“The Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, told a congregation gathered in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the Austrian capital that the priest had been crucified….However, members of Father Tom’s order have denied that he is due to be crucified, saying they have no information on his health or whereabouts.” So the situation is a bit unclear. But if the Islamic State has crucified Father Tom, they would have been acting in a completely Islamic manner, based on this Qur’an verse: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment” (5:33).
They probably believe that Father Tom waged war against Allah and his messenger and strove upon earth corruption. Did he draw Muhammad? Did he hurt Muslims’ feelings? No, almost certainly not. Father Tom most likely made war against Allah and his messenger and strove upon earth corruption simply by virtue of being a Christian priest in a Muslim land. They might have thought he was proselytizing, even indirectly.
In any case, he is probably dead now, and all his Western counterparts, all the comfortable, willfully ignorant, affable Father Toms in the U.S. in their lushly appointed suburban rectories, wouldn’t dream of saying a word about what happened to him or to so many other Christians in Muslim lands. To do so would harm the “dialogue” — the Muslim-Christian dialogue in service of which they have moved to silence all those who tell the truth about Muslim persecution of Christians, but which has not saved a single Christian from persecution, or a single church from destruction by jihadis. This “dialogue” has never accomplished a single actual thing, but the Father Toms of the world are staking the future of the Church and the free world upon it nonetheless. They no doubt imagine that by being silent about the persecution, and appeasing the persecutors, they will escape the fate of Fr. Thomas Uzhunnalil. But they won’t. They are all Father Toms.
“ISIS carries out Good Friday crucifixion of Indian Catholic priest in Yemen after he was kidnapped three weeks ago in attack on old people’s home where four nuns were shot,” by Sara Malm, MailOnline, March 28, 2016:
The Indian Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS-linked terrorists in Yemen earlier this month was crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed.
Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, 56, was taken by Islamist gunmen, reportedly linked to ISIS, who attacked an old people’s home in Aden, southern Yemen, killing at least 15 people, on March 4.
It was reported last week that several religious groups had received threats that Father Thomas would be crucified on Good Friday, but this was denied by his church in hometown of Bangalore.
However, the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, told a congregation gathered in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in the Austrian capital that the priest had been crucified.
It is not known how the Archbishop became aware of Father Thomas’ alleged fate, but his confirmation of the crucifixion during Easter Vigil Mass was reported in Austrian media.
Yemeni authorities have blamed ISIS for the March 4 attack on the refuge for the elderly operated by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in main southern city Aden.
Four gunmen posing as relatives of one of the guests at the home burst inside, killing four Indian nuns, two Yemeni female staff members, eight elderly residents and a guard.
‘According to our information, the extremists who attacked the elderly care home in Aden have kidnapped priest Tom Uzhunnalil, a 56-year-old Indian, who was taken to an unknown location,’ a Yemeni security official said.
‘We are aware that no group has yet claimed the criminal attack… but information points to the involvement of Daesh,’ said the source, who asked to remain anonymous, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
However, members of Father Tom’s order have denied that he is due to be crucified, saying they have no information on his health or whereabouts.
We have absolutely no information on Fr Tom,’ Father Mathew Valarkot, spokesman for the Salesians’ Bangalore province, told UCANews.
‘But even today we do not know who has taken him and what their motives are because no one has claimed responsibility.’
The Vatican’s Secretary of State Pietro Parolin said earlier this month that Pope Francis ‘was shocked and profoundly saddened’ to learn of ‘this act of senseless and diabolical violence.’…

john spielman says
I wonder if Dope Francis will reconsider that followers of islam are the”brothers ” in the faith?
islam is an antichrist religion that murders the faithful followers of Christ
bob says
Is the pope going over there and wash the feet of murders ???????????????
shosh7154 says
Catholicism is the same as islam. They are fingers on the same hand.
Lookmann says
1. Insensitive comment, especially if the report is true.
2. An evil cult founded by a barbarian equal to an organised religion ?
People like you are the reason for declining resistance to Islamic Supremacism.
Baucent says
No doubt you are including Father Tom in that shallow statement.
Manuel Paleologus says
If you would be an atheist, I would excuse your insane statement. But if there is a God, I would be afraid even that He is a forgiving God. Or you must be a promuslim like Obama, your president.
Your statement shows who you are. How can you compare Christianity with islam. Do you have some vague knowledge of history or of eschatology?
Christianity is true and real RELIGION. Since islam is not a religion but a cult filled with perversity and anti-humane concept which consider women as pets or sex toys.
