In this event we see yet again the Catholic hierarchy’s endless solicitude for Muslims and Islam, and its disdain for actual Catholics. What is unusual in this case is that some Catholics stood up against this exercise in a self-defeating and pointless dialogue that has never saved one single Christian from Muslim persecution, or prevented any jihadists from destroying even just one church.
An update on this story. “Irish Petition to Excommunicate Top Prelate,” by Jules Gomes, ChurchMilitant.com, August 3, 2020:
DUBLIN (ChurchMilitant.com) – Thousands of Irish Catholics have signed a petition calling for the excommunication of Dublin’s archbishop after the primate of Ireland participated in Muslim prayers on Eid Al-Adha Friday citing Pope Francis’ Abu Dhabi declaration.
“How can we accept an archbishop who gives his blessing to an Islamic celebration of animal sacrifice? Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross was the final sacrifice, yet Martin has decided that this barbaric Islamic festival deserves the endorsement of the Catholic Church,” the petition stated.
Scuffles broke out outside Croke Park Stadium hosting the Islamic service as police and leftwing activists attempted to silence a group of Catholics praying the Rosary and protesting Abp. Diarmuid Martin’s participation in the Muslim festival.
Police arrested two women and one man, charging them with public order offenses. “All have been released without charge with files being prepared for the director of public prosecutions (DPP),” a Gardaí (Irish national police) statement said. Two of the three arrested were leftist counterprotesters, a source said.
A counter-protester assaulted a Catholic youth carrying a “No Sharia in Ireland” banner.
As Abp. Martin approached the stadium’s entrance, his car was blocked by Catholics waving Rosaries at his window and shouting “traitor” and “You are going to Hell!”
The Gardaí had to clear a path as protesters holding signs saying “Islam is evil,” “Defund Soros Shills” and “God bless Ireland” pounded on his car as the archbishop proceeded to join Muslims in prayer.
“I attended the ‘Rosary at Croke Park’ as a way to demonstrate against the encroachment of Islam into the daily life and institutions in Ireland,” Irish Freedom Party candidate Daithí Ó Fallamháin, told Church Militant.
“Many Irish people are aware of the cruelty involved in halal slaughter. Unfortunately, it was not made clear from the start that all-too-common animal slaughter, which is part of Eid al-Adha worldwide, would not be included in the celebrations at Croke Park, so there was understandable speculation,” the politician, who has been an educator in Ireland, Japan and South Korea, explained.
Leftwing activists tried to drown out Catholic journalist Gemma O’Doherty as she called for a “new decade of the Rosary” and condemned Abp. Martin entering Croke Park — “a land that is so sacred to Irish patriots.” O’Doherty later had her account blocked by Twitter.
“We in Ireland will treasure the memory of Abp. Croke” O’Doherty stressed, calling out the lack of civil liberties “for the victims of genital mutilation” and “child marriage” and “animals that will be slaughtered today.”
Demonstrators unfurled a large banner declaring: “No to child marriage. No to grooming gangs. No to live slaughter. No to barbaric halal. No to jihad against Christians!”
Meanwhile, the “Excommunicate heretical Archbishop Diarmuid Martin” petition on the Irish Patriots website garnered over 4,000 signatures by Monday as it denounced the prelate for “giving his blessing to an Islamic celebration at our sacred Gaelic grounds in Croke Park!”
“This is not merely a scandal, it is a mortal sin,” the petition stressed, attacking the archbishop for “having forgotten the First Commandment.”
Church Militant reported Friday that Martin had participated in the Islamic festival of Eid Al-Adha, which falsifies the Bible by declaring that the patriarch Abraham took Ishmael, not Isaac, to be sacrificed on Mount Moriah.
“This story is yet another instance of Islam correcting Judaism and Christianity and holding the Judeo-Christian tradition to be corrupted and erroneous,” Islamic scholar Robert Spencer told Church Militant, lamenting that Martin’s participation “shows the priorities of the Catholic hierarchy today and of leftist clerics in general.”
