There’s a very good chance that pope Francis will give him everything he asks for and more….
“It is as if all of the pope’s efforts have been directed to exonerating Islam from any of its responsibilities”
The Pope kisses the Muslims feet. The Muslims approve. It is afterall what is required by Islam from non-Muslims to bow before Muslims in humble submission and kiss their feet. What a crass display of cowardly surrender.
Pope Francis 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.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
“Pope Accused of Silence on Persecuted Christians,” by Brian Freeman, Newsmax, February 4, 2019:
Pope Francis has remained silent about the destruction of Christian communities in the Muslim world and the persecution of those who remain there, Il Foglio cultural editor Giulio Meotti wrote in an article published by The Gatestone Institute.
The pope, who is in the United Arab Emirates and plans to visit Morocco in March, has a stance on Islam that is based on fantasy, Meotti insisted, emphasizing that this policy of appeasement must be abandoned.
He cites Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, who wrote recently that “It is as if all of the pope’s efforts have been directed to exonerating Islam from any of its responsibilities. He seems to have been doing this even more than observant Muslims.”…
Meotti refers to what Renaud Girard wrote in Le Figaro that, considering these facts, “The stubborn silence of European leaders on the question of religions, Islam in particular, astonishes and disappoints,” adding that by “refraining from defending Christians in the East, the West… gave a signal of weakness by abandoning its ideological friends [and] it has renounced its creed.”
A clean shaven Ihsas Khan scribbled on a notepad during his police interview following a knife-attack at Minto, in Sydney’s south west.
Video of the 2016 interview was shown to a jury in the NSW Supreme Court today.
The 25-year-old was shirtless and had what appeared to be blood on his torso as he told the officer he wanted an “eye for an eye” retribution for the deaths of Muslims in Iraq and Syria.
Khan is not disputing he stabbed Mr Greenhalgh, but is fighting the charges on the grounds of mental illness.
Ihsas Khan described himself as an ‘unskilled assassin’ in a 2016 police interview. (9NEWS)
Mr Greenhalgh said he’d been walking by Khan’s home on the afternoon of September 10 when the young man went inside and re-emerged with a backpack before pulling out a large knife. (9NEWS)
The jury heard he targeted Sydney grandfather Wayne Greenhalgh as he was wearing a pro-American t-shirt and that his ultimate goal was to “kill and be killed”.
Khan then described himself as “a bit of an amateur, unskilled assassin”.
Leonora was just ‘a little naive’, like, she was only 15 when she converted to Islam and became the third wife of a radical Moslem. But hey, now she just wants her old live back with her family in Germany… what could go wrong?
(AFP) — Four years after leaving Germany to live under the ISIS terrorist group, 19-year-old Leonora has fled the militants’ last bastion in eastern Syria and says it’s time to go home.
“I was a little bit naive,” she says in English, wearing a long billowing black robe, and a beige headscarf with white spots.
US-backed forces are fighting the last ISIS militants in a final shred of territory in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, causing thousands of people to flee.
A leaked audio recording from the recent World Economic Forum conference in Davos between Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed the Italian PM’s determination to take in migrants.
The conversation between the two leaders took place on the sidelines of the conference and the leaked audio centres around the migrant policy of populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini Il Giornalereports.
In the clip, Chancellor Merkel asked, “So Salvini is against France and Germany and Di Maio is against France?” to which Conte responded, “Salvini is against everyone.”
Emma Eros & Abdel Magied in “Nothing to do with Islam”
In other news:
Australia’s busiest airport shutdown after bomb-threat by machete-wielding, “Middle-Eastern” “Arabic” man: “Terrorism was ruled out.”Yes, when living in the era of the irrational and the absurd, sharia trumps terrorism.
You can’t identify the enemy if you aren’t allowed to speak its name. That’s why the Bølsheviks try to censor the word ‘Bølshevik’.
The Internet once seemed poised to utterly destroy the establishment media. In an era where everyone with a phone and a social media account could reach an audience of millions, the need for professional journalists gatekeeping information seemed pointless.
Yet journalists have savagely fought back against the social media companies that once threatened to displace them. Today, one angry email from a left-wing journalist is enough to get a tech giant to frantically manipulate its algorithms — or even create manual blacklists — to appease them.
The journalists at BuzzFeed have become masters of this tactic. Recently, they launched an investigation into “misinformation” and “hyper-partisan” content on YouTube. A day after the publication of BuzzFeed’s report, YouTube announced it would adjust its algorithms to tackle “misinformation”. The outlet led the media pressure campaign to have Alex Jones booted from Twitter. Anti-censorship comedian Michael Meecham (aka “Count Dankula”) says it was BuzzFeed that made YouTube demonetize his channel, effectively firing him. (Continued below the fold.)
In related news, this is investigative journalism at its best:
So how is the Government-Media complex managing what we are allowed to know so well?
