“Pope expresses concern over national policies dictated by fear,” by Giulia Segreti, Reuters, March 11, 2018:
Pope Francis on Sunday expressed concern over national policies dictated by fear, speaking only one week after Italy’s general elections which brought populist and anti-immigrant parties to the forefront.
The Italian elections were over in early March, and the parties in Italy that the Pope clearly was referring to as “dictated by fear” managed to make the greatest electoral gains. These parties are not really, as the non-Italian media and the Pope himself suggest, “anti-immigrant,” but, rather, they are “anti-Muslim immigrant.” There is a difference. Chief among these center-right parties is La Lega (“The League”), headed by Marco Salvini, who constantly declares that Islam is “incompatible with European values,’’ and unremarkably notes that Muslim immigrants are responsible for some of the country’s economic and security problems. It is to be expected that The Arab Weekly would describe La Lega as “a xenophobic and racist party that regularly speaks of an ‘Islamic invasion’ in Italy.” But the party is neither “xenophobic” nor “racist”; there is no “irrational hatred of foreigners,” but a rational fear of, and opposition to, Muslim migrants, based both on their observable behavior in Europe and on an understanding of the ideology of Islam. The “racism” canard, repeated ad nauseam, has to be refuted, just as often, by stating the obvious: Islam is not a race, opposition to Islam is not “racism.”
Pope Francis, the stout defender of Islam and Muslims, the man who has claimed “there is no such thing as Islamic terrorism,” that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence,” that “Islam is a religion of peace, one which is compatible with respect for human rights and peaceful coexistence,” is naturally alarmed by the increasing success of the so-called “anti-immigrant” parties. He who has made the defense of migrants and especially, of Muslims, a key pillar of his five-year papacy, finds that Italian voters do not agree.
Although the pope did not specifically refer to the elections, his words may resonate as a strong criticism of Italy’s center-right bloc which has strongly campaigned using anti-migrant policy promises.
“The world today is often inhabited by fear. It is an ancient disease … And fear often turns against people who are foreign, different, poor, as if they were enemies,” said the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
The “fear” of Islam and of Muslims that many now experience, especially in Europe, is not an unfathomable “ancient disease,” but a rational response to the unprecedented influx of people who, because of the ideology of Islam to which they are in thrall, cannot, and do not wish to, integrate into European societies. Muslim migrants are quite understandably feared not because they are “foreign, different, poor” as Pope Francis may think, but because they have been taught in their Qur’an to believe that they should regard non-Muslims as the “most vile of creatures,” that they should heed the 109 Qur’anic commandments about waging violent Jihad against the Infidels, including several verses specifying that they should “strike terror” into the hearts of those Infidels, and that they should never take “Jews and Christians as friends, for they are friends only with each other.” (5:51) There is little desire expressed in Italy, the subject of Pope Francis’s latest vaporings, to remove non-Muslim immigrants — many of them “foreign, different, poor” — including Chinese, Hindus, Filipinos, Eastern Europeans. Not being Muslims, none of these immigrants are irremediably hostile to Italy and to Italians. After more than 35,000 terrorist attacks by Muslims around the world since 9/11/2001, it makes perfect sense to “fear” the millions of Muslims now in Europe, and to work to prevent more from coming. Instead, Pope Francis wants to welcome still more of them, wants Europeans to believe, despite all the evidence, that there is no reason to “fear” the Muslim influx.
The Pope thinks “fear” is somehow an illegitimate emotion for fashioning political policies. Why? In 1917, the records of the Duma show, Aleksandr Kerensky mocked the Bolsheviks, even asking aloud during one particularly contentious debate, “What are you going to do — shoot us?” There was laughter from his supporters, while the Bolsheviks remained tellingly silent. We all know how that turned out. Having no experience of such people, Kerensky did not fear them, and failing to fear them, did not suppress the Bolsheviks when that was still possible. Throughout the 1930s, Winston Churchill, a lonely voice of reason, continually expressed his alarm about the policies and plans of Adolf Hitler. He “feared” what was to come if Hitler was allowed to get his way during a time of supposed peace. Churchill was correct to be “fearful” of the Nazis. Others — the Cliveden Set, Lord Halifax, Prime Minister Chamberlain — were too hopeful that accommodations could be made with Hitler; these people were not “fearful” enough of his monstrous plans. Were we in the West not right to be “fearful” of the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe after World War II? Were we wrong to create the Nato military alliance out of “fear” of Soviet military aggression? Were we wrong to be “fearful” of the powerful Communist parties in Italy and France in the postwar period, and as a consequence of that fear, we channeled huge sums to the anti-Communist left in those countries? Didn’t that do the trick, keeping the Communists from coming to power in either country?
Are we not right to “fear” Putin’s Russia, and its attempts to undermine Western democracies through meddling in our elections, spreading false news, and in many insidious ways employing social media on the Internet to weaken the social fabric of our societies? Shouldn’t we fear Vladimir Putin’s effort to control the Eastern Ukraine? Are the European nations now expressing solidarity with the British by expelling Russian diplomats wrong to fear what Putin’s agents will do unless there is a clear and united response to this latest poisoning of a former Soviet agent on European soil?
