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Pope condemns “complicit silence” on jihad attacks on Christians

Apr 5, 2015 7:47 pm By Robert Spencer

FrancisdovesFrancisdovecrowThe Pope is upset about the “complicit silence” of Christians about the persecution of Christians by Muslims, but did he himself name the perpetrator and explain why this persecution is happening? If he did, there is no hint of it in this AFP story.

Pope Francis has said, “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” Could that have had anything to do with this “complicit silence”? Catholics in particular saw that the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome, was saying that Islam was a Religion of Peace, and there is no doubt whatsoever that it had a chilling effect: given the creeping papalolatry that besets the Roman Catholic Church, people were afraid to discuss the motives, goals, and identity of the persecutors, for fear of going against the Pope’s statement and the Vatican’s policy of “dialogue.”

If the Pope is upset about this “complicit silence,” maybe he should call in the American bishops — and McManus is by no means the only one — who thinks complicit silence is the way to go when it comes to the Muslim persecution of Christians: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013

“Pope condemns indifference to jihadist atrocities against Christians,” AFP, April 4, 2015:

Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis condemned indifference and “complicit silence” to jihadist attacks on Christians as he presided over Easter ceremonies in the wake of a massacre of nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university by Shebab Islamists.

The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics brought up the extremist persecution of Christians as the holiest ceremonies of the Church calendar reached a climax Sunday, when believers celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.

The Islamists behind Thursday’s university attack that shocked Kenya are reported to have separated out their victims into Muslims and non-Muslims, before killing the Christians.

“Today we see our brothers persecuted, decapitated, crucified for their faith in you, under our eyes and often with our complicit silence,” the pope said after the traditional Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession through Rome on Friday, which recreates Christ’s last hours before he was crucified.

The Vatican has increasingly voiced frustration that attacks on Christians in places such as Iraq, Libya, Pakistan and Nigeria have not been more strongly condemned by Muslim authorities and Western governments….

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  1. JamesonRocks says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    As my Grandmother used to say… “Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.”

    • Huck Folder says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 1:17 am

      “Today WE see our brothers persecuted, decapitated,
      crucified for their faith in you, under OUR eyes and
      often with OUR complicit silence,” the pope said…”
      [pope with a small p]

      Well what are YOU doing about IT?

      Kissing moslem feet?

      Were you looking in a mirror?

      I understand you have a 90% approval rating.
      Is your ‘flock’ comprised of dhimmicrats and leftards?

      We know you can’t declare war or a crusade
      against the CLEARLY DEFINED ENEMY.

      “How many divisions does the pope have?”

      Maybe you could say SOMETHING to the effect that
      all the ‘outreach’ from EVERYBODY EXCEPT MOSLEMS
      has achieved not just NOTHING, but vastly
      NEGATIVE outcomes with whole communities destroyed
      and bodies everywhere.

      I wonder who your ‘advisers’ are?
      Are they named Judas, or Judas?
      Are you informed by PressTV, RT, Al Jazeera?

      Let the whole world know when you discover
      what your 33 vertebrae are for.

      • Joseph says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 9:51 am

        @ Huck Folder
        “Let the whole world know when you discover
        what your 33 vertebrae are for.”

        Joseph likes this one.

        • Mirren10 says

          Apr 7, 2015 at 9:43 am

          ”Joseph likes this one.”

          Mirren likes it too.

          Nice one, Huck Folder.

          In fact, the phrase is applicable to nearly every single ‘leader’ in the West.

      • Oliver says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 4:57 pm

        BUT, BUT, BUT THE READERS DIGEST called him, in a recent issue, ” THE ROCK STAR POPE”.

        Doesn’t that count for anything?

        (Aren’t many of the rock stars out of it, and on hallucinogenics?

        if so, that could explain much of his actions.

    • oldwhiteguy says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 10:13 am

      the pope must be a terribly ignorant man if he thinks that there is any peace involved with islam. violent subjugation is part of islam, it is written in the Koran and other Islamic documents.

  2. [FA] says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    A step in the right direction none the less!

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 8:50 pm

      Maybe
      While it is too easy to fall into cynicism I wouldn’t want to be overly optimistic either.

