Jonathan Ekene Ifeanyi
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“Pope”
Francis, left, joins Grand Mufti of Istanbul, Rahmi Yaran praying in the Sultan
Ahmet mosque. (AP Photo)
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“Pope”
Francis was once "quoted" by some characters addressing Catholic followers saying:
“Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Jehovah, Allah. These are all names employed to
describe an entity that is distinctly the same across the world. For centuries,
blood has been needlessly shed because of the desire to segregate our faiths.
This, however, should be the very concept which unites us as people, as
nations, and as a world bound by faith. Together, we can bring about an
unprecedented age of peace, all we need to achieve such a state is respect each
other’s beliefs, for we are all children of God regardless of the name we
choose to address him by. We can accomplish miraculous things in the world by
merging our faiths, and the time for such a movement is now. No longer shall we
slaughter our neighbours over differences in reference to their God.”
Sounds funny? Well upon investigation we learnt the "quote" was later debunked by the Vatican as false. However, anyone who knows Francis knows his religious belief is simply worse than this! He certainly may not have said it as quoted, but sure, statements like the one above simply characterise the present "pontificate". He REALLY says things like that but in subtle manners. See this Video for instance. And this too.
I
wish to recommend the ‘Open Letter’ below to all Christians and Muslims in
Nigeria but especially to “Christians”. I say so because, in their
efforts to coexist with the Muslims, most
Nigerian “Christians” believe and teach faithfully that both
Muslims and Christians serve the same one God. The statement, “We all
are serving the same God” is a very popular one in Nigeria. Whether
you’re talking about the Protestants/Pentecostals or Vatican II Catholics, the
idea — that Christians and Muslims serve the same God — is just common. Some
“Christians” even see Our Lord as a mere great religious founder just as Mohammed
was. For instance, during his days as the Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Okogie
never ceased referring to Mohammed as “a prophet” — and I'm sure he still does. He would declare this always
during his sermons — right on the pulpit, in the cathedral. As I once
wrote, “Today Lagos Island, where Cardinal
Okogie was a bishop for almost 40 years, is over 70% Muslim, the rest are
Protestants and pagans — Catholics here cannot be up to 4% and even these few,
in reality, hardly know anything about the authentic Catholic Faith, having
been brainwashed by the cardinal and his bad priests for years.” (See: Biafra: How can the Ibo Christians who promote western
secularism win this war against the Muslims who promote their anti-Christ false
religion?)
Of
course, the Cardinal is a celebrated democrat and was/is merely acting as such.
Like him, most Nigerian “Christians” promote the same idea because of the
influence of democracy — the idea that everybody, male or female, is equal.
You know, even the Christian God, following this democratic principle, has no
right to claim superiority to any other god. To say that Christians alone serve
the true God while the Muslims and pagans serve a false god is, put simply, a
crime in Nigeria — at least among “learned Christians”. It is simply
forbidden. But not only do Nigerian Muslims believe faithfully that
Christians serve a false god, they boldly propagate it
everywhere.
It
is interesting to note, that while we see these Muslim converts asking whether it
is not a cause for worry that the “Pope” proposes the Quran as a way of
salvation, modern “Catholics” generally don’t worry about such questions, the
reason being that, while the Muslims — converts or not — still retain their
religious consciousness, most modern “Catholics” have lost it. Many of them
are, put simply, worse than atheists.
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John Paul II kissing the Quran.
Well, Magdi Allan, the ex-Muslim who they also refers to in
the letter, will simply fault them on this. (See: A Non-Catholic German Warns Against Protestantization of
Catholicism). How can “St.” John Paul II, who teaches that
both Muslims and Christians serve the same God, and kisses the
Quran, be calling — at the same time — for a “confrontation with Islam”?
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The Letter:
Here
follows the text of an Open Letter to Pope Francis that you can sign if you so
wish. We will present it as soon as it
reaches a significant number of signatories. Thank
you for helping to make it known. We
base our initiative on Canon Law: “According
to the knowledge, the competence and
the prestige enjoyed by the faithful, they
have the right and sometimes even the duty to give the Sacred Shepherds their
opinion on what concerns the good of the Church and to make it known to the
other faithful, keeping safe the
integrity of faith and morals and the reverence due to pastors, and taking into account the common utility and
dignity of people.” (Canon 212 § 3):
From former Muslims who became Catholics, and their friends,
to His Holiness Pope Francis,
about his
attitude towards Islam.
