Do we really want peace? Then let’s ban all weapons so we don’t have to live in fear of war.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) April 29, 2018
Ban all weapons? Kitchen knives? Rocks? Automobiles? Does the Pope want us to live in the Stone Age? No, stones will be banned. What he is actually advocating is totalitarian government control of a defenseless populace.
If someone hits someone else over the head with a volume of Pope Francis’ statements, will that volume, too, have to be banned?
In this age of advancing jihad and ongoing Muslim persecution of Christians, for Pope John Lennon to be making statements such as this one is the height of irresponsibility, and worse. Pope Francis is working actively to ensure that as many Catholics as possible are ignorant, complacent, and unprepared in the face of the jihad threat. He is betraying his people, and the free people of the world, as well as those who yearn to be free.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
WPM says
We can start with the body guards that watch over the good Pope 24/7 and while we are at it take down the 12 foot thick walls around his “home”. Do as I say not what I do!
mortimer says
Agree with WPM: it’s “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO”… also called ‘hypocrisy’ or ‘virtue-signalling’ or ‘peacocking. The pope is like other virtue-signalling hypocrites: environmental advocates with private jets or public school advocating politicians who send their own children to private schools.
The pope will not longer need the Swiss Guards (trained Swiss soldiers hired because they are among the best in the world). Nor will they need the weapons of the Swiss Guards:
-SIG P220 pistol; SIG SG 550 rifle (or its SG 552 variant) in use by the Swiss Army; pepper spray; Glock 19 pistol; Heckler & Koch MP7 submachine gun, and others they can’t talk about.
Richard says
While we’re at it, do you think the terrorists will be satisfied with crying closets? If someone takes a shot at you, you might or might not forgive him, but when you see him walking toward you with a gun in his hand, will you stand there and wave?
esther says
So true——no more weapons and no more walls?——YOU FIRST, FRANKIE
Kilfincelt says
I have never liked Pope Francis because, quite frankly, he is an idiot and this is a perfect example of his idiocy. He might be a man of God but he has absolutely no understanding of human beings and how they think nor does he understand how destructive his pronouncements are. He is a leftist who is all about feeling good rather than actually doing good.
Indiana Tom says
Everybody has sort of forgotten the Sandinista and Contra war in Central America; but it is when I learned of Catholic Liberation Theology. My understanding is that Catholic Liberation Theology is popular in Central and South America. The current Pope is from South America, so his Marxist ideology really does not surprise me.
Strangerinastrangeland says
You are correct.
abad says
Catholic Liberation Theology/Catholic Social Justice is a means of holding people down. There is a reason the most devoutly Roman Catholic nations in 2018 are generally third-world nations.
Better educated former Roman Catholics like myself reject social justice and liberation theology for a reason.
Richard says
Indiana Tom: It was those catastrophic liberation theology wars that really hurt the respect for and trust in the Catholic Church in South America to this day. The priests and nuns would talk peasants who were happy with their lives into being dissatisfied and then tell them to go out and revolt against their employers, with whom they had good relationships – the employers often even paying for the peasants’ hospitalization. The result was what any moron could have foreseen. They were evicted from their lands and if the priests talked them into violent resistance, they were often shot. Those good priests and nuns who goaded them into it, however, lost nothing, claiming immunity from imprisonment because of their habits. The peasants are no fools and resent it to this day, as almost anyone would. It is noteworthy that Jesus never told the Jews to rise up against their Roman oppressors – nor did He fight back when they crucified Him or claim immunity because He was God. Yes, Communism was tried in the early Church. You may recall St. Paul writing; “Let us put in all our goods and be of one purse together.” The foreseeable result was apparent in a later epistle : “He who will not work, neither let him eat!”
Stacy Girl says
He’s not a man of God. He would love God and lead people to Him. He instead craves adulation and attention while possessing no depth when it comes to dealing with the most grave issues facing humanity.
abad says
Francis is a man of Allah though. Cares more about Islam than Christianity. It is doubtful Pope Francis is even a Christian
Richard says
I worry about exactly what you expressed.
