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Muslims enraged over video of migrant girl kneeling at Pope’s feet, say it humiliates Muslims

Apr 19, 2016 1:25 pm By Robert Spencer

Vocativ unwittingly reveals the supremacism behind the rage: “Many were ashamed and humiliated by the symbolic scene, since it allegedly showed a girl from a country with a Muslim majority at the feet of a Christian leader…”

Pope and kneeling girl

If this sight enrages and humiliates Muslims, imagine what Muslim leaders must have made of this photo:

Italy Pope Holy Thursday

Undoubtedly many took it as a sign of the humiliation of Christianity and the submission of the Pope to Islam and Muslims.

“Muslims Slam Arab Leaders After Refugee Kneels At Pope’s Feet,” by Gilad Shiloach, Vocativ, April 17, 2016 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

A video showing a young girl prostrating herself at the feet of Pope Francis in a refugee camp is stirring anger among Arabs and Muslims across social media. They’re denouncing the scene as humiliating for Muslims and criticizing leaders in the Middle East for abandoning refugees.

The video was taken during the pope’s Saturday visit to the Moria refugee camp on the Greek Island of Lesbos, where 3,000 migrants face threats of deportation under a newly-implemented deal between the E.U. and Turkey. While he was meeting refugees at the detention center, a young girl dressed in pink and white approached him, knelt down and kissed his feet until he lifted her up by her shoulders. She was crying.

Posts with the video, which many said showed a Syrian girl, went viral across Twitter and Facebook, drawing a surge of comments from people also posting the hashtag #SyrianGirlKneelingInFrontTheVaticanPope (#طفلة_سورية_تسجد_لبابا_الفاتيكان), Vocativ discovered. Many were ashamed and humiliated by the symbolic scene, since it allegedly showed a girl from a country with a Muslim majority at the feet of a Christian leader, and was a clear example of the desperation felt by so many Syrian refugees.

Many blamed Arab leaders for the humiliation, saying refugees were abandoned by the Arabs and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, since he signed a deal with the E.U. saying asylum seekers who make it to Greece can be returned to Turkey if they don’t qualify or apply for asylum. Another social media user criticized the Arab Gulf states “who abandoned the Sunnis in Syria and Iraq at the hands of the Shiite and didn’t open the asylum gates” for refugees—an attack on how little Gulf states have done to even consider admitting Syrian refugees.

Another blamed Muslims as a whole. “The Syrians are kissing the hands and feet of the Pope,” wrote one Qatari user. “The Muslims came to such a humiliation because of our incompetence to support them.” Others viewed the pope’s visit to the refugee camp as a sign that he’s trying to evangelize Muslims. “Evangelizing the Syrian refugees has started,” one wrote, while another called on Arab leaders “to pay attention to this attempt.”…

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  1. dragaozao says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:34 pm

    Last Easter Francis did the same thing. I know he has people around him that know very well how these gestures can be interpreted and can advise him properly. So… why this? Whi has the leader of the Catholic Church aligned with the other werstern leaders? He should know better for he knows better that anyone what is happening to christians in muslims countries. So… why? This is not a messianic gesture. It’s just stupidity!

    • TH says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 2:21 am

      I don’t think he would pay any attention to those who know even if they did advise him. He is hell bent on making this kind of gesture. I think he is incorrigible. Popes should not kiss the Koran either, as in accordance with Catholic and Christian doctrine, it is a false revelation. It is the negation of everything which Christianity stands for, whatever denomination one belongs to. Allah is a false moon god who is the direct opposite of all that is in the Bible. He HATES non muslims and order that they be murdered. Is anything more contrary to the teaching of Jesus, and the Old Testament, than the notion of a god who hates the majority of human beings?

    • heidi says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 5:31 pm

      The pope and his Council of Catholic Bishops has 79 million reasons to continue obfuscating the truth as they continue to get rich off U.S. tax payers who are coerced into funding their resettlement of mostly Muslim “refugees” into the U.S. : http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/catholic-church-paid-79-million-by-obama-administration-to-force-migrant-invasion/ and that was in 2014. Of course the catholic church does have some debt issues: the $3 billion it owes to it’s child abuse victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases . expect many more staged scenes in the future.

