Jonathan Ekene Ifeanyi
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| Photo of the 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians on their way to get beheaded on a beach front in 2015 See: Shoebat.com |
Breitbart News revealed days ago that the Islamic State terror group, ISIS, has plans in its
arsenal to continue attacks against the West. In an article written by Kimberly
Smith which appeared in Conservative
Tribune, entitled, ISIS Pinpoints Rome As Newest “Target”, we read:
“Breitbart Jerusalem obtained communications
from the closed chat group service Telegram Messenger, which sends heavily
encrypted messages.
“Four members
believed to be associated with the militant Islamist group revealed that more
attacks could be coming, including areas in the United States, France and
Italy. Rome was mentioned as a specific target.
“An account with the
name “Continuing to Grow,” wrote, “With the help of Allah, we will conquer Rome
… Western infidel countries will not have the luxury of security, and today
Britain was the best proof and what has yet to come will be much harder for the
infidels. We will strike them everywhere in the depths of their homes.
They won’t know where the blows against them are coming from.”
“Another account with
the name “Grandson of the Caliph” wrote, “What’s expected to come is the
flooding of American, Britain, French and infidel Western countries and their
allies who’ve abandoned Islam,” noting that America was at the center of plans
for revenge.
“Islamic State group
member Omair Alusulawi, from Mosul, the capital of the caliphate, said they
would work to help silence the “foundations of these infidel states.”
“User Abdelrahman Albelgiqi wrote from Syria and encouraged others to
not let up and to increase their blows.
“Rome has been a
target of the Islamic State terror group from the beginning. In 2014, the
group’s self-proclaimed leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, told his followers, “This is my advice to you –
if you hold to it you will conquer Rome and own the world.””
Pakistani Muslims hold placards
and chant slogans to condemn remarks by Pope Benedict XVI during a protest in
Islamabad, Sept. 15, 2006. Photo: Reuters/Mian
Khursheed.
And how is Rome responding to all this?
 Francis is welcomed by Istanbul Grand Mufti Rahmi Yaran outside the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Nov. 29, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Osman Orsal |
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| In September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI provoked outrage in the Muslim world with a speech given at the University of Regensburg in Germany. The lecture, entitled Faith, Reason and the University: Memories and Reflections, explored the historical and philosophical differences between Islam and Christianity, and the relationship between violence and faith. During his address, Pope Benedict quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." He then added that violence was "incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul". |
I don’t just need to say much on
this. The following article says it all. Just pay attention to Andrew Bieszad as he exposes this anti-Catholic "pope" who has deceived the whole world---"Francis"!:
The Root Cause of Islamic
Violence
Pope Francis’ most recent comments attempting to separate Islamic religious
beliefs from Islamic violence are deeply misleading. They are not just
slightly or partially incorrect, but dangerously wrong. They stand in
direct contradiction to the Church and her saints’ long history of
experience and understanding of the Islamic world.
In the context of yet another airplane interview — this time returning from World Youth Day in
Poland, Francis was asked to discuss the threat posed by Islamic violence — now
occurring with alarming frequency throughout the world — against the backdrop
of the murder of French priest Fr. Jacques Hamel at the hands of jihadis as he
offered Mass. I have included the full text of the pope’s
comments below in block quotes, broken into sections to allow for my
commentary:
“I
don’t like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the
newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy… this one who has murdered his
girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law… and these are baptized
Catholics! There are violent Catholics!”
This answer is a complete diversion. Of course there are violent
people in any religion, race, or culture. This fact
is an undeniable result of our fallen nature on account of original sin.
So yes, there are violent people everywhere.
But what makes Islamic violence unique are its origins and
purpose. Where it comes from, to whom it is directed, and how it is justified
cannot merely be ignored or dismissed. In an Islamic context, the use of
violence against another is rooted in the Islamic understanding of the person.
Per Islamic theology, man is a mere creation, made not in the image of
God, but as a mere animal. His humanity is believed to be an extrinsic quality
that is bestowed upon him with his creation, but is not a permanent part of
him. Rather, it is the Islamic belief that to be a human is to be a Muslim in
good standing.
As far as non-Muslims are
concerned, Islam regards them as men and women who by their own will have
mutilated themselves by rejecting Islam. It is therefore permitted to kill
these unbelievers on account of their non-belief. In the case of children,
the teaching of Islam is that since they did not have a “choice” in their
“apostasy,” they may legitimately be taken from their families and
forcibly converted to Islam.
When it comes to the Muslim treatment of other Muslims, it is
believed that a Muslim who either does not practice Islam or who practices a
heterodox form of Islam makes himself an apostate and can be treated the same
as a non-Muslim. While violence is not mandated in Islam, it is wholly permitted and
no moral penalty is attached to the use of it. It is a permissible individual
choice, and one Muslim cannot, in a moral sense, tell another Muslim not to use
violence against a non-Muslim if he so wishes.