Karen says
Well said. He has fallen into the trap of believing his own press.
mortimer says
POPE GUIDO SARDUCCI … the HIPPY POPE !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8x8eoU3L4&t=37s
Asally says
There is a lot of dissension within the church with this pope. I hope he will soon be replaced by someone who is qualified and has the interests of Christians, Catholics and civilization at heart instead of a South American tinpot marxist. We need to see this happen soon while it will still matter.
Carolyne says
He isn’t a “Man of God.”. He is an ex-bouncer from the streets of Argentina. He is a One-world Socialist who is meddling in issues about which he has no knowledge. The danger is that some people actually believe him to be a “Man Of God,” and will follow his commands.
If supernatural beings actually existed, I would tend to connect him more with Satan.
Sam Sham says
Uh, no he’s not a “man of God.” I’m Catholic and this man utters heretical nonsense almost every day, make that almost every time he opens his mouth. Here’s how it works: if a pope resigns under duress or threat, his resignation is invalid. We know Benedict was threatened over his failure to stop financial malfeasance of the Vatican Bank. If a person is elected pope after active campaigning by him or by others on his behalf, his election is invalid. We know the “St. Gallen Mafia” of cardinals actively campaigned on behalf of Jorge “Francis” Bergoglio. They have bragged about it and those he favors were all members of it. Jorge’s election was invalid. Benedict’s resignation was invalid. Ergo, (oops used Latin and Bergoglio wouldn’t like that) Benedict is still pope and Bergoglio is an anti-pope, one of many the Church has had over the centuries. Bergoglio is a liberation theology, one-world-religion, communist, Peronist thug. Highly recommend the best-seller, The Dictator Pope.
Indiana Tom says
WPM beat me to it.
Pope Francis: Do we really want peace? Then let’s ban all weapons so we don’t have to live in fear of war.”
Hmmmm….seems very dangerous. You go first.
Strangerinastrangeland says
Peace is that brief period between wars primarily used to rearm.
Lydia Church says
It’s all part of the hippie kumbaya one world order globalist agenda.
There are many stones that paved the way to this time in history.
WPM says
The road to hell is paved with the stones of good attentions .
WPM says
Lets all hug and sing peace in my time and it will be so, says the commie from South America.
penelope says
so-called man of God has NO common sense. He needs to read the Traveller, that might shed some light on the real problem, islam ,and its teachings of hate towards EVERYTHING, and in favor of men only. women have NO value in islam.
boakai ngombu says
women have NO value in islam
speaking of the long war: would Pope entertain – promote – the notion of gender equity?
Salah says
He’s not the Pope. Benedict the 16th is the only living Pope.
Dustin Koellhoffer says
So just how does this glittering jewel of galactic stupidity plan on enforcing that ban?
JayT says
That’s the very question I tweeted him about. I also asked if there would be any denouncement for the inevitable *mistakes* made during the enforcement on others. My final comment to him was I’m all for his idea if he can get the angels to do the enforcement since we’d need enforcers not subject to: bribes, stupidity, laziness, vendettas, etc.
I think he’s got more of a realistic shot on calling for a ban on all Weinerschnitzels. That would surely gain the Pope of Islam more credits amongst the Umma worldwide.
Peter Weber says
Wiener Schnitzel is not made of pork meat …
Salah says
MOLON LABE.
Diane Harvey says
Freedom From War
The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 7277, Disarmament Series 5
Released September 1961
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/arms/freedom_war.html
Pub; 7227 has never been withdrawn or repudiated. It takes little imagination how helpful a disarmed world would be the advance of the jihad.
The last passages of 7227 bear repeating,
In Stage III progressive controlled disarmament and continuously developing principles and procedures of international law would proceed to a point where no state would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force and all international disputes would be settled according to the agreed principles of international conduct.
