Christian Clergy Welcomes Islam in Church, Then Bows to It

by Giulio Meotti • January 4, 2017 at 5:30 am

Last July, for the first time during a Mass in Italy, a verse of the Koran was recited from the altar.
A priest in the south of Italy enraged parishioners by dressing the Virgin Mary in a Muslim burqa for his church's Christmas Nativity scene. These interfaith initiatives are based on the gradual elimination of the Western-Christian heritage in favor of Islam.
The Catholic clergy is probably disoriented by Pope Francis himself; he was the first to allow the reading of Islamic prayers and Koran readings from the Vatican.
The Pope embraced religious relativism when it comes with Islam. He repeated that Islamist violence is the work of "a small group of fundamentalists" who, according to him, have nothing to do with Islam.
Church of England Bishop Harries suggested that Prince Charles's coronation service should be opened with a Koran reading. In the US, more than 50 churches, including the Washington National Cathedral, hold Koran readings. Is there any reading of the Christian liturgy in mosques?
How is it that so few Christian leaders have raised their voices against this unprecedented attack on a Christian monument? Have they organized so many Koran readings in their own churches so that they now view it as normal to convert a church into a mosque?
Would it not be better for the Catholic Church to establish a real dialogue with the Islamic communities based on principles such as reciprocity (if you build mosques in Europe, we build churches in the Middle East), protection of Christian minorities in the Crescent and theological repudiation of jihad against "infidels"?

Imam Sali Salem recites a verse from the Koran in Rome's Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, on July 31, 2016. (Image source: La Stampa video screenshot)

There is a disturbing and growing trend in Italy and Europe.

For the first time in more than 700 years, Islamic songs resonated in Florence's Cathedral, the Church Santa Maria del Fiore. Under the famous Dome of Brunelleschi, Islamic melodies accompanied Christian ones. The "interfaith initiative" was promoted a week after the barbaric massacre by Islamist terrorists in Paris at the magazine Charlie Hebdo, and included "Koran is Justice" and other such "hymns".

A priest in the south of Italy then enraged parishioners by dressing the Virgin Mary in a Muslim burqa for his church's Christmas nativity scene. The pastor of the parish of Saints Joachim and Anne in Potenza, Father Franco Corbo, said that he had the special crèche constructed "in the name of dialogue among religions". These interfaith initiatives are based on the gradual elimination of the Western-Christian heritage in favor of Islam.

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Europe: The Case of the Vanishing Women

by Judith Bergman • January 4, 2017 at 4:00 am

"It is best to wait outside. There are men in here... In this café, there is no diversity." — Male customer in a café in Sevran, on France 2 television.
"In this café, there is no mixing. We are in Sevran, not Paris. Here there is a different mentality. It is like back home." — Another male customer in a café in Sevran, on France 2 television.
Women seem "to have been erased", from the cafés and the streets. "So now to avoid threats, and being put under pressure, they censor themselves and keep quiet." — Caroline Sinz, journalist, France 2 television.
This Islamization has been fueled and strengthened by Qatar's heavy investments -- particularly in mosques -- in France, which currently stand at around $22 billion.
"There is a misplaced form of morality, often exercised by minority groups over a majority, which leads to the fact that the public space, supposedly belonging to both men and women, is restricted from women." — Pascale Boistard, former French Minister for Women's Rights
French ministers feign surprise and outrage that women in these suburbs have finally succumbed to the incessant terror against them and are disappearing from the streets.

Aziza Sayah (left) and Nadia Remadna (right) are activists from the "Brigade of Mothers" women's rights group in France, who recently went with concealed cameras into a café in a Paris suburb, where they were met with surprise and hostility from the all-male customers. (Image source: France 2 video screenshot)

Women have literally disappeared from cafés and bars in certain predominantly Muslim suburbs in France, according to recently aired undercover footage from the France 2 television channel. The footage featured two women activists, Nadia Remadna and Aziza Sayah, from the women's rights campaign group, La Brigade des Mères (Brigade of Mothers), entering a café in the Paris suburb of Sevran, where they were met with surprise and hostility from the all-male customers. One told them: "It is best to wait outside. There are men in here... In this café, there is no diversity."

Another customer told them: "In this café, there is no mixing. We are in Sevran, not Paris. Here there is a different mentality. It is like back home."

In a suburb of Lyon, France 2 TV journalist Caroline Sinz spoke to a young woman who said that she is quite simply afraid to go out, and wears baggy clothes and no makeup to avoid being targeted by the Muslim men in the neighborhood.

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