Should we not be “fearful” of China’s ruthless economic competition, its theft and exploitation of American companies’ patents and trade secrets and its unfair trade practices? Shouldn’t we be fearful of Chinese bullying of its nearest Asian neighbors, including its staking of its claims to expansive territorial waters in the South China Sea? Aren’t we right to “fear” Kim Jong-un’s nuclear threats? Should we not “fear” the war on free speech being conducted on our college campuses, where those who speak sensibly about Islam are shouted down, or their audiences by pre-arrangement walk out, or those speakers on Islam are prevented even from coming to the campus in the first place?
What about causes dear to this Pope’s heart, such as global warming? Does Pope Francis think we should be a little “worried” but not “fearful” of the consequences if we are collectively unable to limit the use of greenhouse gasses? We know what his answer to that would be. When it’s his ox that’s gored…
Similarly, should young women not be “fearful” of Muslim grooming gangs in Great Britain, now that we all know what happened in Rotherham and so many other places (Telford, Rochdale, Oxford, Newcastle), and know, too, that elsewhere in Great Britain, similar gangs may have claimed as many as a million victims? Should non-Muslim women not be “fearful” of sexual attacks by Muslims, attacks that have soared in Europe in recent years — in Paris (especially on the metro), in Berlin, in Cologne, in Malmö, in Stockholm?
Does the Pope think it would be wrong — unwarranted, unhelpful — for Jews in Europe to be “fearful” of Muslims? When two elderly Jewish women in Paris were murdered, in separate incidents, by Muslim neighbors, with one of them stabbed repeatedly, then thrown out a window, while the other’s incinerated body is found in her apartment, which had been set on fire, might “fear” not be the clear-headed response? When a Muslim gang kidnaps a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, and for three weeks holds him hostage, torturing him until he finally dies from that torture, isn’t “fear” — along with fury — fully justified? When three small Jewish children are shot dead by a Muslim terrorist in front of a rabbi, the father of two of them, who is then also killed, should Jewish parents not feel “fear”? When Jewish pupils are taunted and beaten up by Muslim classmates so that they have to change schools? When the French Jewish leader, Roger Cukierman, already in 2015 declared that “All violence [against Jews] in France, and we must say this, all violent acts today are committed by young Muslims”? Does the Pope think it would be crazy or “unhelpful” for Jews to fear Muslims and, as a consequence, to support those policies, opposed by pollyannish Pope Francis, to limit the number of Muslim migrants?
The absence of “fear” when fear is warranted should not be praised but deplored. We should also recognize that there can be too little of the right kind and too much of the wrong kind of “fear”: the police in Rotherham were insufficiently fearful of what was happening to the English girls who were the victims of mass rapes, and too fearful of being called “racists” if they pursued the Muslim grooming gangs.
Pope Francis has it wrong. Those who intelligently fear Islam and the large-scale presence of Muslims in Europe have much to be fearful about. They fear Muslim terrorists, responsible for so many tens of thousands of attacks since 9/11. Of course, they fear Muslim sexual predators, with the grooming gangs in Rotherham only the most publicized example of what has apparently been going on across the U.K. They fear the attacks on Jews, homosexuals, on priests, on those who publicly criticize Islam or Muhammad. For a few unflattering paragraphs he wrote in a 2006 article for Le Figaro about Muhammad, the teacher Robert Redeker has ever since had to live in hiding under police protection. Others, such as the writers Eric Zemmour and Alain Finkielkraut, may not be in hiding, but they do require extra security for their speaking engagements, and cannot move around without worrying about their safety, because of what they write and speak about Islam. All those who care about the freedom of speech in Europe should now be “fearful,” despite the Pope’s glib assurances that such “fear” is uncalled for.
There are other things to “fear” about the Muslim presence in Western Europe, aside from the threats and acts of violence. Europeans now find themselves faced with ever-mounting expenses, as their governments offer long-term support to increasing numbers of Muslims who are in no hurry to be employed, but eager to batten on a host of benefits — free housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances — offered by the generous welfare states of Western Europe. An estimated 40% of Muslim youth in France and 50% in Germany are unemployed, but far from destitute. Rather, they receive a wide range of social benefits. For example, an estimated 40% of welfare outlays in Denmark go to the 5% of the population that is Muslim. According to Otto Schily, former German interior minister, speaking of immigrants in general: “Seventy percent of the newcomers [since 2002] land on welfare the day of their arrival.” As to unemployment, Christopher Caldwell notes that “in the early 1970s, 2 million of the 3 million foreigners in Germany were in the labor force; by the year 2000, 2 million of 7.5 million were.” In 2015, only 500 out of 163,000 asylum seekers in Sweden had found jobs by the next year; the rest remained on the dole. Such colossal spending on unemployed Muslim immigrants makes taxpayers angry, and because they do not see their governments willing to cut down on those benefits, also “fearful” for the future of the Swedish welfare state. Europeans have other reasons to fear the Muslim influx. They fear Muslims who, with their astoundingly high rates of criminality, fill disproportionately the prisons of Western Europe (at great expense to the state), where they conduct prison da’wah, often resulting in “convenience conversions” of non-Muslim prisoners who are eager to “join the biggest gang” (that is, the Muslim gang) in order to insure their own security. They fear the willingness of their own societies to capitulate, by authorizing prayer rooms in schools and workplaces, by granting Muslims permission to interrupt work or class schedules in order to say some of their five daily prayers, by allowing the five-times-a-day Call to Prayer to be electronically amplified and broadcast, even though such a call is no longer necessary, given that a smartphone app can vibrate at the appointed time as a “silent” Call to Prayer. Europe’s Kuffars fear that Muslims may eventually come to dominate, through demographic jihad, the countries of Europe. All those who have these fears and are not paralyzed by them are exhibiting sober signs of sanity; it is the Pope’s denial of any problem with Islam that is unhinged.
