Pope Francis is doubtless on his way to Philadelphia now to explain to young Ahmad Shakoor that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.”
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“US teen pleads guilty to IS-inspired plot to kill pope,” AFP, April 3, 2017:
Washington (AFP) – A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to a plot allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group to kill Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to the United States.
The US Justice Department said Santos Colon, 15 years old at the time, sought to recruit a sniper to shoot the pope as he celebrated mass in Philadelphia on September 27, 2015. Colon also allegedly planned to set off explosives.
But the teen unwittingly recruited an undercover FBI agent for the job, and was arrested quietly 12 days before the event.
“Colon engaged someone he believed would be the sniper, but in reality was an undercover FBI employee. Colon engaged in target reconnaissance with an FBI confidential source and instructed the source to purchase materials to make explosive devices,” the Justice Department said in a statement.
Court documents said Colon sought to carry out the act in support of the Islamic State group and that he had used the adopted name Ahmad Shakoor.
In a plea bargain with prosecutors, Colon, now 17, agreed to forego trial and plead guilty as an adult to one charge of providing material support to a terror group.
With the deal, prosecutors dropped three other charges filed against him as a juvenile.
Court documents said the charges were in relation to the Islamic State group, which Washington has designated a foreign terrorist organization….
Colon faces a maximum of 15 years in prison but sentencing would likely be held off until 2021 while he undergoes psychiatric treatment in a secure facility.
In a plea statement, Colon acknowledged having been a patient in a mental institution in the past.
Oh, well, that explains it.
ECAW says
Oh no, that’s a disaster.
I mean that would be a disaster, officer.
Dave Flang says
Pope:
253. In order to sustain dialogue with Islam, suitable training is essential for all involved, not only so that they can be solidly and joyfully grounded in their own identity, but so that they can also acknowledge the values of others, appreciate the concerns underlying their demands and shed light on shared beliefs. We Christians should embrace with affection and respect Muslim immigrants to our countries in the same way that we hope and ask to be received and respected in countries of Islamic tradition. I ask and I humbly entreat those countries to grant Christians freedom to worship and to practice their faith, in light of the freedom which followers of Islam enjoy in Western countries! Faced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.
The Pope needs what these brothers found.
The Kurdistan Brothers – Muslim Converts –
A brother is born for adversity according to an old proverb and the two brothers in the following story illustrate the truth of that saying. When the younger one broke with tradition the older one wanted to break his neck. This is the true story of Syeed and Kocka, two brothers from Kurdistan who were adversaries until their minds, and hearts and lives were unshackled.
stefanie sleep says
Now there’s a turnup for the books, the pope, the islam lover. Wonder what he’s feeling now with his rhetoric of, “islam is not a murderous cult/sect/tribe” the silly old nincompoop.
TheBuffster says
Well, this plot was uncovered two years ago. It’s just that the kid is being sentenced now. So the pope has known about it for two years, and it hasn’t made any difference to his rhetoric.
I guess he thinks that it’s a Christian’s duty to love his enemies and even to die for them while trying to do the kind and generous thing, with love in his heart. Total altruism. Total self-sacrifice.
While the true-believing Muslims believe in sacrificing the liberties and lives of unbelievers to Allah’s will, the pope seems to believe that it’s better to sacrifice the liberties and lives of Christians and other non-Muslims to their enemies rather than to say or do anything hostile towards those enemies because – love thine enemies? Is it that he thinks that true Christians are more likely to be fit for heaven if they are tested harshly in this world so that they can meet horrific cruelty with kindness and forgive their enemies? (Whereas the purist Muslims believe killing Allah’s enemies – unbelievers, blasphemers, apostates – and dying in jihad against unbelievers is the surest way to Paradise.)
Maybe this pope believes Christendom has been corrupted by more worldly principles and needs to be cleansed through persecution and suffering, so that Christians can prove their devotion to Christ by suffering and dying, refusing to renounce him and refusing to return evil for evil against their enemies?
Maybe he believes that this is the form that the Apocalypse is meant to take, and how the sheep will be separated from the goats?
I don’t know that he does believe these things, but when I look at the situation through this pair of glasses, his behavior makes “sense”. I don’t approve of the sense it makes, because I’m a worldly sort of person who doesn’t believe in giving over the world to the enemies of liberty and reason. So someone who is, in essence, advising us to do just that may well have some unrealistic, unworldly vision driving him.
DFD says
‘bit off topic,
A greeting card from London. The area around Whitechapel Rd. is where ripping Jack was active.
I wonder that they haven’t take offense to the name “Whitechapel”… Have a look:
https://pi-news.net/wp/uploads/2017/04/london_islam-768×481.jpg
St Ferdinand says
Live in London as well. Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, Shepherd’s Bush…completely Moslemified. They are also dirty, beknighted, poor, welfare and crime ridden. But of course these attributes have…drum roll….’Nothing to do with Islam’. Muhammad was white – very white. Vast majority of Moslems are not. Maybe Umma-Chapel is better ?
DFD says
Chapel is Christian. They’ll take offense to that, and as we all know, Muslims must not be offended. Unless you wish to be called a Nazi/Racist/Imperialist/etc.!
Benedict says
Apparently Islam is conducive to mental illness. It is also conducive to terror, hate, resentment and other anti-social behaviors and sentiments.
