“Threats to our comfort”? Really? Is that what motivates the opposition to mass Muslim migration into the West?
The message that the Pope is sending to non-Muslims is simple: drop dead. He appears to be absolutely unconcerned about the following facts: Somali Muslim migrant Mohammad Barry in February 2016 stabbed multiple patrons at a restaurant owned by an Israeli Arab Christian; Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan Muslim migrant, in September 2016 set off bombs in New York City and New Jersey; Arcan Cetin, a Turkish Muslim migrant, in September 2016 murdered five people in a mall in Burlington, Washington; Dahir Adan, another Somali Muslim migrant, in October 2016 stabbed mall shoppers in St. Cloud while screaming “Allahu akbar”; and Abdul Razak Artan, yet another Somali Muslim migrant, in November 2016 injured nine people with car and knife attacks at Ohio State University. 72 jihad terrorists have come to the U.S. from the countries listed in Trump’s initial immigration ban.
What’s more, all of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. On May 10, 2016, Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency, said that the Islamic State was using migrant routes through the Balkans to get jihadis into Europe.
Pope Francis has never expressed any concern about any of this. Even worse, he has claimed risibly that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” This has become a superdogma in the Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace, you will be ruthlessly harassed and silenced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the hierarchy elsewhere as well. The bishops of the Catholic Church are much more concerned that you believe that Islam is a religion of peace than that you believe in, say, the Nicene Creed. And so what possible reason could there be to be concerned about these “refugees”? It’s a religion of peace!
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Pope Francis: Immigrants Provide ‘Enrichment’ to Society, Not ‘Threats,’” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, June 14, 2018:
Pope Francis has called for a “change in mindset” regarding immigration, insisting in a message Thursday that migrants are not a threat to society but, rather, an enrichment that should be appreciated as such.
In his message to the second Holy See-Mexico Conference on International Migration in the Vatican, the pope praised the work of the “International Community” aimed at the adoption of two global compacts, one on refugees and the other on “safe, orderly and regular migration.”
“I encourage you in your work and your efforts to ground responsibility for the shared global management of international migration in the values of justice, solidarity and compassion,” the pontiff said….
“This demands a change in mindset,” he said. “We must move from considering others as threats to our comfort to valuing them as persons whose life experience and values can contribute greatly to the enrichment of our society.”
“For this to happen, our basic approach must be to encounter the other, to welcome, to know and to acknowledge him or her,” he added.
The “transnational dimension” of the current migration situation exceeds the capacities and resources of many nations, the pope said, which means that “the assistance of the entire international community is needed”…
“Such international cooperation is important at every stage of migration: from departing one’s country of origin all the way to reaching one’s destination, as well as facilitating reentry and transit,” Francis said.
“In each of these countries, migrants are vulnerable, feeling alone and isolated. The recognition of this fact is vitally important if we wish to give a concrete and dignified response to this humanitarian challenge,” he added….
“These persons, our brothers and sisters, need ‘ongoing protection,’ independently of whatever migrant status they may have,” he said, and their “fundamental rights and their dignity need to be protected and defended.”…
paula stephens says
The pope has moved quickly towards ecumenicalism. I pray for those who are naive enough to close their eyes and grab his hand.
Angry Aussie says
I am yet to find a Catholic layman that listens to or respects the opinions of this Pope. Thankfully.
Linda says
That is a very good thing.
mortimer says
Dope Frank, the DHIMMI pope, is showing signs of HERESY.
Voytek Gagalka says
“Respects his opinions” or not, they are still willingly giving their money during religious services from the substantial share goes also to him – to Vatican.
Fr. VF says
I see this silly notion all the time.
Totally false. Not one penny of the main Sunday collection in Catholic parishes goes to the Pope or Vatican. Not one penny.
Please stop repeating this myth.
SAE says
Angry Aussie, regarding your “thankfully”. A very holy priest that I know (he says the TLM daily), anyway, that priest says regarding Pope Francis; the priest prays that “the pope’s actions please God”. That priest said the reason he doesn’t pray for the pope’s intentions is… he would not give that pope “a blank check”. Sad but true.
