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by Giulio Meotti
• January 29, 2017 at 6:00 am
- There are now
many Catholic commentators who are questioning the Church's
blindness about the danger Europe is facing.
- "Islam has
every chance massively to strengthen its presence in Europe with the
blessing of the Church.... the Church is not only leading Europe to
an impasse, it is also shooting itself in the foot." — Laurent
Dandrieu, cultural editor of the French magazine Valeurs
Actuelles.
- "It is
clear that Muslims have an ultimate goal: conquering the
world...Islam, through the sharia, their law...allows violence
against the infidels, such as Christians....And what is the most
important achievement? Rome." — Cardinal Raymond Burke,
interview, Il Giornale.
- "[T]hey
are not refugees, this is an invasion, they come here with cries of
'Allahu Akbar', they want to take over." — Laszlo Kiss Rigo,
head of the Catholic Hungarian southern community.
- François Fillon
published a book entitled, Vanquishing Islamic Totalitarianism,
and he rose in the polls by vowing to control Islam and immigration:
"We've got to reduce immigration to its strict minimum,"
Fillon said. "Our country is not a sum of communities, it is an
identity!"
Monsignor Carlo Liberati, Archbishop Emeritus of
Pompei (left) belongs to a growing branch of Catholic leaders who refuse
to see the future belonging to Islam in Europe, and who speak in open
opposition to Pope Francis (right).
Everyone in Italy and the rest of Europe will "soon be
Muslim" because of our "stupidity", warned Monsignor Carlo
Liberati, Archbishop Emeritus of Pompei. Liberati claimed that, thanks to
the huge number of Muslim migrants alongside the increasing secularism of
native Europeans, Islam will soon become the main religion of Europe.
"All of this moral and religious decadence favours Islam",
Archbishop Liberati explained.
Décadence is also the title of a new book by the French
philosopher Michel Onfray, in which he suggests that the Judeo-Christian
era may have come to an end. He compares the West and Islam: "We
have nihilism, they have fervor; we are exhausted, they have a great
health; we have the past for us; they have the future for them".
by Judith Bergman
• January 29, 2017 at 4:30 am
- The Austrian
Military Intelligence Service has predicted that up to 15 million
migrants from Africa could arrive in the EU by 2020.
- Cardinal
Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna, recently admitted on
Austrian television that he had come to "rethink" his
approach to the migrant crisis: Instead of accepting all the
refugees, aid should be given in the Middle East and Africa, so that
migrants could stay there.
- "Will
there be an Islamic conquest of Europe? Many Muslims want that and
say: Europe is at the end." — Cardinal Christoph Schönborn,
Archbishop of Vienna, Festival of the 'Holy Name of Mary',
September, 2016.
- Cardinal
Schönborn subsequently backtracked, saying that his words had been
misinterpreted as an attack against Muslims and refugees:
"Europe's Christian legacy is in danger, because we Europeans
have squandered it. That has absolutely nothing to do with Islam nor
with the refugees. It is clear that many Islamists would like to
take advantage of our weakness, but they are not responsible for it.
We are."
Austrian diocesan Bishop Aegidius Zsifkovics. (Image
source: Catholic Church of Austria)
In his Christmas sermon, broadcast live on Austria's ORF and
Germany's ZDF TV channels, Catholic diocesan Bishop Aegidius Zsifkovics
of St. Martin's Cathedral in Eisenstadt, Austria, pontificated that
tightening borders is an "erroneous opinion":
"Barbed wire, fences and walls are now many people's answer to
the refugees [coming into] Europe. The terror of a few, as last seen in
Berlin, reinforce many of us in this erroneous opinion".
Bishop Zsifkovics declared that we cannot let "Cowardly terror
attacks, like that in Berlin, succeed in destabilizing our society,
making us colder and less solidary. Let us not allow the terrorists this
triumph -- we will not be ice cold like them!"
by Burak Bekdil
• January 29, 2017 at 4:00 am
- Erdogan will
effectively consolidate the power of three legislative bodies into
one powerful executive office: himself.
- Erdogan's
"Turkish-style presidency" is already a presidency with
too much power held by one man. If approved at the referendum, the
changes will make Erdogan head of government, head of state and head
of the ruling party -- all at the same time.
- It would
transfer powers traditionally held by parliament to the presidency,
thereby rendering the parliament merely a ceremonial, advisory body.
- The opposition
looks fragmented and helpless in telling the masses that reforms
would concentrate excessive powers in the hands of a leader who has
increasingly displayed authoritarian tendencies.
- At the moment,
Erdogan is effectively the absolute ruler. If he wins the vote he
becomes the absolute ruler. If he loses, he remains effectively the
absolute ruler until he tries again to become the absolute ruler.
Several brawls recently broke out in Turkey's
parliament during debate on a bill for constitutional amendments. (Image
source: CBS News)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's one-man show goes on; he
may soon progress from effectively having absolute authority to actually
having absolute authority. He would apparently like to put an official
seal on his increasingly autocratic regime. If a simple majority of Turks
vote "yes" in a national referendum on proposed constitutional
amendments in April, Erdogan will effectively consolidate the power of
three legislative bodies into one powerful executive office: himself. He
would then be installed as a leader with virtually unlimited authority.
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