Further, does the Pope agree with El-Tayyeb that Islam has shared 1,400 years of “peaceful coexistence with the Christians”? In no land that Muslims conquered has there been “peaceful coexistence” with Christians (or with any other subjugated non-Muslims), including Islamic Spain, which is so often held up as an inspiring example of “convivencia,” even though Christians, apparently unconvinced of how happy they were under Islamic rule, spent 770 years fighting for the Reconquista of their own land. Is the Pope afraid to say anything that might anger El-Tayyeb? If so, what kind of “friendship” do they have, when one side is terrified of angering the other?
Then there is what El-Tayyeb did in response to the transfer of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in January 2018. He went into a rage, refused to meet the visiting Vice President Pence and, still more disturbing, he called the recognition [of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital] an “aggression toward people, countries, cultures and civilizations,” and claimed it would “feed terrorism in the region. Decisions like this one nurture terrorism, create it and propel it forward to act and express itself in methods we all reject. When terrorism rises again, the East and West will drown in seas of blood.” That sounds like a threat: Undo the Embassy Move, Or Suffer The Consequences. “Seas of blood.”
So here is what we know about Grand Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb. First, he despises Jews, for they have always been the “greatest in enmity” toward Muslims. They are greedy, aggressive, favor their own, work to undermine all others. Second, he believes that apostates from Islam should be killed. Third, he dismisses “human rights,” which, he claims, are a “minefield” of unwelcome consequences. Fourth, he is happy to have Al-Azhar University distribute free copies of a book that every few lines denounces Christians, even inciting — by quoting the Qur’an — their murder. Fifth, El-Tayyeb himself misrepresents the history of Muslim-Christian relations as having always been models of “peaceful coexistence.”
Pope Francis is a strange man. He knows that there is no such thing as “Islamic terrorism.” He either doesn’t know (which at this late date is unacceptable), or doesn’t care (which would be intolerable), about those Qur’anic verses that tell Believers “to strike terror” in the hearts of Unbelievers. Nor does he appear to know the famous hadith in which Muhammad declares that “I have been made victorious through terror.’’ He is convinced that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” Neither the more than 100 Qur’anic verses that command Believers to “fight” and “smite at the necks of” the Unbelievers, nor the 1,400 years of Muslim violence directed at non-Muslims and at fellow Muslims alike, have made much of an impression on this Defender of the Faith — that Faith being Islam.
If the Pope demonstrates an insufficient understanding of Islam, his appreciation of his own civilization is also lacking. In an interview with the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, Pope Francis took a conciliatory line toward Islam, saying “I sometimes dread the tone” when people refer to Europe’s “Christian” roots. Why shouldn’t Europeans mention the “Christian” roots of their civilization? Does the Pope wish to deny those roots? Why does Pope Francis “dread the tone” of those who recognize, and take pride in, those Christian roots? Is he embarrassed by Europe’s success as a civilization? Does he want credit to be given as well, in a spirit of multicultural madness, to those nonexistent “Islamic roots” of Europe? Of all people, shouldn’t the Pope be in the front rank of those forthrightly reminding Europeans of their “Christian [or more accurately, Judeo-Christian] roots,” at a time of cultural confusion, and insist that they must hold onto them, remain true to them, and resist all attempts to make us believe that in Europe, Islam has been a fructifying and positive influence, rather than the destructive one that, not so many decades ago, everyone of sense recognized?
Grand Imam Sheikh El-Tayyeb of Al-Azhar, the man Pope Francis calls his “friend and dear brother,” is delighted with his Papal interlocutor, and with good reason. But you, and I, with even better reason, must deplore this smiling accommodationist in the Vatican. It would take one of the papal assistants at most five minutes of searching the Internet to find out everything Francis needs to know about El-Tayyeb: his antisemitism, his death sentence for apostates, his oblique threats of terrorism should the American Embassy not be moved out of Jerusalem, the anti-Christian literature distributed for free by Al-Azhar. Search away, papal assistant, please do, and make the Pope take notice of what you find. He’s got to understand the meaning and menace of Islam, as the hour is late, and if he can’t, then he must step aside for someone who can.
mortimer says
Pope Pollyanna prefers his fantasy assumptions about Islam and so to maintain this SELF-INVENTED VERSION of Islam, Francis resists actually LEARNING the ISLAMIC DOCTRINES of DHIMMITUDE, SUPREMACISMS, the NEAR-ENEMY doctrine, the TAQIYYA doctrine and the JIHAD-TERROR DOCRINE.