Pope Francis’s attempts to dismiss “fear” as a legitimate reaction to the Muslim invasion of Europe only serve to confuse, and to undermine the morale of, the indigenous peoples of Western Europe. May Pope Francis be persuaded to take an early retirement, like his worthier predecessor Benedict, and when the white smoke next rises from the Sistine Chapel, let us hope it will signal the choice of a successor equal to the task, someone unafraid to fear the onslaught of Islam.
esther says
nice of frances to give up the swiss guard and donate the costs its
maintenance to the local mosque
mortimer says
MESSAGE TO POPE FRANCIS: ALLAH WANTS FEAR !
“Prophet Muhammad said; It is expected that the nations will call other nations to share them against you (Muslims) as the eaters call each other to eat from the food in front of them in a large wooden plate A person asked, Will that happen because of our small number on that day? The Prophet said, No. Your number will be great, but you will be rubbish like the rubbish of flood-water. And certainly Allah will remove from the hearts of enemies the fear of you and surely Allah will throw Wahn in your hearts. A person asked, What is Wahn, O Messenger of Allah? The Prophet said, Wahn is to love this world and to hate death.” – Abu Dawud 4284
In this hadith, lukewarm Muslims love their earthly life and seek comfort and safety, whereas, real Muslims are jihadists who love death. Real Muslims are feared by kafirs. Fear of Muslims is what Allah wants.
gravenimage says
Good point, esther. He should give up the popemobile as well while he is at it…
Karen says
Good point, gi, no hateful security glass between him and the people.
Mark says
As a faithful Catholic, it hurts to say this but Frances is not just a bad pope , he is a VERY bad pope who policies are tearing the mother church apart!! I pray that the holy spirit will soon intervene before he does any more damage!
Anne Smith says
Is there something we don’t know or haven’t been told about this Pope? Is he in the pay of a globalist group or being financed by Soros?
There is something that really doesn’t ring true about this so called churchman and it appears that he is presenting a danger to Italy and to his church. The sooner he is replaced by someone with a modicum of common sense the better.
RiaD says
You wouldn’t be the first person who’s thought that.
Karen says
Yes, he shouldn’t be fearful. That would show bad taste and hatefulness.
Tjhawk says
It really pisses me off that he assumes that the policies he’s opposed to are “dictated by fear”. That’s an Alynskiiye way to frame the narrative of the opposition.
I prefer to say that the policies are dictated by a knowledge and of, and a resistance to the totalitarian ideology and culture of islam.
Does the pope expect us all to be ignorant?
What a tool.
Terry Gain says
Knowing Islam, and us, as I do, I fear Islam.
sally says
Christians and Jews should fear this pope. He is clearly an agent of evil.
gravenimage says
True about Alinsky. This is a way of sneering at decent and prudent people.
dumbledoresarmy says
And, indeed, by *love*.
Love of all that is good and holy and beautiful, that is *threatened* by Islam: Islam that, as John Quincy Adams has said, “spread desolation and delusion”.
Those who *love* beauty, art, sculpture, freedom, justice, truth, *science*, music, song, good wine, pet dogs; they wil not only *fear* but *resist* Islamisation with everything they are and have. Because Islam would annihilate all those things.
Muslims, if they could, will smash Michaelangelo’s ‘David’ and the exquisite ‘Pieta’ to atoms. They will burn the Rembrandts, the da Vinci paintings, the Degas, the Renoir, the Goya, the Velazques, the Vermeer “Girl with a Pearl Earring”. They will smash every glorious window in every cathedral in Europe. They will silence the symphony orchestras, because stringed instruments and flutes are anathema to the ghastly allah. They will silence the church bells, because allah’s ‘angels’ – actually, demons – flee from church bells.
It is *right* for those who love Europe, and human civilisation, to fear – and despise, and fiercely resist – Islam and its attempt to turn the world into Mordor.
Keys says
Agree, DA, that muslims will “smash” and “silence” the beautiful things in Christian culture.
They have done this repeatedly throughout their history in the lands they now occupy and in territory from which they have been forced to withdraw.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, DDA! A fine post.