      Pope Francis also said, “disturbing indifference of world institutions and public opinion” over the killings.
      1 — He does not risk mentioning those world institutions by name.
      2 — When he says “public opinion” I assume he is playing it safe by trying to avoid any mention of the news media which drive public opinion.

      Maybe it is a start.

      • [FA] says

        Apr 5, 2015 at 10:24 pm

        You’re 100% correct. I honestly can’t make heads or tales of him. Just when I’m ready to say he’s a full blown Muslim sympathizer he picked his Coptic secretary. I’ve really come to the conclusion that I can’t make a conclusion. I do really pray the Holy Spirit guides him to the right path for the Church. As of last night’s Easter Vigil I’m officially a government watch list Catholic.

        • Islam_Is_Islam says

          Apr 5, 2015 at 10:43 pm

          @ [FA]
          Dominus vobiscum! What is a “government-watch-list Catholic”?

        • [FA] says

          Apr 6, 2015 at 1:16 am

          It’s just me poking fun at the fact they tried to put Catholics on the terrorist watch list.

        • [FA] says

          Apr 6, 2015 at 1:21 am

          And et cum spiritu tuo

        • voegelinian says

          Apr 6, 2015 at 5:13 pm

          ” I honestly can’t make heads or tales of him. Just when I’m ready to say he’s a full blown Muslim sympathizer he picked his Coptic secretary. ”

          Being Coptic isn’t a guarantee one isn’t a dhimmi. Pope Francis probably made sure to pick a dhimmi Copt.

  3. rev gr4 says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    My copies of the Quran must all be defective.

    • duh_swami says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 6:58 am

      Actually they are according to a Mahoundian ‘Dr’? Who told me that all translations were faulty due to poor translating…I asked him what I should do with my English Quran that was incomplete and full of errors. He said I should take it to the nearest mosque and give it to the Imam…When I asked him why Mahoundians distributed fake Qurans for both the pious and infidels…He clammed up and had no answer.

      • rev g says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 7:04 am

        I understand, all translations are faulty. Still, one I have is a niceky biund versiin frim CAIR. It has a lot if explanatiins in it to try and temper the verses.

  4. Joseph says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    Pope Francis has said, “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence

    I know who didn’t read the Koran
    And so what is the proper reading? Skip every verse that is violent?? That is one mighty short book then.

  5. jewdog says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    Since I tend to rely on counter-jihad sites for news, or conservative web sources, I feel satisfied that I receive news of jihadist attacks against Christians and other religious groups adequately. Once in a while I wind up watching a mainstream media source like Good Morning America or another news program, usually when I’m in a waiting room for something, and I do think that the regular news glosses over such events , although I would hate to generalize since I don’t watch it enough. My main complaint is less with journalism and more with the mainstream political establishment and their overall ignorance on the topic, and I would include many establishment religious figures from all the main faiths in that category as well. As for academia, what I have read is very discouraging and does not bode well for the future.

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 9:02 pm

      Unlike Pope Benedict, given this pope’s staunch Leftist credentials, the main stream media will at least have to pretend to care when he talks about “complicit silence”

  6. Fritz Kohlhaas says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    The Pope is talking from both sides of his mouth! Typical Vatican speech!

  7. Marylou Barry says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 10:05 pm

    “[A]uthentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” – Pope Francis
    With all due respect, “Your Holiness,” how dumb can one man be?

    • Rob says

      Apr 5, 2015 at 10:47 pm

      ‘Complicit silence’ includes the constant use of euphemisms:
      ‘Folks in a deli’
      ‘Asians’
      and on and bloody on!

  8. Joseph, Son of Mattathias says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 10:36 pm

    Link to previous JihadWatch article wherein Pope Bergoglio embarrasses himself – yet again – by exhibiting his utter ignorance of Islam:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/pope-says-islam-is-religion-of-peace-then-begs-muslims-to-condemn-violence

  9. somehistory says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    Back in the 60’s, there was a song by The Knickerbockers, titled “Lies” Lies went partly: “Lies, I can’t believe a word you say,”

    He knows what that book says. He’s seen the evidence, even if he hasn’t read it, he’s been told. And there hasn’t seemed to be a hue and cry from his balcony or pulpit regarding the truth about the beast that is islam. If he is willing to lie about the nature of the beast, what can he expect from others who don’t have his means of getting the word out and who really don’t care if Christians are slaughtered?

