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Pope admits danger of Islamic State infiltration among refugees, still wants parishes to take them in

Sep 14, 2015 11:41 am By Robert Spencer

What could possibly go wrong? Last February, the Islamic State promised to flood Europe in the near future with as many as 500,000 refugees. And an Islamic State operative recently boasted that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 Islamic State jihadis had entered Europe. “They are going like refugees,” he said, but they were going with the plan of sowing blood and mayhem on European streets. As he told this to journalists, he smiled and said, “Just wait.” He explained: “It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world, and we will have it soon, inshallah.”

Is societal suicide really a requirement of Christian charity? So many Christian clerics seem to think so — either in regard to this refugee influx or in regard to accepting Islamic blasphemy restrictions on the freedom of speech — that apparently I am a misunderstander of Christianity.

Pope Francis

“Pope: ‘I trust the young politicians. Corruption is a global problem,'” by Aura Miguel, Renascença, September 14, 2015 (thanks to Angemon):

But this challenge to welcome these refugees who are making their way into Europe, in your point of view, could it be positive for Europe? Could it be beneficial, a provocation? Is Europe finally waking up, changing track?

It may be. It’s true, I recognize that, nowadays, border safety conditions are not what they once were. The truth is that just 400 kilometres from Sicily there is an incredibly cruel terrorist group. So there is a danger of infiltration, this is true.

Which could reach Rome…

Yes, nobody said Rome would be immune to this threat. But you can take precautions, and put these people to work. But then there is another problem, that Europe is going through a very big labour crisis. There is a country… In fact, I am going to mention three countries, although I will not name them, but some of the most important in Europe, in which unemployment for under 25 year olds is, in one country 40%, in another 47% and in a third 50%. There is a labour crisis, young people can’t find work. So it is a mixture of things and we can’t be simplistic. Obviously, if a refugee arrives, despite all the safety precautions, we must welcome him, because this is a commandment from the Bible. Moses said to his people: “welcome the foreigner, because you also were a foreigner in the land of Egypt”.

But the ideal would be that they didn’t need to flee, that they could remain in their lands?

That’s right, Yes.

Your Holiness, during the Sunday Angelus you made this very concrete challenge to welcome refugees. Have there been reactions? What do you expect, exactly?

What I asked was that in each parish and each religious institute, every monastery, should take in one family. A family, not just one person. A family gives more guarantees of security and containment, so as to avoid infiltrations of another kind. When I say that a parish should welcome a family, I don’t mean that they should go and live in the priest’s house, in the rectory, but that each parish community should see if there is a place, a corner in the school which can be turned into a small apartment or, if necessary, that they may rent a small apartment for this family; but that they should be provided with a roof, welcomed and integrated into the community. I have had many, many reactions. There are convents which are almost empty…

Two years ago you had already made this request, what answers did you get?

Only four. One of them from the Jesuits [laughs]; well done, the Jesuits! But this is a serious subject, because there is also the temptation of the god money. Some religious orders say “no, now that the convent is empty we are going to make a hotel and we can have guests, and support ourselves that way, or make money”. Well, if that is what you want to do, then pay taxes! A religious school is tax-exempt because it is religious, but if it is functioning as a hotel, then it should pay taxes just like its neighbour. Otherwise it is not fair business.

And you have already said that you will be taking in two families, here in the Vatican…

Yes, two families. I was told yesterday that the families have already been identified, and the two Vatican parishes have undertaken to go and search for them.

They have been identified?

Yes, yes, yes, they have. Cardinal Comastri dealt with that – he is my vicar-general for the Vatican – along with Monsenhor Konrad Krajewski, who is the Apostolic Almoner, and who works with the homeless and was in charge of installing the showers underneath the colonnade, and the barbers – truly marvellous. He is the one who takes the homeless to see the museums and the Sistine Chapel…

And how long will these families be staying?

As long as the Lord wants. We don’t know how this will end, do we? Nonetheless, I want to say that Europe has opened its eyes, and I thank it. I thank the European countries which have become opened their eyes to this.

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  1. Me says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 11:54 am

    What crap. Has there always been such a fine line between charity and stupidity?

    • Dr. Divinity says

      Sep 14, 2015 at 5:05 pm

      What??????Pope wants parishes to commit suicide????I thought that was against the teachings in the Bible….but it is in the teachings in the Koran. Hmmmm.

      • mortimer says

        Sep 15, 2015 at 9:15 am

        The results of parishes taking families may in the end be tragic.

        • Jay Boo says

          Sep 15, 2015 at 9:30 am

          Feed a bear and the bear will be our friend — as long as the food lasts or unless the bear gets an attitude.

