One might think that this ongoing persecution would be a worthy topic of discussion in the Church in America. One would be wrong. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is so committed to “dialogue” with Muslims that it is willing to gloss over uncomfortable truths in pursuit of that dialogue: “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
Yet what has that dialogue accomplished, and in particular, what has it done to stop Muslim persecution of Christians? Why, nothing, of course.
“Boko Haram Targets Catholics: 100,000 Homeless From Islamist Insurgency, Christian Charity Says,” by Morgan Winsor, International Business Times, May 12, 2015:
More than 100,000 Nigerian Catholics have been left homeless by Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency in northeast Nigeria and another 5,000 have been killed, a Christian charity said Tuesday. As a result, there are now 7,000 widows and 10,000 orphans in the Maiduguri diocese, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) told Premier.
A report by the charity also found some 350 churches have been destroyed in the diocese, which encompasses Borno and Yobo states as well as part of Adamawa. More than half of the Maiduguri diocese’s parish centers, chaplaincies and church-run primary schools have been deserted by Nigerian Catholics and many of them are occupied by Boko Haram militants, who control up to 85 percent of the diocese territory.
“People are very scared, and those who are able to return home find there is nothing left,” Rev. Father Gideon Obasogie, the diocesan director of social communications, told ACN, according to Catholic Herald. “A life lived with much fear is terrible.”…
Boko Haram has sworn loyalty to the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS or ISIL. ISIS officially accepted its pledge in March, making Boko Haram the largest and most lethal jihadi group to be inducted into the Islamic State group’s network. The militants seek the establishment of a state in northeast Nigeria based on strict Islamic law.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Ahhh, another day, another report of Islamic aggression against freedom, this one reporting that 100K Infidel Africans are left homeless by the Mujahidin. But I don’t love the smell of gasoline in the morning like that crazy major in the helicopter over the Vietnam beach in Apocalypse Now said hedid, and I don’t love my morning dose of Islamic progress either. In fact, I hate it more than my daily intake of reports during the Vietnam War, cuz at least that enterprise sought to stop the forcible threat of communism in Indochina, where our surrender left Cambodia and Vietnam to the predation of mass murder and child labor that exists even today, but at least our effort saved Thailand, Burma and the Philippines.
Saved those countries for a while, at least, cuz a Moslem is running Thailand now, Burma is teetering on the brink of Sharia, and whole parts of the Philippines have been ceded to the Moslems. From one world takeover movement to the other. Both still exist, but the Commies are lagging. There will be no worker paradises in the expanded Dar al-Islam, only kleptocracies managed by the local Ulema, seeking pleasure and death to get into the porno heaven Jannat.
Like in west Africa.
spot on says
A morning dose of reality and gulp some more coffee. The worst part is that it will get worse going forward until enough people wake up. We must hope that when they wake up, it is not too late.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
My estimate is that the awakening will come only after something really terrible, as in terror-able, happens. Something much bigger than 9/11, for example a nuclear detonation over Tel Aviv by the Persians. And even then the awakening will only be partial, with the ruling elites including the opinion programmers in the news entertainment industry unable to do a full mea culpa on their willful ignorance and complicity is such a world historic disaster, their inability to do a full public reversal driven as much by ego as by ideology in their denial of the obvious.
spot on says
I could describe what terror-able really is but we’ve had enough bad news to adjust to today.
Have another cup of coffee.
dumbledoresarmy says
So you’ve given up and decided that the Muslims are going to win and destroy the whole world and drag all humanity down into a bottomless pit of barbarity and misery and murder, forever?
And you’re only coming here in order to tell us, over and over, that it’s not worth even trying to fight because the battle’s already lost, no-one will wake up in time, NOTHING can be done?
What’s the point of that? What sort of kick do you get out of that?
How do you imagine that just repeating that kind of defeatism and despair, over and over, will help anybody? All it will do is convinced people to give up and stop even *trying* to fight, *trying* to do anything; it will paralyse, not galvanise.
