The “link the report makes between Catholic media, Catholic book publishers, and Islamophobia needs to be severed,” stated ethics professor can Catholic priest Drew Christiansen at a September 12 Georgetown University presentation. He referenced a new report by Georgetown’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) that presents new censorship dangers to Catholic “Islamophobes” who speak critically of Islam.
The report by ACMCU’s Bridge Initiative, Danger & Dialogue: What American Catholics Think and Write about Islam, found that “Catholic media outlets discuss Islam negatively overall” despite Islam’s supposedly benign nature. A Pope Francis quotation asserted “it’s not fair to identify Islam with violence” and hackneyed apologetics for Islamic law stated that sharia, rather than uniformly endangering human rights, “has been interpreted in diverse ways.” By contrast, “[t]hose surveyed who consume content from Catholic media outlets have more unfavorable views of Muslims than those who don’t.”
Surveyed Catholic views on Islam in Danger & Dialogue were correspondingly negative. In all, “[n]early half of Catholics (45%) believe Islam ‘encourages violence more than other religions around the world.’” “Catholics more often identified Muslims’ potential shortcomings or faults as major obstacles to good relations, than they mentioned Catholics’ faults,” the report stated in an accusatory tone without specifying such Catholic faults. Yet brutal realism justified that “[t]hree-quarters (75%) of Catholics felt that violence and terrorism committed by Muslims was ‘very much’ or ‘somewhat’ of an obstacle to better relations.”
As a contributing cause to these findings, Danger & Dialogue focused on how the “Islamophobia industry sometimes influences the production of Catholic content on Islam.” The report reiterated well-worn accusations from leftwing, George Soros-funded organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Center for American Progress (CAP) concerning “Islamophobes” in Catholic media. Muslim reformer Zuhdi Jasser, Donald Trump’s Catholic presidential campaign adviser Walid Phares, and Catholic academic William Kilpatrick all received critical citations. The report noted that books by the best-selling Catholic writer on Islam, Robert Spencer, a supposed “anti-Muslim hate group” leader and “misinformation expert,” are available in Washington, DC, area Catholic bookstores.
Such individuals were anathema to the panelists who presented Danger & Dialogue in Georgetown’s Riggs Library. The university’s well-known Islam apologist, Professor John Esposito, echoed the report by stating that “Islamophobia is growing exponentially in the US and Europe….Many would say it is at an all-time high.” ACMCU board member and Catholic Theological Union professor Scott Alexander in turn contrasted that Esposito, “one of my most faithful and treasured mentors,” belongs among Islam scholars to the “Islamophilic category, a category to which I unapologetically place myself.”
Once noted for having proclaimed as a Catholic “I love the Quran” despite its anti-Christian elements, ACMCU report author Jordan Denari Duffner, introduced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after her overview of Danger & Dialogue. She described him as a “longtime friend of Georgetown and the Center for Muslim-Christian relations…known for his powerful demonstrations of solidarity with his Muslim friends.” He reciprocated that “I have a number of heroes and heroines” among the presenters.
McCarrick, previously criticized for his erroneous beliefs that Islamic teachings parallel Christian humanism, referenced his participation last January in the Moroccan conference that issued the Marrakesh Declaration. He called this religious liberty statement made by Muslim clerics drawn from Islamic history a “beautiful expression of the very best that is in Islam…the real Islam,” notwithstanding the declaration’s and its signers numerous flaws. Alexander likewise offered the canard that dhimmis were “protected religious minorities during the medieval period in Islamic countries according to religious law, but were obviously in a second-class status.”
Alexander and Esposito dismissed this author’s scrutiny with reference to a recent speech by Knights of Columbus (KC) Supreme Knight Carl Anderson concerning the persecution, including genocide, of Middle East Christians. He had asked “can governments recognize and truly respect human rights if they are also committed to an Islam that totally organizes life on both the political and social levels.” Esposito paid little respect to the “grand knight or whatever” Anderson who had overseen the invaluable KC-assisted report on the Islamic State’s Christian genocide.
Alexander responded that he knew Anderson, a “very good man” who was “nonetheless not an expert in Islam or Islamic studies or Middle Eastern studies” and whose “assessment of the data is quite flawed and skewed.” Alexander rejected examining Muslim-majority societies in a manner that would “essentialize those very serious human rights violations as having something to do with Islam…some flawed gene in Islam.” “Most of those human rights violations take place in societies that are suffering from all of the ills that Catholic social teaching attempts to address,” he stated, as if sharia abuses in Iran, Saudi Arabia, or elsewhere had some socioeconomic root cause.
Yet many might find the views of Alexander, a man who seems oblivious to any dangers in Islam, “flawed and skewed.” The “Qur’an only permits violence insofar as it qualifies as a necessary component of the struggle for righteousness” and jihad commands Muslims “to work tirelessly, and in radical love, for the realization of justice,” he has written. He thus recommended the My Jihad website initiated by the Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations to whitewash jihad’s holy war nature. He also once offered in an expert witness defense brief for a Palestinian facing immigration charges excuses for his rank Islamic anti-Semitic statements, before public outrage forced Alexander to withdraw from the case.
Asking how Catholics like Spencer “get away with it without any public censure from the Catholic hierarchy,” Alexander and his fellow panelists desire a new inquisition against “Islamophobes.” “Taking a closer look at the message that is being communicated about Islam—and who is communicating it—should be a priority” for Catholic media, Danger & Dialogue states. This would be a “mark of professional maturity if the Catholic press were willing to monitor itself,” stated Christiansen, who has a long record of anti-Israel, Islamophilic, and leftwing statements. Catholics and others concerned about critical inquiry into Islam should beware.
