In mid-September, Jihad Watch reported that a Muslim migrant had stabbed a pro-migrant priest to death, and that police had rejected bishops’ claim that killer was mentally ill. Even worse, “Roberto Bernasconi, president of the Como section of pro-migrant Catholic charity Caritas, blamed the ‘tragedy’ on the anti-migrant ‘climate of hatred and intolerance that is fomented in the city.’”
The Pope, meanwhile, who has been tirelessly advocating for open door migration, stated that the killer, Mahmoudi Ridha, was “a person in need” and “malata di testa“: “An Italian linguist explained to Church Militant that the phrase was a malapropism and one would not use such an expression in correct Italian. “‘Mal di testa’ refers to a ‘headache.’ When we want to say someone is ‘mentally ill’ we say ‘malata di mente.'”
Maybe Pope Francis considers Ridha a headache since he makes the mass migration enterprise look bad.
The Pope insists Ridha is a “person in need” even though he wanted to behead the priest — a familiar act by jihadists — and even though the region where the priest was murdered has “deep ties to terror.”
By the Pope’s thinking, all jihadists are “sick in the head” — including persecutors of Christians and minorities, those who murder for “blasphemy,” and those who murder to conquer territory for Islam. As Robert Spencer states below:
No one in the media, Church or police has tried to discover whether Islam’s doctrine calling for violence against unbelievers may have been a motive for Fr. Malgesini’s murder because all three are deeply committed to the idea that there is no such doctrine, and that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.
To acknowledge that Mahmoudi Ridha was motivated by Qur’anic passages such as “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5) and “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4) is inconceivable to them. They either don’t know that such passages exist, or they are certain that no Muslims today take them seriously or would ever consider acting upon them. The only fallback position for those whose denial and willful ignorance is so implacable is to insist that Ridha is “mentally ill.”
It is possible that Ridha may have been both homeless and “sick in the head,” but was also a jihadist, motivated by explicit Islamic doctrine?
“Italian Priest’s Killer from Islamic Hotbed,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, September 22, 2020:
COMO, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) – The illegal immigrant who murdered a pro-migrant Italian priest may have been associated with mosques or groups linked to radical Islam, Church Militant has learned.
Father Roberto Malgesini was given a hero’s funeral Friday as the autopsy report revealed that 53-year-old Tunisian Muslim Mahmoudi Ridha had attempted to behead the priest.
“Mahmoudi Ridha wanted to cut off his head. The large wound in the neck in particular would suggest an attempt to cut off his head, which was not completed,” the report stated.
Anatomopathologist Dr. Giovanni Scola concluded that the large wound in the neck appeared “to suggest an attempt at decapitation not completed due to the desire to resect the bony plane of the spine.”
Method of Death Denotes Jihad
A noted Sharia scholar told Church Militant that the deliberate attempt to decapitate the infidel was typical of Islamic-styled executions as prescribed in the Qur’an: “So when you meet those who disbelieve [in battle], strike [their] necks until, when you have inflicted slaughter upon them” (47:4).
“The priest died like a dog, that was right,” Ridha said Tuesday morning after he repeatedly stabbed 51-year-old Fr. Roberto Malgesini in Piazza San Rocco in the center of Como in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
The Sharia scholar also pointed out that this term of abuse was not insignificant. Infidels are called “dogs” and the Qur’anic verse 7:176 says of the unbeliever: “So his example is like that of the dog: If you chase him, he pants, or if you leave him, he [still] pants. That is the example of the people who denied our signs.”
“In Islamic parlance, ‘dog’ is used as the vilest of insults,” he added.
‘Willful Ignorance’
Pope Francis, however, insisted that the killer was “a person in need” and “a person sick in the head,” using the unusual phrase “malata di testa” to refer to Ridha’s alleged mental illness.
An Italian linguist explained to Church Militant that the phrase was a malapropism and one would not use such an expression in correct Italian. “‘Mal di testa’ refers to a ‘headache.’ When we want to say someone is ‘mentally ill’ we say ‘malata di mente.'”