I have long said that it is important for us to keep in mind not just what we fear and oppose in Islam, but also the marvelous things we love and defend.
Holbytla says
Well said, and very nice reference to Mordor. It is ever more obvious that Tolkien was basing the orcs on Muslims down to the two different breeds hating and killing each other when not killing civilized men. I still haven’t decided if I think he was being prophetic or writing something of historical fiction. Considering the approved Catholic prophecies on the Great Monarch right down to St. John Vianney’s “at the return of the king…” he must have studied them and been inspired. That or he himself was prophetic.
I was listening to the books on tape a few months ago and was struck by the scene at the Inn of the Prancing Pony when the villagers are complaining about “newcomers” and how people are going to be expected to make room to the point of giving up their own property. Stunningly prescient.
Carolyne says
Yes, the Pope expects all of us to be ignorant. That is his purpose. Be ignorant and obey. Do not question Gomer Pyle in a dress. To question this silly old man would be against “God’s” will, since he speaks for “God.”
While I am an Atheist, I do agree with the article of yesterday in which the writer’s opinion was that if Christianity were to be lost to the world, it would be a tragedy because the tenets of Christianity are the tenets of civilization. One does not need to believe in mythology to believe that.
gravenimage says
+1
jewdog says
I’m afraid of people like Pope Francis, and they are not all Catholic. His view is very popular on the left, and he sounds suspiciously like Hillary Clinton – perhaps he thinks we tremblers are just a bunch of “deplorables” clinging to our guns, crouched behind the TV. It terrifies me to think that there are people out there who have such a casual attitude towards a religious group which has, according to the liberal ADL, an anti-Semitism rate of 75 percent. Doesn’t it bother the Pope that only a remnant of the Christian population remains in dar-el-Islam? It’s not because they’ve all fallen in love with Islam.
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
You are right: Francis is not Catholic…which means he is not the pope, either. He is an anti-pope and the False Prophet of Revelations. That is why is supports and promotes Islam. Islam is anti-Christian…and so is Francis.
Lynne Wright says
I agree 100% with you. No reason to fear? Is he oblivious to what’s happening in the world and what’s written in the Koran?
Not Dumb Enough says
Sorry but Catholics are not Christian either. In the past the Catholics even killed Christians and joined the Romans in feeding them to Lions. So this is not surprising.
Billy Chickens says
To “Not Dumb Enough” –
Unfortunately for you, you’re not smart enough. Ignorant, is what you are.
Indiana Tom says
I sort of came up in an Anabaptist Protestant environment and I have problems getting my head around traditional Roman Catholicism.
gravenimage says
No–Catholics never fed other Christians to the lions. This is ahistoric clatrap.
And the implication that all Catholics have failed to oppose Islam makes no more sense.
gravenimage says
Patricia, there have been bad popes before. They are not all the anti-Christ.
All says
You’re absolutely right. Nice to know there are some awaken ones.
Mockingjay says
– You are so VERY right jewdog – this current pope considers us, and everyone who opposes islam and (mass) immigration “DEPLORABLE(s)” : people who are morally, spiritually and mentally INFERIOR.
don vito says
Nicely put, i’m reminded of a quote I recently read moslems, “are offended by everything and shamed by nothing.” Fear is primary defense humans have, therefor when reality, logic, and reason are not in season, fear of what the pope says and his thinking expressed by his language, shows to a normal human,should beware of this person. So I fear the pope’s, words, actions, and judgement..
WPM says
I think Pope Francis has fear of losing all that money that is donated to the church by other “faiths ,groups and countries” to help settle “refugees” in Europe and North America. I am sure there is room in his guarded palace for some ,or maybe a few rooms for” interfaith ” Imams to take up resents to talk about cause and effect of violent reaction of Christians to” poor Moslem refugees ” culture enrichment take over of the Western world!
WPM says
This Pope is the worst thing to happen to the Catholic church ,he is a communist first a Catholic second. He is helping the red green alliance OWG who he a true fan and leader in my opinion!
eli says
Historically, the Catholic church has hardly been kind to “wanton” women, gays, Jews, choir boys … etc. No wonder he supports Islam.
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
eli, many Jews have converted to the Catholic Church. Historically, Nostradamus’ grandfather was a Jewish convert and Judith Stein was a Jewess who became a Catholic nun around the time of World War II. During the World War II, Pope Pius XII ordered all the monasteries and convents in Rome to hide all the Jews who would fit into their buildings. The pope hosted the Chief Rabbi of Rome in his personal apartments…and that Rabbi converted to Catholicism after the war. The Vatican even handed out fake Baptismal certificates to help Jews avoid round-ups. Today, Roslyn Moss and her brother were both raised Jewish and have converted to Catholicism. There are thousands and thousands more examples.
The Catholic Church has opened numerous homes to house and help fallen women who wanted to change their lives. St. Margaret of Cortona was a fallen woman who gave birth to a daughter…then converted…and the Franciscans helped her. Now she is a famous canonized saint with lots of respect.
