My latest in PJ Media:
Although this happened in Nigeria, it is emblematic of what is happening all over the West today, including in the U.S. Non-Muslims are being generous, welcoming, and kind, without any particular concern for the possibility that not all of the recipients of their largesse might be interested in reciprocating their kindness. Bishop Stephen Mamza of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yola, is building houses in Yola for people who have lost their homes due to jihad terror activity by the Islamic group Boko Haram, whose official name is People Committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Proselytizing and Jihad. Since many of those displaced are Muslims whom Boko Haram didn’t think were Islamic enough, Bishop Mamza also built them a mosque. What could possibly go wrong?
In an interview Sunday in Nigeria’s Punch, Bishop Mamza explained that “at a certain stage we had over 3,000 people living on our church premises,” and “we thought of what we could do to improve their living standards.” Ultimately, with help from German backers, “we started last year in January the construction of 86 units of houses to be built for the 86 families still in our camp. On the housing estate, we built a church and a mosque and a school for the IDPs,” that is, Internally Displaced People.
Mamza maintained that building the mosque was a simple act of charity: “In the first place, when we played host to these IDPs, we did not discriminate against any one of them. We didn’t ask what religion the IDPs belong to; we didn’t ask for their church denomination; we just treated them as human beings who are in need of help, irrespective of their religion, denomination or tribe.” He explained that “if we were able to build houses for all of them, and also built a church for the Christians among them, then it is only a matter of justice and fairness that we also provide a space of worship for the few Muslims among them….I just felt that since we didn’t leave out the Muslims while providing food for the Christians or leave the Muslims out while building houses for the Christians, it is only just that we also build a mosque for the Muslims as we built a church for Christians.”
As good as this bishop’s intentions were, his gesture didn’t sit well with many Christians in a country where Islamic jihadis murdered a Catholic priest in March and burned a Catholic Church to the ground in February, and where jihadis killed 2200 Christians during 2020, an average of six every day. Would the mosque that Mamza built stop this jihad violence against Christians in Nigeria? Not likely. And so, Mamza recounted, “even from within, people did not see it as a good gesture, at all….Some of them even pointed out that the Boko Haram insurgents are Muslims and they have caused a lot of the havoc for us; they ask, ‘Why should we even go ahead and build a mosque for them?’ But I say, ‘Well, not all the Muslims are Boko Haram (members), not all of them (Muslims) are evil. Those that I know, that we have been living together and taking care of them for the past seven years, I know them to be good. So, there should be no reason why I should discriminate against them. I think that is the reason we built the mosque.’”
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Jack Cade says
This lunacy heartens Muslims tremendously. It doesn’t make them grateful; they feel triumphant!
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Jack.
mortimer says
Agree with JC. Muslims would likely think ‘See? Allah is forcing the kafirs to give us the respect we deserve”, rather than attribute these kind acts to Christian faith and love.
Martin says
OT video
U.S Senator Cory Booker Delivers A Message On Ramadan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2KixGvM_w
gravenimage says
Muslims Needed a Mosque. The Catholic Church Built One for Them.
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Suicidal insanity. This will not stop the Mosque from preaching oppression and murder of Christians.
mortimer says
Agree. The Koran and hadiths, Sira, tafirs and Sharia law will be taught in the new mosque.
New mosque, but same old teachings of jihad, taqiyya, misogyny, blasphemy punishments and supremacism.
gravenimage says
Yep.
James Lincoln says
Here’s the new mosque.
Same as the old mosque…
BlackSabbath says
Fumble at one yard line.
somehistory says
And the government guy said that all of the mozlums…boko and non boko…are “happy” when they are murdering non -mozlums, which of course, includes Christians….and this idiot goody-two-shoes isn’t going to keep that from happening to his congregation by building a place where mozlums can gather and plan, and scheme, and prey and call for satan to murder the Christians, and call for satan to help them murder the Christians.
This guy is a fool and is working against Christ by helping, aiding, and abetting the evil of satan the devil.
There is a verse in Matthew 7 where we are told that people are asking Jesus, “Lord didn’t we….perform powerful works in your name….And , yet, Jesus will say to them, “”Get away from me, I never knew you, you are workers of lawlessness.””
Those ones won’t be going into ‘Life” as those Jesus speaks to in Matthew 25 who stand on His right side in the Judgment.
These fools will be standing on the left of Jesus and “go off into destruction.”
Mauricio says
+1
john smith says
+2
revereridesagarin says
Nigeria is bad enough, but I was afraid it was going to turn out to be Boston!
Andrew Blackadder says
Christianity preaches forgiveness ,while islam preaches revenge, and such acts as Christians building a mosque for their “enemy” is practiced in, Love Thy Enemy, however muslims will see this as bowing down to islam.
Brave and silly Catholic Priest.
Johnny B says
There’s nothing loving about confirming Muslims in their evil beliefs and delusions. Why they do it, really, I don’t know??
James Lincoln says
You’re right, Johnny B.
Not only is it nonproductive, it is outright dangerous…
JamesC. says
If the Mudslimes were devil-worshippers or Nazis, would the bishop obtain statues of Baphomet or copies of Mein Kampf for them ? That is basically what he has done. He is confirming them in their false religion, and preventing their conversion to the true God.
