[ May 4, 2024 ]
Mahmoudi Ridha, a Muslim migrant from Tunisia, last Tuesday murdered a Catholic priest in Italy, Fr. Roberto Malgesini. After killing Malgesini, Ridha crowed: “The priest died like a dog, that was right.” According to Church Militant, in the wake of the murder, “police have categorically rejected the Italian bishops’ claim” that Ridha “had mental problems.” And Pope Francis, as determined as ever to ignore the grim reality of Islamic jihad, declared that Ridha was “a person in need” and “malata di testa,” which is bad Italian for either “sick in the head” or a “headache.”
“I am not sure if Pope Francis is being deliberately ambiguous or speaking poor Italian as he often does,” said an Italian linguist. “Of course, he wouldn’t like his pro-migrant, pro-Muslim narrative to be disrupted if the assassin were found to have jihadi motives.”
Indeed. In light of his long-established positions, it is easy to understand why Pope Francis would call Ridha a “headache.” Ridha’s act could blow the Catholic Church’s deceptive game regarding Islam and mass Muslim migration wide open. The Catholic Church during the misrule of this Pope has become so wedded to the idea that mass migration is a good thing and a Christian duty to accept and enable that even when police reject the claim that a Muslim migrant murderer was mentally ill, the Church insists on it.
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Even worse, “Roberto Bernasconi, president of the Como section of pro-migrant Catholic charity Caritas, blamed the ‘tragedy’ on the anti-migrant ‘climate of hatred and intolerance that is fomented in the city.’” That’s right: he is claiming that a Muslim migrant murdered a pro-migrant priest because of anti-migrant sentiment, which is not exactly the most effective way to stamp out such sentiment.
The Italian Catholic bishops and Roberto Bernasconi call to mind a passage from a book that those bishops probably haven’t read in a long while: “And for this reason God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” (2 Thessalonians 2:11)
As I told Church Militant, no one in the media, Church or police has tried to discover whether Islam’s doctrine calling for violence against unbelievers may have been a motive for Fr. Malgesini’s murder because all three are deeply committed to the idea that there is no such doctrine, and that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.
To acknowledge that Mahmoudi Ridha was motivated by Qur’anic passages such as “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5) and “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (47:4) is inconceivable to them. They either don’t know that such passages exist, or they are certain that no Muslims today take them seriously or would ever consider acting upon them. The only fallback position for those whose denial and willful ignorance is so implacable is to insist that Ridha is “mentally ill.”
The Vatican is especially invested in that kind of obfuscation. It recently announced that Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli tutti: sulla fraternità e l’amicizia sociale (“All Brothers: On Fraternity and Social Friendship”) will be issued on October 3. According to Church Militant, the encyclical is “a sequel to his controversial Abu Dhabi pact with Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb last year, and will cite Abu Mazen, a Palestinian backer of terrorism, as an example of ‘peace’ and ‘fraternity.’” No, this is not the Babylon Bee; this is real.
It gets even worse. According to Vatican News, “The theme of fraternity is also present in [the Pope’s] constant embrace of migrants, epitomized in his pastoral visit to Lampedusa. His signing of the Document on Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi in 2019 marks one more example of Pope Francis’ dedication to promoting brotherly love.”
Yet Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has made it abundantly clear over the years that he doesn’t want peace, but the total destruction of Israel as a Jewish state and the eradication of all Jews from the region. After two jihad groups, the Mourabitoun and the Mourabitat, began violent riots on the Temple Mount in September 2015, he applauded: “We bless you; we bless the Mourabitoun and the Mourabitat. We welcome every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem. This is pure blood, clean blood, blood on its way to Allah. With the help of Allah, every shaheed (martyr) will be in heaven, and every wounded will get his reward. All of their steps, we will not allow them. All these divisions, Al-Aqsa is ours, and the (Church of the) Holy Sepulcher is ours, everything is ours, all ours. They (the Jews) have no right to desecrate them with their filthy feet and we won’t allow them to.”
Abbas envisions the total expulsion of Jews from a Palestinian state: “In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier – on our lands.”
And as for regarding all human beings as brothers, both Sunni and Shi’ite Islam teach that the lives of non-Muslims are not worth as much as the lives of Muslims. Reliance of the Traveller, a classic Sunni manual of Islamic sacred law, explains matter-of-factly that “the indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third the indemnity paid for a Muslim. The indemnity paid for a Zoroastrian is one-fifteenth that of a Muslim.” (o4.9) The Qur’an calls “the unbelievers among the People of the Book,” that is, Jews and Christians who do not accept Islam, “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6).
