Pope Francis, terminally naïve about Islam, believes he has a true understanding of the faith based partly on the reassurances given him by his new friend, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb. “War is deceit,” says Muhammad in a famous hadith, and Al-Tayeb has been cheerfully deceiving the Pope every chance he gets. […]
Pope’s New Book Settles It: Islam Is a Religion of Peace After All!
New in PJ Media: In a sane world (yes, that disqualifies ours), the justification of the horrendously bloody Oct. 7 Hamas massacre by numerous Islamic authorities would have been enough to put an end forever to the comforting fiction that Islam is a religion of peace that condemns terrorism. One place, however, where this myth […]
Pope Francis calls for ‘two well-defined states and Jerusalem with a special status’
Although nearly everyone favors it, the “two-state solution” is not actually a solution at all. It would only embolden “Palestinian” jihadis to press on in their campaign to destroy Israel utterly. Find out why in The Palestinian Delusion. “Pope says two-state solution needed for Israel-Palestine,” by Philip Pullella, Reuters, November 2, 2023: VATICAN CITY, Nov […]
Pope: ‘Let the arms cease. Stop, brothers and sisters: war is always a defeat — always, always!’
Let the arms cease. Stop, brothers and sisters: war is always a defeat — always, always! — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) October 29, 2023 Whenever Israel starts to defend itself, we start to hear this sort of shallow moralizing. Would Pope Francis have been fine with a National Socialist regime dominating Europe? Maybe so. But what […]
Pope Francis: ‘Islam, in truth, is a religion of peace and the majority of its members are peaceful’
The majority of Muslims are peaceful, but does this mean that they reject jihad violence? Or do some simply lack the courage, while others aren’t devout and just have no interest? Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of […]
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem offers to exchange himself for Israeli children Hamas is holding hostage
The contrast between Pizzaballa and Hamas is the contrast between Christianity and Islam. “Jerusalem Catholic Patriarch offers to be exchanged for Gaza hostages,” Reuters, October 16, 2023: Pope Francis’ representative in the Holy Land said on Monday he was willing to exchange himself for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas and held in Gaza. Cardinal […]
Pope Francis: ‘May humanitarian rights be respected, above all in Gaza’
Like any standard-issue Leftist, the pope assumes that Israel will commit human rights violations in Gaza, but he doesn’t dare say a word about the possibility that those whom he has courted so assiduously for “dialogue” might engage in another orgy of slaughter against civilians, as they did on October 7. After all, he has […]
Islamic State jihadis told captive priest: ‘Convert or we will cut off your head’
This kind of ultimatum is not widely regarded as a contravention of Qur’an 2:256, “There is no compulsion in religion,” as the person who is forcibly converted could have chosen death instead. Also, in the case of Jacques Mourad, since they didn’t cut off his head, it may simply have been an attempt to “strike […]
Pope Gets Angry Over the Burning of a Book That Calls Christians ‘Vile’
New in PJ Media: Pope Francis is “indignant and disgusted,” according to a Sunday news report, but not over what you might expect. The pontiff is not enraged over the industrial-scale clerical sex abuse that has plagued the Church, or about the escalating persecution of Christians worldwide, or about the wholesale abandonment of Christianity in […]
Pope Francis says he feels ‘indignant and disgusted’ over Qur’an-burning in Sweden
When has Pope Francis ever said he was “indignant and disgusted” over Islamic jihad violence? Why, never. He has never acknowledged that Islamic jihad violence even exists, and instead has insisted counterfactually that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Qur’an reject every form of violence.” “Pope Francis decries the burning of the Quran […]