The Catholic organization called “COURAGE” helps gays and lesbians to live their lives in a chaste manner. Some of them become straight and get married…and some stay single and chaste. The Sacrament of Confession is always open to gays who want to repent and receive guidance.
Francis is pro-Muslims because he is not really Catholic. There is evidence that he was not validly elected…which makes him an anti-pope.
Terry Gain says
A powerful and lucid rebuke of a child-like Pope. This is wonderful. Thank you Hugh Fitzgerald. I have shared this on Facebook and saved it for future reference.
Carol (the 1st) says
+1
Terry Gain says
PFK
This Catholic agrees with you. The Pope is not just an embarrassment, he’s dangerous. If he wants to stamp out hate he should address the hate which is causing the most harm. And fear.
dumbledoresarmy says
Perhaps he should be sent copies of Brigitte Gabriel’s book “Because They Hate” – the ‘they’ being.. .Muslims. And ex-Muslim Wafa Sultan’s “A God Who Hates”.
Brigitte Gabriel, born in Lebanon, was raised as a Maronite Catholic.
Wafa Sultan didn’t grow up in the badlands of Somalia or Afghanistan nor in Yemen or Saudi Arabia; she grew up in a well-to-do and literate Sunni Muslim family in Syria, at a time when the semi-Muslim deemed-heretical Alawites were generally dominant. And yet she describes exactly the same Islamic craziness as is described by Gabriel, and by ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish (from Egypt) and by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who experienced Islam both in Somalia and in Saudi Arabia as well as within its enclaves in Kenya and Europe.
Gabriel and Sultan *both* identify *hatred* as a force central to Islam. The Quran explicitly enjoins “enmity and hatred” as the attitude Muslims are to harbour and to *enact* toward the non-believers qua non-believers. The Quran, the Sira, the Hadiths are replete with encouragements and instructions to hate, hate, HATE… and therefore to attack, to rob, to rape, to enslave, to degrade and humiliate, to torture and murder non-adherents, in order.. to punish them for being non-adherents.
gravenimage says
It is certainly true that the Catholic church did a great deal to save Jews–especially Jewish children–during the Holocaust.
CogitoErgoSum says
I would agree with Father Albert in the video below. However, I would not agree with him at the end when he says to “pray” to Our Lady for help in gaining enlightenment since I pray only to God. I think most Catholics know that only God answers prayers but they still talk about “praying” to Mary when they really mean ask Mary to pray for us. I wish they would pay more attention to making that distinction. It’s a fine distinction, I know, and even more important things in the Church need attention now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LYbAJemTCY
Terry Gain says
Most Catholics say the Rosary.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, Terry and they repeatedly say the words of Gabriel to Mary (contained in the Bible) and ask Mary to “PRAY for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.” It’s no doubt pleasing to her Son who gave her to us as our mother also at the hour of His death.
Carolyne says
I cannot help but laugh at the epithet “Fallen women,” For every “Fallen woman” there is a “Fallen” man. Sex is actually one of the great pleasures of life. To responsibly indulge in it is not a sin and does not make one fall anywhere. In fact, I highly recommend it to the Pope, if he does not already indulge.
CogitoErgoSum says
Carolyne, could It make you fall in love …. if done it right? Sex without love is like smiling with tears in your eyes. Now there’s a deep subject into which we can fall, you and I.
Carolyne says
No, Cogito, love is something greater than sex, really the most treasured human experience of all.
CogitoErgoSum says
Carolyne, I wish I knew how to insert one of those smiley faces …. but hows this? 😉
Can you see the tear in my eye?
CogitoErgoSum says
Oh my gosh!. I figured it out without knowing how. Thank you!
gravenimage says
Agreed, Carolyne!
gravenimage says
CogitoErgoSum, you can insert a smily face by typing a colon: [:] and then a closing quote mark: [)], thusly 🙂
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, graven. Ain’t life grand? 🙂
Not Dumb Enough says
Islam and Catholics both think they are superior to all others, but in reality its who get the boys first rule. what you do to the girls is up for grabs.
gravenimage says
The claim that Catholicism allows the abuse of women is quite mistaken. Islam certainly does, though.
Dapto says
History will show that “Pope Francis” was the catalyst of the destruction of the Catholic Church.
CogitoErgoSum says
Through a quick internet search I was quickly able to find 40 Bible verses concerning fear. See the link below:
https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/fear-bible-verses/
So yes, I can see the point the Pope is trying to make. Then I did an internet search concerning verses in the Bible about fighting. I found fewer verses than the ones about fear but there is one verse about fighting that did catch my attention above all the others. It’s the following (Ephesians 6:11-17):
“Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
The above passage speaks to a spiritual struggle against evil and , yes, the Pope should provide spiritual guidance concerning that. However, the Pope represents a kingdom that is not of this world. He should NOT attempt to meddle in the POLITICAL affairs of this world, which is the material world in which we now live. Yes, we understand we should help the poor, the sick, the stranger, the unjustly oppressed. But we will do it only as long as it alleviates more suffering than it causes. I think the turning point has been reached where more harm is being done than good. Do you, Pope Francis, think in such terms?