The progressive steps to be taken during the final phase of the disarmament program would be directed toward the attainment of a world in which:
(a) States would retain only those forces, non-nuclear armaments, and establishments required for the purpose of maintaining internal order; they would also support and provide agreed manpower for a U.N Peace Force.
(b) The U.N. Peace Force, equipped with agreed types and quantities of armaments, would be fully functioning.
(c) The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes.
(d) The peace-keeping capabilities of the United Nations would be sufficiently strong and the obligations of all states under such arrangements sufficiently far-reaching as to assure peace and the just settlement of differences in a disarmed world.
abad says
Exactly why Pope Francis needs to stay out of USA affairs
Neil Ross says
Like in the UN “safe area” of Srebrenica?
Mary says
Do we ban hammers, rope,shpvels etc.? Do we cut off pur hands so that we don’t strangle someone? Since the dawn of time humans have found eays to kill, banning wrapons won’t change that.
utis says
Too true. The human brain is the real weapon of mass destruction.
Shmoovie says
Agreed.
Guess he is unaware of recent uses of airplanes and autos as weapons of war. Will fire and water be included on some utopian ‘banned’ list?
What a dimbulb (or purposeful hypocrite) he proves himself to be with such messages. Next to come: “Give Peace a Chance”.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“It [Islam]has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Churchill understood that “the strong arms of science” — meaning in his case the weapons of war in which, fortunately, the West was then, and still remains, far ahead of the Muslim world –if given up, would lead to catastrophe.
Mark Swan says
1945
General McArthur, spoke, on the battleship USS Missouri, He was there for Japan’s Surrender
at the end of WWII, after the United States used Atomic Weapons on Japan…
beginning the Atomic Era:
“Military alliances, balances of powers, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only
path to be the way of the crucible of war. The utter destructiveness of war now blocks out this alternative. We have had our last chance. If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, our Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence (renewal) and improvement of human character that will synchronize with
our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments
of the past two thousand years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”
gravenimage says
+1
Malcolm (South Afric) says
This is not so far from my home and near where family members have homes.
What would happen if good people did zero.
It is not in Catholic tradition to abandon a brother in need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbPwQddTqw0
utis says
I could take this BS if a child said it, even a 20-year old. Even the late Mr. Rogers. It’s insulting to anyone with reason or a knowledge of human history. I blame my generation (and his) for dragging this infantile philosophy out of the closet and making it policy. I apologize for my generation’s idiocy to the generations to come, who will live in a world whose horrors even drugs can’t disguise.
Wellington says
Just when you thought this guy couldn’t say anything dumber…….
Stacy Girl says
Proves that his existence is rapidly in a devolving state. Some call it progressive.
CogitoErgoSum says
Ban all weapons so we don’t have to worry about war. Now why didn’t Jesus think of that? Maybe because banning weapons is not going to stop people from still hating one another? Maybe because it’s not going to stop people from continuing to lie, steal, cheat or murder one another during fits of rage or through cunning and stealth? Pope Francis tells us to ban weapons while Allah tells the Muslims to fight until everyone is either dead or submitting to Islam. Who’s words do you think the Muslims will heed? This Pope himself is one of the crosses we Catholics have to bear …. and the road is all uphill.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
CogitoErgoSum
What can we say, except one huge disconnect, between reality and abstract perfection lacking reason.
Remaining always Catholic, should be an interesting tussle.
Carolyne says
I have a wicked looking kitchen knife. I suppose it should be banned.
Savvy Kafir says
Although I’m not a Catholic, or a Christian of any sort, I was happy when the liberal-minded Bergoglio became Pope Francis. And the fact that he chose the name Francis, in honor of the animal-loving, nature-friendly saint, seemed a good omen.
Unfortunately, he has proven to have all of the weaknesses, misconceptions, & misguided agendas common among the politically-correct liberals of the Regressive Left — and a shocking lack of common sense, which is also a common trait among postmodern “progressives”.
