The Pope's Stubborn Silence on the Persecution of Christians

[rangerrebew]

The Pope's Stubborn Silence on the Persecution of Christians

by Giulio Meotti
February 3, 2019 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13582/pope-silence-persecution-christians
 

    Unfortunately, Pope Francis's stance on Islam seems to be coming from a fantasy world.

    "Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence", the Pope claimed, not quite accurately. It is as if all of the Pope's efforts have been directed to exonerating Islam from any of its responsibilities. He seems to have been doing this even more than observant Muslims -- such as Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, American author and physician M. Zuhdi Jasser, former Kuwaiti Information Minister Sami Abdullatif Al-Nesf, French-Algerian author Razika Adnani, Paris-based Tunisian philosopher Youssef Seddik, Jordanian journalist Yosef Alawnah, and Moroccan author Rachid Aylal, among many others -- have been doing.

    "Pope Francis could in no way be ignorant of the heavy problems caused by the expansion... at the very heart of the Christian domain... Let us note this again... the last religion that arrived in Europe has an intrinsic impediment to integrating into the European framework that is fundamentally Judeo-Christian..." – Boualem Sansal, Algerian author, in his best-selling book "2084."

    Pope Francis now faces the potential risk of a Christian world physically swallowed by the Muslim crescent -- as on the Vatican logo chosen for the Pope's upcoming trip to Morocco. It is time the appeasement is replaced.

[rangerrebew]

He's just imitating Pius XII during Hitler's time.  Staying quite, knowing damn well ISIS could blow the Vatican to hell any time they want, so he's watching his rhetoric.

[The_Reader_David]

    "Authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence", the Pope claimed, not quite accurately.

This delusion is based on ignorance the fact that Islamic scriptural exegesis does not proceed on the basis of the principle Christians use, stated succinctly by the Anglicans back when they were arguably Christian, as "[it is] not lawful to so expound one part of Scripture as to be repugnant to another." 

Rather Muslims use naskh (usually Englished as "abrogation") by which the "later revealed" parts of the Qu'ran -- the ones which forbid Muslims from befriending Christians or Jews, the ones which make perpetual warfare against all non-Muslims who have not submitted to Muslim rule obligatory, the ones which call for the execution of apostates -- abrogate the "earlier revealed" parts, with sayings like "let there be no compulsion in religion".