Leon Berton says
Please, thank that priest for truly thinking with the Church.
paul budrunas says
Hey Pope…if you’re so convinced of Muslims’ value, why don’t you offer them refuge in the Vatican right next to your own quarters? You are one of the most stupid people walking this planet!
mortimer says
No, Paul, Dope Frank should be forced to LIVE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA (Sharia-infested) or in IRAQ or in MALAYSIA or SHARIA-INFESTED REGIONS of INDONESIA or in EGYPT where Christians are REGULARLY PERSECUTED.
Only a personal experience of Islamic persecution will change his mind. HE LIVES IN A BUBBLE REMOVED FROM REALITY.
abu taleb says
Pope is just like the Pharisees in the Bible
23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5 “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.
ConservativeLifer says
He is the most unCatholic pope ever.
mortimer says
Dope Frank, the DHIMMI pope!
Emilie Green says
“from considering others[meaning Muslims] as threats to our comfort to valuing them as persons”
The stupid is strong in this one.
mgoldberg says
Yaaas… the farce is strong in he
Mockingjay says
It´s not stupidity. He simply despises us.
The crusader says
The POPE doesn’t speak for me. He’s way wrong on this.
Linda says
What do Muslims have to do to convince this Pope that they hate everything about Christianity except the dhimmi aspect?
Jay says
It’s very disturbing to hear the pope make such dangerous uneducated statements about illegal immigration, with no regard to the damages and violence they have caused all over Europe and
England, Sweden, Norway, etc etc. The Muslim invasion has caused irreparable harm to the people of Europe and their economies and yet the Pope ignores the truth. And now Italy is closing their borders as well. Just this week the new Italian president refused boats full of refugees.
I am a lifelong catholic, but this pope appeared out of nowhere, and then Pope Benedict retires, which
is extremely unusual as well. Pope Francis is a fraud and a danger to the world.
I will never accept him as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church !
He’s as big a fraud as obama was and still is.
Thank goodness the USA has Pres Trump to protect our borders and put America
first for the first time in many years!! ??????????Trump,2020
SAE says
That is a very good question, Linda. I’d love to know the answer.
Ecosse1314 says
Yup California should be safe with Trump as its leader.
Ren says
We don’t consider muslims as threats. They are threats to us and to humanity.
Rudy says
Check this out.
Pope Wrote Koran
http://www.remnantofgod.org/PopeKoran.htm
The Pople and Islam
http://www.remnantofgod.org/chrislam.htm
gravenimage says
This is, of course, absolute claptrap.
Despite the dhimmitude of the current pontiff, Catholics–including the popes–stood agains the threat of Islam for centuries.
You would not be free now if they hadn’t.
Stacy Girl says
Most assuredly.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Stacy Girl.
DragarOz says
Is there now a separation between the average christian and the elites within the cloth? anyone?
gravenimage says
Yes–not every Christian follows the stance of every Christian cleric. Not every Catholic agrees with the Pope.
DragarOz says
That is good, however is it not also a sign that the system is broken and not in the best interests of the followers. we all need to move on together into the future with pure hearts and forget the past, too much injustice and too many requiring justice for the injustices. A future with no injustices is a good ideal. (A future without Islam that would be).
gravenimage says
There have been bad popes before, and the faith has weathered them.
Of course, the aim is to have a better, more just future.
Granddaddy says
The only way a Muslim “can contribute greatly to the enrichment of our society” is to be a bad Muslim. And even then you can’t trust them. This is just propaganda. Translation: we like our new payoff check. Keep them coming.
oh_that_Bob says
Every prayer begins with Muslims reciting the first chapter of the Quran, known as Al Fatiha. Every Muslim commits all seven verses of this chapter to memory. They know it as well as they know their own name.
What many fail to realize, though, is that verses 6 and 7 are a direct insult toward Jews and Christians. Some even believe it to be a direct curse against Christians. These verses read:
“Guide us to the Straight Way, The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).”
Seventeen times daily as part of their regular prayers Muslims curse Jews as those upon whom Allah has bestowed his wrath, and Christians as those who have gone astray.
Craig W says
Great idea pope … like how everyone aboard jets on 9/11 treated their jihadis as person’s when they boarded their doomed flights. What an dunce!
somehistory says
“Threats to the comfort” is not what concerns people. It’s the “threats” to life and limb; the “threats” of terror and death.
Most people are accustomed to having “comforts” disrupted now and then. It’s the danger these “migrants” pose to the lives of family and friends and self that cause the ordinary person to reject this idiots drivel.