“I am not sure if Pope Francis is being deliberately ambiguous or speaking poor Italian as he often does,” the linguist noted. “Of course, he wouldn’t like his pro-migrant, pro-Muslim narrative to be disrupted if the assassin were found to have jihadi motives.”
Despite police reports categorically stating that the assailant had never suffered “certified psychological problems” and had no history of mental illness, Italian bishops, Caritas and the mainstream media unanimously diagnosed the killer as “mentally ill,” Church Militant reported.
Robert Spencer, Islamic historian and author of The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, lamented:
No one in the media, Church or police has tried to discover whether Islam’s doctrine calling for violence against unbelievers may have been a motive for Fr. Malgesini’s murder because all three are deeply committed to the idea that there is no such doctrine, and that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.
To acknowledge that Mahmoudi Ridha was motivated by Qur’anic passages such as “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5) and “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4) is inconceivable to them. They either don’t know that such passages exist, or they are certain that no Muslims today take them seriously or would ever consider acting upon them. The only fallback position for those whose denial and willful ignorance is so implacable is to insist that Ridha is “mentally ill.”
The region where the killing occurred, however, has deep ties to terror…..
curious george says
Papa Francesco, un utile idiota se mai ce ne fosse uno. La persona giusta, al posto giusto, al momento giusto.
AleX says
Vergogna del papa e dei suoi consiglieri.
Hoi Polloi says
È vero. Che peccato.
mortimer says
L’islamismo non è una caricatura, né una contraffazione, né un’eresia, né un fenomeno marginale o atipico contro l’Islam classico, ortodosso, sunnita.
L’islamismo è l’Islam in tutta la sua logica e in tutto il suo rigore. L’islamismo è presente nell’Islam come il pulcino è presente nell’uovo, come il frutto è presente nel fiore e come l’albero è presente nel seme.
L’islamismo è l’Islam politico, portatore di un progetto per una società modello e il cui scopo è quello di stabilire uno stato teocratico basato sulla Sharia, l’unica legge legittima – poiché è divina – poiché è stata rivelata e custodita nel Corano e nella Sunna – è una legge che si applica a tutto.
– Henri Boulad SJ
curious george says
Hoi Polloi,
Thank you for playing along with a little fun with languages. I’m envious that you can speak Italian, I tried, but failed. Take care, God bless you and yours.
curious george says
Mortimer,
Well said. Thank you for participating in our little language fun here at JW
All the best to you and yours. Take care.
curious george says
AleX,
Thank you for joining me in a little fun with languages. I agree, shame on the pope and his advisers. Sadly, it seems to be a sign of the times.
Mauricio says
Hello curious George, I hope you are doing well. I wish I could have that italian knowledge! Take care.
Wellington says
On a tangential note to you, curious george, and to AleX and Hoi Polloi as well, the three statements by you all (y’all down in Mississippi, a state I have visited and like very much), just confirms reading the assertion which Will Durant opined about the Italian language, to wit, that it represents the triumph of the vowel over the consonant.
Best to you you and yours. Take care.
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks for sharing that bit from WD. As a child, seeing European signs in multiple languages and then comparing Italian to the others, I thought it was quite comical with all its vowels and double consonants. When I learned to speak it, I came to love Italian and the people who spoke it. So full of life and love. I hope Italy surmounts the massive hardships Merkel has so callously sent its way.
Hoi Polloi says
And best to you as well.
curious george says
Grazie, Wellington. May Yeshua HaMashiach keep you and yours in the palm of His hand.
AleX says
The linguistic effort of us all towards Latin proves we are the proud sons and daughters of Rome and soldiers of civilization.
Stay well George
AleX says
Siamo fortunati ad essere gli discendenti di Roma.
