In guilt-tripping Christians into dropping all opposition to mass Muslim migration into the West, Pope Francis is sending a clear message to all non-Muslims: drop dead. He appears to be absolutely unconcerned about the following facts: Somali Muslim migrant Mohammad Barry in February 2016 stabbed multiple patrons at a restaurant owned by an Israeli Arab Christian; Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan Muslim migrant, in September 2016 set off bombs in New York City and New Jersey; Arcan Cetin, a Turkish Muslim migrant, in September 2016 murdered five people in a mall in Burlington, Washington; Dahir Adan, another Somali Muslim migrant, in October 2016 stabbed mall shoppers in St. Cloud while screaming “Allahu akbar”; and Abdul Razak Artan, yet another Somali Muslim migrant, in November 2016 injured nine people with car and knife attacks at Ohio State University. 72 jihad terrorists have come to the U.S. from the countries listed in Trump’s initial immigration ban.
What’s more, all of the jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015 had just entered Europe as refugees. In February 2015, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. The Lebanese Education Minister said in September 2015 that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. On May 10, 2016, Patrick Calvar, the head of France’s DGSI internal intelligence agency, said that the Islamic State was using migrant routes through the Balkans to get jihadis into Europe.
Pope Francis has never expressed any concern about any of this. Even worse, he has claimed risibly that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” This has become a superdogma in the Catholic Church: if you don’t believe that Islam is a Religion of Peace, you will be ruthlessly harassed and silenced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the hierarchy elsewhere as well. The bishops of the Catholic Church are much more concerned that you believe that Islam is a religion of peace than that you believe in, say, the Nicene Creed. And so what possible reason could there be to be concerned about these “refugees”? It’s a religion of peace!
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Francis Revisits ‘Mecca’ For Muslim Migrants,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, December 1, 2021:
VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – In anticipation of Pope Francis’ Sunday visit to Lesbos, human rights experts are urging Pope Francis to speak up for Christian refugees facing persecution from Muslim migrants detained on the Greek island.
The pope, who begins a five-day trip to Cyprus and Greece on Thursday, has negotiated the relocation of 50 migrants from Cyprus to Italy after bringing 12 Syrian Muslims from three families home with him following his first trip to Lesbos in 2016.
The Vatican has failed to reveal if there will be Christians among the refugees with Francis, earlier insisting that “all refugees are children of God.”
Francis’ return to Europe’s flashpoint for illegal immigration will also serve as a “magnet for migrants,” creating further problems for the already besieged inhabitants of Lesbos, regional governor Costas Moutzouris warned.
“We are very happy. The visit of the pope is a great honor for us. But in Lesbos, many are worried that this visit may attract even more immigrants,” Moutzouris remarked.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the International Organization of Migration on Monday, the pontiff expressed regret that “migrants are increasingly being used as bargaining chips, as pawns on a chessboard — victims of political rivalries.”
But human rights consultant Dr. Martin Parsons alerted Church Militant to the pope ignoring reports evidencing “significant persecution of Christian refugees by Muslim migrants within Greek refugee camps, including widespread abuse, physical violence, death threats and rape.”
Parsons, a former aid worker to Afghanistan who warned that the U.S. deal with the Taliban risked the Taliban’s return to power, elaborated:
One of the major problems faced by Christians fleeing persecution is a refusal by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Western governments to recognize the specific targeting of Christians because of their Faith, claiming that any such action would amount to “discrimination.”
The Bible tells us that the Church has a particular responsibility to care for our brothers and sisters in Christ (Galatians 6:10; 1 Timothy 5:8). And in the world of real politics, arguing that Western governments should simply accept all migrants who want to come to them risks Western governments shutting the door on all migrants — including Christians fleeing persecution.
Christians in the Lesbos camps are estimated to represent 1–2% of the migrant population. Forty percent are from historically Christian (mostly Catholic) backgrounds in Africa, and the rest are from Middle Eastern Muslim backgrounds and are generally converts from Islam.
“Most of the Christians who had converted to Christianity from Islam live in daily fear for their lives, being forced to live covertly among hostile members of the community who consider apostasy worthy of death,” the International Christian Consulate reported.
In a survey, 62% of Christians said they had experienced death threats in the camp. Eighty-three percent stated that it was specifically because of their religious beliefs as Christians, and 24% said this had occurred more than three times.
“They say we are kafirs [infidels] and we should die because we left Islam and chose to be Christian. It’s very bad in the camp,” a Syrian female said.
“They say you are kafir because they know we go to church and don’t go to the mosque. They told me that if I don’t leave Christianity, when it’s dark, we’ll come and kill you because this [is] the law in Islam,” an Iranian male said.
Seventy-two percent of respondents said that Muslims in the camp try to force others to follow Islam, and 90% said they felt pressured to renounce Christianity.
Several respondents also complained that police did not intervene or help, and others said they had tried to report serious incidents but were told they must pay 100 euros to make a complaint. Not having the money, they were not able to make an official complaint.
“Francis repeatedly stresses that accepting mass migration into Europe is the fulfillment of the Christian obligation to welcome the stranger,” Islamic scholar Robert Spencer told Church Militant. “But the pope has never once acknowledged the fact that the migrants are largely Muslim and that Christian refugees are often harassed and persecuted by their Muslim counterparts,” he lamented.
The historian, who recently published his bestseller Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?, added:
Francis is not likely ever to acknowledge this, as he has stated, contrary to all the facts of the case, that authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Qur’an reject every form of violence. In persisting in these fantasies, the pope is exposing the Christians of Europe to danger from people who hold to a belief system that has been at war with Christendom without respite for 1,400 years.
Whenever a Muslim migrant attacks a church or a Christian, and this is already happening with increasing frequency across Europe, we see the fruits of the pope’s refusal to accept unpleasant realities.