Catholic bishops are supposed to foster conversions to Christ – not try to prevent them. This is modern Catholicism all over. It’s almost as though it were an anti-Church, masquerading as a Church………
Ojas says
Digging own Grave :
Bishop Stephen Mamza of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yola, is digging graves for himself , kefirs, non Muslims, Christians by building them a mosque.
JamesC, says
And he is contributing to the future slaughter of Nigerian Christians. It is his duty as a Christian bishop to provide for Christian worship. He has no such duty, of any kind, to provide for Muslim worship. He does have a duty to them: that of seeking their conversion to Christ. This does not in any way entail building a mosque for them.
Where are the funds for building the mosque coming from ? Is he using funds supplied by Christians to promote Christian causes ? It would be very interesting to know this.
Anson Rohr says
Building a mosque for moslems because they are friendly is like building a brothel for hookers because they smile at you.
Mauricio says
? Even if it sounds funny, nice comparison?
Proud Islamophobe says
Yea, because after moslems pay out all that pay-to-slay money, they’re a bit short on funds. oh wait, actually they’re not, not-even-withstanding that OBiden is giving them millions of dollars. Not only are popes NOT Biblical (but came about for lack of study), but they have not one iota what Scripture says about other religions and what islam actually is in end times. Absolutely pathetic.
unbeliever1 says
How would he know that there was the need to build a mosque since he didn’t know the religion of the people there?
Jedothek says
I am not a Christian, yet I often feel that I am more Christian than these patently insincere bishops. They act as if they never read, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
somehistory says
Perhaps they have not ever read it. If so, they are ignoring it.
Your comment reminds me of something the Apostle Paul wrote about people “who didn’t know Law, but were living by the Law.” Seems as it’s not necessary to call oneself a Christian in order to follow what Christ said…esp about such things as you quoted.
OLD GUY says
The Catholic Church that I attend tried to get the Bishops approval and funding to build a small Catholic elementary school. The answer was if you want a school you build it and fund it, the local Bishop and Rome will not help you. How ever if you do build the school it will belong to the Catholic Church not your Parish. It kinda ticks one off when the Church won’t help support our young children’s Catholic education but will build a Mosque for the Muslim/Islamic people who want to KILL us. Something is wrong!
Mauricio says
Similar here: the parish needed a new church and the priest has been putting to work all the faithful like slaves; humble poor people working hard for free, for almost seven years now, thinking it’s all for the glory of God. I even feel sorry for them. And the church hasn’t even been finished yet. And the priest travels a lot to Rome since he is a church judge. So one would think he has requested some help from them…
somehistory says
Many years ago, a man I knew recounted a story of an elderly and poor Catholic lady whose husband had died. The local priest told her that her husband was in purgatory, and that the only way out for him was prayer. She asked for prayers and the priest said he would have to charge her.
So the widow began giving him money so he would pray her husband into heaven.
After some time and lots of the poor lady’s money, she asked if her husband was out yet and he told her it was only another small step or two.
So, the lady, now much poorer than when she began paying said, “Well he can jump then.”
As Jesus and His Apostles said, there are many “false shepherds” that fleece the flock. And Ezekiel wrote about such things in chapter 17, where he wrote of “fat sheep” muddying up the waters and pushing the poor sheep so they can’t eat and drink.
Mauricio says
“Well he can jump then.”
Hilarious…
CogitoErgoSum says
Remember that time the thief on the cross asked Jesus to remember him when Jesus entered His kingdom – and Jesus replied, “How much is it worth to you?” Yeah, me neither. I don’t even recall Jesus saying that He would remember but it might take Him a while.
somehistory says
Thank you. Sad that she was taken advantage of, though. Probably thousands like her.
JamesC. says
Either the priest was committing simony, and she should have reported him to the bishop;
or
the “charge” was the Mass-stipend, which is for the incidentals necessary for offering Mass – not for the Mass itself, which is a prayer, and cannot be purchased.
JamesC. says
That is suicidal insanity.
Vyx says
The Vatican is participating in a lot of global, non-religious efforts lately, which makes me believe that they are a part of the New World Order. In other words… a Universal Church for everyone, headed by Francis. Hence the “muslim outreach” even though Muslims kill Christians and Catholics on a daily basis. As a Catholic, I find it all incredibly disturbing.
JamesC. says
Likewise. Ever since JP2’s Assisi Abomination in 1986, the Popes have been edging away from Catholicism, to a sort of omni-religion which includes every kind of theist. That is not what popes are for.
I don’t believe these things happen by accident – I think the popes are intentionally diluting Christianity into a vaguely theistic universal “Church” of all religions. Such a religion has no claim on any Catholic. We can’t be obliged to follow teachers who are changing our religion.
CogitoErgoSum says
Jesus was a carpenter. Yet he did not tell everyone to become carpenters and build free houses for the homeless. He didn’t tell those of His disciples who were fishermen to remain fisherman so they could give everything they catch to the hungry. He didn’t tell Matthew the tax collector to raise the tax rate so the wealth of the land could be more evenly distributed. No, Jesus concentrated on telling people a different message. It’s too bad so many of those who profess to be His followers have forgotten the reason Jesus came into the world. (See John 3:16-17.)
somehistory says
+100
James Lincoln says
Seconded.
Len says
Very good comment!