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by Giulio Meotti
• October 16, 2016 at 5:30 am
- "[Pope
Benedict XVI] has doubted publicly that it can be accommodated in a
pluralistic society... and tempered his support for a programme of
inter-religious dialogue run by Franciscan monks at Assisi. He has
embraced the view of Italian moderates and conservatives that the
guiding principle of inter-religious dialogue must be reciprocità.
That is, he finds it naive to permit the building of a Saudi-funded
mosque, Europe's largest, in Rome, while Muslim countries forbid the
construction of churches and missions." — Christopher Caldwell,
Financial Times.
- In that
lecture, Benedict did what in the Islamic world is forbidden: freely
discussing faith. He said that God is different from Allah.
- Since then,
apologies to the Islamic world have become the official Vatican
policy. Pope Francis denied that Islam itself is violent and claimed
that the potential for violence lies within every religion,
including Catholicism. Previously, Pope Francis said there is
"a world war" but denied that Islam has any role in it.
- "It is
clear that Muslims have an ultimate goal: conquering the world...But
we find it hard to recognize this reality and to respond by
defending the Christian faith (...) I have heard several times an
Islamic idea: 'what we failed to do with the weapons in the past we
are doing today with the birth rate and immigration'. The population
is changing. If this keeps up, in countries like Italy, the majority
will be Muslim (...) And what is the most important achievement?
Rome." — Monsignor Raymond Burke, US Catholic leader.
In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI (left) said what no Pope
had ever dared to say -- that there is a link between violence and Islam.
Ten years later, Pope Francis (right) never calls those responsible for
anti-Christian violence by name and never mentions the word "Islam."
(Image source: Benedict: Flickr/Catholic Church of England | Francis:
Wikimedia Commons/korea.net)
If 9/11 was the declaration of jihad against the West, 9/12 will be
remembered as one of the most dramatic knee-bends of the Western cultural
submission to Islam.
On September 12th 2006, Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) landed
in Bavaria, Germany, where he was born and first taught theology. He was
expected to deliver a lecture in front of the academic community at the
University of Regensburg. That lesson would go down to history as the
most controversial papal speech of the last half-century.
On this, the 10th anniversary of the speech, the Western world and
the Islamic world both owe Benedict an apology, but unfortunately, the
opposite happened: the Vatican has apologized to the Muslims.
by Judith Bergman
• October 16, 2016 at 4:30 am
- "The PLO
was dreamt up by the KGB, which had a penchant for 'liberation'
organizations." — Ion Mihai Pacepa, former chief of the Foreign
Intelligence Service of Romania.
- "First,
the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in Cairo,
and replaced them with fictitious documents saying that he had been
born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth." —
Ion Mihai Pacepa.
- "[T]he
Islamic world was a waiting petri dish in which we could nurture a
virulent strain of America-hatred, grown from the bacterium of
Marxist-Leninist thought. Islamic anti-Semitism ran deep... We had
only to keep repeating our themes -- that the United States and
Israel were 'fascist, imperial-Zionist countries' bankrolled by rich
Jews." — Yuri Andropov, former KGB chairman.
- As early as
1965, the USSR had formally proposed in the UN a resolution that
would condemn Zionism as colonialism and racism. Although the
Soviets did not succeed in their first attempt, the UN turned out to
be an overwhelmingly grateful recipient of Soviet bigotry and
propaganda; in November 1975, Resolution 3379 condemning Zionism as
"a form of racism and racial discrimination" was finally
passed.
Yasser Arafat (left) with Romanian leader Nicolae
Ceausescu during a visit in Bucharest in 1974. (Image source: Romanian
National History Museum)
The recent discovery that Mahmoud Abbas, president of the
Palestinian Authority (PA), was a KGB spy in Damascus in 1983, was
discarded by many in the mainstream media as a "historical
curiosity" -- except that the news inconveniently came out at the
time that President Vladimir Putin was trying to organize new talks
between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Predictably,
the Palestinian Authority immediately dismissed the news. Fatah official
Nabil Shaath denied that Abbas was ever a KGB operative, and called the
claim a "smear campaign."
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