Grazie Wellington
Sylvia Drummond says
The Pope appears to be ‘a person in need’ In need of a brain. It is time that this waste of space of a priest was gone. He is doing as much damage to the Catholic Church as the disgusting Mohammedans.
mortimer says
The pope needs only an OPEN MIND to the victims of Islam and scholars of jihadism WITHIN THE RCC.
Many Roman Catholics like Robert Spencer and Father Henri Boulad are experts on the meaning of jihadism.
The pope’s mind is shut to accurate information about Islam. He lives in his whitewashed DREAM-FANTASY of a non-existent benign Islam.
Mauricio says
Mortimer wrote:
“Many Roman Catholics like Robert Spencer and Father Henri Boulad are experts in the meaning of jihadism.”
I thought Robert Spencer converted to Orthodox Catholicism since 2016 because roman catholics were censoring him. Am I missing something?
somehistory says
The pope is willfully spiritually ill, and woefully ignorant of what all of his friendship/love affair with islam and moslims is going to cost him. The end result of his actions and his many islam-favorable words and wrong commands to Christians is going to be more than a “headache.”
Michael Copeland says
“There is NOTHING in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act” — David Cameron on Lee Rigby’s murder.
“It is an ideology that is a perversion of Islam” — Theresa May
Allow Lt. Col. Allen West to give the truth to Cameron and May:
“This is not a perversion. They are doing EXACTLY what this book says.”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/09/the-negligence-of-western-leaders/
Clarino says
Well aaid !!
Clarino says
Sorry – said !
gravenimage says
Spot on.
J Morgan says
This unrepentant jihadi murderer gives the Pope a headache such is the state of his cognitive dissonance. There is no place in his mind for this totally normal Islamic violence.
No Muzzies Here says
Being beheaded is a real pain in the neck. This pope had better realize the true nature of the violent religion of Islam.
Drew C says
The road to disaster is ALWAYS paved with good intention
Wellington says
Just another example of how clueless this Pope is and how much damage he has done to the Catholic Church and, by extension, to all the West. He can’t pass away too soon but again I would mention that he has appointed many bishops and cardinals who think like him. Hell, even a lot of parish priests and lay Catholics do.
There can be no doubt that the Catholic Church is in deep trouble. In many ways it has become unrecognizable from what it was in the 1950’s.
revereridesagain says
What happened to all that “infallibility” I was led to believe was conferred on all these “Papas” by the Great God on High? If people are going to despise me and those like me who know there are no Wise Old Men floating around in the sky, we’d like to at least see a demonstration of the Superior Wisdom allegedly conferred on these damned old fools in the Vatican who are supposed to be transmitting all that Wisdom.
Instead, we’re getting stuck on stupid that doubles down with every challenge. Next time the Wise Old Men need to elect someone with at least a modicum of good old fashioned Common Sense. (As Thomas Paine might put it.)
Wellington says
I am an agnostic, revereidesagain, not religious in the least. So, I don’t respond to you from any Catholic perspective or even from any religious perspective.
But I think it important for you to understand that the infallibility doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church applies only to statements by Popes about purely doctrinal matters. The last time this occurred was in 1950 when Pius XII spoke doctrinally (ex cathedra, i.e., from the throne of Saint Peter) about the Assumption of Mary. In fact, since the infallibility doctrine was first promulgated at Ecumenical Council Vatican I (1869-1870), the ONLY time it has been invoked is in this 1950 pronouncement.
So many non-Catholics (and even many Catholics) have a woeful understanding of what the infallibility doctrine is really all about. Sorry to say, but I think you do as well.
Hopefully I have cleared up matters here so you won’t make the same mistake again. Yes indeed, if a Pope pronounced respecting who he thought would win the next World Cup of Soccer and he was wrong, this in no way invalidates the infallibility doctrine. And after all, assuming Roman Catholicism is the true faith, why would God ever allow a Pope, even a foolish Pope as the present pontifex maximus is, to get a pure doctrinal matter wrong?
