POPE DENOUNCES “TERRIBLE TERRORIST MASSACRE” IN KABUL: “HOW LONG MUST THE AFGAN PEOPLE BEAR THIS INHUMAN VIOLENCE?”

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POPE DENOUNCES “TERRIBLE TERRORIST MASSACRE” IN KABUL: “HOW LONG MUST THE AFGAN PEOPLE BEAR THIS INHUMAN VIOLENCE?”
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

How long? Well, sir, considering that you deny the existence of the
motivating ideology behind such attacks and oversee the shunning in
Catholic circles of those who identify it, I’d say indefinitely, insofar
as you’re actively hindering proper analysis of this threat.


Besides all that is below, Pope Francis has claimed fancifully
that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed
to every form of violence.” It 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 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 Francis Condemns Taliban Attack: ‘How Long Must Afghan People Bear Such Inhuman Violence?,’” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, January 28, 2018:

On Sunday, Pope Francis denounced the “terrible terrorist
massacre” carried out by Islamic militants of the Taliban in the Afghan
capital of Kabul Saturday.


After his usual midday prayer
of the Angelus in the Vatican Sunday, the Pope turned to the news of
Saturday’s slaughter, addressing the thousands of pilgrims gathered in
Saint Peter’s Square.


“Yesterday painful news arrived from Afghanistan telling of the
terrible terrorist massacre carried out in the capital city of Kabul
leaving nearly one hundred dead and numerous injured,” he said.


“A few days ago, another serious attack also on Kabul had sown terror
and death in a large hotel,” he continued. “How long must the Afghan
people bear this inhuman violence?”…

Pope Francis caused a media stir in early 2017 when he denied the existence of Islamic terrorism.

“Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist,
and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist,” Francis said
in a speech to a world meeting of populist movements in the Vatican last
February….

“The poor and the poorer peoples are accused of violence yet, without
equal opportunities, the different forms of aggression and conflict
will find a fertile terrain for growth and will eventually explode,” he
said….

“There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and
religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger
because they feed on hate and xenophobia,” he said.

The pope’s earlier statements suggesting economic roots to terror provoked
a strong public reaction from the Islamic State terror group, which
insisted that their sole motivation is religious and sanctioned by Allah
in the Qur’an.

Pope Francis “has struggled against reality” in his efforts to
portray Islam as a religion of peace, declared an article in the ISIS
propaganda magazine Dabiq, before going on to urge all Muslims to take up the sword of jihad, the “greatest obligation” of a true Muslim.

Some months before, the Pope Francis appeared to suggest that all religions are equally prone to violence and that Islam and Christianity are fundamentally the same in this regard.

“If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence,”
Francis said. “And no, not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics
are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there’s everything.”