“experience and values can contribute greatly to the enrichment of our society.” This is a crock. moslims don’t have “values” that can “enrich” anything. islam has no “value” or virtue or worth.
it’s good that God does not require His people to listen to this idiot. Treating people who act like humans, as persons is not that difficult, but treating people who act like demons as someone we want in our neighborhood….that’s an entirely different thing. To not recognize the danger is suicidal.
Dapto says
Still no Refugees behind your Vatican walls mr Pope. You need to lead by example and not keep virtue signaling the world in what they should do.
DragarOz says
Just little boys behind those walls!
gravenimage says
No, the pope is not imprisoning little boys in the Vatican.
Mockingjay says
– This pope considers ALL and EVERYONE of us who do not want mass migration into Europe to continue, all of us who certainly do NOT want for the muslim populations in Europe to grow any bigger than they already are, not only as bad Christians, but as SELFISH DEPLORABLES.
THAT is the message he is sending here, LOUD AND CLEAR.
We Europeans, we, the `white privileged`, we just don´t care about anyone else than ourselves. We only care about ourselves and our precious material possesions. We don´t want to share. That, for pope Francis, is the `real issue`.
– By talking like this, this pope truly is showing him self FULL of CONTEMPT of us, the European people.
He truly despises us.
mortimer says
MJ, yes, he truly despises people with DAUGHTERS who don’t want them RAPED BY MIGRANTS.
Dope Frank, the DHIMMI pope!
Mockingjay says
– This pope doesn´t even show the SLIGHTEST awareness – or the SLIGHTEST WILLINGNESS – to even TRY or make an EFFORT to consider that the people of Europe could have real, LIGITIMATE reasons for not wanting mass immigration into Europe to continue.
His judgement is absolute, and has been so from the beginning.
This shows his ABSOLUTE CONTEMPT for us.
– Does he really NOT see that the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of migrants crossing the Mediterranean are YOUNG, SINGLE MALES?
Does he REALLY have NO idea that this fact by itself is already VERY TROUBLING – even if they weren´t all muslim – which of course, they ARE…
– Has he really not heard ANY news about all the rapes and murders, in Italy, as well as in Germany, Sweden and everywhere else?
And how about all the terror attacks ? Never heard of those either ey. Or the no-go zones? All the criminal activity that is spreading from migrant areas? Heard nothing about that either ey?
No – this pope somehow doesn´t know about any of these things. He just goes ahead and judges all of us. He´s not a dhimmi. He just suffers from the worst form of arrogance and loftiness.
He, who always has such a big mouth about the need of being `humble`. He even chose the name `Francis` to show his dedication to humbleness.
But he isn´t.
At least not when it comes to us, the people of Europe.
He judges and condemns us with nothing but harshness and contempt in his tone.
Daniel Moshe Johnson says
The Franciscan Order has been present in the Holy Land almost uninterruptedly since 1217, when the “Province of the Holy Land” of the Latin Church was initiated. (The institution they have gradually created is historically known as the Custody of the Holy Land.)
“The State of Israel agrees to assure full effect in Israeli law, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, to the legal personality of the Custody of the Holy Land.”
[Article 4, Fundamental Agreement between the State of Israel and the Holy See (Legal Personality Agreement), signed on 30 December 1993, and then entered into force on 10 March 1994]
gravenimage says
Pope on migrants: “We must move from considering others as threats to our comfort to valuing them as persons”
……………………
What if our comforts include not wanting them to rape or murder us or our loved ones?
What if we value Muslims as persons, yet still don’t want them to rape and murder us?
somehistory says
+2
mortimer says
Dope Frank is clearly UNCONCERNED ABOUT THE LIVES of WHITE CHRISTIANS or even of BLACK AFRICAN CHRISTIANS or of ASIAN CHRISTIANS.
Dope Frank has told them they can DIE MISERABLE STABBED, BEATEN, RUN OVER, SHOT, BURNT or RAPED and DOPE FRANK COULDN’T CARE LESS about them!!!
With this statement, DOPE FRANK has revealed his true colors.
Thinking Roman Catholics have no choice but to send their offerings to COUNTERJIHAD ORGANIZATIONS in their church and TELL THEIR BISHOPS THAT THEY WILL NOT SEND A CENT TO DOPE FRANK the SELL-OUT to SALAFISM.