Sultanhussein Tabandeh, the Shi’ite author of A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, agrees, stating: “Since Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim, then his punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slain.”
But the Pope and the Catholic Church continue to ignore all of this. The coming encyclical, meanwhile, will mislead millions of Catholics into a complacency that could be fatal.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 21 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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81 Comments
3 years ago
By what right does the Pope come from Argentina and out of ‘charity’ GIVE AWAY SOMEONE ELSE’S COUNTRY???
3 years ago
Reply to
Poetcomic1
Rule # 64: If someone tries to end your own life, you will not call them a ‘Headache’
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Ayn Rand was an atheist and so she refers to Him as “mythology”. It is a historical fact He existed and what He did. You don’t have to accept Him or follow Him. That is a choice!
What she didn’t understand and rejected is Christ giving up His life was predetermined. From the Christian view point, His death was a selfless, substitutionary, atonement for others and glorified God.
John 15:13
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
What made Christ different is He gave up His life for His enemies too.
Us mere mortals can not atone for others.
3 years ago
Reply to
Poetcomic1
What about all those who died in the Vietnam War and Korean War fighting Communism? Was their sacrifice worthless?
3 years ago
its all about the money
3 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
It’s all about being a radical Leftist who entered the Church yo subvert it from within.
Why do you think Obama loves this Pope?
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I was thinking about the thousands and thousands of public elected officials that have some power now because of covid and are abusing it because they don’t understand what power is – they are doing the dirty work of others…and will be extremely shocked and broken when they find out they had no right to behave the way they have
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
THE QURAN AND BIBLE ARE QUITE THE OPPOSITE…………..just saying….but I KNOW you know that. I have studied the Quran for over 40 years and I can tell you this, IT IS SATAN’S BIBLE.
3 years ago
Francis, incompetent and a dope has his head up his anal canal licking his own tonsils and apparently most if not all of the Catholic political machine have their collective heads up theirs as well. Fools.
3 years ago
Reply to
Name
Unfortunately there are allot of clergy out there like that with the same mindset.
The falling away has increased that.
3 years ago
I am surprised Pope Francis hasn’t coveted to Islam to show his love of his Islamic allies. After all, when you’re a relativist like this Pope, what difference does it make?
Perhaps, Francis has joined the wrong religion and is more at home in Islam. Time for the Islamic loving Pope to come out of the closet.
3 years ago
Reply to
Fount
Fount: You do not seem to have a DIsqus home page, or any other identifying info. How did you do that?
3 years ago
Reply to
ed
Whenever you see music videos posted to gellerreport I think it’s Marc or one of his nym-shifting ghosts.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
It was always ’80’s music videos. marc was an ’80’s music afficianado….(sp?)
3 years ago
Reply to
ed
Yes he was, but who else do you know who regularly posts many music videos to gellerreport? For Marc music videos are his tell.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
True !! Especially when constantly changed screen names. He thought no one would recognize his posts under a new “different” name. But the give-away was ALWAYS the ’80’s music videos.
3 years ago
Reply to
ed
He frequently posts Europeon 1980’s (and 1970’s) music videos by bands I’ve never heard of. One of these bands was interesting though, it was a German manufactured disco band called Boney M. but their biggest hit was one taken from at least two psalms 19:14 and 137: Rivers of Babylon.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
marc was really kind of a pain in the azzz, but in a strange way, I miss his posts. And of course, the videos.
3 years ago
Reply to
ed
I haven’t seen any of his ghosts lately either. Maybe he finally got a girlfriend!
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I hope the poor girl likes watching and listening to endless ’80’s music videos !!!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Thanks Felix, good to know! Just try clicking ‘block user’ on fount — it won’t work. And it looks like Disqus can’t ban users with proxy server access either.
—
Who is Marc?
3 years ago
Reply to
Fount
Hey …. let’s be honest here …. mohammedan popes have been around for a very long time.
Take a gander at pope Joan Pauline II
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Disgusting, I wonder if his act would be considered some sort of blasphemy in muslum states?
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
From the Christian viewpoint, I can’t imagine Christ kissing the Quran. I can’t imagine Moses, Abraham or any follower of God doing that in the Old Testament either.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I remember that. I thought it was odd – kissing an object, a book on another religion. At the time, I didn’t know as much as I do now about Islam and what JP2 did and said had no effect on me so I let it go.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Islam is the religion of the Devil. When you understand the koran and the book of Revelation the koran confirms allah is SATAN..