Also, Pope Francis, if you want to give us advice about the fear of evil, please describe evil to us. Do you think Islam is EVIL? Just give us a HINT if nothing else. If you think Islam is evil, why should we help spread the seeds of that evil across our land? When we ask you for bread, do not give us a scorpion.
Kay says
Agreed. The Pope is to be a spiritual leader, not a political one.
Either he is often promoted as a political leader (i.e. his soundbites are misrepresented) or he mistakenly fancies himself as such or both.
Fear is the devil’s tool and love is greater than fear. But love protects. It does not turn a blind eye to rapes, murders, destruction of holy things.
But we proclaim Christ crucified and profess His Resurrection.
Benedict says
Inhabiting an enormous palace with many rooms to hide in, located in the center of Rome and being surrounded by an elite guard of Swiss soldiers, the pope doesn’t need to fear anything. Except, maybe, that his effeminate pontificate and his empty processions will cause his church to be trampled down by barbarians while the words of the prophet will be fulfilled in his hearing:
“I will punish your descendants and splatter your faces with the manure from your festival sacrifices, and I will throw you on the manure pile.” –
“God is not mocked” especially not by a presumptuous hypocrite who does it in the name of the very God he presumable serves.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Here’s somebody who really knows the Beast firsthand:
Sandra Solomon, Canada’s own Jayda Fransen. She is fearless. (Actually not, she immigrated from Saudi Arabia and she is more afraid that Mohammadism will follow her here, so that is why she takes action.):
http://barenakedislam.com/2018/03/26/canada-police-are-investigating-an-ex-muslim-woman-who-ripped-up-a-quran-and-put-the-torn-pages-on-cars-outside-an-islamic-center/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
See the multi-faith shills and collaborators condemn an ex-Mohammadan woman from Saudi Arabia. (If anyone would know what Mohammadism is about, it would be her.) They’ve even co-opted Geert Wilder’s dictum, “don’t be so tolerant as to tolerate intolerance,” for their own purposes. It’s amazing to see them spin Sandra Solomon’s information program into a hate crime. They are even using it to help support the move to legislation that will kill free speech in Canada. (Right now Sandra Solomon has the defense of the truth on her side. I think if Trudeau has his way that will go away.):
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/faith-leaders-condemn-alleged-qur-an-ripping-incident-at-toronto-area-mosque-1.3858856
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I sent the following email to the mayor of Mississauga, Bonnie Crombie at public.info@mississauga.ca (since her personal website has been locked down):
“Dear Mayor Crombie:
Mayor Crombie, you are condemning a woman who is an ex-Muslim from Saudi Arabia for criticising Islam. Are you an idiot?
No regards”
Carol (the 1st) says
Good for you. She comes across like a bureaucratic Nazi and I hear her husband is a crook.
mortimer says
Does the Pope ever “FEAR” those who want to EXTERMINATE and PERSECUTE and TORTURE his PRIESTS, his NUNS and his faithful CHURCH MEMBERS and faithful GIVERS?
The CHIEF DUTY of a pope is to FEAR FOR THE SAFETY AND SECURITY of his flock.
gravenimage says
Good questions.
Carolyne says
Assuming his “Flock” consists of mindless sheep who cannot fend for themselves without pie in the sky when you die.
CogitoErgoSum says
I like pie ….. except for green tomato pie. Somebody must have gotten that recipe from the Devil.
gravenimage says
Carolyne, Robert Spencer himself is a devout Catholic. I hardly think this describes him.
Carolyne says
To each his own.
DHazard says
The advice “don’t fear” is coming from one of the most guarded people on the face of the planet. If the Pope really believes what he says then he should dismiss all his guards, open the all of the vatican to the public and remove the bullet proof glass from the popemobile.
His actions and situation, like pretty much anybody who calls other people Islamophobes, show him to be a hypocrite. He is the most powerful example of a Westerner who enables Islamist terror by denying or minimizing it’s existence. Too many people in the West are in denial about it and Muslim murderers exploit this weakness. It’s a smart battle tactic that’s just handed to them by their intended victims.
The very same thing happened less than 80 years ago in Germany and the way Hitler easily deceived the West long enough to allow him to conquer most of Europe.
Carolyne says
DHazard, you are correct in that the Pope is one of the most guarded individuals on earth. I am reminded of the weekend march, supported by celebrities such as George Clooney who have armed bodyguards with them at all times. Hypocrites.
Terry Gain says
A powerful and lucid rebuke of a child-like Pope. This is wonderful. Thank you Hugh Fitzgerald. I have shared this on Facebook and saved it for future reference.
mortimer says
BOTTOM LINE: THE CHIEF SHEPHERD OF RCC IS NOT AFRAID FOR THE SAFETY OF HIS FLOCK.
Does the Pope ever “FEAR” those who want to EXTERMINATE and PERSECUTE and TORTURE his PRIESTS, his NUNS and his faithful CHURCH MEMBERS and faithful GIVERS? No, HE IS NOT AFRAID.
