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Vatican extends “hearty congratulations” to all Muslims for a “fruitful month of Ramadan”

May 3, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

“The Vatican’s office for interreligious dialogue released a message to the world’s Muslims Friday, extending fervent best wishes for a ‘fruitful month of Ramadan.'”

Fervent is the key word here. A simple well wishing to Muslims, since there are those Muslims who choose not to follow the call to violent jihad, would have sufficed.

There is more behind the Vatican’s message. It’s a follow-up to the trip Pope Francis took to the United Arab Emirates last year, where he signed a document that he asserted was a “new page in history of the dialogue between Christianity and Islam.” The Pope co-signed this document with the jihad-supporting Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayyeb, and described his encounter with leaders of Islam as “a counterpoint to the ‘strong temptation’ to contend there’s a current clash between Christian and Islamic civilizations.” Meanwhile, the Muslim genocide against Christians in Africa and elsewhere hasn’t let up. Only high-level posturing has advanced.

Consider these important questions in light of this joint document:

We will be able to put these claims to an empirical test. Will Pope Francis’ trip to the UAE and the misleading document he signed with the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, turn one jihadi away from his jihad? Will it prevent one Christian from being persecuted, or one church from being destroyed?

And also, does the Vatican endorse the “fruits” of the highest calling in Islam, which is Islamic martyrdom, i.e., killing and being killed for Allah (cf. Qur’an 9:111)? “Interreligious dialogue” should include answers to such questions, which won’t simply disappear because one-sided “dialogue” and “diversity” gurus want them to. In 2016, al-Tayyeb called for “unrepentant apostates” to be killed.

Given the violent persecution and genocide against Christians by Muslims, as well as the ongoing jihad goal to obliterate the state of Israel, the Vatican’s fervent message for Ramadan leaves no room to remember the enormous tally of victims of jihad. Instead, the Vatican perpetrates a fallacious moral equivalence, which denies the truth that violent jihad is a fruit in normative Islam, and is “the best form of worship,” especially during Ramadan.

“Vatican Wishes Muslims ‘a Fruitful Month of Ramadan,’” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, May 1, 2020:

ROME — The Vatican’s office for interreligious dialogue released a message to the world’s Muslims Friday, extending fervent best wishes for a “fruitful month of Ramadan.”

The month of Ramadan is “a time for spiritual healing and growth, of sharing with the poor, of strengthening bonds with relatives and friends,” the message states, and also a good moment for Christians “to further strengthen our relationships with you” and to “foster fraternity between Christians and Muslims.”

“It is in this spirit that the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue offers its prayerful best wishes and hearty congratulations to you all,” reads the message, which the Vatican published in Arabic, Italian, French, and English.

The theme of the message is the protection of places of worship.

“For both Christians and Muslims, churches and mosques are spaces reserved for prayer, personal and communitarian alike,” it states. “They are constructed and furnished in a way that favours silence, reflection and meditation.”

Places of worship are “spaces for spiritual hospitality, where believers of other religions also join for some special ceremonies like weddings, funerals, feasts of the community etc.” the message notes. “Such practice is a privileged witness to what unites believers, without diminishing or denying what distinguishes them.”

The Vatican said that its message comes in the context of “recent attacks on churches, mosques and synagogues by wicked persons who seem to perceive the places of worship as a privileged target for their blind and senseless violence.”

Citing a joint document on “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, the message says that the protection of places of worship is “a duty guaranteed by religions, human values, laws and international agreements.”

“Every attempt to attack places of worship or threaten them by violent assaults, bombings or destruction, is a deviation from the teachings of religions as well as a clear violation of international law,” it reads…..

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  1. RichardL says

    May 3, 2020 at 8:25 am

    Sarcasm from this pope! A ’fruitful month” must mean many people killed.

    • mortimer says

      May 4, 2020 at 12:07 am

      Richard is correct: the fruit of RAMADAN is jihad terrorism and dead bodies. The death toll always rises during Ramadan.

      -Those who gain martyrdom during the month of Ramadan are doubly rewarded in the Islamic porno-paradise.

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 4, 2020 at 10:50 pm

      A ‘fruitful month’ is supposedly the ‘fraternity’ the Pope has in mind. But I’m sure the fellow beside him is thinking what a joker he is since we all know that “Christians = the low-hanging fruit” (especially of Ramadamadingdong). You can’t make this stuff up.

      • Carol the 1st says

        May 5, 2020 at 1:25 am

        Yes, we certainly “know them by their fruits”. Maybe francis needs to be shown some beheading videos?