Cross-posted from the Religious Freedom Coalition.

Michael Laudahn says
These ‘christian’ mutants are starting to feel scary.
jihad3tracker says
To August, Jaladhi, and Richard — whose comments are up in the queue as I write this at 10:18 —
The person in that picture is Jordan Denari Duffner (Andrew Harrod also knows & names her in his post). I have tracked her activities for two years, and will be back here later today with more about her.
jihad3tracker says
HERE ARE A PHONE NUMBER & AN EMAIL ADDRESS TO CONTACT JORDAN DUFFNER:
202-687-0290 —— bridge@georgetown.edu. As I write this, the time is 11:00 AM Sunday, so probably you will get voicemail for the phone call.
Therefore please keep a message as SHORT as possible (around 30 seconds maximum) so as many of us as possible can tell her what we think — politely, of course — about that report on “Islamophobia”. You could even write those remarks down first, to be sure of staying brief.
In email, of course, you have the terrific opportunity to shred her disgusting taqiyya — by giving a huge dose of reality on the slaughter done to please bloodthirsty Allah. Keep the subject line of your email NEUTRAL so it will actually be opened — and then, in the internal part with your remarks, let the truth fly.
jihad3tracker says
HERE IS A CONDENSATION OF THE ACMCU REPORT:
http://bridge.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bridge_DangerDialogueSummary.pdf
It has 10 bullet point paragraphs (in green at the top) and takes just a couple of minutes to read.
Kelly says
From the report:
“Catholic Answers . . . had the most negative sentiment.”
That is ridiculous. Catholic Answers isn’t about sentiment. Those are the ones who do apologetics. They know the Bible very well, church history, the Popes, and any other specific. They are thinkers with knowledge.
jihad3tracker says
Hello Kelly —
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, JORDAN DUFFNER ACTUALLY HAS A CATHOLICISM-CENTERED BLOG: https://jordandenari.com/
The main page this link should bring up is titled “Witness”, and its lead item is dated mid-July. Be sure to have a pail nearby to vomit into before reading its wretched content.
Keep in mind that she is one of the “special snowflakes” whose goal is to dominate America’s campuses, to push those former places of free speech and open debate into cowardly silence regarding Islam.
For Christians seeing this comment — and especially Catholics — maybe you can find 10 spare minutes before today ends, to email Mrs. Duffner [bridge@georgetown.edu] and let her know what you think as to whether she is truly a person in the faith.
Also, consider copying that email to Father Drew Christiansen, mentioned by Andrew Harrod above in Robert’s post. Make him understand that the kind of repulsive denial he and Jordan Duffner want to get away with just is not possible with the internet’s trove of facts.
AND HE DISGRACES HIMSELF BY SUCH BUFFOONERY.
Raja says
JIhad3tracker,
Thanks for the post in this regard. We need to remember that there are always stupid people around and some are “beauty without brains”. I hope she is not one of them.
Your ideas are worth seriously considering as it should be one of the COUNTER JIHAD strategies..
jihad3tracker says
ONE MORE PERSON WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE “DANGER & DIALOGUE” EVENT:
Scott Alexander — mentioned in the 5th paragraph of Andrew Harrod’s post — has an email address: scalexan@ctu.edu. Please include him in your counter-jihad campaign.
By the way, several years ago I was lucky enough to snag an hour of conversation with Dr. Harrod, at a coffee shop near our residences, when he generously took a slice out of his full calendar.
He holds both Juris Doctor and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. When I called him an overachiever, he replied (in very close paraphrase if my memory is correct) “My mother suggested that as long as I had the J.D., why not just go ahead and try for a Ph.D. too?”
Arthur says
I wish they would include in these surveys a poll of non-Muslims who read the Koran completely through and then ask, “Does the Koran call for violent subjugation of nonbelievers?” Given an expected result in the high 90%’s, would they then need to call for banning the Koran for non-Muslims as clearly a root cause for Islamophobia? But then, that’s what the old Dhimma said, isn’t it?
paul says
stupid tart should read it instead of loving it. She is simple “property” to islam.
David says
Why isn’t that woman holding up a sign that says: “I LOVE THE HOLY BIBLE”?
or: I HATE THE UNHOLY KORAN”?
or: THE KORAN=SATANS BOOK”
She is obviously NOT a Christian at all.
Any one, including Atheist can pick our almost any page of the Satanic koran and feel the hate of Satan dripping from its unholy pages. It isn’t even fit to use as TOILET paper. I wouldn’t let something that vile and evil anywhere near my shiny, pink Bum!
Kepha says
The girl in the picture shows that the proverbial “dumb blonde” is alive and well and living on America’s prestigious college campuses.
Raja says
David, The bible is sooo boring. Look at Koran it is power packed. Rape entitlement, polygamy, subsidy entitlement, lying for the devil god, murder and mass murder in the name of a god, for-ever-myopic 72 ever green virgins offer and many more to come.
Would any religion offer so much ON EARTH and after-life for doing nothing?