The petition blasted the archbishop for “engaging in outright apostasy” and insisting “he must be not only laicized but excommunicated.”…
Antiislamicman says
Islam is a direct opposition to our Lord Jesus Christ. We must sit down and participate with Muslims.
We should be showing them that Islam is a false religion and wrong.
Charles Lavin says
No one ha the balls ….political correctness reigns above the law …
pragmatist says
You can’t participate with them – it doesn’t work.
Martin says
Irish Nationalists Confront Heretical Archbishop Martin at Islamic Celebration!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilOyozFg1ME
Martin says
Less Sharia more Ave Maria! Muslims at Croke Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veCBjciqTfE
Martin says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87gerZWS5Ws
Carl says
What may be Ireland’s last stand — Jesus bless them — the thousands of Emerald Isle.
Martin says
EID AL ADHA – Catholic Archbishop Diarmuid Martin address at Eid Croke Park 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1dbDsAFk00
Martin says
Minister Roderic Eid at Croke Park speech 2020, Dublin Ireland
Minister of Children, Communities and Integration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiw4X9S7fdE
FYI says
Did nobody tell minister Rod O’Gorman {who apparently is openly gay}about islam’s HADD and TAZIR punishments for gays?
Did rabbi zalman Lent MISS the koran’s claim that the Jews are ‘to be DESPISED AND HATED” koran 2:65 just for being Jews as he celebrates with his muslim ‘brothers’?Will he be at a nazi rally next praising his aryan brothers?
Did his majesty the christless collared judas priest ,the ‘catholic’ Martin MISS the koran’s CURSING of christians 9:30 for believing in Jesus Christ?
Did the protestant clergyman MISS the koran’s insistence
that Jews and Christians are
“THE WORST OF CREATED BEINGS”
koran 98:6?
The leftard sewer-vermin speak for themselves and behave as expected:treasonous,hypocritical and too stupid to see the threat posed by political islam which WILL destroy them if they gain such power as they did in iran
Perhaps they should read the koran too;after all LEFTIES are INFIDELS to the muslims.
As for this being some great community event?
“Oh ye who believe!Take not the Jews and Chrisians for friends.They are friends to one another”
koran 5:51
Thus it is a PR stunt for the muslims
Croke park should be boycotted.the Irish catholic hierarchy has been responsible for causing a MASSIVE loss in faith with martin at the head.I have no idea how such collared creatures imagine they will get past the judgement of Jesus
It is good to see people waking up to the RED-GREEN leftard-muslim Axis of evil.
FYI says
oh dear oh dear.
I had just gone to post a polite complaint to the Dublin Archdiocese and I know they received it but..it seems they blocked me.
Perhaps it was my Gospel reference: ‘woe to the scandal givers’.
A pity, as the TRUTH would set them free from their Christ-betraying behavior.
Of course many clergymen don’t like to be reminded of awkward Gospel teachings.
Especially Mr Bergoglio’s henchmen.
No one has done more to destroy the faith of Irish Catholics than the morally bankrupt Irish Catholic Church Hierarchy as they ponce about in their fancy dress with their artificially respirated ‘prayers’ to a Jesus they constantly insult and betray:not that the US ‘catholic’ bishops are any better.
I mean,who knows what god they follow.It sure isn’t Jesus.
Catholics and Protestants of Ireland:go back to the Gospel and your shared Christianity which comes from St Patrick and take seriously the threat of the Globalist-sponsored RED-GREEN Lefty-muslim axis.
My experience of bishops i have encountered is that they have what I call
‘the Absence of the Presence of Christ”.
Leave them.They are blind guides.In fancy dress costumes.
Michael Copeland says
Memo to the Minister for Integration:
Muslims are instructed in the mosques NOT to integrate.
The Koran forbids taking filthy kaffirs as allies.
