Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, early this year published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” and it’s as filled with falsehoods and wishful thinking as one would expect coming from a practiced deceiver such as el-Tayeb and someone so eager to be deceived as Pope Francis. Here’s one:
Terrorism is deplorable and threatens the security of people, be they in the East or the West, the North or the South, and disseminates panic, terror and pessimism, but this is not due to religion, even when terrorists instrumentalize it. It is due, rather, to an accumulation of incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride. This is why it is so necessary to stop supporting terrorist movements fuelled by financing, the provision of weapons and strategy, and by attempts to justify these movements even using the media. All these must be regarded as international crimes that threaten security and world peace. Such terrorism must be condemned in all its forms and expressions…
Terrorism is due to “an accumulation of incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride.”
So are the authoritative sources in Sunni Islam, the schools of Sunni jurisprudence (madhahib), all incorrect in their interpretations of the Qur’an and Sunnah? Here is what they say about jihad warfare against non-Muslims:
Shafi’i school: A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates about jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).
Of course, there is no caliph today, and hence the oft-repeated claim that Osama et al are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes “obligatory for everyone” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent” (o9.8).
Hanafi school: A Hanafi manual of Islamic law repeats the same injunctions. It insists that people must be called to embrace Islam before being fought, “because the Prophet so instructed his commanders, directing them to call the infidels to the faith.” It emphasizes that jihad must not be waged for economic gain, but solely for religious reasons: from the call to Islam “the people will hence perceive that they are attacked for the sake of religion, and not for the sake of taking their property, or making slaves of their children, and on this consideration it is possible that they may be induced to agree to the call, in order to save themselves from the troubles of war.”
However, “if the infidels, upon receiving the call, neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax [jizya], it is then incumbent on the Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, because God is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, the infidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet, moreover, commands us so to do.” (Al-Hidayah, II.140)
Maliki school: Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a Maliki legal theorist. In his renowned Muqaddimah, the first work of historical theory, he notes that “in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Hanbali school: The great medieval theorist of what is commonly known today as radical or fundamentalist Islam, Ibn Taymiyya (Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya, 1263-1328), was a Hanbali jurist. He directed that “since lawful warfare is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is God’s entirely and God’s word is uppermost, therefore according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought.”
“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 Embraces Anti-Semitic Imam Who Wants Christian Converts Killed,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, November 18, 2019:
Hours before Pope Francis called for the abolition of capital punishment on Friday, he warmly embraced Grand Imam Al-Tayeb, who has expressed his desire that Muslims who convert to Christianity should be executed.
The world’s best-known Muslim leader has also called homosexuality a disease, dismissed the idea of human rights as “ticking time-bombs” and has endorsed suicide attacks against Jewish men, women and children.
Earlier that day in the pontiff’s address to the International Association of Penal Law, Pope Francis compared the rhetoric of conservative politicians who oppose the homosexual agenda to speeches made by Adolf Hitler.
“These are actions that are typical of Nazism, that with its persecution of Jews, gypsies, people with homosexual orientation, represent an excellent model of the throwaway culture and culture of hatred,” he said.When speaking to al-Tayeb, however, the Holy Father discussed the objectives in the document “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” which he co-signed with the Grand Imam in February.
The two religious leaders engaged in “cordial discussions,” according to the Vatican, talking about the protection of minors in the digital world and goals achieved since Pope Francis’ recent visit to the United Arab Emirates.
In 2016, Al-Tayeb called for “unrepentant apostates” from Islam to be killed. “The four schools of law all concur that apostasy is a crime, that an apostate should be asked to repent, and that if he does not, he should be killed,” he said in an interview in Arabic on television, explaining:
There are two verses in the Quran that clearly mention apostasy, but they did not define a specific punishment. They left the punishment for the Hereafter, for Allah to punish them as He sees fit. But there are two hadiths [on apostasy]. According to the more reliable of the two, a Muslim can only be killed in one of three cases, one of which is abandoning his religion and leaving the community.