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 9:13 pm

      I sometimes imagine that Pope Francis and Barrack Obama as well have some incredibly ingenious and top secret anti-jihad scheme in the works where they are dancing around the appeasement ring luring all the jihadis into a rope-a-dope trap of flattery in order to kill them with kindness.
      How else could they have risen to power and influence?
      Surely they can’t be as dumb as they appear.

  10. Shelly says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    The Pope like all other Government Officials is afraid to say the truth. They are afraid of stirring things up and a big attack happening or riots and killing worldwide by the Muslims. All the countries and the second Pope during WWII did the same thing. The first Pope Pius XI during the Holocaust was working on a encylical against racism and rumor has it that he planned to publicly ex-communicate Hitler and Himler, but the night before his big speech he was found dead and the papers he was working on disapeared. Some people say he was poisoned. The second Pope Pius XII did help to hide Jewish people etc, but he may have acted out of fear and not spoke out. We are doing the same thing again and we need to stand up to this bully and if all Heck breaks loose then so be it. We can’t just keep on letting this happen and if we do then we will be next.

  11. Brother Matthew says

    Apr 5, 2015 at 11:54 pm

    The Pope is turning the other cheek and will continue to do so. He is giving muslims every chance he can for dialogue and peaceful concession. After that, when all has failed, he will be able to say a single word from a position of righteousness. That word is “Crusade.” A crusade is not to be taken lightly, and there are many ramifications. It is a fight for the preservation of the church and it’s people. It is a fight that will require bloodshed and self sacrifice. This puts ones soul in a precarious position, to slay your fellow man for the Lord and his Church. Who among you are willing to step up to the plate?

    • Davegreybeard says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 1:29 am

      Well Brother Matthew, I will not slay my fellow man for your Lord or his Church.

      But I will slay my fellow man if he seeks to enslave me.

      How about we both fight for our freedom and the freedom of our fellow Infidels?

      • petey says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 5:31 am

        Im a Christian, I will fight for my faith and freedom, If you don’t believe, but value our freedom, then I got your back!…Period

      • Brother Matthew says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 11:05 pm

        Fair enough. Freedom is worth fighting for.

    • Lucy says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 6:18 pm

      The same people on here yammering that the pope is not tough enough, will be the same people yammering 1,000 years about the “evil” pope that called a crusade. First they want him to be a secular leader and then then they don’t. It is the job of government to defend it’s citizens, it’s not the job of the church. The last time the church stepped in because the government wasn’t doing it’s job. The first thing you hear out of any idiots mouth who hates the church (example Obama) is crusade and inquisition. They don’t even know what they are talking about. I have become an expert on the Crusades and the Inquisition, believe me, your average idiot who yells crusade and inquisition doesn’t even know what happened. All you casting stones at the church and the pope should be casting stones AT THE GOVERNMENT. It’s the Job of the government and your JOB citizen to take care of this problem.

      • Shelly Seay says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 9:41 pm

        Lucy,

        You are right about the people being angry over something they don’t understand when they talk about the Inquisition and the Crusades, it really isn’t what people thought. I agree with you bout Government protecting their people and it should be that way, however, the Jihadis are slaughtering our people, our Christian brothers and sisters. I also want to point out to Aethist out there, that the Jihadis will want you to convert as well as every other belief and if we don’t stop them over there, they will be coming here.

        Shelly

      • Brother Matther says

        Apr 6, 2015 at 11:32 pm

        Well put Lucy and Shelly. People are angery, confused and afraid. We are all looking to our governments for protection and leadership. It seems we are getting neither.
        The Pope is the leader of the Catholic Church, and people are starting to look to him for leadership. It is a sad situation. Some Christians are fighting, many are dying, while the rest, even though they are willing, are waiting for leadership.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 7, 2015 at 10:51 pm

      With all respect, Brother Matthew, the idea that this pope, of all people, is poised to call a crusade is just laughable.