Stacy Girl says
He is clearly detached, both physically and mentally, from reality. Ivory tower, endless buffets- look at him: the picture of a weak mind and a lazy body. Ora et labora- he’s done neither.
SAE says
The sad thing is though, rather than having to depend on OUR donations, all these religions are making LOTS OF MONEY on Refugee Resettlement. Paid per head..that mayhem advances the agenda of globalism and one world order. No borders. The federal government pays nine primary national contractors to resettle refugees and asylees, these voluntary agencies are known as VOLAGs:
https://capitalresearch.org/article/refugee-resettlement-the-lucrative-business-of-serving-immigrants/
The Free Thinker says
It isn’t so much a question of treating them as people, but the threat of a dangerous — dark-ages theology that is an imminent threat to modern democracy and science.
John Hawk says
I will be impressed by Pope Dopey the Dhimmi when he starts to act like a stalwart friend to persecuted Christians in the Muslim world and insists that churches be free to open anywhere in the Middle East. Until then, he should cease with the sanctimonious drivel.
Lydia Church says
They have nothing to contribute culturally or otherwise, except for:
1. false religion
2. violence, murder, and every form of evil
If they are muslim.
Yes, the CC has been programmed to go along with all of this unquestioningly.
It is a travesty and I pray that they all see their way out of that.
Do you see how this all goes in one direction?
An influx of people without restriction, bringing an influx of influence that he considers ‘enrichment.’
Yeah, if you are a muslim you would consider it that, then and only then.
He knows what he is doing. He wants this.
Another reason for this scheme is to pass certain laws (like in Canada just now).
It’s all geared at the persecution of Christians.
It is a slow operation at first, getting them to cave and succumb to the agendas.
That way they will already be ‘won over.’
Won over to one or another anti-Christian agenda to save their means of survival.
Then there will not be so many to deal with later in their ‘final solution.’
The pace is picking up. Yup, it’s definitely escalating now.
But, as the Bible says… run the race to win!
Lydia Church says
Like you said Robert, that is the message he is sending; drop dead. He literally wants Christians to die.
Also, recently I have become so altogether disgusted with so many bickery comments on here. I used to enjoy reading most of them at least but it has taken a downward turn. I realize that not all will understand my ‘out there’ comments, but feel compelled to share nonetheless. In time, it will all make sense. On that note I have decided to stop reading comments on here and will just drop down, leave my 2 cents, and call it a day on that one after reading the article. I’m tired of people who hate the Lord Jesus Christ and His followers yet rail against islam, because then they are just as bad as all the jihadists out there and are ultimately on the same team.
I am grateful not only for you and all your hard work and self sacrifice, risking so much, but also of others who do their honest part on here without shooting others down. My love to you all!
DragarOz says
I apologise Lydia, if I have contributed to your disgust. I think there is a lot of people out there like me that are really tired of people preaching religious sanctimony when you consider the atrocities that have been committed under the guise of religion. That is all it is I believe, I commend you for your beliefs and for sticking up for them however please understand that the general sense and intelligence in the world is moving away from the religions as we know it.
Love comes from within, not from without.
Terry Gain says
Lydia
I take on the idiot atheists who claim that Catholics are as much of a threat as Muslims but you are clearly wrong to claim that those who do not have the gift of Christian faith are as bad as jihadists.
A first principle of a free and civil society is freedom of conscience. People must be free to believe or not believe. Islam denies freedom of conscience. It is one of a host of reasons why Islam is evil, but it is the main one.
gravenimage says
Lydia–with all respect–there are many non-Christians, including Agnostics and Atheists, who oppose the horrors of Jihad.
To consider them as bad as Jihadists is very mistaken.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
He should have called himself Pope Contrarian I.
