim theologians have spoken of many things as jihads: the struggle within the soul, defending the faith from critics, supporting its growth and defense financially, even migrating to non-Muslim lands for the purpose of spreading Islam. But violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history and a central element of Islamic theology. Many passages of the Qur’an and sayings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad are used by jihad warriors today to justify their actions and gain new recruits. No major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad. The theology of jihad, which denies unbelievers equality of human rights and dignity, is available today for anyone with the will and means to bring it to life.
In Islamic history and doctrine violent jihad is founded on numerous verses of the Qur’an — most notably, one known in Islamic theology as the “Verse of the Sword”: “Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is forgiving, merciful” (9:5). Establishing “regular worship” and paying the “poor-due” (zakat) means essentially that they will become Muslim, as these are two of the central responsibilities of every Muslim. Sahih Bukhari, which Muslims regard as the most trustworthy of all the many collections of traditions of Muhammad, records this statement of the Prophet: “Allah assigns for a person who participates in (holy battles) in Allah’s Cause and nothing causes him to do so except belief in Allah and in His Messengers, that he will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to Paradise (if he is killed in the battle as a martyr).”
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a legal theorist. In his renowned Muqaddimah, the first work of historical theory, he notes that “in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Violent jihad is a constant of Islamic history. The passages quoted above and many others like them form a major element of the motivation of jihad warriors worldwide today. No major Muslim group has ever repudiated the doctrines of armed jihad. The theology of jihad, with all its assumptions about unbelievers‚ lack of human rights and dignity, is available today as a justification for anyone with the will and the means to bring it to life.
Jihad Watch is dedicated to bringing public attention to the role that jihad theology and ideology play in the modern world and to correcting popular misconceptions about the role of jihad and religion in modern-day conflicts. By shedding as much light as possible on these matters, we hope to alert people of good will to the true nature of the present global conflict.
Jihad Watch also includes content once posted on Dhimmi Watch, formerly a separate page on this site, tracking dhimmitude. Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected people,” are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur’an’s command that they “feel themselves subdued” (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the legal superstructure that global jihadists are laboring to restore everywhere in the Islamic world, and wish ultimately to impose on the entire human race.
If dhimmis complained about their inferior status, institutionalized humiliation, or poverty, their masters voided their contract and regarded them as enemies of Islam, fair game as objects of violence. Consequently, dhimmis were generally cowed into silence and worse. It was almost unheard-of to find dhimmis speaking out against their oppressors; to do so would have been suicide. For centuries dhimmi communities in the Islamic world learned to live in peace with their Muslim overlords by acquiescing to their subservience. Some even actively identified with the dominant class, and became strenuous advocates for it.
Spearheaded by dhimmi academics and self-serving advocacy groups, that same attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, school textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today. To do so would endanger chances for peace and rapprochement between civilizations all too ready to clash.
But in this era of global terrorism it must be said: this silence, this distortion, has become deadly. Before 9/11 it was easy to ignore and whitewash dhimmitude, but the atrocities changed the situation forever. In jihads throughout history, untold millions have died. Tens of millions have been uprooted from their homes. Tens of millions have been stripped of their cultural identity. To continue to gloss over the destruction wrought by jihad ideology and its attendant evil of dhimmitude is today to play into the hands of jihadists, who have repeatedly vowed to dhimmify the West and destroy any recalcitrant elements. While jihadist groups, even with their global diffusion, are not strong enough to realize this goal by themselves, they have a potent and destructive ally, a genuine fifth column, in the dhimmi academics and dhimmi journalists they have recruited in the West. They have succeeded in confusing millions in the West into mistaking honesty and truthfulness for bigotry, and self-defense for oppression.
Before it’s too late for Western Europe and the United States, which gave birth to the traditions of freedom and equality of rights for all that shine today as lights in the entire world, this must be stopped. Therefore Jihad Watch seeks to bring public attention to:
Jihad Watch fights to ensure that deeds done in the darkness for so long will not continue to be done. The light of world attention is anathema to the proponents of jihad and dhimmitude: we have seen in recent years that women sentenced to stoning for adultery, often victims of rape unjustly accused thanks to Sharia laws disallowing rape victims’ testimony, were freed following international outcry. Jihad Watch seeks to provoke similar, continuous and increasing outcry wherever and whenever the Sharia’s institutionalized injustices threaten dhimmis and women.
May the truth prevail.
I'm totally willing to help a Christian to return to his country of origin.
I'm also totally willing to toss muslims out of a helicopter.
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