The perfect model for Islamic behavior and life is none other
than Muhammad himself. Christians say “What would Jesus do,” and Muslims say
“What would Muhammad do.” Muhammad is even called “al-insan al-kamil,” meaning “the perfect man” because
all his actions are regarded as a perfect model for human behavior. The
question when evaluating the morality of Islamic action according to their own
internal system of belief therefore becomes, what did Muhammad do? By all of
the orthodox Islamic accounts, Muhammad was a mass-murderer, a pedophile, a
necrophile, a serial rapist, a man who claimed he was possessed by demons, a
highway robber, a liar, a deceiver, and a tyrant who placed his concept of
divine beatitude at the service of his own acquisition of power, money,
and sex in this life with the promise that these same ill-gotten pleasures would
endure perpetually in the afterlife. As St. Alphonsus Liguori said, “the
Mahometan paradise is fit only for beasts, for only filthy sensual pleasure is
there.”
Pope Francis’ statement is simply
false. In the Islamic system of belief, violence is given a divine blessing in
a way that no other religion does.
“If
I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence . . . and no,
not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent.”
Catholic violence? Which Catholic
violence is that, exactly? I have never seen a Catholic blow up a bus of
Muslim school children while screaming “JESUS IS LORD,” or use dull blades to
behead countless Muslims in internet videos — all while praising the
saints — or any number more of the gruesome things that are a daily suffering
for Christians and others living in Muslim lands. To the contrary, in my many
years of studying Islam, I have seen Muslims do these things regularly,
and with impunity.
To even suggest that an
equivalency exists between Islamic brutality and some imaginary “Catholic
violence” is a blasphemy against the true God and an insult to
those persons who suffer under the very real oppression of Islamic
tyranny.
“It
is like a fruit salad; there’s everything. There are violent persons of this
religion… this is true: I believe that in pretty much every religion there is
always a small group of fundamentalists. Fundamentalists. We have them. When
fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language — the Apostle James
says this, not me — and even with a knife, no?”
Again, Francis
uses “fundamentalism” as a pejorative, as he has so often done before. But
this is not an accurate usage of the term.
The word “fundamentalism” finds its origin in a Protestant
series of books published in the early 20th century. These books set out to articulate the
“fundamentals” of Protestant belief. As such, “fundamentalism” in a modern
sense means a belief in the fundamentals of faith — not a bad thing in relation
to a faith worth believing in. As mentioned earlier, however, for a
Muslim, “fundamentalism” means the denial of the humanity of non-Muslims and
the supremacy of Islam — all of which leads to heinous violence, cultural
incompatibility, and more. The fundamentals of Islam are thus not favorably
disposed toward a peaceful world, or toward the co-existence of Muslims and
non-Muslims.
In a Catholic sense,
“fundamentalism” could simply be another term for “orthodoxy.” Catholic
“fundamentalism” is admittedly in short supply today, but is necessary.
Catholic “fundamentalism” — following the fundamentals of the Faith — is a path
to holiness. All of the saints, blesseds, and holy men and women of the Church
were fundamentalists; they practiced the very essence of what the Catholic
Faith teaches. The more “fundamentalist” a Catholic becomes, the more they
grow in faith, hope, and charity.
A Catholic fundamentalist will
probably offer a daily Mass and rosary for you.
A Muslim fundamentalist would
attack and behead you.
These two types of fundamentalism
could not be more different. To treat them as the same thing is a diabolical
deception.
“I
do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right
or true. I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the
Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think . . .”
It is ironic then, that this is the same imam who said that apostates from Islam must be
executed. This is not unique or surprising, despite Francis’ ignorance of
it. Such thinking is Islamic doctrine, and has been for 14 centuries.
If Pope Francis really knew about Islam, he would be aware of taqiyya,
which is the doctrine that allows Muslims to lie to non-Muslims for the
advancement of Islam. In severe cases, there is even the doctrine
of muruna, a
sub-branch of taqiyya that permits for the open violation of Islamic law in
order to advance Islam among non-Muslims.
This is one of the principal
reasons why Muslims cannot be trusted. Their religion allows them to lie to
others for their own gain, and it is not considered sinful.
“They
seek peace, encounter . . . The nuncio to an African country told me that the
capital where he is there is a trail of people, always full, at the Jubilee
Holy Door. And some approach the confessionals — Catholics — others to the
benches to pray, but the majority go forward, to pray at the altar of Our Lady…
these are Muslims, who want to make the Jubilee. They are brothers, they live…
When I was in Central Africa, I went to them, and even the imam came up on the
Popemobile…”
Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa are
very different from those in the rest of the Muslim world. African
Muslims have proven themselves to be the most open to becoming
Christians, and right now the biggest missionary expansion into Muslim
territory is taking place in this area. So yes, it is no surprise that many
Muslims are approaching the Faith, and this is certainly to the good. However,
in the larger world there has been increased violence perpetrated by Muslims
upon the citizens of the (post-Christian, but still identifiable with
Christianity) west, because Islam sanctions this.
