My latest in FrontPage:
That tireless advocate for Islam, Pope Francis, is facing criticism for his uncharacteristic silence over a Muslim population that is actually suffering injustice and persecution: the Uighurs of China. ChurchMilitant.com reported Tuesday that Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, denounced “the potential genocide” of “one million Uighur and other Muslims in China.” But Francis remains resolutely silent. The reason why may be found in his bank balance.
Rahima Mahmut, head of the World Uighur Congress, declared: “Pope Francis, in particular, speaks almost every week at the Sunday Angelus, and on many other occasions, about issues of injustice in the world. He has often addressed the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims. Yet there is one country whose human rights record he has not highlighted — China — and one people whose suffering he has not spoken about — the Uighurs.”
A dissident who has been exiled from China, Guo Wengei, may have provided the key to the Pope’s curious silence in late June, when he charged the Chinese Communist Party pays the Vatican $2 billion each year in exchange for silence about the Chinese government’s human rights abuses.
If that is true, it explains everything. The Uighurs don’t pay Francis, but the ChiComs do. If the Uighurs did pay him, he might speak up on their behalf. As I told ChurchMilitant, his eye, in this case, appears to be squarely on the bottom line, not on the humanitarian concerns he speaks out about so enthusiastically in other contexts.
Up until now, it has seemed that if anyone was paying Francis, it was Islamic organizations. Or maybe he undertook his enthusiastic advocacy of Islam for free, out of love for the Religion of Peace. Whatever the case may be, his efforts have not gone unappreciated. In September 2017, Pope Francis met in the Vatican with Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, the secretary-general of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group that has been linked to the financing of jihad terror. During the meeting, al-Issa thanked the pope for his “fair positions” on what he called the “false claims that link extremism and violence to Islam.”
Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, has also thanked the Pope, for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.” Al-Tayeb is Pope Francis’ favored dialogue partner. In February 2019, they published “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” during the Pope’s trip to the United Arab Emirates. It was 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.
One of its egregiously false statements was this: Terrorism, it said, “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.”
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 when they say that Islam teaches warfare against unbelievers? Francis and al-Tayeb would apparently have us think so.
Meanwhile, if anyone is paying Francis, it isn’t persecuted Christians: the Pope has committed the Catholic Church to silence about Muslim persecution of Christians as the price for that dialogue. The Associated Press reported in 2016 that the pope “embraced the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the prestigious Sunni Muslim center of learning, reopening an important channel for Catholic-Muslim dialogue after a five-year lull and at a time of increased Islamic extremist attacks on Christians.”
Why had there been this “five-year lull”? Because “the Cairo-based Al-Azhar froze talks with the Vatican to protest comments by then-Pope Benedict XVI.” What did Benedict say? Andrea Gagliarducci of the Catholic News Agency explains that after a jihad terrorist murdered 23 Christians in a church in Alexandria 2011, Benedict decried “terrorism” and the “strategy of violence” against Christians, and called for the Christians of the Middle East to be protected.
So Pope Benedict condemned a jihad attack, one that al-Azhar also condemned, and yet al-Azhar suspended dialogue because of the pope’s condemnation. Then Pope Francis wrote to the Grand Imam of al-Azhar affirming his respect for Islam, and the Grand Imam warned him that criticizing Islam was a “red line” that he must not cross. That strongly suggests that the “dialogue” that Pope Francis has now reestablished will not be allowed to discuss the Muslim persecution of Christians that will escalate worldwide, especially since an incidence of that persecution led to the suspension of dialogue in the first place.
Francis, for his part, in sharp contrast to Benedict, has proclaimed that “authentic Islam and the proper understanding of the Koran reject every form of violence,” doing his bit to ensure that as many Christians as possible would remain ignorant and complacent about the jihad threat that his precious “dialogue” does nothing to mitigate.
All this makes his silence regarding the Uighurs all the more curious and self-contradictory. But whether Guo’s charges are true is something we are likely never to know: the Vatican is not exactly forthcoming with information that may make the Vicar of Christ look bad.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
RichardL says
I really wish him a long life, but at the same time I hope he does the Benedict and moves into Castel Gandolfo tomorrow. I want a Sarah (too old now, I know) or a young Benedict. One Uighurs: I really couldn’t care less.
Theresa Powers says
he and benny the rat are serious satan worshiping pedophiles. Neither of them are Christians. They are just Vicars of Satan.
gravenimage says
What? How is saying things critical of Islam make Pope Benedict a “serious satan worshiping pedophile”? What is this poster babbling about?