MFritz says
This “poop” needs to go away.
tim gallagher says
I find this Pope’s comments on Islam so grotesquely untrue and so ignorant of the truth and dangerous that I think he might be mentally ill and might need to be committed to a hospital for the mentally ill. Maybe he is a Marxist who just hates the west, the way the other lefties do, and wants it destroyed and therefore Islam is his ally. Another possibility is that he is one of those types of Christians who is a total pacifist and just thinks all that being a Christian involves is endlessly turning the other cheek and being a complete doormat. I came across a great quote about this moronic level of Christian pacifism in Paul Johnson’s book, “A History of the Modern World from 1917 to the 1980″s” and it has stuck in my mind for years. This is during the 1930’s when Hitler’s Germany was becoming threatening and Britain was debating whether to rearm or not. During the debate, “The Reverend Donald Soper (Methodist) argued:: “Pacifism contains a spiritual force strong enough to repel an invader”.(page 350). Yeah, right. What an idiot. It took the loss of millions of lives in WWII to defeat Hitler. I wonder if this Pope thinks as idiotically as Soper did. You know, if we are Christians, we have to let murderous Muslims in. Robert sums it up well. This Pope is telling us to commit suicide. Not something Christians are meant to do.
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
Frankenpope was not validly elected…making him an anti-pope and the False Prophet of Revelations.
Frankenpope deliberately undermines the Catholic Church. His promotion of the Islamic invasion of Christian Europe and America is a recipe for civil wars and international wars. In previous centuries, this Islamic “migration” of military-aged men would have been called an INVASION….because it really is a MUSLIM INVASION!
dan christensen says
The pope is advocating ‘goodness’ for its own sake. He apparently believes that everybody can be talked into ‘goodness’, no matter your religion. It is becoming perfectly clear that his holiness is not of this world. Perhaps he aspires to obtain sainthood?
R Russell says
I don’t know why people would believe the continuous flow of absolute twaddle coming from this man’s mouth.
I suggest he goes to live in Afghanistan where the Taliban and IS are fighting for control. He will then be able to put his words into action.
But I suggest he makes his will before he leaves.
andra says
Well, Pope Francis, I do not consider the Muslim invadors as threat to my comforts. I consider them as threat to my faith and life.
jayell says
“We must move from considering others as threats to our comfort to valuing them as persons”.
1. These migrants have proved themselves to be threats to rather more than just our ‘comforts’, as the thousands of rape and general violence victims around Europe can tell you – assuming they’re still alive, that is.
2. How about these migrants showing at least some signs of valuing their reluctant new hosts with the proper level of respect that you’d normally expect in a civilised society, especially since they’re sponging off their hosts’ unsolicited generosity?
Terry Gain says
We must replace this cowardly traitor with a Pope more interested in protecting his flock than its attackers.
Matthieu Baudin says
Pope Francis is a man living in a bubble that will someday pop. Those around him should prepare for that day when his pronouncements are exposed for the empty and shallow statements that they are.
FYI says
Fradulent francis strikes again.
The man is a phoney and a proven heretic,a scandal to catholics and christendom.To equate allah{who CURSES Christians in k9:30,denies Christ and says to muslims “take not the Jews and Christians for friends in k5:51}with the Biblical God is seriously wrong:to promote this error,as he does is HERESY.
Apart from that,I’m sure the grand wizard of the dhimmi Klan is an endearing old codger with his
famous thumbs up gesture,smiley appearance and his use of the Jesuit equivalent of the Jedi mind trick, “there’s no such thing as islamic terrorism”
For even greater and more public proof of his great love of the poor,surely he must consider moving into a cardboard box in the vatican mansion(as long as there is a photographer or a journalist to take note)
Alice111 says
He appears to me to be a UN Agenda 21 plant. I have heard that the previous pope was forced out. Does anyone have any proof for this?
dan christensen says
I forgot how many poor muslim migrants are living in the Vatican State. By the pope’s standard, there must be thousands of them, all liberally treated with food, love, benevolence and kindness.
Perhaps a humble corner of st. peters basilica could be redesigned as a mosque plus a minaret erected next to the mighty cupola?
Of course the pope must be a good example to all sinners.
Savvy Kafir says
We need to see Muslim colonizers as the enemies to human rights & civilization that they are — and deal with them accordingly, by keeping them out of our countries.
Fabiano Kroeff Saboya says
All this needing of co-existence with ideologiescthat want to destroy us is just ignorance combined with cowardice.
From this point of view There is no diference between the early Gnosticism, marxism and Pope Francis radical ecumenism.
Rufolino says
Being shot, stabbed or raped could certainly be considered “a threat to one’s comfort”.
But the Pope tells us to ignore this.
The man is off his head.
Tom says
The idiocy of this man is astounding. Only one other, Justin Trudeau, is more of an imbecile than this current Pope.