Isn’t that an indictment of Islam? And why is it so difficult to see it?
mortimer says
Benedict asked, “why is it so difficult to see it” i.e. the dysfunction of Islam. Why the denial of the obvious? People live day by day, and want to get along with their neighbors and associates, so they avoid talking about things that divide them. They deny the differences. After WWII, Americans started immediately looking for ‘the Good German’. The truth was that most Germans had some idea of the genocides they were supporting, but looked the other way. The truth is that most of the German army committed crimes against humanity at some time, but they covered it up. It has come out through analysis of secret documents from the time. A tiny number of Germans were brave enough to protest the atrocities.
There is no way that Muslims do not understand that Islam teaches crimes against humanity. The way they get out of this moral impasse is to use ‘TU QUOQUE’… everybody’s doing it… so our side is no worse!
The tu quoque is not a valid argument but a fallacy. Muslims have no argument with which to defend Allah’s and Mohammed’s opportunism and amorality and commandments to commit atrocities.
emelbee says
How soon we forget the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II who was shot four times on13 May 1981 in St. Peter’s Square at Vatican City by Turkish muslim Mehmet Ali Ağca.
If at first you don’t succeed…
mortimer says
Agree with emelbee. Pope Francis has tried to APPEASE Islam by showing Christian humility. Guess what? They see that as SUBMISSION TO ISLAM and WEAKNESS and LACK OF RESOLVE.
In other words, Muslims see Francis as OPEN TO JIHAD and EASY PICKINGS.
So, ok, class… one more time… WHAT IS IT THAT A SUPREMACIST WANTS?
Answer is: SUPREMACISM. If you don’t say, “SUPREMACISM”, you get zero on the exam.
Eric Jones says
Hear. Hear.
Eric
Sam says
“Teen convert to Islam pleads guilty to Islamic State plot to murder Pope”
Pope, the idiot, will blame Trump for this just wait and see.
Dov Berrol says
Uh-oh…more cases of MPD: Mohammedan Personality Disorder. It’s an epidemic!
A lethal combination of both Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder plus the belief in a false deity that offers a “license to kill.” I guess you could even sum up the Koran as one big “License to Kill.”
FYI says
That statement by pope francis about islam always cracks me up because it is obvious he has never actually bothered to read the koran with a critical eye.Politicians say the same thing too:it’s a noble religion of peace and not violent at all.How dare anyone thing that!
It always reminds me of some student,who when given a book to review,makes it patently clear that he’s never actually read it.
“Catcher in the Rye?Well…em it’s about a farmer in Nebraska who likes to play baseball..”
Francis also seems to think that allah is the same as the Judeo-Christian(Biblical) God despite the fact that… allah in his koran(the most perfect uncreated book every written.)completely missed the point of it all by omitting the essential Chief Commandments,could not for the life of him understand the Trinity(Look!It’s not 3 gods..),totally rejects Jesus Christ and everything He did,has a contempt for Jews(probably because they rightly rejected mahomet as being a prophet)and Christians,is Ok with slavery and murdering infidels.
allah must never,ever be confused with God.
Lilythewise says
I agree!
underbed cat says
The pope cannot read the Quran, that would be islamophobic, besides he needs an imam to explain the violent verse don’t mean it really. Really?
somehistory says
Two years ago…guess they didn’t clue in the intended victim of the devil’s religion that the intended victim was going to be killed for the religion he adores more than the one he professes to adore.
This pope is one ugly guy. And the islam he adores is both ugly and evil.
mortimer says
PREPOSTEROUSLY, Pope Francis has presented himself to the world as an EXPERT ON ISLAM, without even studying Islam’s many PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS, CANONICAL COMMENTARIES, MANUALS of Sharia law, ISLAMIC HISTORY, thousands of FATWAS as well as AUTHORITATIVE tomes and treatises on ISLAMIC LAW written by Islam’s most CORRECT scholars.
Well, how does Pope Francis become such a GENIUS, SPONTANEOUS, INTUITIVE EXPERT???
Answer: he doesn’t and real Muslim experts think he’s absurd.
POPE FRANCIS, YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ISLAM. YOU ARE NOT A MUSLIM SCHOLAR and furthermore, YOU ARE CONTRADICTING THE ENTIRE ISLAMIC LITERATURE.
The pope does not know the JIHAD DOCTRINE, TAQIYYA DOCTRINE , MISOGYNY DOCTRINE, KAFIR DOCTRINE, or the Islamic APARTHEID DOCTRINE (al-Walaa wal-Baraa).
Pope Francis is NOT an expert on Islam. He is merely GUESSING whenever he speaks about Islam.
billybob says
“He is merely GUESSING whenever he speaks about Islam.” Either that, or he got his information from CNN.
Angemon says
What, are there no treason laws in America?
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
One of their greatest allies would’ve been murdered. I don’t see the logic of their doing this.
Lilythewise says
Muslims are animated by their hatred of infidels. That also includes infidels who are useful idiots for their cause.
mortimer says
It’s irrelevant whether or not Colon was a mental patient, because mentally well jihadists also use the same primary Islamic texts to justify committing murders and atrocities.
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
Steve K says
Why would they want to murder someone who is so obviously on their side?
Lilythewise says
Dope is very much a tool for the globalists and Muslim Jihad. Won’t killing him shatter the myth that Islam is a peaceful religion or are some people hopelessly stupid.
I guess Jihad even supersedes the usefulness of a foolish stooge.
UNCLE VLADDI says
I say release this poor misunderstander immediately!!!!
No, really – I’m being serious this time!
Carolyne says
Some people are indeed hopelessly stupid.