These kind would rather follow Hitler, who had a fancy for “everything powerful” than God who teaches in Galatians 5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
God bless,
Alexius Comnenus says
This blond girl is not a real Christian but an ignorant and a traitor of all the Christian moral values. As a Christian I cannot say “I love Quran’. It is incompatible and a preposterous statement. These are the people who intend to dug Christianity and to fall into the hands of the devil. Islam is just a demonic ideology and a cult. It cannot be add the class of world religions because its not.
Many Americans have this mentality until one day when they will see what they have accomplished. They don’t learn nothing from France, UK, Germany and the Scandinavian countries.
Kepha says
I demur. I do not know where this young lady’s heart is with God. In short, I do not engage in a Christian version of Takfir at this point. Perhaps, in God’s mercy, she is indeed one of the saved; just very ignorant and “tossed about on every wind of doctrine” (Eph. 4:14). While I freely admit I referred to her as a “dumb blonde” above, perhaps it would be better to pray for her and numerous people like her, that the Holy Spirit would draw them deeper into both Bible and Qur’an, and reveal to them that there is a great gulf between the two books–and the former if the real book of Jesus Christ.
The Bible nowhere says we are sinless. Paul, in Romans 7, says, “wretched man that I am”, not “wretched man that he was”, in pleading for divine grace and speaking of how it is provided in Jesus Christ. The student in the picture may not have sinned in terms of property or physical harm to another, but she certainly has followed some very wrong-headed teachers into sinning intellectually. That is why I allow a bit of charitable thought to go out to her and others like her. Maybe, one of these days, the faculty and board of places like Georgetown will wake up and repent of the swindle in which they are involved.
paul says
just because you are in a garage, it does not make you a car
Panda says
“[t]hose surveyed who consume content from Catholic media outlets have more unfavorable views of Muslims than those who don’t.” Yep, truth is kinda funny at times.
Sheykh Yer Weeni says
That woman holding the sign saying, “I’m Christian and I love the Qur’an”, is herself a sign of what is wrong with the West. We love little fairy tales about “peaceful Islam”, but are illiterate of our enemy, even to its most fundamental texts. When ISIS slaughters Christians, they fulfill their prophet’s words: “that the Religion of Truth may be proclaimed over all religion, even though the Pagans may detest (it).” Qur’an 9.33; 61.9.
The Infidel Imam honestly does not know whether to be feel compassion for all these stupid people, who are like sheep to the halal slaughter, or to be angry at them for what seems (at this point, certainly) willful ignorance. We have the greatest gift in history: Liberty, yet we seem to be trying to throw it away. I hope that we will wake up in a big way, and soon.
August West says
The Catholic Church is not a monopoly. Neither is Georgetown.
Don’t give your money or time to either.
Catholic leadership is in the process of jumping the shark.
mortimer says
If Roman Catholics withhold their offerings and tell the hierarchy why they are doing it, it won’t take long for them to think it over.
Church members are the only ones who can stop the madness.
Kepha says
Maybe somebody needs to nail up ninety-five theses against the acceptance of Sharia.
LR says
Kepha…Oooh, I like that idea…(You have the education to do it, right).
I think you should do it…
Kepha says
LR–
Once I get my head out of all the gobbledygook my school system piles on me, I have thought of doing such a thing.
But, given my uncharitable thoughts about the girl in the picture, who is probably some sort of seeker, I am thinking that, as far as God helps me, I will try to be as charitable as I can to the seekers and such Muslims who may be appalled at the horrors done in the name of their religion.
Of course, I would come down very much on the side of Christianity as truth. I recognize the pitfalls, given that the post-modern relativist seems to think every truth claim is “unloving”. But there is probably a way, somehow, to reach people who are disturbed about Jihad. My concern is how to do it in a way that honors Christ.
Alexius Comnenus says
As a clergyman I can say you are perfectly right since most of the catholic bishops and many priest are just a bunch of liberals with no love for the truth.
Custos Custodum says
Georgetown U has not been a Christian institution since at least the 1950s when communists took over from the old guard of more traditional Jesuits.
Georgetown U is now wholly controlled by the Saudis through Prince Alwaleed.
Clinton consigliere James Carville famously joked about dragging a $100 through a trailer park (“Look what you get!”) Even more amazing what $100 will get you in the quadrangles of Georgetown U.
Jaladhi says
One can see the face of stupidity in this picture!! What hope do we have for the nation where such nonsense is growing day by day. These people have absolutely no idea what is Quran and Islam about. Only when they livee under the misogynistic Islamic rule they will realize their mistake of delusional moral narcissism!
David says
The real holy book predicted that, during the “End Times” Satan would attempt to deceive the whole world. That woman in the lead in photo is a perfect example of that deception.
Your only protect is to know the truth of what is really happening.
Satan is trying to throw a cloak of “Spiritual Darkness” over the minds and souls of this Earths entire population. He has succeeded best with the forth world muslums!
Kay says
Agreed. Looks like she doesn’t know what either the Koran or Bible say. She just wants to “be nice.”
Mark Swan says
You are right Kay, she doesn’t have a clue either way, but seems just as happy doing it.
Alexius Comnenus says
And a idiotic moron.
paul says
Karl Marx running with Hillaty
Richard Paulsen says
The Stockholm syndrome. Can not imagine a woman in a burkawith a sign saying ” I am a muslim and I love the Bible.”
Kay says
Probably it is illegal for her to have one.
Richard Paulsen says
Quite right.
Custos Custodum says
Not Stockholm syndrome. Sadly, we are looking at full-blown Oslo syndrome.
paul says
Its illegal to have a cross in saudi
Lorenz Stransky says
Any Catholic who says that Islam is the “Religion of Peace” is a heretic. This includes the Pope.