May God have mercy upon your soul!
Mo says
@ shosh7154
“Catholicism is the same as islam. They are fingers on the same hand.”
Produce the open-ended commands from official Catholic teachings for believers to commit violence against unbelievers.
Once you’re done providing that evidence, provide the evidence where Catholics are committing such acts, all over the world, on a regular basis, in obedience to those open-ended commands.
I’ll save you the time: there is zero evidence for either one. And you know it.
Take your lies elsewhere.
mortimer says
shosh7154 wrote: “Catholicism is the same as islam”
Catholic ethics are the Golden Rule. Islamic ethics are the mob rule (K.48.29)
Catholic doctrine is based on revelation plus human reason. Islamic doctrine is based on one man’s revelation plus the sword.
These are two enormous differences.
The claim of shosh7154 is shown to be false.
Angry Aussie says
Are you stupid or just stupid? How offensive.
Abby says
shosh7154 is a Moron
Hope says
shosh7154,
A human being is crucified and this is your reaction? Even the most hardcore atheists I know have far more compassion and humanity within them than you do. You are obviously a twisted, sick individual.
gravenimage says
The repulsive shosh7154 wrote:
Catholicism is the same as islam. They are fingers on the same hand.
………………………
Where are Catholics kidnapping and crucifying Muslim clerics? Where are Muslim clerics running charitable homes for the aged?
Not only are you full of crap, but you are grotesquely offensive posting such tosh on a story like this one.
Cecilia Ellis says
Shosh wrote: “Catholicism is the same as islam. They are fingers on the same hand.”
The following differences are provided as evidence that your statement, Shosh, is incorrect:
1. The theology of Catholicism resides in faith and reason. Islamic theology relies on submission to principles mandated within its canonical texts, none of which rely on reason.
2. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to “love God above all things and your neighbors as yourself.” Islam mandates that you must kill your neighbors or subjugate them if they fail to accept your ideology.
3. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to feed the hungry, clothe the poor and to shelter the homeless. Islamic charity is reserved, when and if it exists, for fellow same-sect Muslims.
4. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to honor their mothers and fathers. Islam mandates that you must kill your mother or father should either convert to any other religion.
5. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to love life given by God. Islam exhorts its adherents to love death, especially the death of those who love life.
6. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to worship God in a weekly communal setting. Islam provides for the beheading of a youth for failure to attend one Friday prayer service.
7. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to use their God-given talents to contribute positively to humanity. Islam prides itself in the destruction of the fruits of those talents.
8. Catholicism is Trinitarian (Three Persons, One God). Islam denies the divinity of Christ.
9. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to refrain from deception. Islam promotes lying and assigns the title, “the Greatest of Deceivers” to Allah.
10. Catholicism exhorts its adherents to “pick up your Cross and follow Me” [Jesus]. Islam directs its members to put people on crosses.
11. Catholicism reminds its adherents that Jesus died for everyone. Islam dictates that its members should “strive” to die for Allah … and take as many with them as possible when so doing, as this pleases Allah.
12. Catholicism reminds us that “Jesus wept.” Allah has never done so.
There are many more characteristics that distinguish Catholicism from Islam, and many wonderful JW posters already have addressed some of those differences superbly. Most importantly, Catholicism teaches that God is a “God of love.” Islam cannot avoid the charge that, in its canonical texts, it promotes a “God of hate,” and the fruits of that inspiration can be seen in the Islamic atrocities committed throughout the world today.
Frank in Newfoundland says
Excellent riposte, Cecilia. Thanks for making the effort.
Cecilia Ellis says
Frank, thank you for your reply. Hope all is well with you and your family.
Frank in Newfoundland says
Really, shosh … you should include the decimal point before the ‘7154’ of your ‘handle’ so that the rest of us will know your IQ, and thus not judge you too harshly !
Sid Debgupta says
I wouldn’t say that. However Catholic Church has been complicit in the
Jasenovac massacres. I personally admire and follow the Orthodox
church, of the West, The Eastern has been destroyed long back.
But the church and the pope are different things. The current pope
is a useless glutton – he is not a man of faith. He should he defrocked.
Justin Royek says
The Orthodox Church of the east is still very much around, it’s just that it has been persecuted by the communist atheists and is making a HUGE comeback.
Angemon says
Unfortunately, Father Thomas was not the first person to be crucified by ISIS. Nor will it be the last.
