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AP: Praying the Rosary is “Islamophobic”

Oct 9, 2017 10:27 am By Robert Spencer

This morning Christine Douglass-Williams brought you a report here at Jihad Watch on this Roman Catholic “Rosary to the Borders” event in Poland. Noteworthy also is how the Associated Press covered the event: “some felt,” the AP intoned, that the event “had anti-Muslim overtones.” Why? Because “the event also commemorated the huge 16th-century naval battle of Lepanto, when a Christian alliance acting on the wishes of the pope defeated Ottoman Empire forces on the Ionian Sea, ‘thus saving Europe from Islamization.’”

That is a historical fact, but as far as the AP is concerned, noting it is “Islamophobic.” Europeans, in AP’s world, are always predators and perpetrators of evil. Muslims are always victims. So it doesn’t matter if the Battle of Lepanto and the Ottoman jihad against Europe really happened. Poles are wrong to be grateful for this victory. They should be lamenting it as a triumph of “white supremacism” over “diversity.” To wish to defend one’s religion, people and culture against hostile invaders, why, that’s way beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse today — unless one is “Palestinian” or a Rohingya Muslim (in which cases the “hostile invasion” aspect is trumped-up anyway).

“She said she was also praying for the survival of Christianity in Poland and Europe against what she sees as an Islamic threat facing the West.”

Only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” could think there is an Islamic threat facing the West, right? Meanwhile, there has been a 64% increase in violent jihadis in Germany in one year, and now there over 1,800 there.

“Poles pray en masse at border; Some see anti-Muslim agenda,” by Vanessa Gera and Karel Janicek, Associated Press, October 8, 2017:

GDANSK, Poland (AP) — Polish Catholics held rosaries and prayed together Saturday along the country’s 3,500-kilometer (2,000-mile) border, appealing to the Virgin Mary and God for salvation for Poland and the world in a national event that some felt had anti-Muslim overtones.

The unusual “Rosary to the Borders” event was organized by lay Catholics but was also endorsed by Polish church authorities, with 320 churches from 22 dioceses taking part. The prayers took place from the Baltic Sea coast in the north to the mountains along Poland’s southern borders with the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and all along the border of this country of 38 million where more than 90 percent declare themselves Roman Catholics….

But the event also commemorated the huge 16th-century naval battle of Lepanto, when a Christian alliance acting on the wishes of the pope defeated Ottoman Empire forces on the Ionian Sea, “thus saving Europe from Islamization,” as organizers put it….

While organizers insisted the prayers Saturday were not directed against any group, some participants cited fears of Islam among their reasons for praying at the border….

She said she was also praying for the survival of Christianity in Poland and Europe against what she sees as an Islamic threat facing the West.

“Islam wants to destroy Europe,” she said. “They want to turn us away from Christianity.”…

A leading Polish expert on xenophobia and extremism, Rafal Pankowski, saw the prayers Saturday as a problematic expression of Islamophobia coming at a time of rising anti-Muslim sentiment in Poland, a phenomenon occurring even though the country’s Muslim population is tiny….

In the northern city of Gdansk, people prayed on a beach lapped by waves as seagulls flew above. Krzysztof Januszewski, 45, said that he worries Christian Europe is being threatened by Islamic extremists and by a loss of faith in Christian societies.

“In the past, there were raids by sultans and Turks and people of other faiths against us Christians,” said Januszewski, a mechanic who traveled 350 kilometers (220 miles) to Gdansk from Czerwinsk nad Wisla.

“Today Islam is flooding us and we are afraid of this too,” he added. “We are afraid of terrorist threats and we are afraid of people departing from the faith.”

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  1. Danusha Goska says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:31 am

    Jeszcze Polska nie zginela.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 6:37 pm

      Hear, hear!

    • mortimer says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 12:13 am

      EVERY SAILOR & SOLDIER SAID THE ROSARY BEFORE THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO

      The battle of Lepanto has been called the most important naval contest in human history. On October 7, 1571, praying Catholic forces defeated the Sultan’s navy, much of it galleys powered by 15,000 Christian slaves. Knowing that the Christian forces were at a distinct material disadvantage, Pope Pius V called for all of Europe to pray the Rosary for victory. Before the battle every sailor and soldier prayed the Rosary. We know today that the victory was decisive, prevented the Islamic invasion of Europe.

      Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, fought and was seriously wounded at Lepanto and then enslaved by the Muslim Turks.

      Zdrowaś Maryjo

      Zdrowaś Maryjo, łaski pełna, Pan z Tobą, błogosławionaś Ty między niewiastami, i błogosławiony owoc żywota Twojego, Jezus. Święta Maryjo, Matko Boża, módl się za nami grzesznymi teraz i w godzinę śmierci naszej. Amen.

  2. Savvy Kafir says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:34 am

    I’m not a Catholic or a believer, but if praying the rosary can take on an anti-Islam connotation, I think that’s great! We need all sorts of allies, and all sorts of motivations & even symbolism, in the war with Islam.

    And the more often we declare our resistance to Islam, the better.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 10:36 am

      Oh — and F**K the Associated Press!

      • eduardo odraude says

        Oct 9, 2017 at 12:15 pm

        F the cowardly, conformist, lying, AP

      • underbed cat says

        Oct 9, 2017 at 2:22 pm

        Kinda agree Savvy Kafir…..but they have people to protect out in the field.

    • JTLiuzza says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 8:01 pm

      The Holy Rosary is far from “symbolism.”

    • Rosewood11 says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 11:53 pm

      Absolutely right!!! I saw a tee-shirt on a young man in Boston a couple years ago that said how I feel: “Warning: I have a Rosary, and I know how to use it!!!” I have looked all over for that shirt, and can’t find it–even online. If anyone knows where to get it, please post. I’d be glad to wear it as a proud islamophobe and infidel!!!

      • IanB says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 8:28 am

        You can get a t-shirt made with that message.

        https://www.customink.com/t-shirts/custom-message-t-shirts

        • Rosewood11 says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 3:16 pm

          Thank you for responding. That was the only way I found to get one. The shirt was a very complex design, so I figured it was available commercially, but as I say, I have never found it. Designing my own is an option.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 10:01 pm

          Here are some related designs:

          https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1TSND_enUS657US657&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=rosary+%2B+t+shirt&oq=rosary+%2B+t+shirt&gs_l=psy-ab.3…66682.70982.0.72116.2.2.0.0.0.0.226.447.2-2.2.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0….0.xhrfctRBQyE

    • Barbara says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 11:02 am

      For years after WWII the Austrian people prayed the rosary for their freedom. http://www.americaneedsfatima.org/The-Holy-Rosary
      Russia pulled out with very little fighting. The rosary is a very powerful weapon if only we would use it.

      • J D S says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 5:00 pm

        Power in beads???not sure about that….but there is more power in Jesus the Christ than all the muslims in the whole world!!!

      • John S. Obeda says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 9:34 pm

        The true God commands us to pray to Him. He knows what is good for us. That is reason enough for us to pray. James writes that we have not because we ask not. But God is good. Every day we have His blessings even though we may not ask for them. “God, have mercy please and save us from this long standing enemy of yours and ours: Islam.”

  3. Anti jihad says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:35 am

    Robert ,you are doing well. Entire non Muslim world needs more terrorist experts. And more seminars for precaution , like ‘how to protect your online activities from jihadi network.How to protect you and your family from online radicalization. How to prevent hacking from Isis etc

    • Anti jihad says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 10:55 am

      refer ‘ love jihad ‘

  4. Linde Barrera says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:53 am

    I love Polish people and their resolve, even though there is no Polish blood in me that I know of. Polish people are warm hearted, truthful, and giving people. Their faith in the 1 True God is a testimony that God is protecting them from Islam.

    • underbed cat says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 2:32 pm

      Poland has every right to protect themselves against an insidious, cohesive group who could eventually change Poland thru major population growth, foreign funds to support building mosques, getting political power, and having jihad terror attacks to silence criticisms. In Islamic countries ruled by sharia, life for Christians, Jews and atheist are not allowed to show crosses, repair attacked churches or openly display their faith. As the population is constantly attacked, woman raped, children live under constant worry. How the left in America can support this evil culture is really chilling.