  2. Marty says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:37 pm

    The only times mohammedans like women to kneel are for
    1 Sexual purposes
    2 Beheading

    • grace says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 9:35 pm

      And cooking, and milking the family goat.
      Good answer Marty.

    • Westman says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 10:15 pm

      3. Getting publicly lashed or stoned.

  3. Angemon says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    Was the girl even a muslimah?

    Another social media user criticized the Arab Gulf states “who abandoned the Sunnis in Syria and Iraq at the hands of the Shiite and didn’t open the asylum gates” for refugees—an attack on how little Gulf states have done to even consider admitting Syrian refugees.

    Sssshhhhh!!! Don’t you know that saying such a thing is “islamophobic”?

    • Rev g says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 4:42 pm

      That is irrelevant to them, she could too easily be mistaken for muslim.
      But of course, that is stereotyping.
      It doesn’t have to make sense, it gives justification to one more outage.

    • Ginger says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 5:34 pm

      They got round the small problem that the girl might not be a Muslim by invoking the “Muslim majority” country argument.

      • Rev g says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 9:06 pm

        In that case, westerners should be outraged at women wearing hijabs and burkas in our nation’s that are not muslim majority.

        • Bob says

          Apr 20, 2016 at 6:23 am

          We are, but our PC-bound politicos don’t hear us!

  4. gravenimage says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    Vocativ unwittingly reveals the supremacism behind the rage
    ………………………

    Anyone else would just see this as gratitude–but Muslims see anything less than their wielding full control over threatened dhimmis as “humiliation”.

    • miriamrove says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 1:46 pm

      Muslims are very happy when an infidel(pope) kisses a muslim’s foot as sign of the infidel’s submission but the other way around, all hell breaks loose. M

    • Lucretius says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 8:23 pm

      I wonder how many helpless Middle-Eastern Christians will get beat on to make up for this ‘humiliation.’

      • DFD says

        Apr 20, 2016 at 11:13 am

        Indeed, besides, the girl could well be Christian.

        They are offended and enraged? So are we. Lets show them how enraged and offended we are, with Napalm, phosphor, TNT and torpex – tonne after tonne, tonne after tonne…

        Until there’s nothing left!

  5. Angemon says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:44 pm

    A video showing a young girl prostrating herself at the feet of Pope Francis in a refugee camp is stirring anger among Arabs and Muslims across social media. They’re denouncing the scene as humiliating for Muslims and criticizing leaders in the Middle East for abandoning refugees.

    Dear enraged muslims (but I repeat myself), I have only one word for you:

    TAKBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIR!!!

    Your truly,
    Angemon

  6. D says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:53 pm

    You hear that Pope, it sounds like those “poor” Muslims don’t like you very much!

  7. Guest says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    Well for better or worse it sounds like people are demanding the Muslims to take responsibility.

  8. jayell says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    Muslims ‘enraged’ by this, ‘demanding’ that, ‘humiliated’ at the slightest thing (in this case, as a result of their own bigoted negligence)….my, what a big opinion of themselves they have!! They really are INSUFFERABLE!!!

  9. mustapha crap says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:34 pm

    Well maybe if the rest of the Muslim nations all 57 of them took in the refugees themselves instead of washing their hands of their co-religionists they would be in camps in southern Europe.

    BUT that would be far too easy and logical for the poor downtrodden oppressed Muslims wouldn’t it. Instead they blame everyone else and expect western nations to clean up the mess that they created themselves over the last 1400 years.

    The ONLY language they understand is overwhelming force ANYTHING less is seen as weakness to be exploited, We should start sinking the boats coming across the Med from north Africa and using live ammunition against ANY of these scum trying to break through border fences.

    Send them back to their 3rd world Islamic shitholes of their own making or send them to hell either destination is preferable to them entering the west.

    • DFD says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 11:19 am

      mustapha crap says: “………We should start sinking the boats coming across the Med from north Africa and using live ammunition against ANY of these scum trying to break through border fences….”

      Indeed. One of the effects would be that *such action will actually save lives*. They’d stop coming, thus no one drowns.

      Apart from that, it may even cause them to change things in their own countries – I know, fat chance.