August West says
Google “Papal Magisterium” a phrase which I learned on this site.
Basically what the Pope says goes and if anybody disagrees, then that person is a heretic.
This applies no matter how obviously stupid the Pope’s position on any given topic is. Msgr Sweatland was so cornered by Spencer’s fact based argument, that he had to invoke the “Papal Magisterium” gambit in order to exit the debate. He subsequently doubled down on this absurd argument.
If you have not listened to that debate, then please do. It is very illuminating.
mortimer says
Agree with Stransky – “Any Catholic who says that Islam is the “Religion of Peace” is a heretic.”
EXACTLY! Moreover, they are ignorant of the JIHAD DOCTRINE.
Raja says
Mortimer,
The Catholic church is pathetic on the doctrine front. They hardly know the bible/christian history.
All we can say to them is:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain – 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy) was a philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist.
Regards
Alexius Comnenus says
As a Catholic prelate I second you statement. It seems grave but I agree with you. This Pope is a Catholic “Obama’.
mortimer says
Danish researcher Tina Magaard, Ph.D. concluded that Islam is the most warlike religion. After three years analyzing the original texts of ten different religions, Tina Magaard concluded that the Islamic texts stand out by encouraging terror and violence to a larger degree than other religions do. She stated that ‘Islamic texts encourage terror and fighting to a far larger degree than the original texts of other religions. The texts in Islam distinguish themselves from the texts of other religions by encouraging violence and aggression against people with other religious beliefs to a larger degree.’
“What is striking is not in itself that one can find murderous passages in the Islamic texts, as such passages can also be found in other religions. But it is striking how much space these passages take up in the Islamic texts, and how much they focus on an us-and-them logic in which infidels and apostates are characterized as dirty, rotten, criminal, hypocritical and dangerous. It is also striking how much these texts demand that the reader fight the infidels, both with words and with the sword. In many passages, Muhammad plays a central role as one who encourages the use of violence, whether it comes to stonings, beheadings, acts of war or execution of critics and poets.”
Tina Magaard finds it particularly objectionable that so many Islamic scholars in her opinion knowingly fail to disclose these facts, and use their positions of power to create specific standards for what you can say.
Mubarak says
“Tina Magaard finds it particularly objectionable that so many Islamic scholars in her opinion knowingly fail to disclose these facts”
Well, if they did disclose these facts they wouldn’t be Islamic scholars, would they? They would rather be Orientalists in the Edward Said sense of that word.
Raja says
Thank you Mortimer for the educational post. It is useful to me and hopefully to all JW visitors. Regards..
Kay says
*Esposito paid little respect to the “grand knight or whatever” Anderson who had overseen the invaluable KC-assisted report on the Islamic State’s Christian genocide.*
I have been heartened in this crazy time of increasing darkness to hear Catholic radio. Along with faith strengthening prayer, there is often thoughtful discussion of current events.
There is more balanced political discussion than msm.
There are many faithful (to Christ) and thoughtful Catholics who see the dangers of Islam to Christianity. Knights of Columbus are leading within the church to raise awareness of the plight of our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world.
I find this increasing accusation of Islamophobia and call for censorship frightening.
The photo above is yet another that makes me want to vomit, this time with a dark chill.
TH says
Good on the Knights of Columbus. They are doing great work in favor of the real refugees who are in the Kurdish part of Iraq. Their Founder, Fr. Michael McGivney . will probably eventually be declared a saint by the Church.
john spielman says
Jesus PROPHESIED that there would be a falling away of may from the church just be fore the end. It appears to be happening with dope Francis and many of his hierarchy are already going over to the dark side – the darkness of islam rather than the light of Christ.
The spirit of the antichrist certainly is alive and well in Georgetown university, a cesspool of islamofascist repression with leftist totalitarian ideologues who will soon start to advocate killing us who refuse to bow the knee to muhammedans and their stooges like the above Drew Christiansen and that old academic whore of hell John Espostito
Western Canadian says
There have been many ‘falling away from the church’ events in history….. He also prophesied that his coming would be like a thief in the night, with no one knowing when…. You seem to disagree with him about that……
john spielman says
not at all! No one knows when He will return, but we now we are closer to it than when He prophesied it. Certainly the spirit of the antichrist ( those who deny that Jesus IS the only Son of God) is increasing and i think that is required before the lawless one is revealed- who will persecute and kill us who believe
Mark Swan says
In the book of Revelation, the Apostle John describes a beast, coming up out of the sea, that is influenced and given power by Satan (the dragon—Revelation 13:1–5). This beast will be a political leader who will gain power of a political system (see Daniel 2; 7). John then foretells the appearance of another beast who “performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven…and he deceives those who dwell on earth by those signs” (Revelation 13:11–18). This miracle-working false prophet will be in league with the first beast and bring pressure on the peoples of the world to become part of this system.
Together, the political leader and the miracle-working false prophet will lead the world into a Satan-inspired system that will be totally contrary to the laws of God. This will be the ultimate fulfillment of the “falling away” or “great apostasy” against God that the Apostle Paul described in 2 Thessalonians 2:3. Bible prophecies reveal this is coming in the years just ahead!
Mark Swan says
There are literally dozens of indications that we are in the prophesied “last days.” Let me give you just a few.