The CHIEF DUTY of a pope is to FEAR FOR THE SAFETY AND SECURITY of his flock.
Pope Francis = FAIL.
Berengaria says
I have no fear of his Left-Wing Anti-Christian, Anti-West Rants, the Man has the look & the actions of a Lunatic, no one Believes Francis’s Tirades. My Fear becomes Stark Terror when this Selected Pope stands before us as Vicar of Christ, Then, I Tremble.
shoehorn says
Fear is your friend. Courage is the ability to act in spite of fear.
gravenimage says
Spot on, shoehorn.
John Gehrke says
The Bible tells me do not fear but live in faith – I have faith in my God of the Bible and trust His will, and reject fear.
shoehorn says
Do you reject Allah of the Qur’an, the sock-puppet of the false prophet Mahomet?
Terry Gain says
As my saintly Mother used to say: God helps those who help themselves.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Terry.
Bacherbazistan says
I think its best to just ignore him like the Italians are doing. Sooner he resigns the better.
Phil Copson says
When we see white smoke coming out of Frankie’s apartments, will it mean that it was his turn to be stabbed multiple times and his apartment set on fire….?
gravenimage says
This is reference to this terrible story:
“France: 85-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor murdered, apartment burned, neighbor had threatened to burn her”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/france-85-year-old-jewish-holocaust-survivor-murdered-apartment-burned-neighbor-had-threatened-to-burn-her
A Muslim stabbed this poor lady to death.
Lydia Church says
So what if there will be a little bit more terrorism? A few more bombs? Some more rape gangs? And then some more terrorism? People will die, be traumatized for life, lose their loved ones, get stabbed a dozen times as an elderly person in their own home… so… what’s to fear????
When you live behind a 10 foot thick wall (or something like that) all around your personal fortress kingdom, and want the migrant invasion for your own agenda despite the tragedy it brings to all it comes to, sure, what’s to fear?!
Mockingjay says
I’m tellin’ ya – we live in a VERY sick world if people with SO VERY LITTLE SENSE of REALITY are allowed to ascend to the highest positions – and stay there.
Bacherbazistan says
Francis is fully aware of the mayhem his pets are causing, he made a statement in the last few months saying that despite this they should still be let into Europe. I kid you not.
The Vatican is full of Soros minions, Soros even boasts that he’s the pope’s boss. Check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1GC2kX9HY
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Shocking and scandalous! Necessary viewing for all those interested in Soros’ scheming.
Thank you so much for posting. This pope, a liberation theologists who should have never seen Rome, must be removed! A schism is what is needed and now!
Elizabeth Yore got is right when she said (at 41 minutes) that ‘these people’ (Socialists) always speak in terms of panic. This is how they pre-empt dialogue and discussion; this is how they take control.
Kay says
There was a reason that Jesuits were not supposed to accept positions of power (their own rules). I have a hunch this is it.
anonymous says
Jorge Bergoglio is an imposter pope. He is the Destroyer and uncanonically elected pope of the St. Francis of Assisi prophecy who is not a true shepherd.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…He who has made the defense of migrants and especially, of Muslims, a key pillar of his five-year papacy, finds that Italian voters do not agree…”
Catholics have a duty to consider what the holy father has to say but in the end they must weigh up their own reality, security and so on and make a choice of their own. This was (and remains) the case with contraception (excluding the permissible ‘rhythm method’) and a popular Italian retort was – ” he not play a the game not make a the rules”.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Bad Advice From Pope Francis, Who Tells Us Not To Fear
……………….
It is both rational and moral to fear some things, and to act to defend against them accordingly.
An invasion of ravening Muslims into the civilized world is one of those things.
Indiana Tom says
I usually am stunned by this Pope. Useful idiot? 3-D Chess player? Closet muslim? Anti-Christ? All of the above?
MFritz says
Easy to understand. The current pope considers the catholic church a “business”. And that’s the way he runs it.
And as long as global politics panders to islam and islamic countries, this pope will pander to them too.
He doesn’t care about muslim migrants replacing the Christian population as planned by the globalists. This is still decades away. He’ll be long gone by then.
Angel says
Pope Francis is very naive about many things, including the oppressive nature of Islam, the intentions of Communist Chinese leaders, and the seriousness of distortions inherent to the homosexual agenda. If only Pope Francis, who wishes to to invoke the name and image of St.Francis of Assisi, were more like that saint who tried to convert Muslims. “Is the Pope Catholic?” used to be an answer; Pope Francis has turned it into a question.
RiaD says
He is not naive. He knows exactly what he is doing.
Angel says
I am inclined to believe that you are right, RiaD, I’m just trying to us a little reserve, be charitable and give him the benefit of the doubt. However, I could be wrong. I can imagine worst case scenarios about this man that actually might be closer to the truth.
FYI says
fraudulent francis ,you note shows, NO concern for the plight of catholics or Christians or accepts responsibility for the loss of faith he and his cronies are generating.