      • mortimer says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 1:17 am

        An estimated one million people joined in praying the Rosary at various spots on Poland’s border on October 7, the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

        In the massive Rosary rally, organized by lay Catholics and endorsed by 22 Polish dioceses, the faithful gathered at 4,000 locations along the border to pray. The event was organized as a campaign of prayer for Poland and for the world. The country’s prime minister, Beata Szydlo, sent a message of support.

        • Bob says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 7:59 am

          The UK government would never agree to such a prayer gathering – it might upset the mucklims!

        • Jenny H says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 10:24 am

          It’s interesting that this year is the 100th anniversary of the Virgin Mary appearing to 3 children at Fatima in Portugal: every month, on the 13th of each month from May to October 1917. On the 13th October, 1917 the “Miracle of the Sun” was viewed by a very large crowd at Fatima and others miles away, off site, who saw the Sun appear to move and spin and throw off multi-coloured light, and people could look directly at the Sun…

          I’m so glad the Poles are acting to defend their culture, religion and way of life, and to commemorate a vital turning point in history.

          To my mind, a major part of the struggle against the encroachment of Islam is spiritual and spiritual weapons are needed for success. I also believe Allah is the Devil. Even if, when I die, I find out that Allah was really just a psychological construct from Mohammed’s subconscious, Allah and his religion (rather the legal and political aspects of his religion) are very bad things for humanity, including, or maybe especially for Muslims..

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Oct 11, 2017 at 11:40 pm

          WOW.

          Awesome.

      • Gwendolyn E Mugliston says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 7:56 am

        As an American who as a child spent 3 years in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippine Islands, who, then after being rescued by the commonly reviled Gen Douglas MacArthur, a hero of mine very maligned by our so-called historians, came to love the Constitution and Bill of RIghts of this Country, our country, the USA, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND why any American, black, white, brown or yellow, would not appreciate our Constitution and Bill of RIghts and be grateful to live here. So you and I have suffered the glass ceiling,or been called names or not had checks honored because we were too dark…those ingrates have NOT destroyed my soul. How many are like me and just soldiered on? Not enough to save us from the globalists socialist communists, I’m thinking…or Muslims and their Sharia Law.

        Name any other country in the world with such wonderful founding documents, namely the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Name any country in the world where males AND females went to school and found jobs they wanted, had the freedom to say what they thought and believed and lived lives as they saw fit and practiced their religions without warfare.

        The only caveat here in the USA was no one has permission to destroy our government, Only in the last 40 years or so has our educational system succumbed to Political Correctness so that our students no longer use deductive reasoning or laud learning. From my reading, it seems a gradual take over by communists has led to this demise of education and consequent destruction of the underpinnings of our society. I think Alinsky and people like Clinton are very responsible for this. Unfortunately, there are many people who believe one government like the EUs so called central government would do better for us than our very particular form of a democratic republic.

        Now Americans, far too many Americans, without reading a word of history or the Qu’ran think Muslims are a peaceful and loving group. I wonder at their intelligence and I truly believe if they don’t like the USA they should find a country they do like and leave. I wish them well.

        • John S. Obeda says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 9:51 pm

          Gwendolyn, well said. I agree fully. God have mercy on our country and all democratic countries and save us from the false doctrines and false ways of the devil’s work: Islam. And Jesus wants us to pray for the Muslims too; well, okay, Please God help the Muslims to see the truth and Jesus Who IS the Truth.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 10:43 pm

          Thank you, Gwendolyn.

    • John S. Obeda says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 9:42 pm

      Linde. The God-fearing Poles are a good example to all of us. (Linde, I was LCMS; but now am in Canada, member of a sister church, LC-C and in fellowship with LCMS). We must daily pray for our persecuted Christian brothers and sisters. And our pastors ought to do so every Sunday and for our leaders so that they wake up. Tell your pastor.