Sheikh Al-Tayeb continued:
We must examine these two expressions: “Abandoning religion” is described as “leaving the community.” All the early jurisprudents understood that this applies to someone who leaves his religion, regardless of whether he left and opposed his community or not. All the early jurisprudents said that such a person should be killed, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman — with the exception of the Hanafi School, which says that a female apostate should not be killed.
Asked about the exception for the female apostate, the Muslim theologian responded: “Because it is inconceivable that a woman would rebel against her community.”
The global leader of Sunni Islam, which constitutes the majority of the world’s Muslim population, also dismissed the concept of human rights as “full of ticking time-bombs” and insisted that “the [Islamic and Western] civilizations are different.”
“Our civilization is based on religion and moral values, whereas their [Western] civilization is based more on personal liberties and some moral values,” he told his interviewer.
The Grand Imam’s most severe condemnation was reserved for homosexuality: “My opinion was — and I said this [in the West] — that no Muslim society could ever consider sexual liberty, homosexuality and so on to be a personal right. Muslim societies consider these things to be diseases, which must be fought and treated.”…
Philis O'Shaughnessy says
Two pedophile Cults embrace each other. Beware Kingdom Of GOD I AM faithful believers. the wolf is at the door, islam is chomping at the bit, the king of the popes will go gehenna. Iran is screaming and in the streets against evil mullahs that have to go.
barbaracvm1 says
This pope is a hypocrite! He encourages make nice with the Islam cult, illegals and other questionable persons. But help the Jews, Christians who are being persecuted by the violent groups — look the other way.
gravenimage says
Catholicism does not teach pedophilia as Islam does.
Brenrod says
This pope is a despicable ignoramus
Genetics says
There is a bloody war coming and the pigslamic agenda is alive and well. Did anyone see the thousands of assault rifles (fully auto) the ATF confiscated in the basement of one of the many many mosks! American brethren DO NOT let the government disarm us, it will be our doom! We know who’s behind this, the same entities that own/run the banking system, own/run Hollywood, own/run genetically modified food (Monsanto), own/run big pharmaceutical! We are told to sell our cloak and purchase a sword, if we do not fight believe me that Yeshua is not going to magically wisk you away in a rapture (BTW- isn’t even scriptural)! It’s time to wake up, there is no more sitting on the fence ! My people perish for lack of knowledge! The ancient Hebrew root word for ISSACS SONS IS (ANGLO SAXON), Those same entities that own/run the above listed agencies know who we are and are fighting vehemently to destroy us using the Nation of Islam ! WAKE UP !
somehistory says
There is One, “Holy Father ” and He is not this lying, evil-embracing creature called “pope.”
This evil guy gets on his self-righteous pulpit when he wants to condemn those who are not devoted to islam and whatever these ones say or do is ‘wrong.’ But, the same things, such as moslims feelings toward homosexuals…which goes as far as murdering them, as opposed to others quoting Bible Scripture…he says nothing about what moslims do, only what others say.
And he ignores the slaughter of Christians while condemning Christians for not welcoming with open arms, those who would slaughter them.
Hugging and kissing the moslim in their lust affair. Truly disgusting creatures, those two. They will reap what they are so freely sowing.
Angemon says
Well, sums up the current pontiff nicely, doesn’t it?…
mortimer says
The practiced deceiver and the gullible Pollyanna.
Wellington says
Never has the Vatican sunk lower than with this man, Francis.
Yes, there have been other bad Popes. For all those who do not understand or hate Roman Catholicism (often much of the time the same thing), there have been many extraordinary men as Popes, among them being Leo I, Gregory I, surely Urban II (all those who know history and Islam well will understand why I mention this Pope), Paul III, Innocent XI (whom Winston Churchill, no Catholic, himself highly praised), Benedict XIV, Leo XIII and Benedict XVI—among so many others.
But Francis has more influence and power than virtually any Pope before him and he is abusing this power, for whatever indefensible reason, and thus is creating more destruction to a two thousand year old religion than arguably any of his predecessors, including those magnificently talented and artistically astute Renaissance Popes like Alexander VI. Julius II and Leo X, who did not fully grasp the higher reality of their time. i.e., rank corruption in the Church in their era, which of course led to Luther, Zwingli, Calvin et al. But, by comparison, they come off well when juxtaposed to Pope Francis since they “only” didn’t get the understandable disaffection within Christendom. But now, we actually have a pontifex maximus who doesn’t get the iniquity of a faith which seeks the entire subordination, if not the eventual eradication, of all of Christianity.