RichardL says
pretty sad stuff, graven. I am not sure I have ever encountered that name here. Benny the rat? I mean, seriously. Some people really have problems. Or maybe it is an allahist trying to sow discord.
t. says
Robert Spencer is literally one of my heros in life.
In the meantime, you regularly deplore and rightly so, the wide spread narrative, pushed on all people of this planet, that Muslims are always victims, when in reality it’s false, yet you’re almost regularly talking about the so called persecution of Muslims in China.
Our main fight is and should always be against this purely evil on-a-massive-scale cult, called Islam. If any country is taking effective measures to crush this evil, we should all be for it.
China knows quite well the danger of Islam and started taking serious measures to curb the effect of this evil, after several terrorist attacks on civilians, a few years back.
What did democracy, equality of religions, freedom of beliefs and all those nostalgic sounding western slogans lead us to in the west? Isn’t it, to a gradual slow agonizing crumbling, demise and extinction, in front of our own eyes, of the very system and order of things that we are trying to impose on china.
This is a global fight against a universal vicious enemy to all of humanity. It won’t help to politicize and use identity politics to criticize individual battles against this common enemy.
When it comes to Islam, I firmly believe, it shouldn’t be every body against every body or we’re doomed
curious says
Benedict was a rat. His opposition to Islam does not redeem his concealment of child abuse. He concealed Catholic priests abusing sexually both both boys and girls, sometimes resulting in abortions, and then made the victims feel guilty about it as if the abuse had been their own fault. Benedict had to resign because donations from the USA fell below the Vatican’s operating expenses.
Francis was hired to replace him. It is likely that Francis gets paid by CCP to say nothing about Uighurs, and by Gulf Muslims to promote Islamic hijra into Europe. I wonder how much the Orthodox Christian Patriarch is paid to join him in that.
gravenimage says
Benedict and other pontiffs not taking a strong enough stance against child abuse by priests is indeed a serious issue. Enabling Shari’ah–which sacralizes child rape–hardly makes this better, though.
gravenimage says
Actually, the claim that the problem is democracy and freedom of conscience is quite mistaken. we don’t have to adopt the barbarism of totalitarianism in order to fight Islam.
Some of us oppose Islam because we defend the civilized values of the west.
katemul says
I think that she is just one of your standard “Hate everything and every one Catholic” types. No one with any common sense (and knowledge) would very place Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI in the same category
MykeJohn says
Does the Pope speak/read english? Or some unknown go-between just kept the Pope from what’s happening around him to prevent him from knowing what is happening so far as this of such dimension unfolding before the world
JW_Reader says
Unbelievable – Pope is sold out to the highest bidder. What would Jesus do?
janicevanguilder says
it seems that those things that are most precious and in highest demand are gold and SILENCE from any dissenting, criticizing voices,
CogitoErgoSum says
I’m wondering why the Uigers need the Pope’s help when something as harmless as a drawing of Muhammad can drive Muslims all over the world into a frenzy. The Chinese are rounding up Muslim Uigers and putting them into concentration camps and there’s hardly a peep out the world’s other Muslims against the Chinese. Are the Uigers considered heretics by most other Muslims?
curious george says
Christianity is in decline throughout most of the Western World, storm clouds are gathering, the winds of war are stirring and it appears that we are on the brink of WW III.
In various places around the world, there is chaos, civil unrest and a general breakdown of the rule of law.
We are witnessing the final steps to the forming of a One World Religion and a One World Government.
This Pope is nothing more than another useful idiot in the overall scheme of things.
The worst is yet to come, batten down the hatches.
Boycott Turkey says
Turkey is also betraying the Uighurs by deporting them back to China via third country https://youtu.be/gJqHD05ZSfY
gravenimage says
Not really surprised. Pious Muslims actually rarely come to the aid of other Muslims. They treat everyone badly.
curious says
+1
Even worse, to the extent they do aid other Muslims, it is mostly in the form of promoting jihad, e.g. Palestinian payments to terrorists and the families of suicide terrorists.
gravenimage says
So true, curious.
James Lincoln says
Suggest that all Roman Catholics move over to the Eastern Orthodox Church – and take their money with them.
Defend the Vatican…
James Lincoln says
DEFUND the Vatican.
Pesky DragonDictate…
curious george says
JL,
Typo’s are my specialty, I did read your original post as “defund,” the mind is amazing, read on.
The Intricacies of the Human Mind
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny imprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe, amzanig, huh?
DearDiary says
That was cool and I find the topic fascinating as well.
FYI says
Defund the vatican?Good idea except .. they already have
“more money than God” with the sort of financial chicanery that would be the envy of a South American drug cartel.