Michael Copeland says
“I will never be Danish … We will not integrate…”
Muslim in Denmark
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/05/muslim-migrant-tells-danish-man-you-danes-are-being-exterminated-youre-like-animals-we-will-not-integrate
Martin says
EID AL ADHA – Rabbi Zalman Lent addressing Eid at Croke Park 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjyRZQwgomE
bbubbee says
Rabbis and Archbishops can speak kumbaya until they are blue in the face, only to be ridiculed behind their backs by supremacists who have no intentions of peace. Islam is an ideology of conquest because it has nothing of its own to offer. This is a pagan squat-in!
St. Patrick drove the pagans out once. But the globalists let the snakes back in, knowing full well they are snakes!!!
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/festivals/st-patricks-day/st-patrick-drove-out-the-pagans-not-the-snakes-26430670.html
Michael Copeland says
“Slaughter Jews wherever you find them” – Haj Amin al Husseini
“As for the Jews, you kill them physically” – Abdullah al-Faisal, C4 Undercover Mosque
“Islam’s goal is to kill Jews” – Mufti Muhammad Hussein, PA
“Jews should be treated according to Allah’s decree about them. Allah decrees [in the Quran]: ‘Kill them wherever you may find them,..’” – Yunis Al-Astal, Hamas MP:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
Martin says
EID AL ADHA – Speech by Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri
His Eminence Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri delivered this speech prior to leading the Eid Prayer.
Organised by Irish Muslim Peace & Integration Council
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGUC3U8c6qY
Martin says
EID AL ADHA – RTÉ – Irish TV report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4di30d9pE
GreekEmpress says
Martin,
Thank you for posting these videos.
I hadn’t seen or heard anything about this event other than the archbishop attended.
gravenimage says
Thank you for these links, Martin.
J Morgan says
God bless these Irish Catholics. Shame on Abp Martin! Shame on the Pope!
Charles Lavin says
As long as the parasitic expansionism/colonisation , by islam , is allowed by you , via the cretins voted to parliament , by your hand , your welfare will dwindle , your rights will be rescinded , your wives and daughters raped and murdered , until sharia law is the order of the day , for all the poor boat people/refugees will outnumber you , your jobs and houses will be given to the enemy , who basically will be on the dole , fornicating and breeding you out of your own country …
Wake up , smell the conspiracy ….
Goofy says
Good to see the Catholics reacting in this manner. The Archbishop has indeed committed heresy but the perspective of excommunication is unfortunately unrealistic.
The reason is that the Roman Catholic church has decided that the entrance to priesthood is a sacrament of its own called the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
Like other sacraments it is assumed to work miraculously on the clergyman in question that by definition he cannot do anything wrong. Therefore, there are very few examples of excommunication and instead the clergyman in question is relegated to a layman, so-called layitised.
Excommunication of a clergyman in the Roman Catholic church would amount to a recognition of the fact that the Sacrament of Holy Orders is completely man made.
Vladimir says
That’s basically completely untrue. Holy Orders allows a clergyman to participate in Christ’s earthly ministry and distribute the sacraments, the means of grace for the salvation of mankind. It does not make them personally holy, at all, should they decide not to be truly the ministers of Christ in the world. Problem is, since the beginning of the Roman Schism in 1054 AD, the West has been graceless for almost 1000 years, and it shows. These men don’t have true ”Holy Orders” to begin with, unfortunately. However what i’m saying isn’t addressing the issue of sincere Christians personally in the Western world, it’s not a personal but a collective effect.
Goofy says
I am not talking about sincerity buy I am referring to the Roman Catholic church’s Catechism and Roman Catholic church literature of theology on the subject.
Vladimir says
If you are, then your reading comprehension of the material is lacking unfortunately. The idea that the ministers of the sacraments are themselves supposed to be sinless in effect is the heresy of Donatism, and while the RCC in my view has more than a few errors, Donatism is not one of them.