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Excellent explanation regarding the Roman Catholic Church “infallibility” doctrine…
gravenimage says
+1
Mauricio says
I don’t see the point in trying to distinguish between “the infallible doctrine proclaimed by a pope in 1869” and the usage of the term/adjective “infallible” to describe the power granted to the pope by the roman catholic church, which can be found in several cannons, for example, cannon 333-3:
“No appeal or recourse is permitted against a sentence or decree of the Roman Pontiff.”
It seems as if roman catholics are trying to white wash its roman-empire-type religion. The fact that there was already an infallible doctrine proclaimed is shameful enough anyways.
curious george says
Papal Infallibility
https://www.catholic.com/tract/papal-infallibility
Dan says
Actually, all this “Infallibility” crap comes largely liberals trying to discredit the Catholic religion by saying we can’t think for ourselves because we must take what the Pope says as gospel.
That’s a crock.
There have been VERY FEW Papal statements that carry such backing, one example being that of Immaculate Conception.
When the Pope goes on about things like Social Justice and Climate Change, and Muslim terrorist being misunderstood individuals, Catholics are perfectly withing our right to tell him to stuff it where the sun don’t shine.
According to Catholic doctrine, especially regarding this Muslim sh**, if YOU want to sacrifice yourself to a martyr’s death, that is within your right BUT…
You have NO RIGHT to sacrifice ANYBODY ELSE, and allowing such, if not a mortal sin, is as close as it comes.
If you see a Muslim trying to harm or kill someone it is CATHOLIC DUTY and OBLIGATION to stop the Muslim, by any and all means possible, including permanently if there is no other way.
James Brice says
The church has in the past helped Nazi war criminals escape to South America, protected priests who abused children and broke their vows, and now it supports jihadis. Perhaps this has to do with a need to protect the servants of official institutions including the Third Reich and the Muslim religioius authorities.
Wellington says
A small number of Catholic priests aided Nazis to escape and in doing so betrayed the best of Catholic teaching. Meanwhile, during WWII, Pope Pius XII saved more Jews (and a lot of non-Jews) by working behind the scenes. The figure for the number of Jews Pius saved is in the 800,000 range.
Whenever Catholic clergy have acted wrongly, for instance respecting child sexual abuse, this was completely contrary to Catholic doctrine and these have been bad men. But Catholic doctrine, contra Islamic doctrine, does not condone “slaying the unbeliever wherever you find him” {Sura 9:5} or sanction rape as found in Suras 4, 23, 33 and 70 of the Koran, or extending approbation to cutting off the heads of non-believers, as Sura 47:4 does.
Ideology matters. Greatly. Ultimately, what a belief system states is far more important than wrong done by people who violate the dictates of a belief system for nefarious purposes. Stunning to me that by now more don’t get this. You come to mind.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Wellington.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
“Roberto Bernasconi… blamed the ‘tragedy’ on the anti-migrant ‘climate of hatred and intolerance that is fomented in the city.’”
Well naturally he would say that, because it’s always our fault muslims mass murder and terrorize others while screaming to their god. It couldn’t possibly be that muslims are ideologically motivated to kill and subjugate others for the religion that says to kill and subjugate others. If you are a non-muslim these days then hang your head low you damn islamophobe, and if you’re white then double shame on you for all the terrible things your white ancestors did 100+ years ago. According to them we whites are the worst race in history, every other race and culture is blameless like a gentle lamb.
HA!