First, in Jesus’ famous Olivet Prophecy, He warns us to watch for the “abomination of desolation” described by Daniel the prophet, which will be “standing in the holy place” (Matthew 24:15). Nearly all scholars agree that the original “abomination” was a statue of either Zeus or Jupiter Olympus which was forcibly placed in the Temple of God by Antiochus Epiphanes in 168BC. However, many recognize the principle of duality here— that is, both a typical and antitypical (or later) fulfillment of this same prophecy.
Certainly, the final “abomination of desolation” to which Jesus referred is obviously after Jesus’ human lifetime.
Notice God’s instruction to Daniel near the end of Daniel’s prophecy: “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the TIME of the END. Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the ABOMINATION of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days” (Daniel 12:9–11).
Clearly, then, there must be some sort of temple or altar in Jerusalem at the END of this age where the “daily sacrifice” (v. 11) is being offered. And that is when the final “abomination” is set up. This passage also indicates that the Jews at the time of the END would have a significant presence in Jerusalem. None of this makes sense without a revived state of Israel, a Jewish Jerusalem and a rebuilt temple. So the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the 1967 Jewish takeover of the old city and the Temple Mount are very significant events. These already fulfilled indications tell us that we are indeed in the prophesied “time of the END.”
Another clear indication that we are in the “end times” is found in Matthew 24:21–22. Jesus had been asked, “What will be the sign of Your coming, and of the END of the age?” (v. 3). After describing a series of events and the placing of the “abomination,” Jesus stated: “For then there will be GREAT TRIBULATION, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, NO FLESH would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.” Here, Jesus predicted the most awful and enormous national punishment in history and the possibility of COSMOCIDE if God did not supernaturally intervene.
Cosmocide—the annihilation of all flesh—was not possible even during World War II. For although two atomic bombs were dropped to end the war with Japan, there were no more bombs available until months or years later. According to many authorities, it was not until about 1957 that—between the U.S. and the Soviet Union—enough atomic weapons existed to annihilate all humanity.
So with the return of many of the Jews to Israel in 1948, and the degree of atomic weapons proliferation in 1957, we certainly entered the “time of the end” by then—if not even before then.
Also, in Daniel 12:4, God told Daniel, “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the END; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Note that massive use of transportation facilities would mark the end-time, and a vast increase in man’s knowledge would occur. Again, since World War II we have come to take for granted the tens of millions of people hurtling through the air in our modern airplanes and jumbo jets. In almost every corner of the earth, men are now driving automobiles to and fro and are traveling around in a manner that would have been unthinkable before the 20th century began. In addition, the advent of radio, television and especially now, the widespread use of computers, have contributed to a virtual EXPLOSION in human knowledge when compared to past ages.
We are definitely living in the “last days”! Christ will undoubtedly return within the lifetimes of the young people growing up today—and many of us older folks may also live to witness this awesome event.
Alexius Comnenus says
Take a look at our churches-most of them are all empty. Look at our children and young relatives-do they go to church-do they practice Christianity in their everyday life. Nope.
Here is the crises-these devils come and feel this spiritual vacuum and the so called lamb fall like crap.
Mark Swan says
Good Observation Alexius Comnenus
mortimer says
Christiansen is apparently unaware of the purpose of Sharia law: the removal of human rights and civil liberties of ‘others’ and women or else…worse…he approves of the removal of freedom!
Christiansen invites us to go back to the 7th century. The Islamic rulers will tell the church leaders what to say and the clergy will control the dhimmis.
We are not going.
Alexius Comnenus says
Not me.
Kay says
**Georgetown’s Saudi-funded Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU)**
“Understanding” sounds so good. But how vital it is to know where funds come from!!
Looks like yet another word Mohammedens have assigned an alternate meaning.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
Human rights for Christians in Islamic Lands are determined through the Koran and sharia law. One religion has rights, the others are determined through the two bodies, the Koran and sharia law.
Catholicism human rights are God given from the womb to the tomb; all people deserve to be treated with respect, human dignity, regardless of religion, race, colour, and culture, rich or poor.
With the first, the laws are coercive, violent, degrading to the human dignity of mankind, public lashing, stoning to death, executions.
In Catholicism we hold Gods laws through (belief) faith, when we break them we accuse ourselves, we go to confession before God and we truthfully admit our wrongs. There is no coercion or violence here for we believe in Gods abundant mercy that extends to all people. We try to do better through Gods grace.
As Catholics we can never truthfully say that Islam is a religion of peace, are there peaceful Muslims yes. Our God calls us to the Truth in all things, so as Catholics we cannot say Islam is a peaceful religion when the first principles are false.
Is the Koran Gods revelation to mankind, as Catholics we say: no.
Is Mohammed a true prophet As Catholics we say: no.
Did Mohammed have any supernatural gifts, we say: no.
Was he violent: we say: yes.
Was he sexually perverse we say: yes.
The Islamic idea of mercy is perverse as can be seen above.
Our concepts off God, Mercy, Love, Human rights, women, are diametrically opposed.
It is a ridicules religion let’s not waste our time on it, even to compare Mohammad to the least of one of our thousands of saints, would be a disgrace.
We have dialogue d for far to long and all we have from them is death, suffering. We cannot dialogue with evil except to stand up unflinchingly and confront it.
As Catholics we are able to disagree and be in good standing with the Church. Our pope is our visible leader and our loyalty to St Peter must never waver.
Kelly says
Thank you for this Malcolm.
As you eloquently stated, Catholics are faithful and human (imperfect).
