Take note of the first two paragraphs in the article below:
Germany’s Catholic and Protestant leaders have mounted a co-ordinated new-year attack on the way some states in the Middle East are “exporting” fundamentalist Islam. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the German bishops’ conference, and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the chairman of the German Protestant Churches, writing in the weekly Welt am Sonntag, criticised the way certain regimes, particularly in the Gulf Region, are abusing Islam politically and promoting fundamentalist interpretations of Islam in Africa and Asia.
“The failure to modernise society, wars and rampant hopelessness, above all among the younger generation, have led to instability in many regions which fundamentalist Islam is instrumentalising for its own purposes”, Marx told Welt am Sonntag. Regimes in the Gulf were exporting “rigid interpretations of Islam with a great deal of money,” he said.”
There are some confusing points here. The first is that Middle Eastern states throughout their history of violent conquest have lived in accordance to what these Church leaders are referring to as “fundamentalist Islam.” It is the norm. States such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar and Pakistan, among others, adhere to sharia and are exporters of jihad terror. These Christian clerics need to recognize that they cannot change history; nor do they have any influence on these states which they criticize for practicing “fundamentalist Islam.”
Bishop Bedford-Strohm states: “Of all the world’s religions, Islam faced the biggest challenge as far as religious freedom was concerned.” Bedford-Strohm appears somewhat oblivious to the reality that religious freedom and pluralism are no part of normative Islamic doctrine. No other religion practices global expansionism like Islam does, nor does any other religion have anything resembling the command of al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (complete disavowal and hatred of disbelievers). Islam also divides the world in two: the House of War (Dar al Harb) and the House of Islam (Dar al Islam); the House of War must be subjugated under the House of Islam. Normative Islam is the ultimate in supremacism. When adherents of other faiths migrate to foreign countries, they usually live peaceably among others. They don’t challenge Western principles and more or make demands for special treatment and the like.
Breitbart reported that Cardinal Reinhard Marx was just reprimanded “for donating €50,000 of Catholic Church funds to United4Rescue, a coalition of NGOs engaged in migrant sea rescues. ” He was also questioned about whether he “received approval from the church community to donate €50,000 to an organization that encourages people smuggling.”
Cardinal Marx appears to be talking out of both sides of his mouth — a reflection of the deep divisions within the Catholic Church over migration issues. The Pope strongly advocates open borders and does not regard the threat of jihad, Islamic supremacism and Islamic expansionism; others in the Church are not aligned with his views.
“The Fertile (”fruchtbar”) Crescent has become a fearful (“furchtbar”) crescent, the German government’s commissioner for religious freedom, Markus Grübel said in the same newspaper. “One glance at the world unfortunately shows that Christians are being discriminated against and persecuted.
This “fear” Grübel describes is legitimate and prudent, but it is deemed to be “Islamophobic” by Islamic supremacists and globalists.
“Marx deplores export of fundamentalist Islam,” The Tablet, January 10, 2020:
Germany’s Catholic and Protestant leaders have mounted a co-ordinated new-year attack on the way some states in the Middle East are “exporting” fundamentalist Islam. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the president of the German bishops’ conference, and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the chairman of the German Protestant Churches, writing in the weekly Welt am Sonntag, criticised the way certain regimes, particularly in the Gulf Region, are abusing Islam politically and promoting fundamentalist interpretations of Islam in Africa and Asia.
“The failure to modernise society, wars and rampant hopelessness, above all among the younger generation, have led to instability in many regions which fundamentalist Islam is instrumentalising for its own purposes”, Marx told Welt am Sonntag. Regimes in the Gulf were exporting “rigid interpretations of Islam with a great deal of money,” he said.
The fact that meanwhile there was a growing sensitivity for religious freedom – “especially in the USA, the EU and particularly in Germany” – made him hopeful, Marx said. The Churches, whose mandate it was to commit themselves to religious freedom for all peoples, had contributed greatly to this growing sensitivity, he claimed.
Of all the world’s religions, Islam faced the biggest challenge as far as religious freedom was concerned, Bishop Bedford-Strohm told the Welt am Sonntag. “All religions have the obligation to be forces of peace and reconciliation”, he insisted and called for new rules or legislation “which prevented converts from Islam to Christianity from being deported back to countries like Afghanistan or Iran where Christian converts are particularly endangered and cannot safely practise their Christian religion”. It must be made clear that “only the Church [in question]” could judge whether a person’s wish to be baptised was truly serious, he underlined.
“The Fertile (”fruchtbar”) Crescent has become a fearful (“furchtbar”) crescent, the German government’s commissioner for religious freedom, Markus Grübel said in the same newspaper. “One glance at the world unfortunately shows that Christians are being discriminated against and persecuted…..