Anyone who, in 2018, still doesn’t understand the threat posed by Islam & Muslims, is willfully ignorant to the point where they seem like mental defectives. (Although the truth is more complicated than that, the results are the same.)
And anyone who thinks that weapons should be banned is incredibly naive. (This is another issue on which I constantly knock heads with my fellow Lefties.) A few minutes of honest, unbiased thought proves the idiocy of this impulse to disarm law-abiding citizens. It would be a bad idea even if there were no Muslims living among us. It’s an even worse idea today, as the Allah junkies become more & more numerous in the West, and more prone to violent attacks on non-Muslims.
Just like President Obama, Pope Francis has become a gut-wrenching disgrace for progressive-minded people who still place some value on common sense, and who appreciate the superiority of Western Civilization to the barbarism of Islam.
Wellington says
Seems to me, Savvy Kafir, you are making a distinction between liberalism and leftism (I often call the former old-fashion liberalism and the latter modern liberalism). Liberals of old like Truman and Attlee, Scoop Jackson and Moynihan, wanted too much government for my taste since I am a conservative but such liberals recognized evil when they saw it and were ready to fight it. They also did not have such an open mind that their brains fell out, nor did they want to make the Orwellian distinction between free speech and hate speech which is a recipe for the ending of free speech. I wish such folks were still around because they’re preferable to leftists by far but, alas, they are a dying breed I fear.
Savvy Kafir says
Wellington, the labels for those of us on the political left all carry a lot of unwelcome baggage these days. Pat Condell, an Islam-savvy British atheist, vegetarian, and free speech advocate, prefers the term “liberal” and disparages “progressives”, who he associates with the politically-correct Regressive Left. I believe author Sam Harris considers himself a Classical Liberal, as opposed to the PC, Islam-friendly, gun-hating types who now make up most of the political left.
I refer to myself as a progressive, since I’m a forward-thinking person who wants to see humanity advance in terms of science, technology, education, ethics, environmentalism, vegetarianism, etc. But I’m actually more of a progressive/libertarian mongrel, as I also believe in personal freedom & personal responsibility. And I place a high value on common sense, which is distressingly uncommon among PC liberals or progressives of the Regressive Left — who are often great at logic in some areas (such as environmentalism), but not when it runs afoul of their politically-correct articles of faith.
There are a few of us tree-hugging Lefties who hate Islam, are cool with guns, embrace common sense, and properly value the freedoms & advantages of Western Civilization. I think I see a nascent trend moving in that direction. And I believe that Islam’s war on the West will cause more & more people on the political left to embrace that sort of hybrid philosophy.
Wellington says
Thanks for your reply, Savvy Kafir. I would only add that conservatives are also all for advances in science, technology, ethics (actually, here I think past ethical norms were often superior, for instance the conviction that virtually all babies should be born within wedlock and not out of wedlock) and certainly are for a clean environment but not for silly, excessive, burdensome environmental regulations (some of the strongest proponents for keeping our streams and lakes clean, our forests in tact, etc. are various groups that are anglers and hunters and they very much tend to be on the conservative side of the political spectrum throughout America). Vegetarianism is something I’m not interested in, meat and fish being too delicious to give up (e.g., never had the vegetable lasagna yet that comes anywhere close to the “real thing”) but more power to anyone who wants to be a vegetarian. That is their right but I don’t want vegetarians doing anything in law to prevent me from being a carnivore.
I do think there is a HUGE difference between conservatives and reactionaries and many on the Left don’t know or don’t care to know the distinction. I am a Ronald Reagan conservative, which is to say I am a Thomas Jefferson liberal (things have done a 180 respecting political ideology over the last two hundred years or so) and believe that government is best which ordinarily governs least, though I think libertarians often go too far in the opposite direction from true conservatism, not wanting even zoning ordinances often times. Sorry, but I don’t want an Exxon station built across from my home.