  5. Bob Smyth says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:58 am

    “A leading Polish expert on xenophobia and extremism, Rafal Pankowski, saw the prayers Saturday as a problematic expression of Islamophobia coming at a time of rising anti-Muslim sentiment in Poland, a phenomenon occurring even though…”

    Perhaps this “leading Polish expert on xenophobia and extremism, Rafal Pankowski” might care to apply his supposed “expertise” to the problems caused BY Islam and Muslims?

    • Voytek Gagalka says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 12:27 pm

      “Leading expert” Pankowski is as much clueless about Islam as his western “comrades in spirit.” Or as deliberately evil (if fully aware of a problem). Currently, it is hard to say which is worse.

      • mortimer says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 1:34 am

        MESSAGE TO PANKOWSKI:

        You, sir, are a DHIMMI.

  6. thomas says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 11:08 am

    July 4 is anti-British
    Cinco de Mayo is anti-French

  7. Wyldeirishman says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 11:09 am

    God bless the Poles…one of the few countries left in Europe that understands the threat, and also remembers the grim necessity of the U.S. intervention in WW2 without the ever-increasing doughy pant-load of revisionist history.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 7:23 pm

      +1

  8. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 11:21 am

    The battle of Lepanto, in which the Holy League forces defeated the Ottomans, was only one Christian victory in the Cyprus War (1570-730) which resulted in an Ottoman victory, and the incorporation of Cyprus, formerly ruled by the Venetians, into the Ottoman Empire. Furthermore, after this the Ottomans continued to conquer territory in southeastern Europe, as for example, solidifying its hold on Albania.

    One of history’s great unknowns is what effect the discovery of the New World had on the ability of the Christians of Europe to withstand the Ottomans. From 1492 on Spain was preoccupied with its new territories, and the precious metals that were to be found there (e.g., the silver mines of Potosi), sending ships with soldiers,, missionaries, and administrators to the New World, with the ships returning groaning with silver and gold. This left fewer naval forces in Spain which might have joined the fight against the Ottomans. Had the New World been discovered not in 1492 but a century later, the Spanish Could have thrown all their naval forces into the Cyprus War, helped Venice and the Papacy to win it, kept Cyprus — which controlled the sea routes of pilgrims going to Jerusalem or to Mecca — under Venetian control, and strengthened the Christian forces sufficiently so that they might hold the Ottomans at bay in southeastern Europe or even re-taken territory from them.

    .

    • Mark says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 1:37 pm

      If wasn’t George kastrioti skenderbeg Albanian national hero entire Europe will be today Islam and he sustained them in lower Balkan Peninsula and he defended Europe with 22 wars in the end he died from malaria and ottoman toke over our nation and exploit till 1911 pope of Rome call him champion of Christ and saver of Christianity 1467 wars against Islamic killers

    • anotherJWReader says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 3:29 pm

      You are tempting me. Venicians were just as bad as ottomans. They tried to ban Orthodoxy. Didn’t allow the appointment of new clergy and things like that. They were almost as evil as the ottomans. I am from that part of the world and you can’t lie to me.

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 9, 2017 at 7:32 pm

        Venetians were as bad as the Ottomans? Really?

        • mortimer says

          Oct 10, 2017 at 1:25 am

          Nope, The Venetians had their faults, but by no means NEARLY as bad.

          To understand the evil of the Muslim Ottomans, you need to read about the methods they used to control the dhimmis.

          It was constant cat and mouse game of PURE EVIL.

  9. mccode says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 11:26 am

    I’m surprised the AP doesn’t lament that on Sept 1, 1939 the Polish nation tried to defend itself against the Nazi onslaught. Wasn’t that a massive demonstration of Naziphobia and cultural xenophobia?

    It is pathetic what passes for journalism in MSM today.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 12:00 pm

      Meanwhile, freedom of religion is basically non-existent Saudi Arabia.

      But of course AP is not bothered with their cultural xenophobia.

  10. Laura says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 11:57 am

    Interesting…as I have read years ago while doing research on islam, that the Crusaders brought the rosary to Catholicism, as they saw muslims using them, and adopted the practice!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 7:39 pm

      Of course, this is tosh. Some Muslims may use prayer beads, but they *do not* pray the Rosary.

