“Yeah, this is him.”
“This is Imam Mahmoud down at Masjid Mehmet the Conqueror…”
“Mock Mood! Hey, buddy, great to hear from ya! How’s it going? Look, I gotta tell ya, the hummus at last week’s outreach was…to die for –”
“I am so glad you liked it, Your Grace, but I am calling you about an urgent matter.”
“Hey, Imam, buddy, fire away. Anything you need, you can count on me, buddy.”
“Yes, I know. Listen, I’ve gotten word that one of your parishes out in the suburbs is hosting a speaker on the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.”
“Yeah, Mock Mood, have you heard the latest from Nigeria?”
“Your Grace, it’s Mahmoud. I know this name can be hard for you to pronounce, but it is so grating on the ears to hear you say ‘Mock Mood.’ I would thank you to –”
“Hey, hey, sorry, old buddy, hey wow. I am so sorry. I assure you, no offense was meant, okay? You’ll have to forgive a provincial American like me, buddy. I’ll just stick with ‘Imam’ or ‘Your Excellency.’ Anyway, lookee here, Father Bud was telling me a terrible story this morning after Mass.”
“Father Bud? Bishop Kevin, I thought you told me you were going to send him to Pl–”
“I know, I know, yeah, Mock– I mean, Your Excellency, but I have a shortage of guys, you know? It’s hard to spare a fella, even if has offended–”
“Let me be clear about this, Bishop: our future cordial relations depend on your removing this man from the Chancery. Nothing less than that is acceptable.”
“Hey, imam, wow. That’s a lot to lay on me this early in the day, you know? But if it means that much to you, I’ll order the transfer this afternoon. But look, I did want to ask you — Bud was telling me about how in Nigeria, a Muslim — well, I shouldn’t call him Muslim, I know — anyway, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a church. And Bud was saying he wanted to sponsor a speaker series about Muslim — I mean, radical violent extremist — persecution of Christians. Now, I know you condemn–”
“Yes, Bishop Kevin–”
“Hey, Your Excellency, call me Kev.”
“Uh, yes. Kev. Anyway, of course we condemn all forms of extremism: Christian, Jewish and secular. But I want to make sure you understand: if you allow a talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally, it might undercut the positive achievements that you as Catholics have attained in your inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims. It might possibly also generate suspicion and even fear of people who practice piously the religion of Islam.”
“Oh, my word. Gee, I had no idea. You know how much the dialogue means to me. That hummus! What do you want me to do, buddy?”
“Kev, I want you to cancel this talk, and to disallow any discussion of the persecution of Christians in majority-Muslim countries on Church properties.”
“Mo, hey, no worries. You got it. I wouldn’t dream of offending you, Your Excellency. After all, you know how much your friendship means to me! You can count on me. I will call the parish and get that speaker canceled in a jiffy.”
“I knew I could count on you, Kev–”
“You always can, Your Excellency!”
“Good. Thank you. See you next week at the mosque.”
“You betcha, Mock– I mean, Imam! I wouldn’t miss it for the world! Make sure there is plenty of hummus!”
“Oh, I will, Kev. I will.”
“Suicide bomber hits church in Nigeria’s Gombe, wounding eight,” Reuters, January 1, 2015:
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a church in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Gombe during a New Year service, wounding eight people, an official for Nigeria’s Red Cross told Reuters on Thursday.
“This morning while people were in church for the New Year worship, a suicide attacker rode on a motorcycle trying to gain entrance to the premises of the church. When he was stopped at the gates by the church guards…he blew himself up and injured eight people,” the official said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sunni jihadist group Boko Haram, waging an insurgency to establish an Islamist state, is mainly focused on the three northeastern states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe but frequently set off bombs in other states targeting civilians….

jay says
I find it so hilarious when the news makes it sounds like since an attack or person can’t be tied to some known group, then it’s probably nothing to worry about. It’s probably not Boko Haram, so don’t worry everyone!
They’re all the same, under the same general goal, group affiliation means nothing to these people and a ‘self radicalized’ terrorist is just as dangerous as someone carrying a Taliban or Boko Haram card. Amazing that people can accuse a random Jewish person living in Chicago of being part of the Zionist death machine, but it takes 30 chapters of data and really good rhetorical skills to even make a dent in someone’s belief that Muslims dgaf about affiliation, nationality, loyalty and have the same centralized goal.
Jay Boo says
Hillary Clinton tried to make excuses too.
Hillary was for Boko Haram before she was against it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hillary-s-state-department-refused-to-brand-boko-haram-as-terrorists.html
gp says
That could stick. But like Obama voters- many leftists, liberals, socialists,as well as millions of pardoned illegals and other recipients of government welfare may still vote for her, even if she had just posted a selfie holding hands with Satan.
TH says
How can decent law abiding citizens defend themselves from jihad like mowing down pedestrians, attacking rabbis in a syanogue, blowing themselves up wherever, kidnapping in a café etc. if this becomes more prevalent. Eventually if they continue with this there will be a wave of ethnic cleansing of muslims all over the world. It will be come more and more obvious that the only way to defend the ordinary folk will be to get rid of them. When that happens the media will go on about islamophopia like wha thtey say about the buddist monks.
Salah says
“How can decent law abiding citizens defend themselves from jihad…”
They should be allowed to carry concealed weapons and always be on their guard.
gp says
By understanding what their religion commands them to do-I would like our political leaders to understand what drives them.