Ominous. Like no other time in papal history. Yes, it is this awful. Pope Francis is this horrible.
barbaracvm1 says
Pope Pius XII did manage to direct the saving of thousands of Jews. He has plague in Israel as one of the righteous.
Is it not interesting the this pope is not saint. BUT every pope since John XXXIII etc. have been sainted. They did not wait the required years.
This causes me to wonder if the others have questionable reputations.
Wellington says
I am a great admirer of Pius XII, though not religious at all, and think he has been horribly characterized and misrepresented. He saved more Jews than anyone in history, including any Jew.
D. Badgley says
The USSR’s KGB had a program of disinformation to slander Pius XII in the West & writers in the West used this falsified material thinking it genuine. This is one of many such operations & they continued after the 1989 fall of the Soviet Union. They are still active according to some
gravenimage says
Agreed, barbaracvm1 and Wellington.
stevephoenix72 says
Very insightful, barbaracvm1, and something similarly pondered by many others.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
You have accurately categorized Pope Francis, my compliments.
As a Catholic “in recovery”, it makes me very sad to see what has happened to Catholicism under Pope Francis. His negative impact will be long-standing…
I still remain a very devout Christian – and have been exploring different options for places of worship.
pfwag says
Find an ecclesia (local church) taht teaches the Bible. All of it.
Wellington says
Thank you, James. And good luck with your “recovery” because you’re going to need it.
gravenimage says
Best of luck to you, James. It is hard to find any denomination that has not been adversely affected by “political correctness” and Islamophilia. Best to just find a good individual church that you like.
J D S says
Just wondering….Does the pope really believe that Islam is a God based religion?
Do Roman Catholics find it hard to follow the popes leading given his leanings toward Islam ?
gravenimage says
J D S, I know there are many Catholics who are deeply concerned about Pope Francis’s disturbing apologia for Islam.
Daniel Triplett says
You’ll be fine James, if you just keep in mind you’re a Christian first, and a Catholic, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, et al, second.
I went to a Catholic boys high school, which were some of the best years of my life. And although my military dog tags say “Episcopal,” I don’t identify with any one Christian denomination. They all have value and something to contribute, even Catholics.
Daniel Triplett says
Excellent analysis of historical papacy. Urban II is my favorite too. You have an impressive grasp of history.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Daniel Triplett.
Westman says
Smiling faces sometimes
Pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces
Of the evil that lurks within
Tom W Harris says
Can you dig it?
gravenimage says
+1
pfwah says
Why not? According to the RCC catechism, they have the same god.
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
CogitoErgoSum says
And yet, that same Catechism teaches this in paragraph 845:
845 To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son’s Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. the Church is “the world reconciled.” She is that bark which “in the full sail of the Lord’s cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world.” According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah’s ark, which alone saves from the flood.
“Outside the Church there is no salvation”
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So … the plan includes Muslims but if they remain outside the Church they will not be saved? We read on to paragraph 847:
847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation.
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And then we come to this in paragraph 848:
848 “Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men.
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We see here that the Pope has the obligation to evangelize not only the Grand Sheik but all Muslims and to lead them into the Church. The Pope would be derelict in his duty to God if he fails to proclaim the Gospel to those who do not know it. So, as I understand all of this, whether Muslims worship the same God as Christians or not, the Pope still has a duty to try to bring them into the Church. THAT and only that should be the Pope’s top priority when seeking dialogue with the Muslims. Yet, it appears to me the Pope has decided this is not necessary because …. ? I don’t know.
somehistory says
He has lost, if he ever had any, his understanding, devotion, and true appreciation, of all things holy, spiritual and Scriptural.
He also evidently lost his mind, but he doesn’t want to lose his head. And he just lusts for the companionship of this creepy mosllim.
