Day: June 17, 2017

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

 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.

This well-known Jesuit,
Henri Boulad, who is former Provincial of the Jesuits in Egypt and
director of the Jesuit Cultural Center in Alexandria, has set himself
apart from other Jesuit and Melkite leaders. He slammed Pope Francis
(also a Jesuit) in a warning letter, saying 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.” Yes.
Pope Francis has declared
that Muslim terrorism does not exist, and went on a trip to Egypt
following jihad massacres on two churches on Palm Sunday 2017, not to
bring comfort to the innocent Christian flock, but to “mend ties” with Islamic leaders.
Another influential leader who resigned in May, Gregory III Laham,
the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, became notorious for
calling the Melkite Greek Catholic Church the “Church of Islam.” Robert
Spencer wrote about him:

He also claimed that Islamic jihad attacks against Middle Eastern Christians were a “Zionist conspiracy against Islam,” and exclaimed that “no one defends Islam like Arab Christians.”
That was certainly true of himself, but Gregory III Laham was not
alone: the close relationship between some Middle Eastern Catholic
bishops, including Melkites, to the “Palestinian” jihadis and other
Muslims in the Middle East should be an embarrassment to the entire
Catholic Church, but of course it isn’t. Melkite Archbishop Hilarion
Capucci, who died on January 1, 2017, was such a stooge for the
“Palestinians” that he was known as the “Chaplain of the PLO.”

Given such dreary realities, Henri Boulad represents an astonishing
return to the truth: jihadists routinely quote from Islamic texts and
have announced repeatedly that their war is a religious one against “disbelievers.”
Boulad also accepted Hungarian citizenship,
in a recent affirmation of Hungarian leader Viktor Orban’s restrictive
immigration policy of keeping out Muslim migrants to protect his country
from jihad attacks and the skyrocketing crime that other European
nations have been plagued with due to vast Muslim migration. Boulad stated that he “would like to…..fight for the future and for the Christian values on the side of Hungary and Viktor Orbán.”

“Jesuit Scholar: Islamic Extremists Are the True Muslims”, by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, June 16, 2017:

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.
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……

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