Specifically, how is a mosque a threat to the community within which it is built?
Every single mosque in the world, by definition, is modeled on the mosque of Muhammad in Medina in accordance with the Sunnah. The Sunnah interprets the Qur’an by reporting exhaustively on everything that Muhammad said, did, or consented to. Therefore, his Medina mosque, the first mosque, was a place where he gave judgments, where he decided who would be executed, where he instituted policy—domestic and military— where Jihad war strategies were designed. Consequently, it was a storage place for arms, a military training base, and was where troops were blessed and dispatched. Literally they were sent to conquer – first the whole of Arabia, and then the rest of the known world. Therefore if the present-day mosque is modeled as per the Sunnah of Muhammad then there should be very serious concern. As is well-known, Muslims are required to follow the example (Sunnah) of Muhammad—and according to Sura 33:36 it is not an option or a matter of opinion: “It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allâh and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. And whoever disobeys Allâh and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed in a plain error.” This explains and establishes beyond doubt why arms have been found in mosques in various countries, and in different capital cities.
In addition to the undisputed significance of the Medina mosque as the role model for all Mosques, there is also the Islamic policy of establishing strategic Mosques as beachheads with interconnected networks. Taken together, these two policies do constitute a clear and present danger—and a need for concern.
For example, when Abu Hamza[1] was the Imam of the Finsbury Park mosque in the United Kingdom, he trained people, he sent out terrorists and British authorities found arms stored there. He was well within his Islamic mandate as these activities were sanctioned by Islam. He didn’t find it wrong because it is in the Islamic manuals. Another prime example of a mosque being found to have engaged in high-level political, military and intelligence activities is the Munich Mosque, which is now considered by Islamists to be on a par with some of highest-ranked Mosques in Muslim countries.[2]
-Sam Solomon, former professor of Sharia Law.
thereandback says
That’s OK. In the clean up, they’ll go too!
Salah says
“When he was stopped at the gates by the church guards…he blew himself up and injured eight people,”
This anonymous church guard has probably saved dozens of innocent lives. He was probably badly wounded too. I don’t know if he is a Muslim or a Christian guard, but I do know that he is a hero. Thank you guard.
Abdulla al Zakariya kedwa says
The Group of 12 islamic we bomb the churchin Nigeria we will send another succide 2 bombers we want to bomb all Church that fight against any islamic fighters we been instracted to bomb all church that is against islamic fighters when we finish here we are going to algeria and somalia before we move to Southafrica
Jay Boo says
South Africa is ready to bury your heads in tiny boxes,
Jay Boo says
Exodus from Medina
Desert jinn spirits spoke in twisted verse, a dance of words to recite, to recite.
Medina’s false prophet this rehearsed in a cave near Mecca veiled by night.
But the angel Gabriel saw his descent, and said “Pawn of Satan turn, repent, repent.”
But, shariah’s verse planted its infected creed, fertilized by this false prophet’s made-up dream.
Vain attempts to partner with God almighty were dredged up from the lowest pit of Muhammad’s vanity.
Muslims have no god only disgrace. They stare into the vast emptiness of Islam and call it a religion.
RG says
@ Abdulla al Zakariya kedwa.
Do you even have a clue how demented AND STUPID you sound? …Not because you are illiterate with the usage of the English language (which you definitely are), but because you actually think you are waging a “HOLY WAR” against the “enemies of God”!
MY FRIEND, (tongue-in-cheek) YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF GOD!!!
Andrewp says
Two muslims are seriously ill after eating poisoned curry – one has a dicky tikka and the other is in a korma……..
Walter Sieruk says
This deluded , dangerous and deadly suicide/homicide bomber who commit this awful and terrible thing is the result of the extreme indoctrination and mind programming that is done by the Islamic clerics such and the imams who very much brainwash others into believing in the doctrine of Islam from the Koran, 44:54. 55:56. 78:31,. of some kind of lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the male Muslim dies dies in the jihad for the cause of Islam. The Bible warns about such false teacher as these imams , and in some cases mullahs, who thoroughly indoctrinate this type of teaching as a lust filled place into the minds and hearts of others. For the Bible in Second Peter 2!8. informs the reader “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lust of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a Muslim before he goes to dies in the jihad in his death recording talks about “the wedding that he will have ” with the virgins” after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry ,or are they given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Matthew 22:29,30. In contrast to the Islamic pipe dream of the jihadist in the story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables ,when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V]
Walter Sieruk says
As for This Islamic murderous jihad bombing and other jihad bombing like it in other countries , such deadly affronts are the outcome, many times, of Muslim male in their jihad for Islam believing the the Koranic story /doctrine of a lust filled paradise with many virgins in the for the Muslim terrorists who dies in the jihad for Islam, 4:54. 55:56. 78:31., The Bible warns against listening to and believing in such religious stories. For the Bible warns about not giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. Moreover, about such false teaches , like those imams and mullahs , who teach such story/doctrines about such place as of a lust filled paradise with virgins. For the Bible informs the reader “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [K.J.V]
Jerry says
Twisted Islamic logic assumes that the best way to please an almighty creator, giver of all life, and diversity it by killing others and yourself deluding yourself that this could possibly please the creator of life.
vinay says
Hello all please stop this killings and all, innocent people are dying and loosing their loved ones, LETS LIVE A HAPPY LIFE BEFORE WE DIE HERE