No, he concludes: the Koran was almost certainly not written when, where and how Muslims traditionally believe. Its Arab dialect, its geographical and historical references and carbon dating of its earliest copies suggest it was created earlier in an area closer the abandonned city of Petra than at Mecca or Medina.
In fact, the Koran does not even mention the creation of Muhammed, long worshipped as the Prophet, or actually the “Messenger”, who dictated it to his followers. Indeed, the Koran names Muhammed just four times, and the reference may just be a title: “Praised One”.
What’s more, the very earliest copies of the Koran do not mention Mohammed at all.
In any case, concludes Durie, the Koran is inconsistent with the biographies given of Muhammed in the sacred Hadith, or sayings of the Prophet, the first of which was not written until 150 years after his death.
Durie also dismantles the popular claim of apologists that Muslims and Christians just worship the same God, given that the Koran, too, mentions God, Moses, Abraham, Noah, Lot, Heaven, Hell, Satan and even Jesus – although this Jesus is not God’s son, and his mother is the sister of Moses.
Durie shows that while some of the characters of the Christian Bible have been borrowed, the Christian theology has not. Even the meanings of some of the most important of the borrowed words has been changed, so that Messiah in the Koran has come to be interpreted by some Muslim theologians as meaning simply that Christ had flat feet. (Durie quotes a former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia on this point.)
The God in the Koran turns out be very much a creation of Arab society at the time – a God who shows compassion rather than love, and who orders rather than makes deals or a “covenant” with his people. Durie notes that Allah considers humans as “slaves”.
Crucially, midway through the Koran, the “Messenger” – with his followers getting impatient with waiting for Allah to punish their enemies – hears Allah change his message. Once Allah had hurged tolerance, but now he tells the Messenger that Muslims may be instruments of his justice on earth. They may kill unbelievers for him – in commands that haunt the modern world. No longer need they leave future punishment of unbelievers to their God.
Durie’s book is meticulously researched and footnoted, and been praised already by scholars in Australia and abroad.
Even the barest outline of the life of Muḥammad — that is, that someone called Muḥammad was the Messenger figure in the Qur’an, which was sent down to him first in Mecca and then Medina — is difficult to reconcile with contemporary historical sources and the Qur’an’s own internal evidence.
The Qur’an itself has scant information on Muḥammad, only mentioning him by name (written as m-ḥ-m-d) four times (Q3:144; Q33:40; Q47:2; Q48:29), but this word could also be an epithet meaning “praised one.”…
The name Muḥammad is also mentioned surprisingly rarely in contemporary non-Muslim sources until well into the second Islamic century, and when Muḥammad first appears, it is not in reference to a religious leader….
There is no physical evidence that Mecca existed at the time of Muḥammad. It is also striking that recurring place names in the Qur’an, Thamūd, Madyan (Midian), and Ād, all refer to localities well to the north of Mecca and Medina. Another issue is the observation in Q37:137–38 that the Qur’an’s audience can pass by the remains of Lūṭ’s [Lot’s] people in the morning and by night. The Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is associated with the region around the Dead Sea… The Qur’an again implies its audience was closer to the Dead Sea than to northern Arabia when it says “the people of Lūṭ are not far from you” (Q11:89)…
Another type of evidence which points away from Mecca to the Southern Levant is the dialect in which the consonantal skeleton or rasm of the Qur’an was recorded…. This implies that the Qur’an was originally recited in the Arabic of settled areas in the Southern Levant…
Muḥammad was active as a messenger from 570 to 632 CE, and the text of the Qur’an was reportedly standardized under Uthman between 650 and 655 CE. If the Islamic account of the standardization of the Qurʾa￣ n were true, we should expect extant manuscripts to date from no earlier than 650 CE…
In the Great Mosque of Ṣanʿa￣ ʾ in Yemen, a cache of manuscripts was found behind a wall during renovations in 1972… Two leaves dated from 543–643 CE, one from 433–599 CE, one from 603–662 CE, and one from 388–535 CE… All these dates are too early to accord with the traditional account of Muḥammad’s life, who was reported to have commenced receiving Qur’anic revelations in 610 CE… Folios of the manuscript 1. or. fol. 4313, of the Berlin State Library, has been dated to 606–652 CE…
These dates are startling… Multiple instances carbon dating results cannot be reconciled with the dating of the life of Muḥammad, let alone the Uthmanic recension: the outer limit of some dates finish even before Muḥammad’s prophecies commenced.
This is a must-read, and not just for scholars of Islam. Buy it here.
On Tuesday, Pope Francis will deliver a mass to 135,000 people at the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi
Pope Francis starts a three-day visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday, the first for a leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Arabian Peninsula.