      By the way, the Rosary was not instituted until several centuries after the Crusades, so the idea that they came from Christians adopting a Muslim usage seems highly unlikely.

    • JTLiuzza says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 8:07 pm

      Be careful where you do your “research.” Something tells me your “research” is nothing more than a sloppy google search.

    • Joe says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 6:59 am

      The Rosary was started by peasants who wanted to imitate the “Office of the Hours”. Since they could not read, they said 150 Hail Marys which was the number of Psalms. Then St. Dominic introduced the Mysteries which he said he received directly from the Blessed Virgin. At the time, St. Dominic was battling the Albigensian heresy. The introduction of the Rosary was thought to have saved the day.

      • Michael Casmer says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 10:14 am

        You are correct.

  11. Emilie Green says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    There’s a cold wind blowing and the Poles feel it (look at all the Winter gear) and are making preparations against it.

    And for that they’re maligned. WWII soldiers used to describe it as “SNAFU.”

  12. Tangata says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:20 pm

    Stand firm Poland, Czech republic, Slovenia and all the Balkan states that still resist this invasion planned by idiotic and deluded Western politicians and social engineers intent to destroying Western Civilization and Christianity in Europe. They are psychotic – suicidal without knowing it.

  13. Infidel Task Force says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    Here is a superb example of main stream media brainwashing the public, and stating…”Muslims are always the victim.”
    Even if they are the cornerstone of genocide and terror in the modern world.

  14. Raja says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    The immoral thugs of Left are towing the Islamic grand scheme of calling everything Islamophobic (that is not Islamic)

    If anyone with some spine and self-respect can stand up this name-calling called Islamophobic then they can live, Right now everyone in the West seems to be running for cover from Islamic evil schemes and there is no stopping this.

  15. Troybeam says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Praying with rosary beads is Islamophobic whomever came up with this one knows squat, no mention in this article about Islamic prayer beads,

    Just another excuse by the left and Islam to create discord the world over.

    A rosary has 55 beads and an Islam prayer bead has 99 beads.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 7:46 pm

      There are greater differences between Christian and Islamic prayers than the number of prayer beads–like what the prayers *are for*.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 12:37 am

      Troy, you may not know this: The Battle of Lepanto was at first commemorated liturgically as “Our Lady of Victory.” Later, the feast of October 7th was renamed “Our Lady of the Rosary”.

  16. FYI says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:47 pm

    Well let’s hope “pope” francis doesn’t find out……

    ….because…he might agree with them.

  17. Raja says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 12:48 pm

    The Poles are doing us a favor by being united against unbridled immigration and destruction of Western culture and liberties. Their perception of evil is much better than irrational Left.

    Islam has not only made the world a sewer it is ever keen to gobble up whatever good is left in this imperfect (fallen) world.

    • mike hurcum says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 11:47 am

      for goodness sake read Gert Wilders, “Marked for Death” amd Serge Trifkovic “Sword of the Prophet”

  18. Danusha Goska says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 1:46 pm

    I was lucky enough to meet Lech Walesa. I asked him how Poles were able to throw off Communism without a bloody revolution. He said that it was the country’s Christian tradition. Their resistance was not about “guillotine, guillotine!” It was about building, not destroying.

    Remember he signed a famous agreement with a souvenir pen from Czestochowa.

    We used to pray the rosary to defeat Communism. We were part of the “Blue Army.” Blue being the color of Mary.

    There is a long history behind what these Poles did.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 7:49 pm

      Hear, hear!

      • mortimer says

        Oct 10, 2017 at 1:29 am

        Yes, the Polish counter-revolution is here.

  19. St. Manuel II Palaiologos says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    The inevitable result of labeling anything you disagree with as hateful is that it leads to a totalitarian outcome. It happened in the Soviet Union before, “anti-Soviet” activities were shut down, and then all dissent was suppressed thereby.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 1:31 am

      Agree with Pal. No one may tell us in a democracy that we may not criticize a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY or the democracy immediately ceases.