3 years ago
remember: popes are infallible, LOL!
3 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
remember: popes are infallible, LOL!
Not true. Only when they speak ex-cathedra. You imagine you are witty, but you are not. Kindly know whereof you speak before you pontificate.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
One Pope killed Joan of Arc,….another Pope declared her a Saint…
☺☺☺
Ex cathedra by the way
3 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
Uh, the doctrine of ex-cathedra did not become Church dogma until the 19th century, well after St. Joan. By the way, even if it were in force in the 15th century, it would not invalidate my point. Not every utterance of the Pope is spoken ex-cathedra- in fact, it is exceedingly rare.
Finally, I do not believe a pope was involved in her execution. Kindly provide a reference for your interesting and imaginative version of history.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
”……because in those days the Lord won’t send them a Shepherd but a Destroyer”
(Saint Francisco of Assisi’s prophecy)
3 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
because in those days the Lord won’t send them a Shepherd but a Destroyer”
(Saint Francisco of Assisi’s prophecy)
Oh, your reference to history is to a prophecy some centuries prior to St. Joan. Ok, dude. Get a clue, sir.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
This prophecy is for the end times.
But you don’t know.
ok dude.. have a nice pope
3 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
The Catholic Bishop of Beauvais, Pierre Cauchon, lead the Church court heresy trial and condemned her to death. No Pope intervened and later the Catholic Church reversed his decision. It was too late – she had already been burnt at the stake.
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
my right to ‘pontificate’ equals the pope’s. And who’s to judge which is true, as all thoughts come from God?
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
”……because in those days the Lord won’t send them a Shepherd but a Destroyer”
(Saint Francisco of Assisi’s prophecy)
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Pio XI said
”I am the true Way, truth and Life”….stealing John 14:6 for him
…and he left coins with that phrase for you to believe…
3 years ago
Reply to
Maranatha
I was thinking about Supreme Court Justices that would most likely need to be replaced if more step down. I was looking at their ages and noticed this –
Amy Barrett
RBG replacement
Age 48 (1/28/72)
Catholic
John Roberts, Chief Justice
since September 29, 2005
Age 65
Catholic
Clarence Thomas,
Associate Justice
since October 23, 1991
Age 72
Catholic
Stephen Breyer,
Associate Justice
since August 3, 1994
Age 82
Jewish
Samuel Alito,
Associate Justice
since January 31, 2006
Age 70
Catholic
Sonia Sotomayor,
Associate Justice
since August 8, 2009
Age 66
Catholic
Elena Kagan,
Associate Justice
since August 7, 2010
Age 60
Jewish
Neil Gorsuch,
Associate Justice
since April 10, 2017
Age 53
Catholic
Shame on him! He recently tipped the scales in ruling trannies are viewed as normal and protected under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. How evil! I can still hear him saying,
“I’m my own man”……
Brett Kavanaugh,
Associate Justice
since October 6, 2018
Age 55
Catholic
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
And then there is the real world. Theory vs what many popes did and do.
3 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
It’s another reason why you shouldn’t put your faith and trust in mere fallible mortals!
3 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
So the rare times they speak ex-cathedra, they’re infallible. The majority of all the other times they speak they can be clueless fools. Got it.
3 years ago
Reply to
gfmucci .
You think you are being funny, but you are right.
My dad told me, if the pope says that x is immoral say, you should listen with respect. If he tells you that Bees Knees is a good horse to bet on, ignore him. He is as stupid ir as smart as the guy beside you on the bus in such things.
3 years ago
Reply to
mackykam
No mere mortal is infallible in any form.
Not one! That’s another lie pushed.
If people wish to believe this then they are calling God a liar.
Romans 3:10
[10] As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
3 years ago
HEY CATHOLICS:
Is this the Pope you really want and follow? REALLY?
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Nobody follows this liberation theology galoot,
I am Catholic, 82 years a Catholic, never miss Mass, and I call this idiot Francis the Talking Pope.
He sickens me, and not just because of his perverted teaching on Islam.
3 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
I quit Catholicism thanks to the Satanic Pope, and now I despise organized religion due to the woke Priests and Pastors invading Catholic and Protestant Churches. Damned is the man who believes in another man. Now I only follow Jesus Christ. My body is my church.
3 years ago
”……because in those days the Lord won’t send them a Shepherd but a Destroyer”
(Saint Francisco of Assisi’s prophecy)
3 years ago
So, let me see, its 32,437 muslims who murder or attack in Europe are mentally ill, and zero who aren’t disturbed. Not one jihadi amongst them, not one muslim intent upon killing non-believers, and not one muslim amongst them who want too kill those who insult islam (ie: being a non-believer with a different opinion about islam than a muslim). OK, now I understand. Followers of islam are nuts.