          Grizzly man

    • Eternal Vigilance says

      Sep 15, 2015 at 4:28 pm

      Kerry says we should bring in 7,000 Syrian refugees; An Obama staffer says 10,000 and Obama says 70,000 over some months. I have a suggestion! Locate these Syrians with their Jihadi components in Hiannisport, Cape May, San Francisco, Minneapolis, etc. That should stimulate the liberals to really love these Syrians and to ask for many more. No sorry about that….What will they Say? NIMBY, NIMBY, NIMBY…..

      • Me says

        Sep 15, 2015 at 4:36 pm

        EV, let’s do this thing. You line up the destinations and I’ll have the buses at the airport for “refugee” pickup. We’ll be the de facto refugee placement committee – we’l privatize the gig. I’ll even drive the friggin’ buses, dropping off door to door. Let’s start with some politician addresses, sprinkling in some judges, social workers, etc. Each household gets a refugee family or two. Let’s save a few families for the Obama retirement homes, too – I’m sure he won’t mind, right?

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 11:58 am

    Does anyone here have the hacking skill to find some sort of paperwork or video/audio interrogation record for the “vetting” process of those two families ?

    Now that would be highly interesting . . . Also, find out if the Pope’s personal attendant has yet gotten the Holy Father’s new set of Kevlar vestments ?

  3. Juan Jose says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 12:28 pm

    Well, in defense of The Holy Father, he said “families”, not a “group”.
    By family, he means: A father, a mother and their children.
    But, on the other hand, maybe the Holy Father will find the awful truth: Just A handful of “syrian” families are actually reaching Europe, while most of those “refugees” are very healthy young MEN with bad attitude, to say the least.

  4. CogitoErgoSum says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    I keep wondering about the story of the Good Samaritan. Jesus gave us this parable to teach us something about who is our neighbor and how we should treat our neighbor. The story focuses mainly on the Samaritan and his willingness to help a man who was beaten, robbed of all his money and clothes and left lying for dead at the side of the road. The Samaritan stops to help the man and binds his wounds and takes him to an inn where he gives the innkeeper some money and asks him to watch over the penniless and wounded man. Before the Samaritan goes his way he tells the innkeeper that he will return in a few days to pay any additional expenses necessary to bring the poor wounded man back to good health.

    The story ends at that point and we do not know how long the wounded man ultimately stayed at the inn nor do we know how much money the Samaritan finally had to pay. Could it have been a huge amount? Perhaps. Jesus does not directly address the problem of what to do if the wounded man decided to take advantage of the situation and help himself to free food and shelter for as long as he possibly could.

    I don’t know about the Pope, but I am left wondering. Shouldn’t being a good neighbor also apply to the wounded man just as much as it does to the Good Samaritan? I am thinking that once the wounded man was back in good enough health to leave the inn he should have done so. One of his first acts upon leaving the inn should have been to thank the Good Samaritan and then the man should have resolved to do his best to repay his benefactor as much as possible as soon as possible.

    In my opinion there is another overlooked and unspoken lesson in the story. Being a good neighbor is a two way street. I hope somebody, especially the Pope, points this out to these migrants. It’s right to help someone in need but it’s wrong to seek to improve your lot in life at the expense of someone else. The wounded man did not force the Samaritan to stop and help him. The Samaritan helped freely and of his own accord. The wounded man should do the same for the Samaritan and anyone else once he is back on his feet and has money in his pocket. I don’t think these migrants understand that. I don’t think Muhammad taught that lesson. I’m not so sure about the Pope either.

    • somehistory says

      Sep 14, 2015 at 3:41 pm

      Good analysis. On top of what you said, the Samaritan did not take the guy to his own home. The man he helped and the Samaritan were not the same in all ways, so it was good he paid for the injured man to be at an inn.
      The pope is not saying these *migrants* or *refugees* are to be sent to a hotel..an inn…where culture is not really a big issue. If the culture says make a mess, the inn keeper can charge extra, but he is not expected to import in special foods for any guests who spend the night or longer.

      Is the pope going to allow imams to come in every Friday for instructional prayers for the *guests*?

      Who knows how long the *two families* will stay with the pope, but if they are like the fellows who have landed on Lesvos, he might reconsider his advice.

    • Doug says

      Sep 14, 2015 at 3:49 pm

      Does anyone know how Jesus learned of this story in the first place?

      • somehistory says

        Sep 14, 2015 at 4:37 pm

        Since the Bible doesn’t say, it could be that it happened before He came to earth, so He observed it from heaven.
        He might have heard it while traveling with his family and others back and forth to Jerusalem for the different festivals, or someone could have related it to him. at some other time.
        It is possible that He made it up…using the societal differences between Jews and the Samaritans, who were a mixture of Jewish and other nationalities…to make a point about what constitutes a neighbor.

      • Ginger says

        Sep 15, 2015 at 6:35 am

        It’s a parable – a story to illustrate good neighborliness.