One thing we both have in common is that we recognize that Islam is a menace to liberty such as no other major religion remotely is. Unfortunately, the current Left has also become an enemy of liberty and there are far, far more of such folks than there are reactionaries.Take care.
gravenimage says
Good exchange, Wellington and Savvy Kafir.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Bingo Bango Bongo, well said W
Georg says
“[The Pope] is betraying his people…”
This came to mind upon seeing an image the other day of him beaming when meeting Katy Perry. She was just involved in some hideous exchange where she was abusive to a nun, and that is the Pope’s reaction. One spends her whole life in almost silent devotion to a religion they share and the other is a floozy embodying a lifestyle contrary to the one he’s nominally devoted to and he couldn’t have looked more thrilled to meet and impress her. He has the personality-type where he resents those devoted or submissive to him. The mark of a bitter narcissist.
Carolyne says
I wonder how he’d react to Beyonce’. Probably swoon.
Elizabeth Lawson says
This kind of reasoning, typical of the Left, is just ALL wrong! I hasten to add that I am a strong Roman Catholic, and while I concur with our Pope’s expressed desire for peace in the world, I believe his solution is naive to say the least. Why? A quick look across the world at London, England’s homocide ( and weaponless ) rate – assuming one excludes knives, clubs, garrottes and sheer physical assault, should persuade even the most peace loving advocate that man himself is a deadly weapon. Many of the most lawless countries in the world have two things in common: high homocide rates and gunless environments. The state of Georgia, USA has a mandated law obliging all citizens to be armed with a gun – that state has had ONE homicide in seven years. The deterrent to world wide slaughter still appears to be mutually assured destruction, and until men become angels, this will remain the status quo world wide.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“man himself is a deadly weapon”
This is straight thinking of the first order.
Expect it to be both ignored by Big Statist thinkers, and yet be the basis of all Big Statist ‘solutions’.
Cthulhu says
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
With you.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
You’d think Francis had never read Latin. Quod homo stultus est.
Siddi Nasrani says
I keep reading that the POPE is a man of GOD !!!????
So why do ALL the POPES pray & bow down to Idols ??
All the Prophets & Christ did not bow down to Idols.
You make your mind up if he is a man of GOD, for me he is not.
Alien Republican says
Tell me, why are “the best of mankind” – according an arab claiming to be the messenger of “god” – so inferior to other cultures ?
CogitoErgoSum says
I think Muhammad did kiss a certain Black Stone which he considered to be the right hand of Allah. The Black Stone is supposed to have eyes and ears and will speak with its mouth on Judgment Day concerning what it’s seen and heard of those who come to visit it. I wouldn’t kiss a rock in the hope that it would give me a good recommendation to Allah …. but Pope Francis might like to emulate Muhammad in doing just that if the Muslims would let him into Mecca.
Carolyne says
The Ka’aba is a meteorite. I might kiss it if it missed me.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Why do Muslims go to Mecca and kiss a filthy pagan black stone, very odd.
duh swami says
I prefer a frozen ham as a weapon because you can eat the evidence…
somehistory says
There was a show where a man told his wife he was leaving her. She was holding in her hand a frozen roast she had been about to cook. She bopped him and he fell dead. When the police were investigating his death…he had been an officer…the roast was done and the officers were hungry. She invited them to sit down and eat, which they did.
WPM says
That was Alfred Hitchcock presents TV series in the late 50s to early 1960 I saw it as a rerun ,it was a frozen leg of lamb.
somehistory says
I remembered the “leg of lamb” after I hit submit, but there is no edit. Thanks.
somehistory says
Hands and feet have been used to kill.
War is not just the use of weapons, but an attitude. islam shapes the attitudes of millions and they don’t want a new attitude. This is just one aspect of war.
Last night, a self-defense trainer (Tim Larkin) was speaking about people wanting to get rid of weapons (guns) and after speaking for a while, he said that when people drive, they are “betting their life on paint.”