We are called to speak truth. To label that truth-speaking as “Islamophobia” is calumny.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
To Kelly: your last sentence is so true, this is what happens when secular philosophy creeps in to Catholic minds, the fads of the day take over our pastoral activity, on how we deal with other religions.
To recognize the good and ignore the evil, is a false position. To recognize the good and challenge the evil is the one Catholics have always taken. We do this in the sacrament of confession willingly with no coercion.
AvantiBev says
Don’t forget our baptismal vows which we reaffirm every Easter in which we renounce Satan, his lies, his works.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
AvantiBev, well said.
Damocles Junior says
To Malcolm (South Africa) Very interesting to hear from a JW follower in South Africa and also from the Catholic perspective. I also look forward to hearing your comments about Islamic problems in your country.
Malcolm (SouthAfria) says
To Damocles Junior, Thanks for the interest,
South Africa has many cultures and traditions, by enlarge most people get along quite well until a politician comes along.
We have a few issues that we need to deal with, like most countries. To go into detail is not necessary here as the information is freely available on the net. Like most things, one has to view that information objectively.
The issues that are concerning, are further north: Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Central Africa, Kenya, up to Libya and Egypt.
These situations that Christians and non believers find themselves in, is distressing as the
M S M largely ignores their plight.
We are not immune to what’s happening there.
Havoc says
“No Muslims. No Mosques”
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It works.
Kepha says
It’s times like this that make me humbly grateful to God that I am a hard-core Reformed Christian.
Shan Lim says
I’m trying to understand what the first sentence of this article is trying to say:
\\The “link the report makes between Catholic media, Catholic book publishers, and Islamophobia needs to be severed,” stated ethics professor can Catholic priest Drew Christiansen at a September 12 Georgetown University presentation.\\
Can somebody here explain to me? Sorry, English is not my native tongue.
b.a. freeman says
i think it means that catholic-sanctioned media need to stop being “islamophobic.” islamophobia is a bulls**t word made up by muslims (from CAIR?) to use left-leaning self-hatred as a weapon against those who wish to protect civilization against the pirates of islam. bottom line: it is not a phobia to fear those who wish to kill U as painfully and horrifically as possible. rather, the fools who are allying themselves with islam are the deranged ones.
Damocles Junior says
Hello Shan Lim. English is not your first language but just remember some words are the same in any language. “Treachery” and “Stupidity” are 2 such words. Both of these commodities are in plentiful supply in the media and left side politics.
Kepha says
Do you perchance know Chinese? My computer can put out Jianti Hanzi if I input Pin Yin.
Allan Ong says
How easily they’ve forgotten, 1300 years since the Battle of Tours, 900 years since the last crusade, 333 years since the Seige of Vienna, and the great Roman Catholic Church had forgotten their greatest enemy? We should hold bitterness or unforgiveness, but to discard our knowledge and learnings is reckless abandon. “Be as innocent as doves but as wise as serpents” is the exhortation of our Lord, because He knows the evil in the hearts of men and did not trust Himself borr His flock in their hands…
Angemon says
It may be related to the fact that Mr. Spencer is not a part of Catholic hierarchy. And that the RCC, through its official stance on islam, is at odds with him, whether or not they specifically mention his name. Oh, and attempting to use an institution to go after someone you don’t like on the grounds of wrong-thinking should raise more than a few eyebrows, especially from those who are a part of said institution. But what do I know? I’m not a university professor, I’m just a random muggle…
Mubarak says
I am a communist and I love Mein Kampf.
b.a. freeman says
so what? are U muslim? that would explain your love for monsters and twisted ideology.
b.a. freeman says
was that sarcasm? sigh … if so, sorry about that.
Mark A says
I wonder if the woman in the photo holding the sign saying “I’m Christian and I love the Quran” has ever actually read the Quran.
Might I suggest she start with Sura 9.
Green Infidel says
Incidentally, Sura 9 is widely accepted to be the second-to-last Sura as was “revealed” to Mohammed, in chronological order. Which, due to the principle of Abrogation (Sura 2:106), means it’s the second-most important. The last, and most important, being Sura 110, which contains just three verses saying that Islam should rule over all the world…
Custos Custodum says
We know she has never read the bible, at least not to the extent of understanding at least the basic principles of Christianity or Judaism.
Jerry says
So do I, when it is printed on soft enough absorbent paper
and used to pamper my sensitive rear exterior.
Kbrockm says
http://Www.thereligionofpeace.com
TH says
Thw gal with the placard is a consummate idiot. She obviously knows nothing about Christianity and less about the Quran. If this is what Gergetown is producing, better it be shut down.
Custos Custodum says
She is the type of smart dumb woman who understands her own limitations.
She knows exactly which side her bread is buttered. She is pulling this stunt because someone told her it will help her ingratiate herself with the vicious academic junta that determines her grades and introduces jobs in DC.
Afrostreewise says
I second that. Even though I am not an American, I can see it working that way. It works like that allover the world.
Allan says
“the Islamic State’s Christian genocide”??
How ridiculous. Christianity isn’t a genome, a race, or an ethic group.