  10. Michael O'Neill says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    The Pope SHOULD be evangelising Syrian refugees. That’s his job.

  11. Kepha says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    Maybe the poor girl was simply overwhlemed that somebody seems to care? When was the last time the Saudi royals, for example, ever hobnobbed with the truly needy?

    • mortimer says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      Agree.

      No refugee will kiss the feet of the Soddy Barbarians for rescuing them. They abandoned them. No one wants to go to a restrictive Muslim country. Most of the Muslims want to escape!

    • Angemon says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 6:19 pm

      Indeed.

  12. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    At least one Muslim has a brain: ““The Muslims came to such a humiliation because of our incompetence to support them.”

    Muslim oil states could take all the refugees and not suffer.

  13. Ralph says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    A holy man offering comfort and solace to a woman (despised gender) of a truly despised people (Muslims). I hope this message of blessing and mercy runs far and wide in the Islamic world, and that as many Muslim women see it as possible. They must suspect that God has not forsaken them completely. A more corrosive image to that horror-show society I can’t begin to imagine.

  14. Senthil Kumar says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 5:41 pm

    Pope not only knelt but also washed and kissed feet of a few migrants a few days ago.

  15. linnte says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    They are accusing the Pope of trying to convert all while THEY are trying to bring more Westerners into THEIR FOLD! The hypocrisy is…..well..,..typical.

  16. grace says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 9:29 pm

    It sems only fair for a moslem to kiss the pope’s feet, after all the moslem a*se he has kissed.

  17. isabella van der westhuizen says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 1:52 am

    Well the commentators are right I suppose
    Why did the Muslim world not rush to take in these Islamic refugees
    Where is the legendary love and peace towards your Muslim brother and sister

  18. Jay Boo says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 1:58 am

    ???
    How is the Pope humiliating Muslims?

    He is not performing forced FGM on her.
    He is not flogging her in public.
    He is not binding her for an Islamic stone pummeling.
    He is not fondling a six year old year 3 years before consummating a child bride marriage.

    Muslims need no help in humiliating themselves.
    They follow Muhammad’s example.

  19. tilda says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 4:31 am

    Jesus *washed* his disciples’ feet, he did not kiss their feet.

    What is this pope smoking? (If he’s kissing feet then he just doesn’t get it.)

  20. David M says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 6:14 am

    She’s telling the Pope: “if only I belonged to a decent religion like Christianity, not a seventh century backward piece of crap pretending to be a religion, called Islam.”

  21. Angemon says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 7:20 am

    https://i.imgflip.com/12svwx.jpg

  22. Pere LaChaise says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 10:24 am

    Reading a few of the ignorant and spiritually deaf arguments above, I had to skip the rest. It’s obvious what is going on in both pictures of His Holiness, that he is embodying Christ as both Lord and Servant. What did He say when Peter rebuked Him for speaking of his upcoming voluntary Crucifixion? Christ said, “get thee behind, Satan!” Peter’s thoughts were entirely worldly, like those of Moslems, who say that none of God’s prophets suffered any disgrace (which points put their utter ignorance of scripture).

  23. Marietta says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    Someone has better hide that young girl quick before Muslims grab her and stone her to death.

  24. JTLiuzza says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 5:02 pm

    A) When are muslims not “enraged”??

    B) For just this once I agree with them. Jorge Bergoglio is a raging heretic. It would be humiliating for anyone to honor him.

  25. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 6:17 pm

    The current Dope is a socialist – socialists are gangster extortionists (criminals).
    Permanent, institutionalized extortion is better known as slavery.
    He might as well be a muslim.

  26. Moshe Akiva says

    Apr 20, 2016 at 11:24 pm

    The Pope can make for this. Next time he will kiss the ass of a Muslim savage and we’ll call it even.

  27. Florida Jim says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Obama grovels at everyone’s feet except Republicans there he mocks and ridicules as taught by Saul Alinsky.

  28. steve says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 9:48 am

    What an excuse for a Pope, Makes cathollcs proud, He seems to like a bit of toe sniffing, doubtless he also does a bit of clandestine bicycle saddle sniffing , next step on the Pope’s descent must be a bit of bidet scraping…….

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