“Betting their life on paint” because someone could decide to cross the line and run his/her car into the driver depending on the paint in the middle of the road, and the attitude toward that line by other drivers, to keep him safe..
If a person, or many persons, don’t respect that others have the right to live, they will engage in murder. And they will find the means to do the crime.
Alien Republican says
Ban the Swiss Guard and the “Papa-Mobile” and you will no longer live in fear. Seriously, how can a man with decades of training, much of it in the humanities and history appear (?) so stupid.
Karen says
Perhaps the silliness of the Pope’s rather childish proposal is by design. What does he risk in a world where image and good intentions count for more than results? He gets to play Mr. Nice Guy, whose childish ramblings charm the uninformed. Meanwhile, men and women of intellect and integrity do the heavy lifting, pushing back against the brute and criminals of this world, even if they have to look like meanies.
Carolyne says
But I think he can do a good Tango, despite the dress.
Karen says
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Ren says
Could a pope be more dumb?
TC says
Islamists have failed to divide France. Will they succeed in Britain?
The Islamic State, only one of many Islamist actors, will be delighted by what happened outside Finsbury Park mosque in the early hours of Monday morning. In the space of three months they’ve achieved in Britain what they failed to pull off in France during five years, and provoked a retaliatory act.
This is what they want. When the Syrian intellectual, Abu Moussab al-Souri, published his 1600-page manifesto in 2005, ‘The Global Islamic Resistance Call’, his stated goal was to plunge Europe into a war of religion.
Describing the continent as the soft underbelly of the West, al-Souri’s first target was France, the country he considered the most susceptible to fracturing along religious lines because it has the largest Muslim population in Europe, many of whom could be manipulated by both the colonial history of France and its strict secularism that outlaws ostentatious displays of religion.
European intelligence services underestimated the impact of Al-Souri’s message to European Muslims. They were channelling their resources into preventing a ‘spectacular’ similar to 9/11 but what they couldn’t know was how social media – particularly YouTube, launched in the same year as al-Souri published his manifesto – would provide extremists with the means to poison the minds of impressionable young men.
The first foot soldier inspired by Al-Souri was Mohammed Merah, the French-Algerian who went on the rampage in March 2012, singling out Muslim soldiers and Jewish schoolchildren for execution. There was then a three-year hiatus before the Kouachi brothers slaughtered the staff of the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, 24 hours before one of their associates, Amedy Coulibaly, gunned down a policewoman and then shot dead four customers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris.
It was in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo killings that France was at its most divided; across the country some Muslim schoolchildren refused to stand for the national minute’s silence because in their eyes the cartoonists had been rightly punished for their blasphemy. French politicians were alarmed, fearful that the country was in the process of fracturing. But it didn’t. Laïcité is a strong glue, and the French possess the intellectual maturity to have conversations with its Muslims that other countries find ’embarrassing’.
Angry that they hadn’t provoked the French, the Islamists broadened the scope of their attacks but in doing so they doomed their strategy to failure. The co-ordinated attacks in Paris on November 2015 targeted the ‘capital of abomination and perversion’, but among the dead were several Muslims. Many more would have perished had the suicide bombers gained access to the Stade de France that evening, but nonetheless the botched attempt to kill football supporters was a gross miscalculation. ‘In targeting the young at the Stade de France, where a great number of spectators came from immigrant Muslim backgrounds and lived in Seine-Saint-Denis, they were alienating the potential sympathisers that they wished to attract’, said the political scientist Gilles Kepel. ‘The logic of Jihadist terrorism is on the one hand to terrorise the enemy but also to recruit supporters’.
The Islamists didn’t learn from their blunders. Thirty of the 86 people run down by Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel’s truck in Nice during the 2016 Bastille Day celebrations were Muslim. Then, ten days after the attack in Nice, 84-year-old Father Hamel had his throat slit by two teenage Islamists in his quiet Normandy church, a crime that Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, said ‘shamed humanity’.