Pope Francis, a socialist activist pope, is a wise man who can see through it all, willing to sacrifice (you) for his non-clerical views and knows how to easily not see what is plainly before him. What a man of vision – if he weren’t so blind, if not just plain stupid.
He reminds me of the sc-fi films where someone comes out of the crowd to greet the aliens. Aliens, must be peaceful, right? They are the first to die, Let this pope shed his security and go out on the street where muslims have set up their no-go zones. See how long he will last.
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
She really didn’t have a choice. In India it was and I believe it is still illegal to proselytize. She did what she could to covert through her actions which IMO is more effective than preaching.
Christ gave up His life for His friends and enemies and forgave them on His way out. I doubt that I would do that.for my enemies…I could do this – John 15: 13.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Regardless of my health or age, I encourage debate. Age or health is not a barrier for me. Don’t let it be one for you.
Sometimes we may agree and sometimes we may not. We may also agree to disagree. I don’t have a monopoly on the truth so don’t let age or health stand in the way. I find your posts interesting.
3 years ago
islam is a mental disorder.
3 years ago
Thousands (tens of thousands?) of Catholic men died to throw the f’ing muslum vermin out of Europe. R U saying their efforts and sacrifice was worthless? Without their efforts Europe would have fallen to the muslums and there never would’ve been a Renaissance or Reformation, just a fascist theocracy putting its boot heel of theocracy on the face of Europeans forever, but of course, this may come to pass in any event.
3 years ago
The clueless Vatican: The perp is just someone who did something.
3 years ago
So the death of a Priest is just a “headache”.
Life has become cheap to fascist, cultural Marxist Frances as he continues to push Chrislam.
3 years ago
I’m a Catholic and I do not recognize this commie disciple of the Devil.
3 years ago
Open Border Pope hates Catholics.
3 years ago
Yes muslums killing the kafir are a headache — unless you’re one of the victims.
3 years ago
The mozzlem scum and pope Frank BOTH have a mental problem….it is called pisslam.
3 years ago
The New encylical citing Abu Mazen, the Palestinian backer of terrorism, as an example of ‘peace’ and ‘fraternity.’” as usual fail to inform the listeners that Peace and Fraternity to Islamist’s is when all infidels are finally dead, and Islam rules the world through the Islamic brotherhood
Avoiding knowledge of the Koran is not how you make peace with Islam the religion that does not permit itself to make peace with Infidels.
3 years ago
Now we implore you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together unto Him, for you not quickly to be shaken in mind, nor to be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as if by us, as that day of the Lord is present. No one should deceive you in any way, because it is not until the apostasy shall have come first, and the man of lawlessness shall have been revealed—the son of destruction. 2Thess.2:1-3
3 years ago
The Priest was a pro-“immigrant” globalist. They deserve to be slaughtered by the animals they import.
3 years ago
Soon some jihadi will attack the Vatican and remember it was a muslim Turk that shot Pope John Paul.
This Pope is really a crazy fella.
watching him wash the feet of muslims while they laughed in his face was something to see.
3 years ago
I tried to understand the koran and it appears to be a manual for insanity. The more I read the more insane I become and start to have homicidal thoughts, especially towards moslems. I can not imagine what it would be like to go to a mosque and be harangued with those ideas every day.
A vote for a democrat is a vote for islam to put more of their kind in office and that will lead to Americas slavery under sharia.
3 years ago
The communists, as exemplified by the slow, insidious erosion policies of, for example “The Frankfurt School and it’s 11 Recommendations”, have been working on penetrating every possible institution of the Western Democracies – governmental, religious and literally anything else to boot – since not long after the Russian Revolution of 1917. When you read the “11 Recommendations” and then look around you in pretty much any of the Western Democracies you realise that they are close to achieving by stealth that which they were unable to achieve by main force. And it would not suprise me in the least to find that the Pope was long ago recruited into their ranks. The most glaring example of their success are our education systems which have been pumping our children full of this marxist rubbish for several generations, so that now those children are busy as university professors pumping it into the next crop of graduates so they can go forth and busy themselves dIsmantling our countries even further. Great, ain’t it?
3 years ago
The Pope ia a coward, afraid to call them what they really are terrorist. If he’s waiting for God to help he better buy a gun cause that’s not happening.
3 years ago
malata di testa is more like insane. Just saying.