  12. Paddy says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 5:40 am

    Western Civilization was done in by the 20th century. Muslims don’t abort 55 million babies; run up massive debt; chase the Little Sisters of the Poor out of America; or argue about gay cake. The Pope reflects the weakness of a dying West, infiltrated by Marxists in the Democratic Party, the EU, our colleges and many of the “christian” sects. Let’s hope priests held by the cutthroats can be saved through patient Vatican diplomacy.

    • Shelly Seay says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 9:44 pm

      Paddy,

      I couldn’t agree more. I would love to see our society make a change and turn back to living life the way were taught God’s Way.

  13. Parousia says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 7:25 am

    First time he said the world was trying to hide the persecution of Christians.

    Now he says that the Christians are complicit in silence about it.

    Two steps forward.

    I just pray soon enough he musters the courage to name the problem. If he does not, I pray the Holy Spirit (the spirit of truth) will take him by storm that he would have no option than to name the problem.

    Amen

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 8:06 am

      I hate to nit pick at Robert but …

      Robert seems to be interpreting the Pope’s comment to mean silence by Christians.
      from article — (the “complicit silence” of Christians) —
      Only the words “complicit silence” are inside quotes.

    • Jay Airahs says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 8:08 am

      Also,
      I found a quote on line that the Pope said.

      “disturbing indifference of world institutions and public opinion” over the killings.

  14. Joseph says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 10:07 am

    Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis condemned indifference and “complicit silence” to jihadist attacks on Christians as he presided over Easter ceremonies in the wake of a massacre of nearly 150 people at a Kenyan university by Shebab Islamists.

    Well….we haven’t heard much from the Vatican either up till now. If they said something in the past, they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops. I was hearing just the opposite from the church I USED to attend, “Islam is peaceful” they were saying.
    Yes it was a Roman Catholic church.
    The Pope(s) should have been rallying the people a LONG time ago.

    • TH says

      Apr 6, 2015 at 10:31 am

      Unfortunately this Pope is living in fantasyland regarding Islam. If he doesn’t understand what Islam is about and goes on saying that the terrorist attacks are not real Islam, despite the undoubtable fact that according to the official Islamic narrative, the Islamic prophet himself was not only a terrorist, but also a bandit, a pedophile and in general a sex maniac who tailored his so called revelations to suit his sexual desires.

      Cardinal Dolan of New York, among other bishops accompany him in fantasyland, and are clueless about Islam, which in my opinion is a lack of responsibility on their part, as the true nature of islamic jihad is no secret nor has it ever been in the 1400 years of jihad. In fact, if they knew or recalled the history of the Church (and Cardinal Dolan has a degree in Church history), they would have no doubt about what mahomedanism is and its essential component, jihad.

  15. rcourtemanche says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 11:09 am

    Yeah, where’s the uproar by the media? On days off until Muslims get attacked?

    • Mark says

      May 15, 2015 at 11:48 am

      https://youtu.be/o_qYcJ-GSZc

  16. Elizabeth Jarzombek says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    Pope Francis’ views about Islam are not Church doctrine. And fortunately, as Catholics, we are only required to obey what popes say about Church DOCTRINE. We don’t have to take everything they say as Gospel. UN-fortunately not every Catholic realizes this.

  17. Jerry says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 4:06 pm

    I strongly condemn the Pope’s complicit denial of Islam’s genocidal agenda against all non-Muslims!

    • Ernie says

      Apr 7, 2015 at 2:09 am

      Very well said Jerry , I agree with you on this .

  18. Bill says

    Apr 6, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    The Pope is complicit like the vast majority of Christians and secularists who are supposed to stand for liberty and justice. Anything less that a harsh condemnation of Islam is inadequate. Islam is totally incompatible and hostile to liberty.

  19. Karine says

    Apr 14, 2015 at 1:29 am

    I would love for the Pope to speak the truth and name the perpetrators of these atrocities against Christians, and the ideology that drives them. But can you imagine the horror that would ensue? Remember what happened when Pope Benedict merely mentioned an unfavorable quote about Islam back in 2006? Riots! And a sister was killed. I don’t think Pope Francis understands Islam’s core texts if he claims that Islam is inherently a religion of peace, but maybe he’s holding back because he sees that Islam does indeed have a problem with violence (and yes, I realize what an understatement that is).

  20. Mark says

    May 12, 2015 at 9:16 am

    https://youtu.be/o_qYcJ-GSZc

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