Far from dividing French society with their campaign of terror, the Islamists have actually brought the country closer together. Government figures reveal that in 2016 ‘racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim acts and threats’ dropped by 44.7pc compared to the previous year; while Marine Le Pen failed in her bid to become president and only eight of her National Front party were elected to parliament. Admittedly, that’s eight more far-right politicians than sit in the House of Commons but better a nation vents its anger at the ballot box than behind the wheel of a van.
Consequently, the Islamists have stopped targeting civilians and switched their focus to the men and women who serve the French state. Monday’s attempt to blow up a police van in Paris was the fifth attack on the security forces in 2017, following incidents at the Louvre, Orly airport, Notre Dame cathedral and the fatal shooting of a policeman on the Champs-Élysées in April. Two of the attacks were carried out by foreigners and one by a man with a long history of violence against the police.
No one in France is naive enough to believe that the Islamists will never again attack civilians but Gilles Kepel senses that ‘Jihadi Fatigue’ has set in among this current generation of French extremists. They have tried and failed to fracture France, and now they are up against a new president whose holistic approach to his country’s Muslims is intended to further alienate the extremists.
On Tuesday evening, Emmanuel Macron dined with members of the French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM) as they broke their daily Ramadan fast. It was a first for a French president and for Macron it was an opportunity to show his gratitude for the Council’s support during his presidential campaign. But there was another reason for his presence. Macron told his hosts that he believes Islam is compatible with French values; what isn’t, however, ‘is the form of Islam that organises a segregation within the Republic, isolating itself from the rest of us, because to base a political and social identity only on faith is to acknowledge that that faith is not compatible with the Republic’.
This ‘perversion’ of Islam wouldn’t be tolerated, said Macron, who called on his audience to work with him ‘in maintaining national unity’ in the face of the extremists. Having failed to find Europe’s soft underbelly in France, Islamic State have turned their attention to Britain, and the alleged actions of Darren Osborne will delight them as much as those of Salman Abedi and Khuram Butt.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/islamists-failed-divide-france-will-succeed-britain/
sidney penny says
“If someone hits someone else over the head with a volume of Pope Francis’ statements, will that volume, too, have to be banned?”
Robert Spencer, you keep hitting the nail on the head.
As far as the volume of Pope Francis’ statements is concerned, the first question is whether that someone would be able to lift it to hit someone over the head.
Axolotl says
Sidney Penny
“a volume of Pope Francis’ statements” with with all the nonsense (like this latest statement) removed would be a pretty feeble weapon. Maybe good enough to swat flies…
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
This pope seems to be unaware that war has been banned since 1929 under the terms of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact
This international treaty has been signed by many countries, including “Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, British India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.”
Do you notice any country that is conspicuously not on this list? Like a country beginning with V?
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Those who hammer their swords into plowshares will be plowing for those who don’t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swords_to_ploughshares
Older Canadian says
He can’t possibly be that stupid, he must be senile.
Stewart Davies says
Methinks the Holy Father speaketh through his arse: again: and again, and again and again.
Granddaddy says
This guy is such a hypocrite. Hardly anyone listens to him anymore in Europe, and now it looks like he’s working on the US.
Chand says
Can humankind ban nuclear weapons? That would be a start.
gravenimage says
Why is Muslim apologist Chand pretending that the reigion of blood and murder is peaceful. Wait…don’t answer that….
John Thomas says
Methinks this, and previous Popes want to live where I and all of us would love to live. I think it’s called “Cloud cuckoo land”.
Can anybody tell me how to get there?
FYI says
fraudulent francis strikes again!
His papal motto really should be..
“Semper infidelis”
{Apologies to the USMC….}
Given his PROVEN heresy and promotion of apostasy within the RCC.