Mark Swan says
It is used as a buzz word—
Genocide is the intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. The hybrid word is a combination of génos (“race, people”) and -cide (“to kill”).[1] The United Nations Genocide Convention defines it as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.[
BlahMan says
Islamophobia = Naziphobia
Janeatte says
How she loves Quran and she doesn’t know what in there?the Muslims themselves can’t read or understand the Quran they learn from their imams.how is in earth Christian woman will understand it. If she read it and loves it she is definitely an idiot person how she loves a book called women
with half brain and idiot
Jake says
Not all church leaders are so decieved. Cardinal Burke for one. Georgetown exhibits those characteristics one can see in a second rate university.
Johan elzinga says
The newspeak has begun. Soon writers like Robert Spencer, and politicians like Trump will be in jail for criticizing muslims and their book of horror. Burn the Koran and mock the picture of Mohammed and then we will see what happens – and watch how little is left of freedom of speach and freedom of thought in America. I think with those politicians these ideas of the founding fathers will not last a single day.
LR says
Well, ACMCU, if you want to help Muslim – American relations, how about working to help stop all the Christian persecution going on around the world? Might be nice to help some of those Christians in Pakistan…they have it pretty rough…and the Coptics don’t have it so good either, and we know how it is for Christians in Iran.
I think all those persecuted Christians would appreciate the support.
Chris says
Wow – how disillusioned is she – this is my problem with Christianity and Islam – Christians want to turn the other cheek and embrace Islam as a religion of Abraham – and Islam wants to behead Christians for being infidels – seems fair doesn’t it? Rise up Christians, Islam is the evil spoken of in Revelations and it is time we rose up against it instead of being useless liberal nut jobs and defend it’s evil.
Kepha says
No, Chris. Christians have marching orders from the risen and glorified Jesus himself that we are to make disciples of all nations, including those that are Muslim. In recent years, we’ve been caught flat-footed over numbers of Muslims who actually are inquiring and becoming Christians. If there are any such people lurking here, I would hope they would speak up and let us know what attracted them.
Carmel says
The unbeliever in the photo , above , will she have her neck strike soon or was it already doned and half-succeed?
Larry A. Singleton says
Letter to The Bridge Initiative 10-9-16 Fakebook Page.
Part I
“The Bridge Initiative presents: “The Muslims Are Coming” at Georgetown University”
“The Muslims Are Coming”
They sure are. And expect this comment to be summarily deleted/censored and my ability to comment in the future BLOCKED if the Catholic and Presbyterian churches are any indication.
From FrontPage Magazine
Georgetown University Presents Index Islamophobicus by Andrew Harrod (Jihad Watch)
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/georgetown-university-presents-index-islamophobicus
And
Tweeting Islamist Propaganda by Deborah Weiss.
Georgetown’s Bridge Initiative is a Highway to Sharia. (FrontPage Mag.)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/256978/tweeting-islamist-propaganda-deborah-weiss
“Nothing bad happened in the West after the publication of the Danish cartoons in 2006. Nobody died.” “There is no more anti-Semitism in the West anymore. The ‘Jewish Question’ has been settled with equality.”
These are just some of the lies spewed forth by “esteemed panelists” at the launch of Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, which embodies a new approach and stepped up efforts for the Islamist propaganda campaigns waged by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU).
“There is no more anti-Semitism in the West anymore. The ‘Jewish Question’ has been settled with equality.”
I’ll be sixty August of next year. I comment frequently that we’ve “gone from the Greatest Generation to the Generation of Degenerates.
I just commented a few minutes ago that the average 8th Grader at the turn of the century probably had more basic common sense, moral courage and intelligence than today’s college graduates who eat up this “Islamophobia” slop like pigs at a trough. Never questioning. Never asking questions. Basically too lazy and too stupid to do their own research and study the issues.
I have to say that even though it was our “Greatest Generation” that who saved the world from the Japanese and Nazis, even in the 1930’s you could see things start to go wrong. I just finished two great books:
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate by Greg Lukianoff.
The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses by Stephen H. Norwood.
Unlearning Liberty is a devastating expose on the state of our college campuses today and The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower talks about how universities across the land, its administrators, professors and students were singing kumbaya with the Nazis pretty much the same way that their academic grandsons and granddaughters are doing today with radical Islam. Having student exchange programs with Nazi Germany while they were in the process of murdering Jews and rounding them up and putting them into concentration camps the same way Berkeley is trying to get a student exchange program going with a Palestinian college that is a self-described terrorist mill.
It’s now okay to hate the Jews again thanks in large part to Saudi funded and controlled “Middle East Studies” departments and their foot soldiers, the Islamic version of the Hitler Youth, the Muslim Student Association and the genocidal Students for Justice in Palestine, a pro-Hamas Terrorist front group that has infested colleges and universities across the country. Our lamestream media will trot out the terrorist front group CAIR after every terrorist attack to remind us what a peaceful religion the “religion of peace” is right after doing doing a short segment on an “anti-Israel” protest where you can see students chanting “From the river to the sea-Let Palestine be free”. Without bothering to inform their viewers that what they just heard was a Hamas, Jew hating, genocidal death chant that when translated means “From the river to the sea-Let Palestine (Not Israel) be ethnically cleansed of every Jewish man, woman and child the same way that they and Christians were ethnically cleansed, mass murdered and raped in the “Muslim lands” that they had resided in thousands of years before Muslims came along and “spread their message” of Islam.
These “protests” on campus includes their Nazi styled boycott (BDS) movement designed for nothing less than the total destruction of Israel and extermination of every Jew.
No discussion or debate is allowed. Any mention of the real history of Islam is verboten and talking about the Koran or “the prophet” can get you beaten or worse. No thought on their “legacy” that is Jew hatred long before Israel got its independence.