  2. Michael Copeland says

    May 3, 2020 at 8:26 am

    Dear Pope,

    Come on! Learn what Islam is!

    “…then we fight them, and we abduct their women, and destroy their churches —
    This is Islam!… Come on! Learn what Islam is!”

    Grand Ayatollah Ahmad Al Baghdadi
    to interviewer on Iraq television.
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260452/iraqi-ayatollah-abducting-women-and-destroying-raymond-ibrahim

    • Captnhook says

      May 3, 2020 at 9:19 am

      Who knows what the Pope is thinking? He is aware of the carnage islamists have caused against Christians and Jews. Sarcasm? Maybe, we can’t expect the Pope to have a call to arms of Christians, Jews and all the other victims of Islam. What will it take to unite the World against the brutality of This murder cult? What atrocity must they commit to unite the world into action?

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 4, 2020 at 11:10 pm

      Aren’t mosques technically not places of worship? They are fortresses and in the muslim mind there is supposedly some kind of sacrilege in considering them concrete and stationary sacred things (ala idol-worship). If correct you’d think Al-Azhar would correct Frankie.

      • Carol the 1st says

        May 4, 2020 at 11:11 pm

        Just goes to show you, it’s all about the real estate!

        • Carol the 1st says

          May 4, 2020 at 11:36 pm

          Come to think it those two representatives are more like idol worshippers. They seem to have misplaced the living God – likely in that “private place” they never use.

          Matthew 6:6–7 “But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do.

      • gravenimage says

        May 4, 2020 at 11:59 pm

        Mosques are both places of worship *and* barracks.

        • Carol the 1st says

          May 5, 2020 at 12:39 am

          On the surface they are but I once read there are important distinctions in the muslim ever so completely elusive ‘spiritual’ realm. We consider our churches as “the house of God” whereas they just trot off to furiously build another barracks and symbol of “our stake is now in your ground”. The point seems a little moot but the muslims must have their virtue signalling. No false idols for them!

        • Carol the 1st says

          May 5, 2020 at 1:40 am

          It’s an extremely odd puzzle. How can anyone “worship” some godhead that does not inspire sentimentality but brutality? Who promises you nothing and cultivates nothing fine within you and demands your mindless, dedicated boot-licking above all else?

          This is not a proper, inspiring, beneficial god or ‘religion’ – it is a TALISMAN and a disgraceful fear-mongering relic in an intelligent, modern society.
          Frankie only fools himself.

  3. Joscefi says

    May 3, 2020 at 8:30 am

    Reichskonkordat v2.0

  4. Thomas Ardoline says

    May 3, 2020 at 8:33 am

    Perhaps the will have some child beheadings or crucifictions to selebrate Ramadan.

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 4, 2020 at 11:39 pm

      Surely in this sacred month they’ll content themselves with the “soft jihad” of pickling brains and warping sensibilities?

  5. Brian Hunter says

    May 3, 2020 at 8:53 am

    Francis the appeaser. Contrast this with the conviction with which the apostle Paul wrote: “If anyone preaches any other gospel to you than that which you have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ”.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      May 3, 2020 at 12:13 pm

      True. Francis is not a persuader. He is an appeaser.

      • Woke Infidel says

        May 3, 2020 at 4:01 pm

        Indeed, there is little doubt that this man seeks to please men. He, too, will one day stand before the judgement seat, having led those who trust in him to trust an enemy – and God is no respecter of persons.

    • Goofy says

      May 4, 2020 at 1:34 pm

      Francis is truly under Paul’s curse in Galatians 1:6-9.

  6. No Muzzies Here says

    May 3, 2020 at 9:57 am

    Problem is, Mr Pope, that for a Muslim “fervent” means violent, and so you had better take back your words.

  7. James Lincoln says

    May 3, 2020 at 11:17 am

    According to the feature article:

    “The Vatican’s office for interreligious dialogue released a message to the world’s Muslims Friday, extending fervent best wishes for a “fruitful month of Ramadan.”

    Luke Chapter 6 King James Bible:

    43 For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

    44 For every tree is known by his own fruit.

    The tree of islam is corrupt and cannot bring forth good fruit.

    According to the “Religion of Peace” website, the 2020 Ramadan bombathon thus far has yielded 44 attacks, 185 kills.

    https://thereligionofpeace.com/

  8. Ren says

    May 3, 2020 at 12:21 pm

    This pope is the dumbest.