Or as my classicist uncle used to say in intentionally cod latin..”semper bogus”
Garth Woodward says
pope is an idiot he lives in a bubble his city has walls around it to keep people out yet he expects countries to open the borders to these disgusting people and wants to ban guns world to stop wars what a joke hundreds of years ago there were no guns and they still had wars, so pope frances try living in the real world stop being a hypocrite
Cheer Bear Girl says
I cannot take the Dope seriously. Muslims have declared war on the world for centuries. I doubt disarming ourselves will help Muslims see the error of their ways.
Gfmucci says
This article is will be classified under “the Pope is a leftist moron”.
Tony46 says
”…..because in those days the Lord won’t send us a Shepherd but a Destroyer”…..(and a dumb one if you ask me)
(Prophecy of Saint Francis of Assisi)
TheOldOligarch says
What he really means is ”the West should totally disarm and lie supine as it’s enemies ravage and destroy it”.
JM says
Pope Francis appears to suffer from Leftist Servile Dementia (LSD), a Progressive disease. The condition is also known as Bergoglio Syndrome (BS).
Early onset of LSD/BS is triggered by slavish devotion to globalism. The most noticeable symptom is chronic foolish and inane statements made in public, accompanied by delusions of grandeur and a God complex.
Contributing factors always include conscientious stupidity and willful ignorance. Despite its benign appearance, Bergoglio Syndrome is potentially very dangerous to others.
Left untreated, Bergoglio Syndrome (BS) leads to pathological obsession with power and control. No known cure is available at this time. The best treatment is a placebo, giving the patient the illusion of maintaining power and control, while a suitable replacement is found.
Typical favorite book:
“The Marching Morons” (1951), by Cyril M. Kornbluth
Typical favorite Latin expressions:
Magnus frater spectat te.
Big Brother is watching you.
Ventis secundis, tene cursum.
Go with the flow.
Granddaddy says
“Excuse me,” said Barlow. “What did you say?”
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah!”
“Oh, yeah?”
“Yeah!”
“Aaah!” snarled the stranger.
Classic stuff. I’m sure the Pope’s in there somewhere.
Granddaddy says
“Do we really want peace? Then let’s ban all weapons so we don’t have to live in fear of war.”
The Pope actually said this? Like it’s going to happen? Or if it did happen there would be no more fear of war? And we’re supposed to take him seriously? I keep going over this and the only conclusion that makes sense is that Pope Francis thinks we’re all idiots. Or maybe he just thinks only those who disagree with him are idiots. Or he’s gone senile. Or if you assume his audience knows absolutely nothing about past history and human nature. Or if we’re all fools.
Otherwise, it makes no sense. Jesus didn’t tell us to be fools.
JM says
(1) Pope Francis wants to ban all weapons worldwide.
(2) However, “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
(3) Therefore, all writing implements will be banned as well.
But that means that the Pope’s pet reporter (who only scribbles notes) will finally have to start recording the interviews. And that means clarity. No more unfounded accusations of heresy by the uninformed public.
In retrospect, Francis might wish to retract his call to ban arms.
David, Thailand says
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
Wise words indeed, though he took care not to mention what happens when a blind man leads hundreds of millions of blind people.
Anne says
Ezekiel 34:10 Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require My flock at their hand; I will cause them to cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more; for I will deliver My flock from their mouths, that they may no longer be food for them.”
Anne says
Doesn’t the Vatican still have the Office of the Inquisitor?
Messiah warned his disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. (See Luke 12:1)
Curious Observer says
So, when can we expect this Pope to disband the Swiss Guard that protects the Vatican? Also, when does he plan to use the Vatican’s premises for housing refugees? This Pope is the most hypocritical and dangerous of all Popes thus far (and there have been several Popes of a similar bent, but probably none as bad as this fellow). As I have noted before, this Pope needs to be stripped of his title, defrocked and exiled to a leper colony where he can work to redeem his soul.
gravenimage says
Pope Francis: “Do we really want peace? Then let’s ban all weapons so we don’t have to live in fear of war.”
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Right–the Mohammedans, who constantly rant about swords and “steeds of war” will be thrilled to see the foolish Infidels disarm…