Atheist Kaffur says
Obama didn’t even acknowledge that the victims in the Pakistan bombing were Christian. This is the center piece of story. Religious violence. Jihad terrorism is not ambiguous so why does Obama make it so. Who is he trying to protect? Own up to it Obama, its not fooling anyone anymore
Jaladhi says
He has fooled a majority of Americans and still doing it. Remember he was elected twice inspite of all information about his background. Naive Americans are easy too fool – and they are still not prepared to admit their mistake.
underbed cat says
This is so totally disgusting. But it is no bars hold in this world right now…until the disguise starts to reveal the” world class deception of the promoters.” and corrective course is accomplished.
Jaladhi says
This is Islam – pure unadulterated evil and Pope Francis wants dialogue with the murderers. He should be impeached. Have Catholics forgotten Pope Urban II? If it were not for him maybe all Christianity would have vanished under the Islamic empires!
Gary says
“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment”
Gee that’s odd. The Bible states: “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1)
No wonder muslims are so sad. Pitiful actually.
Sounder says
Now the gloves should come off.
John Harper says
They should have come off long ago.
dragaozao says
Another REAL martyr (although these days the word began to have a creepy meaning…). RIP. Fr Tom and thank you for your life. Maybe in the end love will win.
JakkiK says
“Catholicism is the same as islam. They are fingers on the same hand.” You must be a terrorist yourself, or support terrorism to make a statement like that.
Anything that happened 1,000 years ago does not apply to today. Religion has evolved, except for one, Islam. They are still in the stone ages. Show me proof that today in Catholicism, that women cannot drive cars, or walk in public without a male member of the family. Show me where here in the United States people that believe in Catholicism stone women to death. Show me where today they marry 9 year olds. Muhammad married a 7 year old and poor him had to wait until she was 9 to bear his weight for sex, show me that today, because in that fake arse religion of Islam there ARE 9 year olds being raped by grown men, claiming that they are their wives. There are current day pictures of children marrying grown men.
Just like an atheist liberal, trying to make statements out of the figments of their imagination, with no basis in fact. Go back to Huffpo and whine.
mortimer says
Pope Francis will not change his Pollyanna approach to Islam until someone very close to him is similarly ill-treated.
He is a doctrinaire cultural Marxist who is almost incapable of learning about Islam. Islamic doctrine cannot be understood through Marxist dialectics, but is a system of thought of its own.
Thomas Aquinas said his students could not understand a heresy until they were able to convincingly argue IN FAVOR of the heresy FROM THE INSIDE.
Pope Francis knows practically nothing about the jihad and kafir doctrines, and yet, he presents himself, preposterously, as an expert on Islam.
Edward says
The worldwide devote Christian community’s should tell the church leaders of all sects to reconsider their stance that “islam is a religion of peace”. If this murderous account of which is written about still doesn’t stir their stance we as Christian’s should consider forming our own sovereignty to determine who are our real enemies. Sometimes “Establishments” can be corrupted and we adherents could fall into error because they say maliciously what we should think or believe about our faiths to meet with their agendas!
I see in America the RCC adherents may start distancing themselves from the Vatican. As an example an RCC ally here in the USA has posted an article about Obama that is fact contrary to how the Vatican ranks him.
http://www.catholic.org/news/politics/story.php?id=68097
‘What’s his problem? Here’s just a partial list of what’s wrong with Obama’
The article does not minces their words:
# “Obama is one of the most disastrous presidents in American history.”
CRW says
The Austrian Cardinal on whose statement ALL the reports are based now says he was mistaken and that it is not confirmed.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/blog/fate-of-kidnapped-fr-tom-uzhannil-remains-unknown/?platform=hootsuite
Shmooviyet says
Pope Frank is ‘shocked and saddened’: more UNTRUTH from the foot-licker.
Dung Be Upon those who did harm to this priest.
abad says
Islam = Barbarism
But don’t expect any Muslims to condemn the murder of this priest. It won’t happen.
gravenimage says
Archbishop of Vienna says that the Islamic State crucified a priest on Good Friday in Yemen
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Damn barbarians. This poor man.
And this priest was running a home for the elderly in Yemen. Jihadists murdered several of the nuns there, as well.
I have no words for how much I loathe Islam.
D.V. says
Cardinal Schonborn has retracted his statement. A local Bishop claims there is reason to believe Fr. Thomas is still alive. Keep praying!
Ken Sears says
ISIS is a pack of psycho-sexual deviants getting off on bestially brutal sadism as the only way left, in their soul-cauterized subhuman state, to stimulate themselves up to some shred of an llusion of existence. They are the walking dead and the excrement of Satan on earth.