I am always paying catch up in reading my email alerts from
the many websites I have signed up to receive an email in my inbox. I have just
read one case I should have taken notice much earlier.
Robert Fay posted a teaser to the LinkedIn
group Return of the Republic to a
Pamela Geller article in which Egyptian Greek Melkite Jesuit Father Henri
Boulad expressed courteous criticism to Pope Francis’ Multicultural inclusiveness of Islam.
Here is the Pamela Geller piece on Father Boulad.
JRH /26/17
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Jesuit Scholar: Islamic ‘Extremists’ Are the True Muslims
Posted By Pamela Geller
June 17, 2017
This is the cold hard reality that Western elites refuse to
accept which is why we are losing this war. The death toll will continue to
mount if the West’s continues to refuse reality.
The Muslim world has engaged in this holy war for the past
1,400 years. We will suffer untold horrors unless we change our approach.
JESUIT SCHOLAR: ISLAMIC
EXTREMISTS ARE THE TRUE MUSLIMS
ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WHO CARRY OUT
ACTS OF TERROR ARE SIMPLY APPLYING WHAT THEIR FAITH REQUIRES OF THEM, ACCORDING
TO JESUIT FATHER HENRI BOULAD, AN ISLAMIC SCHOLAR OF THE EGYPTIAN GREEK MELKITE
RITE.
In an interview with
the National Catholic Register, Father Boulad said that “Islam is
an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims” and those who carry out
violent jihad are true Muslims who are applying exactly what their creed
demands.
Those who fail to recognize the
real threat posed by Islam are naïve and ignorant of history, he said, and
unfortunately many in the Church fall into this category.
Citing a letter he wrote last
August to Pope Francis, Father Boulad said that “on the pretext of openness,
tolerance and Christian charity — the Catholic Church has fallen into the trap
of the liberal left ideology which is destroying the West.”
“Anything that does not espouse
this ideology is immediately stigmatized in the name of ‘political
correctness,’” he said.
The priest went so far as to
chastise Pope Francis himself—a fellow Jesuit—suggesting that he has fallen
into this trap as well.
“Many think that a certain number
of your positions are aligned with this ideology and that, from complacency,
you go from concessions to concessions and compromises in compromises at the
expense of the truth,” the priest wrote to Francis.
Christians in the West and in the
East, he wrote the Pope, “are expecting something from you other than vague and
harmless declarations that may obscure reality.”
“It is high time to emerge from a
shameful and embarrassed silence in the face of this Islamism that attacks the
West and the rest of the world. A systematically conciliatory attitude is
interpreted by the majority of Muslims as a sign of fear and weakness,” he
said.
“If Jesus said to us: Blessed are
the peacemakers, he did not say to us: Blessed are the pacifists. Peace is
peace at any cost, at any price. Such an attitude is a pure and simple betrayal
of truth,” he said.
The priest also stated his belief
that the West is in an ethical and moral debacle, and its defense of Islam is a
denial of truth.
“By defending at all costs Islam
and seeking to exonerate it from the horrors committed every day in its name,
one ends up betraying the truth,” he wrote.
To back up his argument, Father
Boulad enumerated a number of texts from the Koran that call on Muslims to
employ violence in their conquest of the world for Allah.
The many passages he cited
included: “Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them” (Koran 2:191),
“Make war on the infidels living in your neighbourhood” (Koran 9:123),
“When opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you catch them” (Koran
9:5), “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam” (Koran
5:33), “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods,
boiling water; melt their skin and bellies” (Koran 22:19), and “Terrorize
and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Qur’an” Koran
8:12. [Bold text by JRH – Blog Editor]
Father Boulad is not the first
Jesuit scholar to criticize the West for its naivete in dealing with Islam.
Last year, Georgetown scholar Father James V. Schall contended that decades of
students have been given a “sanitized education” that systematically excludes
an honest portrayal of the history and theology of Islam, which limits their
ability to assess what is going on in the world.
In his essay titled
“Realism and Islam,” Father Schall argued that Islam “is actually and potentially
violent throughout its entire history” and the basic reason for this method is
religious in nature: “obedience to the Law of Allah.”
Therefore, he wrote, the Western
tendency to simply call Muslim violence “terrorism” is insulting to believing
Muslims who “see themselves carrying out the will of Allah, even sometimes to
their own death in doing so.” Rather than terrorism, he insists, Muslims see
their violence as “a religious endeavor to conquer the world,” which they
understand to be “an act of piety.”
Because of this gaping educational
void, “most citizens are simply not equipped to face the forces now reappearing
in the world,” he wrote.
“And while it may be politically
incorrect to state these things, they need to be stated and are in fact the truth—things
that both Muslims and non-Muslims need to hear and consider,” he said.
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Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense
Initiative (AFDI), publisher of PamelaGeller.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama
Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A
Practical Guide to the Resistance.
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