Mr Bergolio and his Christ-betraying circus of Heresy,with his public displays of false piety in Rome took the name francis.
This was a source of great amusement to those who KNOW what Catholic Prophecy says about Rome and how it would abandon the faith and generate an apostasy..which is happening NOW under francis.
There is also a prophecy of St Francis Of Assisi which predicted a false pope.So it was a cunning idea of Mr Bergolio to DEFLECT attention from him and his cronies ..along with the canonization of Paul VI who condemned the type of ecclesiastical freemasony that runs the church administration today.
The men in Rome have a truly luciferian cunning but they are nor smart enough to see what God’s Justice will bring upon them when they are revealed as liars!
The Vatican does not preach the Gospel or represent the catholic faith these days.
After the FAILED shepherd,Josef “Run Away” Ratzinger(ben xvi) stepped down to make way for the FALSE shepherd,Mr Bergolio(fraudulent francis 1),the luciferian foxes entered the sanctuary.
Ignore or dismiss it if you want but if you are Catholic…and you should keep your faith if possible despite Rome’s betrayal and frankie’s heresies…you surely must know by now that what catholic prophecy says is coming true(although the Vatican will try to convince you otherwise)
meanwhile the papal show will go on.francis should be considered an actor playing a part and he puts on a good show indees with his Loving the Poor charade(…he is CEO in effect of a multi-billion dollar business know as the ..Vatican)
The smiling,clappy-happy,thumbs-up pictures of Mr Bergolio
should not fool anybody.
BTW,It was Pope John Paul II who used the famous “Be not afraid”:but then he was a True Pope.
fraudulent francis even takes that away from JP2:but then Mr bergolio is not a real pope anyway so it should come as no surprise.
Ecosse1314 says
Deep breath now. Those nice men are coming to fit your white overcoat that buckles up the back.
Carol (the 1st) says
It seems whenever Angela Merkel is with big, important men her thrilled expression reveals her to be a real “male suck” ready to be swept off her feet. This shows particularly when she is with Francis, and her enthrallment appears to be very much returned – they practically high-five each other in one photo.
They remind you of nothing so much as two carefree, mischievous lambs delighted at pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes! I smell eau de Collusion.
Eric jones says
So Francis claims he knows the true Islam. Does Francis know more about Islam than Boko Hiram who always refer to the Koran after they murder people.
I guess that Francis has not gotten the memo. The Islamist that the Italian military is currently looking for is out to attack the Vatican. Check with the Italian military Francis, check with them fast.
Eric
dumbledoresarmy says
Does the Pope read English? If he does, then he should be sent Gavin De Becker’s book “The Gift of Fear”. ‘Marked up’ – with yellow highlighter, or with sticky-note bookmarks – at all the points where the modus operandi of the kinds of people who entrap, Abuse, rape, torture and *murder* is outlined; where the preliminary ‘red flags’, the ‘danger signals’ that a sane human being ignores/ denies at their peril, are set out. Because a lot of them correspond to things that are discernible both in the behaviour of individual Muslims or Muslim groups but also, if translated onto the ‘macro’ level, in the behaviour of Muslim-dominated nations and of the OIC / the Ummah when considered as a gestalt.
Anybody know whether that book has been translated into Spanish or Italian? If so: send him the translation.
dumbledoresarmy says
On the subject of Muslim immigration: as far as I am concerned, the apostasy law of Islam and the ‘blasphemy’ law of Islam, both of which are very obviously *not* dusty old dead letters but alive and active in the attitudes and *practice* not just of Muslim *nations* but of individual Muslims and Muslim colonies *everywhere*, are ‘deal breakers’.
NO free and majority non-Islamic country should even consider allowing onto its soil immigrants – or ‘refugees’ or ‘students’ or ‘tourists’ or ‘businessmen’ – who openly declare themselves as card-carrying (so to speak) members of a cult that in its founding texts clearly enjoins and in historic practice everywhere it has gone has frequently inflicted and in the here and now still actually proposes to inflict and does in fact inflict 1/ DEATH for anyone who leaves it or tries to leave it and 2/ DEATH for anyone who dares to make fun of, question or criticise it.
The public – in broad daylight! – Muslim murder of Theo Van Gogh should, in a saner world, have been followed, all around the world, by the sound of gates of non-Muslim countries clanging shut against *any* further entry of identifiable Muslims, concomitant with surprise-raids on mosques everywhere, the shutting down of mosques where dubious activity of any kind was detected, and mass deportations of all non-citizen Muslims and internments of those possessing citizenship …pending a careful and considered rejig of the laws to permit strippings of citizenship from Muslims, identified as members of a cult that is at its core as ugly as, say, the Thuggee cult, Aum Shinrikyo, or Charles Manson’s ‘family’… and far bigger and therefore more dangerous than any of those are or were.
Would the Pope demand that a girl on her own, knowing already that a psycho serial killer is on the loose with a knife, ‘prove’ her devotion to God and her freedom from fear, by opening the door wide at 2 am to a man who fits the exact description of the killer, knife and all?