Most Holy
Father,
Many of us have tried to contact you, on many occasions and for several years, and we have never received the slightest acknowledgement of our letters or requests for meetings. You do not like to beat around the bush, and neither do we, so allow us to say frankly that we do not understand your teaching about Islam, as we read in paragraphs 252 and 253 of Evangelii Gaudium, because it does not account for the fact that Islam came AFTER Christ, and so is, and can only be, an Antichrist (see 1 Jn 2.22), and one of the most dangerous because it presents itself as the fulfillment of Revelation (of which Jesus would have been only a prophet). If Islam is a good religion in itself, as you seem to teach, why did we become Catholic? Do not your words question the soundness of the choice we made at the risk of our lives? Islam prescribes death for apostates (Quran 4.89, 8.7-11), do you know? How is it possible to compare Islamic violence with so-called Christian violence? “What is the relationship between Christ and Satan? What union is there between light and darkness? What association between the faithful and the unfaithful?” (2 Cor. 6: 14-17) In accordance with His teaching (Lk 14:26), we preferred Him, the Christ, to our own life. Are we not in a good position to talk to you about Islam?
In fact,
as long as Islam wants us to be its enemy, we are, and all our protestations of friendship cannot change anything. As a proper Antichrist, Islam exists only as
an enemy of all: “Between
us and you there is enmity and hatred forever, until you believe in Allah
alone!” (Qur’an 60.4) For the Qur’an, Christians “are only impurity” (Quran 9.28),” “the worst of Creation” (Qur’an 98.6), all condemned to Hell (Qur’an 4.48), so Allah
must exterminate them (Quran 9.30). We must
not be deceived by the Quranic verses deemed tolerant, because they have all been repealed by the verse of the Sword (Quran 9.5).
Where the Gospel proclaims the good news of Jesus’
death and resurrection for the salvation of all, and the fulfillment of the Covenant initiated with the Hebrews, Allah has nothing to offer but war and murder of the “infidels” in exchange for his paradise: “They fight on the way of Allah, they
kill and are killed.” (Quran 9:11) We do not confuse Islam
with Muslims, but if for you “dialogue” means the voice of peace,
for Islam it’s only another way to make war. Also, as it was in the face of Nazism and
communism, naiveté in the face of Islam is
suicidal and very dangerous. How can you speak of
peace and endorse Islam, as you seem to do: “To wring from our hearts the disease that plagues our lives (…) Let those who are Christians do it with the Bible
and those who are Muslims do it with the Quran. “(Rome, January 20, 2014)? That the Pope seems to propose the Quran as a way
of salvation, is that not cause for worry? Should we return to Islam?
We beg
you not to seek in Islam an ally in your fight against the powers that want to
dominate and enslave the world, since
they share the same totalitarian logic based on the rejection of the kingship
of Christ (Lk 4.7).
We know that the Beast of the Apocalypse, seeking to devour the
Woman and her Child, has many heads. Allah defends such alliances by the way (Quran
5.51)! Moreover,
the prophets have always reproached Israel for its willingness to ally with
foreign powers, to the detriment of the
complete confidence they should’ve had in God. Certainly,
the temptation is strong to think that speaking in
an Islamophilic tone will prevent more suffering for Christians in those
countries that have become Muslim, but
apart from the fact that Jesus has never indicated any other way than that of
the Cross, so that we must find our joy therein and not flee with all the damned, we do
not doubt that only the proclamation of the Truth brings with it not only
salvation, but freedom as well (John 8.32).
Our duty is to bear witness to the truth “in season and out of season” (2 Timothy 4.2), and our glory is to be able to say with
St. Paul: “I did not want to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” (1 Corinthians 2.2)
As to
Your Holiness’s stance on Islam: even as President Erdogan, among others, asks his countrymen not
to integrate into their host countries, and
while Saudi Arabia and all the petrol monarchies do not welcome any refugee, expressions (among others) of the project of conquest and Islamization of Europe, officially proclaimed by the OIC and other Islamic organizations for
decades; you, Most Holy
Father, preach the welcoming of migrants regardless of the fact that they are
Muslims, something forbidden by Apostolic
command: “If anyone comes to you
but refuses this Gospel, do not
receive him among you nor greet him. Whoever
greets him participates in his evil works.” (2 John 1.10-11); “If anyone preaches to you
a different Gospel, let him be
accursed!” (Galatians 1.8-9)
Just
as “For I was hungry, and you gave me no food.” (Mt 25:42) cannot
mean that Jesus would have liked to be a parasite, so “I was a stranger
and you welcomed Me” cannot mean “I was an invader and you welcomed
Me”, but rather “I needed your hospitality for a while, and you
granted it to me”. The word ξένος (xenos) in
the New Testament does not only have the meaning of stranger but
of guest as well (Rm 16.23; 1 Co 16.5-6, Col 4.10; 3 Jn 1.5).