So, he either believes what he says about islam and moslims, or he lies. And there are many and varied reasons a person lies. Liars are not following Christ Who always speaks Truth.
CogitoErgoSum says
I’m not sure what the Pope is hoping to achieve by spreading this idea that God wants many different religions. I find no support for that idea in the words of Christ in the Bible or in the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church. Likewise, neither do I find any support for such an idea in the Koran. Muslims are commanded by Allah to fight against (or at the very least humiliate) all those who do not accept Islam as the one and only religion their god deems acceptable.
In the Pope’s case I can see that he is commanded to love his enemy and treat all men as he himself would wish to be treated. As for the Grand Sheik, I can only think of what he is supposed to do according to Koran 9:29. I’m sure the Sheik knows this verse and, if the Pope is going to engage in dialogue with any Muslim, he should know it too and understand its meaning. That verse has not been abrogated and the Jizya has not been abolished.
The Pope is either willfully refusing to learn and acknowledge the truth or, yes, he is outright lying to us all. Muhammad allowed his followers to lie for him; Christ does not. That is something the Pope should know also.
FYI says
And the grand Wizard of islam and Mr Bergoglio:”talking about the protection of minors”
The Elephant in the room..
The cardinal mc carrick case:”pope” francis knew all about it…what a fraud!
Dan says
Frank, whom we now call the Pope
To a Muslim would never say nope
For Shariah he’d bend
While the Imans played friend
By giving Frank just enough rope
FYI says
Fraudulent Frank and Ahmed his mate
{two peas in a pod…}
dine from the same plate.
The “pope of the Ear” and
the imam of hate
with so much they share..
’tis ..no wonder they date!
somehistory says
+10
Sickening, isn’t it? Like satan, he “did not stand fast in the Truth because Truth is not in him.”
somehistory says
+10
gravenimage says
Pope embraces imam who has endorsed jihad suicide attacks against Jews and wants converts to Christianity killed
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What a willfully clueless moron. How can the Pope not know this?
More:
Terrorism is deplorable and threatens the security of people, be they in the East or the West, the North or the South, and disseminates panic, terror and pessimism, but this is not due to religion, even when terrorists instrumentalize it. It is due, rather, to an accumulation of incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride.
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So the poor terrorists are all poor and oppressed?
Haiti and Liberia are desperately poor nations, and they have many problems there–but violent Jihad terrorism not among them. The Tibetans are terribly oppressed, but they are not waging Jihad terror. Of the top ten countries in the world with the greatest instance of hunger, only in one of these–Yemen–is there a link to terrorism–and there, terrorism has led to hunger; it is not hunger that has led to terrorism.
Saudi Arabia, due to its unearned oil wealth, is one of the richest countries in the world–yet they are also one of the main supporters of Jihad terror. In fact, most Jihadists world wide are neither hungry nor poor. Even in the West, where virtually no one goes hungry, Jihadists are rarely the poorest people in society.
Terry Gain says
GI
Well said. This Pope needs to be rebuked for suggesting that poverty justifies terrorism. He is truly a fool. Islam’s law of death for apostasy, by itself, illegitimizes Islam as a religion. It is fascism. It has no place in a civilized world where we have a God given right to believe or disbelieve as we please and anyone who tries to take away our freedom of conscience is not doing God’s work.
somehistory says
+10
gravenimage says
Thank you, Terry and Somehistory.
Gabriel Rizkallah says
f…K THIS IDEOLOGY. IT STINKS.
Rooster says
This is religion at its best people. Satan’s biggest scams are the religions of the world. As long as man seeks to create God in man’s image man will never know God or live in peace. Discern well because your life will depend on it!
somehistory says
+100
Giacomo Latta says
Too bad the Vatican is a tyranny. Otherwise, Francis might have to respond to very simple questions, such as, what are you doing to preserve Christian lives in this world other than camping outside hospitals in democracies.
Peter WF says
When is the pope going to settle a few thousand refugees in the vatican?
PLEASE LEAD BY EXAMPLE!
Islamophobic says
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a demonic communist from the era of Fidel Castro who truly loves to eulogizing criminals and terrorists.
Cat says
This pope is insane!