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 4, 2020 at 11:57 pm

      Does he roll on the floor and kiss the carved feet of Jesus on the Cross every Easter season? Or was it PR capitalizing on that “foot-washing” business he likes to demonstrate?

      There’s video footage of him in a room to give an award to Leonardo diCaprio. He looks like he’s lost his script and doesn’t know why he’s even there. Worse than Joe Biden!

  9. James says

    May 3, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    I would say that negotiating from weakness is not very promising. You negotiate when you start to lose. There are many cases where this happens. Right now it seems the Islamic world is winning in many ways through persistent terrorism. As long as they think they will win, why should they make any concessions are keep any promises. The Vatican is not very smart to think it can win agreements through negotiation what they do not have the power to enforce.

    • Rufolino says

      May 4, 2020 at 6:26 am

      Islam is winning. Unfortunately, yes. But it isn’t winning through terrorism. It is winning through the demographics, which are destroying nations from within.

  10. GreekEmpress says

    May 3, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    I don’t recall any Muslims wishing Christians the same kind of message at Easter—

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 5, 2020 at 9:46 am

      They’re a little self-centered. Haven’t you noticed?

  11. ntesdorf says

    May 3, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    For fourteen hundred years, Christians have been terrified by the Islamic mind’s ability for irrational thinking and infliction of terror beyond normal human bounds. The Pope’s unctuous and foolish Ramadan message shows that there has been no change and that Pope Francis thinks that he can tame the savage beasts by flattering them.

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 5, 2020 at 12:07 am

      He has a lot of hubris for an idiot.

      • gravenimage says

        May 5, 2020 at 12:11 am

        It is mostly idiots who have the most false pride.

  12. PRCS says

    May 3, 2020 at 11:46 pm

    Dear papa,

    There are more than a billion Muslims, around the world.

    Referring to ‘all Muslims’, includes the Islamic State, al Qaeda, Boko Haram, al Shabaab, abu Sayyaf, to name but a few.

    So, don’t be like Theresa May.

    Compreendo?

    And, stop kissing that guy, too.

  13. gravenimage says

    May 4, 2020 at 12:10 am

    Vatican extends “hearty congratulations” to all Muslims for a “fruitful month of Ramadan”
    …………..

    A “fruitful month of Ramadan” for Muslims is one where as many Infidels as possible are murdered. How can the pope not know this?

  14. unbeliever1 says

    May 4, 2020 at 1:30 pm

    How can the head of the Catholic Church entertain a religion that rejects the main tenets of Catholicism: the Trinity.
    Shouldn’t pope Francis be schooling Muslims in respect to the very foundation on which the Catholic religion built?
    I wonder if he secretly accepts that Muhammad is/was the “final messenger” of all religions as Muslims believe.

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 5, 2020 at 12:19 am

      Mayanists believed in child sacrifice. Maybe some hidden residual branch will pop out of the rain forest and they can join Frankie and al-Azhar in the sacrifice of the children of God:

      Maya culture
      The sacrifices were apparently performed for consecration purposes when building temples at the Comalcalco acropolis.

  15. Goofy says

    May 4, 2020 at 1:44 pm

    Pope Francis is a failed diplomat. He is currently giving up some of his most blasphemous titles including Vicar of Christ which is the very role of the Holy Spirit. If we are kind to him we might interpret his move as one of repentance as he is soon going to account to God for his life. However, I think that this pope fears neither God not man and that he is positioning himself to become the head of the new one world religion which will presumably make him the Anti-Christ.

    • Carol the 1st says

      May 5, 2020 at 11:03 am

      Theologically doesn’t the Holy Spirit represent our actual real link and capacity to somewhat glimpse/partake in what the Trinity represents? For this overly socialist pope to effectively relegate the symbolism of the Holy Spirit to the wings raises questions like 1/ is he past his shelf life? 2/ did he *ever* “get it”?

      As Jesus said *There will always be poor among us.” We were not expected to play mini-gods and effectively thin out what’s good in the world until it was so weak and watery that it retained no strength and left room for all kinds of germs and viruses to plump down their butts.

      • Carol the 1st says

        May 5, 2020 at 11:07 am

        Sorry, but I sometimes like to pontificate myself.

  16. OLD GUY says

    May 4, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    Did the Pope strike a deal on how many Christians the muslims can behead this month? Or is it now open season on Catholics around the world with the Popes approval? Why isn’t the leader of the Catholic church preaching the word of Jesus to these sinners rather than supporting their heathen religion. It’s his job to bring non christians to Jesus not to support blood thirsty ideology.

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