  20. Carlos Danger says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    Thanks, Poland!

  21. Florence says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 3:31 pm

    Right now millions of Catholics are praying the rosary to save the USA from communist takeover perpetrated by the democrat party, Antifa and the university system.

  22. gary says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    Islam: Threatened by the mere prayers of the infidels.

    What a weak “faith”

  23. Sun says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 3:45 pm

    But it is no problem for AP when hundreds of Muslims praying in the streets of Europe?

    Thank you Poland!

  24. Benedict says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 3:46 pm

    Just for your information: If you don’t celebrate Ramadan and if you eat bacon that’s also Islamophobic.

  25. josef H says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 4:51 pm

    look at all those hate-filled violent bigoted xenophobic christians peacefully praying. i’m literally shaking, maaaaaan…

  26. Im4truth4all says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    I have about the same regard for the AP as what I flush down the toilet in the morning.

  27. gravenimage says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 6:34 pm

    AP: Praying the Rosary is “Islamophobic”
    ………………..

    Just disgusting–the idea that practicing a faith other than Islam means you are “Islamophobic”. Well–pious Muslims certainly agree…

  28. Mantel says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    I’ve done a pilgrimage walk with Polish Catholics in the Tatra mountains in the south of the country.
    As a catholic from a less devout western country, it was wonderful to see the fervent belief that was shared, respect shown to nuns and clergy. The warmth in which I was accepted as a fellow visiting catholic was truly heartwarming.

    Let the people of Poland keep respecting their history and traditions, it gives them purpose and strength and joy.

    The west is growing increasingly bereft of a respect or reverence to their own culture and history and are starting to pay a heavy price for turning their backs on what made their own societies, what forged the freedoms and strength of democracy.

    In 20 years the Poles will reap the benefits of such tradition ,faith and steadfastness, whereas the west (if things remain unchanged) is heading for civil conflict and societal turmoil on an unprecedented scale.

    Dark forces have truly taken hold of the western mainstream media and Hollywood. To call Polish people islamophobic is an aberration.

  29. Lydia says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    Let’s not pussy foot around.
    Let’s just say it!
    It’s anti-islam, which is what I am, and we are, and anyone is who has their head out of the sand and their brain plugged into reality!
    And on that note, you can call jihad “anti-non-islamic”!

    Long live the Crusades! Round 1, and 2, and 3, etc…

    • Lydia says

      Oct 9, 2017 at 8:56 pm

      Keep them coming!
      And 4, and 5…

  30. tim gallagher says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    Bravo to Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary for being able to see the truth about evil, barbaric Islam and its intentions. I just can’t believe the way the lefties in the media keep making excuses for stinking, murderous Islam. “Islamophobic” is the right and moral way to be. It just means hating a clear evil which is what Islam is. And why don’t AP and the other traitors talk about the endless “infidelphobia” in Islam. In fact, take away the endless hate of Islam for non-Muslims, there’d be nothing left. That’s really all it has got. Go Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic. Keep Islam out. You won’t regret that wise decision, as you watch the idiotic countries in Western Europe fight for survival against the Muslim invaders they have been stupid enough to let in.

  31. sakovkt says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    This won’t be the first time.

    A Catholic Priest saved Poland in 1920:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDIWKZ2adDM

    (Fast forward to 20:14 minutes if you want to skip the history,,,at your own risk!
    It’s a great tale!)

    • Oliverian says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 4:28 pm

      Wonderful video ! Long live Poland and Polish patriotism, and Faith ! Urge everyone else to go watch.

  32. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 9, 2017 at 11:23 pm

    Slightly related:
    Pope Francis has been asked to clarify “seven heresies” he promotes. I know on this site commentators have speculated about what could possibly be going on in this pope’s head, but we aren’t the only ones. Sixty-two clergy and scholars are asking Francis for clarification on his teachings which seem to go against basic RC theology.

    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/09/24/catholic-clergy-and-scholars-publish-filial-correction-of-pope-francis-for-seven-heresies/

    I spoke to someone who studies Catholic theology and they said this is very serious. It could, if unresolved, lead to a new schism or his removal.

  33. mortimer says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 12:32 am

    A woman said, ““Islam wants to destroy Europe,” she said. “They want to turn us away from Christianity.”