And when YHWH in the Old Testament commands to treat foreigners well because
the Hebrews have themselves been foreigners in Egypt, it is on the condition that the foreigner assimilates so well to the
chosen people that he accepts their religion and practices their cult… Never is there mention of welcoming a
foreigner who would keep his religion and its customs! Also, we do not understand that you are
pleading for Muslims to practice their religion in Europe. The meaning of Scripture should not be supplied by the proponents of
globalism, but in
fidelity to Tradition. The Good Shepherd hunts
the wolf, He does not let it enter the
sheepfold.
The
pro-Islam speech of Your Holiness leads us to deplore the fact that Muslims are
not invited to leave Islam, and that
many ex-Muslims, such as Magdi Allam, are even leaving the Church, disgusted by her cowardice, wounded
by equivocal gestures, confused by the lack of
evangelization, scandalized by the praise
given to Islam … Thus ignorant souls are misled, and
Christians are not preparing for a confrontation with Islam, to which St. John Paul II has called them (Ecclesia in Europa, No. 57). We are under the impression that you do not take your brother Bishop
Nona Amel, Chaldean-Catholic Archbishop of Mosul in
exile, seriously, when he
tells us: “Our present
sufferings are the prelude to those that you, Europeans and Western Christians, will
suffer in the near future. I have
lost my diocese. The headquarters of my
archdiocese and my apostolate have been occupied by radical Islamists who want
us to convert or die. (…) You are welcoming into your country
an ever increasing number of Muslims. You
are in danger as well. You must make strong
and courageous decisions (…). You think that all men
are equal, but Islam does not say
that all men are equal. (…) If you do not understand this very quickly, you will become the victims of the enemy that you have invited into your
home.” (August 9, 2014) “. This is a matter of life and death, and any complacency towards Islam is treasonous. We do not wish the West to continue with Islamization, nor that your actions contribute to it. Where
then would we go to seek refuge?
Allow us
to ask Your Holiness to quickly convene a synod on the dangers of Islam. What
remains of the Church where Islam has installed itself? If she still has civil
rights, it is in dhimmitude, on the condition that she does not evangelize,
thus denying her very essence. In the interest of
justice and truth, the Church must bring to
light why the arguments put forward by Islam to blaspheme the Christian faith are false. If the Church had the
courage to do that, we do not doubt that
millions, Muslims as well as other men and
women seeking the true God, would convert. As you said: “He who does not pray to Christ, prays to the
Devil.” (14.03.13) If people knew they were going to Hell, they would give their lives to Christ. (cf.
Quran 3.55)
With the
deepest love for Christ who, through you, leads His Church, we, converts from Islam, supported by many of
our brothers in the Faith, especially the
Christians of the East, and by our friends, ask
Your Holiness to confirm our conversion to Jesus Christ, true God and true man, the only Savior, with a frank and right discourse on Islam, and, assuring you of our prayers in the
heart of the Immaculate, we ask your apostolic
blessing.
List of
names of signatories and their email (certainly
not all ex-Muslims will sign this Letter for fear of possible reprisals).
3,747
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Márta L.
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Jyväskylä
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Finland
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librarian, retired
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,746
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Edit V.
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Hungary
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Orvos
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,745
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Shirley M.
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USA
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Catholic
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,744
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Don C.
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Hillrose
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United States
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Hydro
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,743
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Olav R.
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Oslo
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Norway
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Studying
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,742
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T. G.
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Budapest
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Hungary
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,741
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Martine B.
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France
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retraitée
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,740
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Pierre D.
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Rennes
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France
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Etudiant
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,739
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MARIE THERESE G.
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MILLERY
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France
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retraitee
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Jan 17, 2018
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3,738
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Jean-François L.
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Jan 17, 2018
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