{"id":6618,"date":"2016-03-05T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T05:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/05\/mulsim-atrocities-against-christians-and-their-churches\/"},"modified":"2016-03-05T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T05:34:10","slug":"mulsim-atrocities-against-christians-and-their-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/05\/mulsim-atrocities-against-christians-and-their-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Atrocities Against Christians and their Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard Kainz, The Church and Islam<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pope Benedict XVI touched on alleged \u201cevil\u201d in Islam very lightly in his famous 2006 lecture at Regensburg on the necessity of uniting reason and religion. He cited the example of a 14th<\/sup> century emperor\u2019s view of Islam as irrationally violent and thus evil. This touched off a world-wide uproar and mayhem, concerning which then-Argentinean Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, commented: \u201cThese statements will serve to destroy in twenty seconds the careful construction of a relationship with Islam that Pope John Paul II built over the last twenty years.\u201d He added that such statements \u201cdon\u2019t reflect my own opinions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yet another indication of Bergoglio's squishy, bien-pensant<\/em> foolishness.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But what does he make of past and current reports of Islamic atrocities? The 2015 World Watch List<\/a> found 4,344 Christians killed for faith-related reasons and 1,062 churches attacked. The 2016 list<\/a> documents 7,106 killed and 2,425 churches attacked. There are literally thousands of cases of violence against Christians and destruction of churches in Egypt, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Africa, and elsewhere in the Muslim world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pope Francis is presumably well-informed about such events, but he comments in his Apostolic Address, The Joy of the Gospel<\/em>, \u201cFaced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalizations, for authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The benighted Francis is committing the No True Muslim Fallacy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wonder if Francis thinks that every generalization is 'hateful' just in virtue of being a generalization.  I hope not.  Generalize we must.  The fact that it is sometimes done poorly is no argument for not doing it at all. Wise up, liberals.
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Note the presumptuousness of Francis in supposing that he knows what "authentic Islam" is and requires.  He desperately wants to believe that Islam is a religion of peace and so he substitutes his fervent wish for the reality.  He ought to study the subject just as he ought to study economics.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In taking this position, Francis, a faithful \u201cson of the Church,\u201d is echoing Vatican II. At the Council, Pope John XXIII, as part of his goal of \u201copening the windows of the Church,\u201d wished the participants to reconsider the relationship of the Church to Judaism, avoiding theological and liturgical positions which had a history of contributing to anti-Semitism. There was no agenda at the outset for pronouncements about the relationship to Islam; but, as I mentioned in a previous column,<\/a> some Fathers and theologians at the council, were anxious to include Islam in official documents related to \u201cnon-Christian religions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A significant factor behind this movement was the work of Louis Massignon (1883-1962), a Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim mutual understanding. Massignon taught that we need a \u201cCopernican revolution\u201d in our approach to understanding Islam. We have to place ourselves in the center of the Islamic mindset, understanding Islamic spirituality, and conduct dialogues from that vantage point.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the Council, one of Massignon\u2019s disciples, the Egyptian Dominican theologian, Georges Anawati (1905-1994), actively \u201clobbied,\u201d in conjunction with other council members, for positive statements about Islam in official documents. This group succeeded: Nostra aetate<\/em> and Lumen gentium<\/em> contain laudatory statements about Islam: \u201cThe plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Moslems,\u201d an Abrahamic monotheistic religion, submitting \u201cwithout reserve to the hidden decrees of God,\u201d and sharing much with Christianity in basic beliefs and moral teachings.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in view of the hateful attitude toward other religions shown throughout Islamic scriptures, as well as the massive numbers of murders and church-burnings and persecutions we\u2019ve seen for decades now, was such praise simply wishful thinking? Condemnations <\/em>of obvious features of Islam are almost non-existent in today\u2019s Church.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pope Pius XI published Mit brennender Sorge<\/em>, an open critique of the German Reich and Divini redemptoris<\/em> against Communism. Pope Pius XII chose to work persistently, but undercover, during his papacy, to defeat Nazism and save Jews. What if he, too, had published a bold condemnation of Nazism?<\/span><\/p>\n

During Vatican II, the Soviet Union was a global scourge, and Our Lady of Fatima in extraordinary appearances at the outset of the Communist revolution had even warned the Church about Russia \u201cspreading her errors throughout the world.\u201d But incredibly there was not a whiff of criticism of Communism from the Council. What would have happened if Paul VI had strongly condemned the USSR, Leninism, and Marxism? Is diplomatic caution essential in papal pronouncements? Or should we follow the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I\u2019s motto, Fiat justitia, pereat mundus<\/em>, \u201clet justice be done, even if the world perishes\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n

And with regard to Islam now, an outright papal condemnation of the religion, such as uttered by popes from past centuries, we can be sure, would result in massive disturbances throughout the world \u2013 perhaps World War III. And such a condemnation might unfairly tar the moderate Muslims along with the extremists. But short of condemnation, continuous eulogizing <\/em>is out of place. And as to \u201cthe religion of peace,\u201d it\u2019s time to take into account the traditional Muslim <\/em>interpretation of \u201cpeace.\u201d The world is divided into two \u201chouses\u201d \u2013 the House of Peace (Dar Al-Salaam) and the House of War (Dar Al-Harb). Only Muslims are within that first \u201chouse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Muslims have been murdering Christians for a long time now.  Liberals need to face reality for a change.  Here is an example of how adherents of the 'religion of peace' treated some Armenian Christian girls:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Crucified<\/a>Source<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

In his post on the genocide, (The Forgotten Genocide: Why It Matters Today<\/a>) Raymond Ibrahim recounted the story of a woman who claimed to have witnessed the brutal crucifixion of 16 young girls.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In her memoir, Ravished Armenia<\/em>, Aurora Mardiganian<\/a> described being raped and thrown into a harem (which agrees with Islam\u2019s rules of war<\/a>).  Unlike thousands of other Armenian girls who were discarded after being defiled, she managed to escape. In the city of Malatia, she saw 16 Christian girls crucified<\/a>: \u201cEach girl had been nailed alive upon her cross, spikes through her feet and hands, only their hair blown by the wind, covered their bodies.\u201d  Such scenes were portrayed in the 1919 documentary film Auction of Souls<\/a>, some of which is based on Mardiganian\u2019s memoirs.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 Companion post:  Pope Benedict's Regensburg Speech and Muslim Oversensitivity<\/a>
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