Maybe that isn’t how you intend it, but that’s how it comes across, day after day, week after week, month after month.
William Lucas Harvey Jr. says
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is so committed to “dialogue” with Muslims, and so is the Pope.
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/03/robert-spencer-on-pope-francis-and-dialogue-with-islam/
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Yeah, let’s talk it out. Why can’t we all just get along? Words count. Blah blah blaaah.
It would be best that, in this latest dialog, that the Bishops ask some pointed questions about what is commanded in the Holy Ko-Ran and what is presented for emulation in the Hah-Deaths. But the bishops are too polite, or maybe too scared, to raise such uncomfortable but obvious questions.
mortimer says
How can Bishop McManus maintain the above comment about the superiority of dialogue to confrontation in light of this?
How can Bishop McManus look a bishop from north-eastern Nigeria in the eye?
TH says
Pope Francis, when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, criticized his predecessor regarding his Regensberg address in which he quoted a 14th century Byzantine Emperor who asked if Mahommed had broght anything positive to humanity, stated in similar terms to Bishop McManus, that with such statements by Pope Benedict most of what had been achieved in Interreligous Dialogue with Islam during the Pontificate of John Paul II would be lost. He is totally clueless on Islam and living in fantasyland with regard to it.
Angemon says
mortimer posted:
“How can Bishop McManus look a bishop from north-eastern Nigeria in the eye?”
Indeed. But I submit to you he can, and will, if given the chance, because he doesn’t realize that what he’s doing he’s wrong – he most likely believes that whatever “inter-faith dialog” he’s engaging in with whatever muslim group he’s talking with will actually help end persecution of Christians in muslim-majority countries. Of course, this shows a glaring ignorance of islamic orthodoxy – Christians are fair game if they refuse to acknowledge muhammad as a prophet and also refuse to live as dhimmis.
And what’s one-hundred thousand people persecuted compared with the overall “greater good”, right? Sickening to the core.
John Gehrke says
What the World and and and all will churches NEED to do ASAP is actually SPEAK UP and VOICE THE TRUTH – extremist Islamics persecute Christians in many places and will continued to do so – they view jihad as ‘holy justified struggle and rationalize / justify it’.
Mo says
100,000! If that number is remotely accurate, you would think the world would be shocked at this human rights disaster of epic proportions!
Oh, wait. It’s just Catholics. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Marco says
Maybe Michelle could do a hastag on twitter. That was such a success before. Not!
My church, protestant, does not even say a prayer for the persecuted and murdered Christians in other parts of the world.
dumbledoresarmy says
Have you *asked* them to pray?
If you haven’t piped up and requested that the persecuted Christians be put on the prayer list, don’t complain that it’s not happenng.
Don’t wait for someone else to do it. Do it yourself.
The Barnabas Fund puts out a newsletter.
Every two months they put out a prayer booklet. Get the newsletter and the prayer booklet and share them with other people at your church.
If you *have* tried, and been met with indifference; just try again, and again.
If your church or your bible study group holds the kind of prayer meeting where people can chip in short extempore prayers about whatever’s on their heart at the time…*that’s* when you can chip in with prayers a sentence or two sentences long. Keep it short. “May God bless, sustain, protect and deliver our sister Asia Bibi in Pakistan who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy because she said Jesus was better than Mohammed”. Like that, maybe.
bill reitzes says
And, today, the Pope smiles as he recognizes yet another Muslim terror state, Palestine.
He says NOTHING about the plight of Catholics, who are being slaughtered at the hands of Islam.
He appears to be another stooge, like POTUS Obama.
Next these two have in their sights, the 6 million Jews of Israel.
No wonder Catholics in the 1000’s are leaving the Church.
No wonder that once powerful America, is a wimp today.
Anthony Verzi says
How about the Council of Catholic Bishops being paid with your tax to bring in folks from the middle east and Africa to the U.S. They are chosen by the U.N and 90% are Muslim. Where are the Christians suffering from genocide in the numbers. Look up Refugee Resettlement Act