And I’d say Defenestrate francis…
francis is the showman, businessman and ring master of the vatican pro-Globalist,pro-islam circus.If he was the CEO of a business,he would have been sacked by now for gross incompetence.
Only those with an idolatrous devotion to the office of the holy father refuse to see that{I am acquainted with faithful catholics who are affronted by his behavior:many have actually left the RCC thanks to likes of Jorge ‘Seven Heresies’ Bergoglio}
francis should be Defenestrated.
{papal inspired thought for the day:
Life is like a vatican bank account:it just doesn’t add up.. unless you become creative…}
Mauricio says
“the Vatican is not exactly forthcoming with information that may make the Vicar of Christ look bad”
Actually, doing that would go against the Roman Catholic church’s own dogmas of “infallibility” and “papal supremacism”. Hold on, did I say supremacism?
gravenimage says
The Pope has never been held infallible on all matters.
Mauricio says
Maybe. Current canon 752 from the Codex Iuris Canonici always confused me about it:
“Although not an assent of faith, a religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the college of bishops declares concerning faith or morals when they exercise the authentic magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim it by definitive act; therefore, the Christian faithful are to take care to avoid those things which do not agree with it.”
gravenimage says
https://www.catholic.com/tract/papal-infallibility
Not saying I necessarily agree with this–just that it is the official Catholic view.
Mauricio says
The text you sent me has only an imprimatur which doesn’t necesarilly means that it has an official catholic view.
The best answer to some of the points written there is here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_opposition_to_papal_supremacy
On the other hand, the Codex Iuris Canonici is the infallible law of the Roman catholic church unless a Pope decrees otherwise.
gravenimage says
Wait–the best example of what the Catholic point of view is on this subject is Eastern Orthodox opposition to it?
I’m not even Catholic, but this doesn’t sound very objective to me.
Mauricio says
I didn’t say that. I said that the official Catholic point of view is in the Codex Iuris Canonici or Code of Canon law which I mentioned since I started this conversation.
The text you sent me https://www.catholic.com/tract/papal-infallibility is not the official Catholic view like you said but an opinion from some roman Catholic that clearly does not know (or does not want to adhere to) the laws in which his church is founded and that is trying to convince others that papal infallibity or supremacy is not as bad as they say. Very similar to muslims trying to convince others that Islam is not a religion of violence.
DearDiary says
Money makes the World go round. The only real Muslim victims in the World aren’t even offered a goodbye kiss from the supporters of Hollywood’s favored victims, the Palestinians.
DearDiary says
Besides, Muhammad was basically a used car salesman. Islam is a jalopy made from the parts of better cars, then just repainted and given new medallions. The shop’s sign might read “Buy Here or Die”.
FYI says
muhammed was a fat cross-dressing midget.
{No offense intended to anyone who happens to be a fat cross-dressing midget}
Abu Dawud 40:4731
Sahih Bukhari 5:58:236
And he had a magical winged flying donkey with a woman’s face called buraq and one day he flew on this magical creature from mecca to Jerusalem to visit a mosque that.. actually didn’t exist in mo’s time [koran 17:1]
muhmmed{APBUH,actual prophecy be quite unknown to him} also said in one of his ‘prophecies’ that the world would end 100 years after his demise.
Amazingly enough,the world is still here.
FYI says
Correction..
Sahih Bukhari 54:7:2442 muhammed the cross dresser
{note:islamic apologists fiddle with the Arabic.They’ll try to tell you that muhammed didn’t wear a dress but it was a sheet.But given the fact that muhammed was the Arab version of a white supremacist that doesn’t really make it better does it?}
The Sahih Bukhari 5:58:236 ref actually refers to his deflowering of a little 9 year old girl.Aisha his ‘wife’.
So,muhammed was a fat cross-dressing pedophile midget
according to islamic sources.
gravenimage says
An insult to used car salesmen, most of whom are not pedophiles, slavers, rapists, and mass murderers…
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
But didn’t president Obama say: “The Future Must Not Belong To Those Who Slander the Prophet of islam”?
Doesn’t that mean that the feature writers and posters here at Jihad Watch have no future? (sarc/off)
gravenimage says
So true, James. As Obama would have it, none of us have any future–he never spelled out what that would mean in practical terms, but clearly nothing good…
Iambob says
Anyone (except me) notice how despite enslaving their own Islamic brethren in China, the cowardly Muslims are careful to not wage jihad against them?
gravenimage says
You are quite right, bob.
curious george says
+1
Possibly, lambob, Muslims realize that they have met their match with the godless Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It’s possible that they, Muslims, recognize that the CCP can and will bring death and destruction upon them without mercy, as we are currently witnessing on a global scale with the CCP Wuhan Virus