    Muslim religious leaders actually DO SAY that they want to destroy us and lead prayers asking Allah to destroy the lands of the Crusaders and their people.

    It essential for ALL Christians, Hindus, Jews, Zoroastrians, Shintoists, and theists of all kinds to pray that EUROPE NOT FALL TO ISLAM. Atheists may also pray to the God they do not believe in ‘JUST IN CASE’ the pray works.

    PLEASE EVERYONE, PRAY THAT EUROPE, the AMERICAS and AUSTRALIA do not fall to Islam. As it is, Africa is turning away from Islam in large numbers.

    Any country that wants dysfunctional, backward Islam is totally PSYCHIATRIC… such as Germany and Sweden.

  34. John Forbes says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 5:47 am

    It is HIGH time we took this threat SERIOUSLY & started responding in KIND as the Europeans did LONG ago !
    The WEST is at WAR with ISLAM but most are too afraid to look at the TRUTH !
    Time to UNITE with the SIKHS & HINDU & those of other faiths to confront the FASCIST BARBARITY of ISLAM !!
    ISLAM intends to subjugate & dominate & be the SUPREME faith above all others & IN CANADA at least it has a GREAT ALLY in MUSLIM TRUDEAU – His ISLAMIST MARXIST Brother SASHA & The Muslim Brotherhood Liberals in WYNN & CROMBIE to name a few !
    Bloody dangerous !!
    MAY is the UK is JUST TERRIFIED as most of the ELITE in the UK sold out long ago !
    SWEDEN will be an islamic republic before Century;s end as will France, Holland, Belgium & possibly Norway !
    HOPEFULLY the US as SOROS states – will be a HARDER NUT to CRACK – so we all know where GEORGE SOROS Stands & that is NOT with DEMOCRACY or WESTERN Civilization !

  35. Chris Malan says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 6:03 am

    Like someone has already mentioned, Muslims have their own prayer beads. I saw that when I worked in Saudi Arabia. They all have them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_beads#Islam Follow the link. The article is really interesting. Many primitive faiths have prayer beads. Seems both the Catholics and Muslims, as well as the others, got them from the Hindus. So, like so much else in the Catholic Church and Islam, these beads have a pagan origin.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 10:58 pm

      Yes–both Christmas trees and stoning victims to death have “pagan origins”.

      That does not mean they are morally equivalent.

  36. James Stamulis says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 6:53 am

    Well then what do you call it when Muslims put their head to the ground pointed at Mecca with their ass in the air? What was it when people prayed with the rosary before the Muslims ever came to the U.K.?

  37. IanB says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 8:39 am

    Big one in the eye for old Pope Frankie Boy!

  38. Tom says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 10:48 am

    Thank God for Poland and other Christian countries that are standing up against the evil that has taken hold of our world. It is most fortunate that there are Christians who are prepared to stand and not cower as so many others have done, including the Pope.

    Evil shows itself in many forms and that is apparent today from George Soros, Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, the leaders of the EU, to communist teachers and profs that poison the minds of our children and youth, to Radical Islamic terror.

    Only those who are prepared to stand with Poland will survive this onslaught of evil.

    • Tom says

      Oct 10, 2017 at 10:54 am

      “This story shall the good man teach his son;
      And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
      From this day to the ending of the world,
      But we in it shall be rememberèd-
      We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
      For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
      Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
      This day shall gentle his condition;
      And gentlemen in England now a-bed
      Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
      And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
      That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”

      Henry V

  39. AmericanCatholic says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 3:32 pm

    Love you Poland.
    Don’t be afraid…be angry. Righteous anger!

  40. Jimmy says

    Oct 10, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    Stay Catholic Poland never mind the godless voices shouting at you, continue to pray the rosary it’s more powerful than those fools will ever know, and the blessed Virgin Mary will intercede to her holy most powerful son on your behalf sparring your country from ruins.

  41. Janitor Joe says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 8:50 am

    Long live Catholic Poland. Poland has survived the Tatars, Mongols, numerous wars, WW II, Communism. The AP and many news sources like it are Communist.

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