Muslims are the only group in America with a full court press propaganda campaign designed to suppress any criticism of their “peaceful religion”.
While you hear about Buddhists in saffron robes bothering people in airports and handing out paper poppies or Jehovah’s Witnesses pushing their Watchtower pamphlets into your faces at your front door, most if not all, you hear about Muslims is the new normal that is increasingly brutal terrorist attacks across the globe and in places like my hometown of San Bernardino.
Larry A. Singleton says
Part II
I mentioned earlier today also that six years ago I knew absolutely nothing about this issue until I happened to read The Haj by Leon Uris and Because They Hate by Brigitte Gabriel.
I explain that what started out as a little curiosity blossomed into full blown fear as I studied Islam and watched what was going on around me.
What gave me an edge on most people when it came to this issue was the fact that I was a construction worker and saw how the same people who had sold me out to illegal aliens were the very same actors rolling out the red carpet to radical Islam.
To make a long story short it was the initial reaction to questions I had early in my studies that started the alarm bells ringing and the red flags waving.
I had purchased a Summarized Sahih Al-Bukhari which happened to have an article on Jihad written by a Sheikh Abdullah bin Humaid in it submitted almost as an Introduction. And nowhere in this article was anything about “struggling” to take your kids to school or “striving” to hold down two jobs.
When I contacted the publisher to ask about this the deafening silence I received in response and the replies from “Imams” and “experts” online pretty much set the tone for the treatment I got for the next six years anytime I asked a hard question about the Koran or Islamic history.
It was all about blowing smoke up my ass, whitewashing or outright hostility.
Six years later I’ve got books that go from floor to ceiling and hundreds of articles, essays. profiles and reports stuffed into filing cabinets in my “office”.
I won’t bother to list all the books I possess and have read on this subject as it wouldn’t matter one damn bit. As I’ve learned from literally countless useful idiots and terrorist shills whose only response when I post my information is name calling, embarrassing silence or blocking me on their Fakebook pages.
Suffice it to say that not once in six years has a single person, not one “academic” or “scholar”, ever read anything I’ve posted and tried to dispute, refute or debunk a single word. THAT’S their idea of “dialogue” and “debate”; Not to have any.
Instead, what you have is fear. The kind of fear you see like those of our local “leaders” in San Bernardino who crawled on their bellies to the terrorist’s mosque after 14 of their fellow citizens were slaughtered to “reassure” Muslim that THEY had nothing to fear. Where people are so “terrorized” they’re afraid to even print a cartoon of the “holy” prophet. And do you notice it’s always the “prophet” Muhammad, or the “holy” Koran. Do you ever hear of the Bible or Jesus Christ being referred to in that way? So afraid of this “religion of peace” that religious or cultural events practiced for generations are canceled for fear of “offending” Muslims.
No discussion about any of that. Just catering to every hissy fit over some alleged hate speech/hate crime perpetrated against an “offended” Muslim. You can piss and crap all over Jesus Christ but just one wrong word about the “holy prophet” or “holy Koran” and people are diving under desks like it was some kind of a nuclear bomb alert. What was that cartoon “Fireman Bob” or some such. The character accidentally walked over a page of the Koran? You’d have thought “Fireman Bob” had taken a puppy and slit its belly open on live TV!
Take all the religions of the world and think of a common denominator in your head and then do the same with Islam and Muslims. You’re telling me that “terrorism” isn’t a “logical conclusion” when it comes to Muslims and Islam?
Here are a few things to ponder; Islam doesn’t have a “Love Thy Neighbor” or “Equal Rights” that are the equivalent of Christianity and our Bill of Rights.
Excerpt from “On Jihad” letter that I wrote a while back. My point; always “compare”. Compare Muhammad to Jesus, compare Sheikh Abdullah bin Humaid’s article on Jihad to Emmet Fox’s book Sermon on the Mount and compare the Koran to the Bible. And compare the religion that promotes itself as “the religion of peace” with the religion that doesn’t have to.
A Study of the Word “Love” in the Qur’an by Farid Mahally http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Themes/love.htm
Comparing Islam and Christianity” A Side-by-Side Comparison. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/jesus-muhammad.aspx
The ‘Same God’ Question by Ralph Sidway.
Dustin says
Jesus never said to love Satan
Raja says
Dustin,
Proverbs 25
11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver Is a word spoken in right circumstances.
Thank you
TL CLARK says
The gal in the pic is just another example of a kid ‘maybe’ raised in a Christian home who walks away from Christianity when going out into the world and just wanting to appease the masses. Many ‘Christian’ children do not really have a relationship with Christ; they THINK they do because their parents took them to church and they sat in Sunday School and in a pew. That does NOT make a Christian. Only a personal relationship with Christ does that.
Eric says
She apparently believes that being a white Westerner makes her a Christian. Now if she’d only get around to opening an actual Bible…
Carolyne says
Their views are indeed “Skewed” and they need to be skewered, a method of cooking which I believe originated in Turkey, involving a spit turning over fire.
Brian Hunter says
The grin on the woman’s face is the result of her belief that she is “sticking it” to right-wing Islamophobes. She, being a good leftist, would sacrifice her own soul to that end. The truth means nothing to leftists, therefore there is no quest for truth. They operate from Rules for Radicals. All of life’s major questions are just opportunities for street theater to them.
Joe says
Whoever believed there would not be zombies out there, just have a look at the picture above, lol.