The Church and Islam: The Next Cover-up Scandal

A Voice for the Faithful Catholic Laity – August 10, 2016

“#NotMyPope.” In the wake of Pope Francis’ equivocal response to the murder of a French priest by two Islamic jihadists, that’s the top trending hashtag in France and in Belgium.

Which raises a question: Is the Pope doing more harm than good by continuing to deny—in the face of a mountain of evidence—that Islam has anything to do with violence?

As I’ve noted several times in the past, the Church’s handling of the Islamic crisis may prove to be far more scandalous than its handling of the sex abuse crisis. The main scandal surrounding the revelation of priestly sex abuse was that it was covered up for a very long time by priests, pastors, and even bishops.

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Malaysia: Muslim/Christian interfaith event cancelled after threat to participating Christians

July 2, 2016 – by Robert Spencer 

“Someone made a police report and two police (one Muslim and one Christians) went to the church nicely and explain that tonight there might be an individual or group who would cause trouble. Having weighing all options, the church decided to cancel the event. All in good faith.” So apparently not all Muslims were as committed to “interfaith dialogue” as this church was.

Not that this will change anything as far as the church is concerned. After all, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Laham recently said: “No one defends Islam like Arab Christians,” and the same is no doubt to true of Malaysian Christians.

It is to defend Islam that Western clerics do not raise their voice against the global Muslim persecution of Christians. It is to pursue a fruitless and chimerical “dialogue” that bishops in the U.S. and Europe keep silent about Muslim persecution of Christians, and enforce that silence upon others.

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