    • tilda says

      Sep 14, 2015 at 8:17 pm

      I’ll play:

      Jesus said ‘love your neighbour’.

      Jesus then used the parable to illustrate what he meant by a ‘neighbour’.

      The good Samaritan was an example of someone who was a ‘neighbour’ to a man who had ‘fallen among thieves.’

      The two men who walked past the injured man do not fall within Jesus’s definition of a ‘neighbour’.

      The thieves themselves do not fall within Jesus’s definition of a neighbour.

      In fact, the thieves probably fall within Jesus’s warning about those who are ‘inwardly ravening wolves’, and when it comes to ravening wolves the first thing he said was ‘be wise’ — and I think that was a warning.

  5. duh_swami says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 1:52 pm

    If I take a ‘family’ in, how long will they stay?

    As long as they get free shelter at your place, free food at your place, free Obmacare, and a room they can use as a Mosque at your place…

    Years

    • Doug says

      Sep 14, 2015 at 3:50 pm

      Perhaps it would depend on whether or not you have beautiful blonde daughters.

  6. Angemon says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 2:42 pm

    Yes, two families. I was told yesterday that the families have already been identified, and the two Vatican parishes have undertaken to go and search for them.

    Their nationality and religion are not stated, but I’m going to go on a limb and say they’re Syrian Christian, in which case they’re unfit to be the measuring stick for the hundreds of thousand of “refugees” trying to force their way into Europe.

  7. Rob says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    I listened at church a week ago while the vicar read a letter from our bishop.
    The letter called on each parish to take in and support a refugee family.
    I have yet to hear a letter from the bishop read that asks for help for raped and brutalised Iraqi Christian, Yazidi girls. Or anything about help for Coptic Christian girls abducted and forcibly converted in Egypt.

  8. Don Foss says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    This Pope can blow off. He’s an idiot and a tool.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Sep 14, 2015 at 8:45 pm

      Spot-on Don Foss!

  9. TH says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    This is morosophy, i.e. learned folly. The fact is that the Vatican is on the top of the list of places which the jihadis want to take over and turn St. Peter’s Basilica into a mosque. They were stopped in 1683, thanks to the King of Poland and Pope Innocent XI. I wish he would study a bit of history and see how his pedecessors saved Europe from barbarity on several occasions thanks to the crusades.

    • Me says

      Sep 15, 2015 at 9:53 am

      Amen!

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 14, 2015 at 9:56 pm

    Pope admits danger of Islamic State infiltration among refugees, still wants parishes to take them in

    What could possibly go wrong?
    ………………………….

    What, indeed? These “refugees” might get a foothold from which to wage violent Jihad–why with luck, they might just decide to start right away and behead their host family!

    More:

    The truth is that just 400 kilometres from Sicily there is an incredibly cruel terrorist group. So there is a danger of infiltration, this is true.

    Which could reach Rome…

    Yes, nobody said Rome would be immune to this threat. But you can take precautions, and put these people to work…
    ………………………….

    *Really*? You can put violent Jihadists to work? Good luck with that…

    More:

    Obviously, if a refugee arrives, despite all the safety precautions, we must welcome him, because this is a commandment from the Bible. Moses said to his people: “welcome the foreigner, because you also were a foreigner in the land of Egypt”.
    ………………………….

    The Jews were *slaves* in Egypt–not *slavers*. Doesn’t that make a difference?

    More:

    What I asked was that in each parish and each religious institute, every monastery, should take in one family. A family, not just one person. A family gives more guarantees of security and containment, so as to avoid infiltrations of another kind…
    ………………………….

    Good luck with that–we have seen that there are very few families among these “refugees”–they are mostly aggressive young single men. What happens with this great influx?

    More:

    When I say that a parish should welcome a family, I don’t mean that they should go and live in the priest’s house, in the rectory, but that each parish community should see if there is a place, a corner in the school…there are convents which are almost empty…
    ………………………….

    Oh, great–we can have ravening Jihadists in our schools and convents…wolves among the sheep–could anything go wrong with that?

  11. Baucent says

    Sep 15, 2015 at 5:50 am

    Read what Lebanon’s Education minister Elias Bon Saab said today regarding the risk that Islamic State jihadists are hiding amongst the refugees;

    “When the Lebanese army were kidnapped in Lebanon, the people who kidnapped them came out of the camps. We had them in camps in Lebanon and we were taking care (of them) and all of a sudden they came out of the camps, they went against the army, they kidnapped the soldiers and they took them to the mountains.”

    Biting the hand that feeds them, a long and honoured tradition in Islam. Coming to the West soon.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 15, 2015 at 10:14 am

      Yes–and recall what happened to Lebanon as a result–Beirut went from being called the “Paris of the Levant” to becoming a watchword for war-torn hell hole. And the end result in the wake of this “civil war” is that Lebanon went from being a clearly Christian-majority nation to the chaotic mess it is today, barely better than the surrounding Islamic sh*t holes in the Middle East after inviting in the “Palestinian” Muslims.