Ecosse1314 says
What crap
Ecosse1314 says
Referring to goofy
Vladimir says
Ah, no problem:-)
gravenimage says
Goofy, you are mistaken in believing that Catholicism says that ordained clergy are sinless and can do no wrong. Where did you get that idea?
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Papa Francesco has written a document
http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/travels/2019/outside/documents/papa-francesco_20190204_documento-fratellanza-umana.html
which begins, “Faith leads a believer to see in the other a brother or sister to be supported and loved. Through faith in God, who has created the universe, creatures and all human beings (equal on account of his mercy), believers are called to express this human fraternity by safeguarding creation and the entire universe and supporting all persons, especially the poorest and those most in need.”
What? The universe, creatures, and all human beings are equal to each other not because God created them thus but because of God’s mercy. That’s a theology that requires some explanation. Also, believers (in God? in Christianity? in Islam?) are called to safeguard “the entire universe”. How does Pope Francis propose to carry out this extra-Galactic protection? Does he even realize what he’s saying?
James Felter says
By waving his feelers at passing novae…
Vladimir says
Bergoglio knows he’s writing filler I think. It’s more important to watch what he does than what he says or writes, which is usually nebulous and ambiguous to say the least.
Phil Copson says
Well – is there really a theological difference here ?
Islam describes non-muslims as being “descended from pigs and apes” and Archbishop Martin rejoices in the title “Primate of All Ireland”.
Sadly for all concerned, this particular “primate” seems determined to “descend” a bit further into the abyss than is strictly advisable……
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Peter Beinart is famous for creating Donald Trump’s winning slogan “Make America Great Again” (MAGA), in the subtitle of a book he wrote about 14 years ago: “…: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again”.
His talent as a sloganeer has extended to every nook and cranny of the political world.
In the above video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=ilOyozFg1ME&feature=emb_logo
, skip ahead to 1:30 and you will see a banner reading “NO SHARIA IN IRELAND / MAKE IRELAND CATHOLIC AGAIN!” But strangely, no one is wearing a MICA hat. A marketing opportunity for an enterprising haberdasher.
tuffy says
liberals dont make anything great they just destroy sand sell out.
CogitoErgoSum says
I am reminded of the story of King Solomon. Even though God granted Solomon his request for wisdom, the King still allowed his heart to be turned towards idolatry when Solomon allowed other temples honoring other gods to be built in order to please some of the King’s wives. This sin resulted in God allowing Solomon’s kingdom to be divided after his death. A sin similar in nature is also being committed by the Pope and the hierarchy within the Catholic Church today and will no doubt produce similar results.
gravenimage says
Ireland: Leftists assault Catholics protesting archbishop’s participation in Muslim prayers for Eid al-Adha
…………………………
Just appalling. But kudos to these Catholics for protesting.
Does this foolish Archbishop realize that Eid al-Adha prayers include the Fatiha prayer, which condemns Jews and Christians?
“…Guide us on the straight path,
the path of those who have received your grace;
not the path of those who have brought down wrath, nor of those who wander astray.
Amen.”
https://sonicdictionary.duke.edu/items/arabic-prayer-al-fatiha#:~:text=Praise%20be%20to%20God%2C%20Lord,do%20we%20ask%20for%20help.
Those who have “brought down wrath” are Jews, and those who “wander astray” are Christians.
Also note that Archbishop Martin has condemned Christians for holding masses during the Coronavirus crises, yet gathered with over 200 Muslims at the Croke Park Stadium.
This article cites Robert Spencer:
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/bishops-join-muslim-feast-falsifying-bible
Ireland now has the dubious distinction of being the first non-Muslim majority country to broadcast this festival of bloodshed on state TV.
Lenny Leaps In says
Maybe the Irish will now discover that the English were not so bad after all. How will Sein Fein and the IRA react to radical Islam trying to slither into Ireland? Or will they accept Islam with open arms like the lefties?
Vladimir says
Believe it or not, if it came to it they’d probably unite in alliance with the Orangemen to drive the heathen from Ireland.