I’ll attach a vid to this post of mine where Candice Owens speaks of this common misperception; that is, that we whites are quintessential devils for having participated in the act of slavery. Never mind that genocidal slavery of both children and adults exists in modern day black Africa; never mind the fact that non-white cultures have been just as misguided–even more so–than any white culture in history; never mind that it was white Britain and America who pioneered the end of slavery. What’s really happening here is an aggressive takeover by people who have nothing more to offer than the race card, reasoned argument and healthy introspection has nothing to do with it. Muslims and BLM are two examples that come to mind. Of course I am concerned about any racial injustice, even the unjust death of a serial criminal at the hands of police. But that does not excuse the vicious racism those groups spew to discredit and disparage good people who have no reason to apologize. They act like bombastic adult babies who can’t see beyond their own unworthy desire to have their outlandish and hyperbolic accusations of racism heard and respected; they’re the equivalent of KKK members whose primary source of self worth comes from shaming other’s humanity, even if it’s crudely based on racially identity. And that’s nothing to be proud of, regardless of how loud they yell,”NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!” Underneath the facade is just a lot of race hate by those who pretend to be against race hate.
Pope Francis, however, insisted that the killer was “a person in need” and “a person sick in the head…
If that’s true then the muslim god must also be sick in the head because that god commands such acts. Is this the popes way of saying that allah is a nut-job? If so then he’s finally saying something true about islam. No doubt islam is a sick and deranged ideology based on false and ignorant claims of the superstitious kind. But the growing trend of blaming mental illness for the crimes muslims do is simply false. One could say that about all criminals who hurt others for personal or collective gain, that they are a “person in need” or “sick in the head,” and there’s always a handful of cases where this is literally true. But a mass attack that’s measured in the thousands to advance a political ideology that is itself explicitly violent hardly falls into that category. In this particular case there was “no history of mental illness,” but as usual, mental illness is the suggested cause. It’s simply one more leftist lie to protect the “religion of peace,” and this growing trend highlights all too well the complicity of leftists who will stop at nothing to protect islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Nudmm7ha4
James Lincoln says
Agostino Armo Pellegrini,
Thanks for the link – I just love Candace Owens!
She points out that Colin Kaepernick, in lieu of celebrating his independence in America, got on a plane and went to Ghana.
Colin Kaepernick is certainly one very confused leftist – which no amount of money can fix.
“in Ghana itself, CNN reported last year 20,000 children work as slaves in the fishing industry.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/candace-owens-takes-apart-kaepernick-slavery-happens-africa-not-america/
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
I adore the woman. She’s hot as hell, brilliant, and she’s not afraid to speak the truth. She’s heaven sent and a rising star among conservatives. She’s going to be a curse to the left, who are so used to keeping blacks under their soft-bigoted thumbs.
James Lincoln says
Agostino Armo Pellegrini,
Guess I’ll have to admit the obvious, she is “hot” looking.
Brains, looks, a beautiful smile, and a wonderful personality – what a combination…
gravenimage says
Candace Owens is very impressive.
nicholas tesdorf says
Muslims cure ‘headaches’ by cutting people’s heads off as prescribed by Sharia Law.
gravenimage says
You aren’t wrong. This poor priest will never have to worry about headaches ever again.
gravenimage says
Italy: Muslim who murdered and attempted to behead priest is from ‘Islamic hotbed,’ Pope calls him a ‘headache’
…………………
A *headache*? A headache is having an obnoxious neighbor blasting loud music at late hours, getting robo-calls from “card holder services” several times a day, or having the restaurant mix up your take-out order.
A brutal murderer does not fall into that category–nor does the fact that there are hordes of Muslims just like him who have invaded Italy and the rest of the free world.
James Lincoln says
Rightly so, gravenimage.
And the usual “muscle tension” headache can be alleviated by aspirin / Tylenol – and a cup of strong coffee.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Wellington says
Second that “yep.”
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
A brutal murderer does not fall into that category–nor does the fact that there are hordes of Muslims just like him who have invaded Italy and the rest of the free world.
You said that right. The pope can’t use your truthful and accurate words because like most leftist appeasers he’s in denial about islam. The pope is the cause of his own headache about islam because his public defense of that deranged religion violates his own conscience. Guilt can give anyone a headache, especially when it involves murder and terror for religion. Thanks a lot for your help, pope, you’ve done wonders for human rights. [Sarc]