  12. Isabellathecrusader says

    Sep 15, 2015 at 9:02 am

    Robert has an article on here talking about many Americans believing that Obama is a Muslim based on his behavior. The same goes for Pope Francis. Based on his behavior I fear that he is a communist. We know that the left, which includes communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, fellow travelers and useful idiots, is fomenting these ridiculous situations that promote the well being of Muslims over everybody else. That’s because, in their efforts to eradicate any trace of Christianity, which is the basis of Western Civilization and diametrically opposed to communism and the new world order, they have found that the Muslims and Islamic law are useful tools for doing just that. They let the Muslims loose to wreak havoc and then once the Muslims have turned the world into a super sized morgue, the communists will swoop in and take over what is left.

    As to the pope being complicit, this has been going on for a long time now. I was born in 1959 and during my entire lifetime there hasn’t been a truly Catholic pope. Starting with John XXIII, the popes of the second half of the 20th century have been complicit.

    When communism came into practice with a vengeance in 1917, Pope St Pius X had been dead for only three years. This pope, who very much deserves the honor of saint, was an active and bitter opponent of modernism. He knew what was coming and what would be unleashed on the world with the onset of WWI. He vigorously opposed modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine. He knew that the fruits of modernism would be oppression, murder in the form of two world wars, the Korea war and Viet Nam and the rise of deadly dictators like

    • Me says

      Sep 15, 2015 at 9:45 am

      Is:

      Agreed. The smoke of Satan, right? Communism married Freemasonry behind closed doors somewhere in that timeline. Since Masons embody Indifferentism, the enemy of their enemy is their friend, while socialism and all its forms were the warm hand in the glove. Both factions have been at work as hell’s appendages, most easily defined within the term “Modernism”. Pius X would have none of it. XI and XII were also warriors, for their part, but ultimately the flag was seized from the inside and the rest is (mournful) history. Further, I might dare add, there can be no proper counter to Islam under such Church conditions – we’re sitting ducks because Truth is presently in a headlock. Alas. Even so, in the end its a matter of preservation from principalities and powers, not sticks and stones. Carry on.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 15, 2015 at 10:25 am

      Isabellathecrusader wrote:

      We know that the left, which includes communists, socialists, progressives, liberals, fellow travelers and useful idiots, is fomenting these ridiculous situations that promote the well being of Muslims over everybody else. That’s because, in their efforts to eradicate any trace of Christianity, which is the basis of Western Civilization and diametrically opposed to communism and the new world order, they have found that the Muslims and Islamic law are useful tools for doing just that.
      ………………………………….

      The left is not entirely of a piece, Isabella. Hard-core Communists actively want to destroy the West; many Liberals are acting more out of bleeding-heart compassion, without a thought of how inviting these ravening Mohammedans into our societies threatens us,

      If they were all acting purely out of malice, then you wouldn’t find so many ordinary Westerners succumbing to pleas to open our gates to these “refugees”.

      Of course, in the end the result, regardless of motivation, will be the same.

  13. DiMu says

    Sep 15, 2015 at 10:40 am

    The best way to be a good Samaritan to the Islamic hordes would be to cure them of the plague of Allah, to bomb Assad into oblivion so they could all return to their own land and threaten that if the women don’t use birth control, they’ll all starve because the West can’t feed them!

    Christ was no wimp. He warned the world about false prophets – like Mohammed – and he warned of all hell breaking loose if we did not keep the faith (Post-Modern PC Victim-obsessed Ideology hates Christ as much as Muslims do) and he violently tossed the money-lenders out of the temple!

    We have been fed a sanitized version of Christianity by the lukewarm churches! Read the words of Christ!

    • Linda Rivera says

      Sep 15, 2015 at 3:24 pm

      Assad is no saint but compared to the barbaric Muslim terrorists that the U.S. and other Western leaders support, Assad is a saint.

      The wicked goal of U.S. leaders and their Muslim terrorist partners is the annihilation of Assad’s popular, secular regime which protects Christians and other minorities and its replacement with the most barbaric Muslim terrorists that ever walked on God’s earth, and full barbaric sharia law.

      If Assad and his government is toppled by the Obama regime and their Muslim terrorist partners, mass rapes, mass capturing of girls for sex slaves, mass tortures and a massive barbaric holocaust of Christians, Yazidis and other innocents will take place.

  14. Linda Rivera says

    Sep 15, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    Any leader including the Pope that says we should take in even one Muslim, are barbarians and have blood on their hands

  15. Father Agathon says

    Sep 16, 2015 at 1:33 am

    How many refugees has the Vatican City taken int?

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