Hundreds of Saudi women flee the conservative kingdom every year and run away to Western countries over allegations of domestic abuse and oppression back home. One popular destination is the UK, where dozens seek asylum every year. Hanan Razek met two people who explain how they risked everything to flee from Saudi Arabia. Produced by: Dina Demrdash, Fahima Abdularahman (BBC, Jan 30, 2019)
Update: Equally bonkers–those who challenge the jihad imperative, thereby failing to uphold Canada’s “diversity-is-our-strength” bollocks, can be branded “anti-Muslim.”Update: Do you know which media outlet most definitely isn’t “anti-Muslim” (but which does have a distinctly anti-Zionist vibe)? No surprise, it’s the New York Times.
None of the left wing mob who attacked this innocent Australian, who was peacefully carrying our flag on Australia Day were charged. This is madness.
“The defendant (El Chapo) would call the youngest of the girls his ‘vitamins’ because he believed that sexual activity with young girls gave him life,” the court document revealed.
Mexico’s most famous drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, regularly paid $5,000 to have girls as young as 13-years-old drugged and brought to him for sexual intercourse, court records allege.
Calls for the assassination of several major figures in the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), including detailed instructions on how to do so, have been found on a web platform linked to Antifa far-left extremists.
The post was made on the infamous “Indymedia” web platform that has long been used by far-left extremists in Germany and called for the murder of several AfD MPs, including co-chairs Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel, Tichys Einblick reports.
Under the title ‘The AfD and the election campaign!’ the post calls on Antifa members to examine the dates of AfD public appearances and study maps of venues to escape once they have finished their assassination.
One has to then wonder why no Antifa events are ever interfered with, and why so few Antifa members are arrested? Are they being used by another agency?
Khan’s London: No Prison for Teenager Who Left Former U.S. Ambassador with ‘Horrific Injuries’:
The illustration below, from Le Salon Beige, shows some of the candidates who claim to be running as GJ’s in May. However, you can see that they are not patriots: Ingrid Levavasseur, nurse’s aide by profession, voted for Emmanuel Macron; Marc Doyer, business leader by profession, supported Macron in 2017, ran for a seat in the National Assembly on Macron’s party, and still works for the party in the department of l’Oise; Brigitte LaPeyronie, lawyer and city councilor in Nandy, is also a cadre in the UDI party, a centrist group and definitely not pro-Marine Le Pen. Worst of all, an Armenian immigrant to France, Hayk Shahinyan, former member of the Young Socialists, is the campaign manager of this bogus “Gilets Jaunes” party aided and abetted by Bernard Tapie, notorious French entrepreneur, known world-wide for his multiple activities and numerous convictions on various charges of fraud. He is now ill and facing death, so possibly he wants to enjoy his last hurrah?
The Gilets Jaunes themselves, the real Gilets Jaunes, vehemently protest this appropriation of their movement by opportunistic forces. In a press communiqué they state that their movement belongs to no one, that each decision must be approved by an absolute majority, that they have nothing to gain by presenting candidates to the EU elections, that they are a-political, and that anyone who votes for the candidates on this ballot are in fact voting for Macron.
RT – ‘Bad joke?’ Macron says he’s a Yellow Vest too
Three Charged in Connection with Radical Islamic Terror Attack in Strasbourg
One hardly remembers reading about the ‘2018 Christmas market shooting’ ……the fake news media doing a marvellous job hiding actual news from the masses again!
PARIS (AP) – A French judicial official says three people detained over the investigation into the Christmas market attack in Strasbourg that left five dead have been handed preliminary terrorism charges.
The judicial official, who isn’t authorized to speak publicly about the investigation, wouldn’t name the three, who were arrested on Tuesday in Alsace, along with another two suspects who were freed without being charged the next day.
The judicial official on Saturday wouldn’t confirm French media reports that they are suspected of helping the gunman obtain the weapon he used to carry out the December 2018 assault.
The alleged killer, Cherif Chekatt, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. He died in a shootout with police two days after the Dec. 11 attack.
Macron Claims 50,000 ‘Ultra Militants’ Hijacked Yellow Vest Movement
French president Emmanuel Macron has claimed that the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement has been largely hijacked by up to 40-50,000 “ultra militants” from the far-right and far-left in France.
An additional theme for this weekend’s Yellow Vest march is calling for an end to police violence against their movement. Let’s see how the police respond.
Earlier this week President Macron received several journalists at the Elysee Palace and told them his thoughts on the Yellow Vest movement, saying he thought that the movement, which goes into its twelfth weekend of protests this Saturday, had been hijacked by the ultra-left and the far-right, Paris Matchreports.
Macron defined the group as a “social and political movement without a fixed claim, without a leader, outside of business and which has undergone several mutations.”
“If being a Yellow Vest means that we are in favour of our work paying more and parliament working better then I am a Yellow Vest,” Macron said, allegedly grinning as he did so.
While he praised some aspects of the movement Macron went on to claim that it had been hijacked by “40- to 50,000 ultra militants who want the destruction of institutions,” adding both the far right and far left have been able to do so due to the “mutation” of the movement on social media platforms.