By refusing to LEARN MORE about Islam, Dhimmi Dope Frank is dropping his Jesuit principle of ‘MAGIS’ (more in Latin… i.e. learn more about a topic to master it).
Dhimmi Dope Frank should learn about Allah’s desire to STOP and END CHRISTIANITY.
The Koran pits Muslims against Christianity and requires that Muslims hate Christians (for the sake of Allah) and that they never befriend them.
Rarely says
Of course the Pope knows all about islam. It is inconceivable that he doesn’t. The only questions left are what his agenda is and does he realize he is playing with fire. Unfortunately chances are that he will look like a fool at the end of the day.
mortimer says
If Francis is uninformed, it is not good enough. If Francis is pretending not to know, it is unacceptable. If Francis is willfully ignorant, it is intolerable. Someone near the pope and trusted by him should inform him.
Robert Spencer correctly called on his two-faced dupery. The pope was eager to be deceived.
A pope who “dreads the tone” of those who take pride in Europe’s Christian roots is an embarrassment and a traitor to Christendom.
Rarely says
He knows alright. What he’s doing is beyond understanding. He will likely go down in history as “The Neville Chamberlain Pope”.
Johan Elzinga says
This lying bastard pope once defended the rights of gay people, but now seems to befriend any muslim shithead who wants to kill gay people AND kill muslims who decide to leave their shitty religion behind. No different from this shithead sheikh case: I’ve watched a sermon by this piece of shit where he says in one sentence that he will “protect” the human rights but it is society’s right to kill apostates. Please have this pope killed by a muslim. That would serve him right.
Jeremiah says
The Pope does not care about backgrounds or historic fact. Just look at Papal history. Nothing to be proud of. Look at Islamic history: Piracy. Nothing to be proud of. The Catholic Churches are emptying. The Pope needs relevance and fewer investigations into pedophilia. Islam welcomes the distraction as much as the Pope. What a victory for Allah and Lucifer. What a victory for the religion of peace. The masses are either stunned or asleep. Things are happening very fast!
gravenimage says
Actually, most pontiffs have *not* whitewashed Islam, nor canoodled with Taqiyya-spewing Muslims.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: What Does the Pope Know About His “Friend and Dear Brother” El-Tayyeb? (Part Two)
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The Pope is either willfully ignorant or something worse.
Carolyne says
I fear it’s “Something worse.” Pope Benedict if I recall correctly did make a couple of remarks against Islam and lost his Popeship (or whatever.). He was lucky that they just confined him to Castel Gandolfo instead of giving him poisoned tea which has been the preferred method of the Church to rid itself of a troublesome Pope.
gravenimage says
What Pope’s have been poisoned?
gravenimage says
Popes
FYI says
Since it is Valentine’s day…. I wonder if pope francis will be sending a card to Ahmed{el-tayyeb}, his beloved muslim brotha from a different motha{..although they have the same father ..obviously..the father of lies}
Dear beloved Ahmed,
my muslim brother.
Happy Valentine’s day habibi
missing you already!
xxx{mwah}
Jorge
FYI says
It’s Valentines day.
Let’s spread the love..
Hug a Jew or a Christian.
Ok
Hug a Buddhist,Hindu,Jain,Sikh,Taoist etc
Ok
Hug an Atheist,Agnostic,Ex-muslim “apostate”
Ok
Hug an islamic supremacist muslim
{KaKA BOOM}
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
The Pope and the Imam both know what they are doing: facilitating a one world religion!
Brenda says
Francis is a brain fart and should be ignored whenever and where-ever possible.