I also write for Shoebat.com, the website of Walid
Shoebat, self-described as a former “radicalized Muslim willing to die for the
cause of Jihad” until he converted to Christianity, and now works to expose the
harsh realities of Islam. Practically every day, we are reporting on some
heinous act of Muslim violence in regions dominated by Muslims. For the
unquestioning majority of cases, they are (a) Muslims attacking Christians
because (b) they are “infidels” and (c) they are wholly unprovoked.
“We
can coexist well… But there are fundamentalist groups, and even I ask… there is
a question… How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we
have left empty of ideals, who do not have work… they take drugs, alcohol, or
go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.”
Muslims do not co-exist well with
others. There are periods of peace in which Christians and Muslims get along
well, but they never last, because Islam is a religion which seeks, as a
matter of its own ideology, complete domination over all non-Muslims. To
conflate the patience of many Muslims in achieving Islamic aims with peace
and harmony is a mistake. With Islam, it is only a matter of time — and of
achieving a demographic majority — before the mask comes off and the true goals
of Islamic dominion are asserted.
The idea that the Islamic religion
is ancillary to violence perpetrated by Muslims could not be further from
the truth. It is the Muslims from good homes with a strong religious upbringing
who are the most likely to become terrorists. This has been shown to be so
repeatedly, because the violence of Islam is a natural fruit of its anti-human
dogma, and as such, a person who has been well-formed in Islamic teaching will
be more likely to become radicalized. On the other hand, a Muslim who has been
poorly formed or is not particularly devout in their religious practice is far
more likely to be secular, “moderate,” or apostatize completely.
The claims that economic
disadvantages, unemployment, or lack of education are the catalysts
for Islamic violence have been repeatedly shown to be wrong. It
is a more attentive study of the Islamic faith, or some event that moves a
Muslim to a more devout practice of that faith, that most often leads to
radicalization.
“One
can say that the so-called ISIS, but it is an Islamic State which presents
itself as violent . . . because when they show us their identity cards, they
show us how on the Libyan coast how they slit the Egyptians’ throats or other
things… But this is a fundamentalist group which is called ISIS… but you cannot
say, I do not believe, that it is true or right that Islam is terrorist.”
It would be nice to identify those “Egyptians” as “Christians,”
because that is the reason why ISIS beheaded them.
Yes, ISIS is a fundamentalist group. They are
faithful Muslims doing what Muhammad did. If you don’t believe me, read
the first biography of Muhammad ever written — The
Life of Muhammad by
Ibn Ishaq. You will find little difference between Muhammad’s actions and those
of ISIS. Or read the critique that the Islamic State has just published in response to Pope Francis’ attempts to
frame Islam as a religion of peace. It is a complete rejection of his claims,
and it quotes Islamic teaching to bolster its case.
Yes, it’s true that not all (or
even most) Muslims are terrorists. However, terrorism is an inherent part of
Islam. Terrorism is a means by which to compel men to join Islam.
Izoard: Your concrete initiatives
to counteract terrorism, violence?
Pope
Francis: Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some
African countries. It is terrorism and also . . . But I don’t know if I say it
because it is a little dangerous… Terrorism grows when there are no other
options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not
the person — men and women — this is already the first terrorism! You have cast
out the wonder of creation — man and woman — and you have put money in its
place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!
I have thought about it for 18
years actually. I began my intensive study of Islam in 1998. I have spent
more than half of my life in this field, so I can say I know a few things about
it.
Islamic terrorism is not
about money. Or education. Or politics. Those are, at best, influencing
factors. They are not the root cause.
The root cause is Islamic theology. The same
theology that denies the intrinsic nature of man and instead places eternal
beatitude in pursuing the path of a 7thcentury
Arabian madman who is regarded as the perfect model for humanity when he was
one of the most inhumane men who ever lived.
The problem is Islam and the Muslims, since it is through the
Muslims that Islam’s power is able to be made manifest on the earth.
We can love people all we want and
be good to them, but it does not mean they will be good to us. In the case of
Islam, Muslims regard Christian charity and mercy as weakness, and they exploit
it to advance themselves and Islam at our expense.
Mercy, something which Pope
Francis talks about a lot, is but one part of love, which is the nature of God
(1 John 4:8). The other part is justice. While justice without mercy is
legalism, mercy without justice is license. Both are sins.
The Catholic Church’s hierarchy in
modern times has been merciful to Muslims to the point of licentiousness. For
the honor of God and the dignity of the Faith, with regard to what Islam and
Muslims have done, a strong dose of justice is necessary and long overdue. That
begins with allowing ourselves to understand the truth of what we face, not
covering it over with wishful thinking.
Originally published on August
3rd, 2016 by OnePeterFive, and republished on May 24, 2017.
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