The Grand Sheikh Francis of al-Vatican
POPE CALLS FOR CATHOLICS AND MUSLIMS TO"ENTER THE ARK OF FRATERNITY"
IN OPPOSITION TO THE TRUE GOSPEL;
BUT FREEMASONS ARE PLEASED
SEE: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/popes-claim-that-god-wills-many-religions-seems-to-overturn-gospel-church-h
(written from a Catholic perspective)
ABOVE: Pope Francis Embraces Ahmed el-Tayeb
Pope Francis holds Arabian Peninsula's largest mass
It was billed as the largest show of Christian worship ever seen on the Arabian Peninsula. Pope Francis celebrated mass in the Muslim-majority United Arab Emirates. More than 130,000 people attended the event in the capital Abu Dhabi. The mass wrapped up a three day trip to the country, the first ever by a pontiff. Pope Francis condemned war and said his main aim was to promote harmony and tolerance between Christians and Muslims.
More than 130,000 Catholics attended Holy Mass, led by Pope Francis at the Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
The Pontiff was greeted by a cheering crowd as he arrived at the stadium in a popemobile. Thousands of worshippers waved Vatican flags to welcome the Pope.
Worshippers came to the venue in advance by cars and buses. The UAE government reportedly organized free buses to ensure that the attendees are able to access the Mass, with multiple pick-up locations opened across the UAE.
Etihad Airways, the UAE's national airline, broadcast the Papal Mass on board its flights and at the airline's lounges worldwide.
Pope Francis arrived in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, marking the first time a pope comes to the Arabian Peninsula.
On Monday, the Pope visited St. Joseph's Cathedral, the seat of the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, where he prayed and blessed 300 selected parishioners from all walks of life and social standing, including families with disabled children and elderly worshippers.
On the same day, the Pope also participated in a meeting on interfaith dialogue with Grand Imam of Egypt's Al Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb and members of the Muslim Council of Elders. Together with the Grand Imam, the Pope signed a document promoting 'human fraternity.'
Pope Francis holds Arabian Peninsula's largest mass
UAE: More than 130,000 gather for historic
Pope Francis Mass in Abu Dhabi
POPE FRANCIS TELLS ISLAMIC IMAM WHO WANTS TO KILL CHRISTIAN CONVERTS "YOU'RE MY BROTHER___"
SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/02/04/pope-francis-tells-islamic-imam-who-wants-to-kill-christian-converts-youre-my-brother/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Practitioners of Islam use ‘Interfaith Dialogue’ as an intentional strategy to win the hearts and minds of professing Christians and to reaffirm the faith of questioning Muslims. The practice is called Dawah, and unsuspecting people happily engage in Interfaith Dialogue with Muslims, either ignorant of their tactics or self-assured in their own hubris, convinced of their inability to be suckered.
Dawah is no conspiracy, and is taught boldly as an Islamic “evangelism” (that term does not quite fit) strategy of Muslims. From the Imams Online website…
[Speaking of Dawa] This then constitutes the core and the essence of Islam. Other Abrahamic faiths will also find resonance in these core beliefs. A true Muslim who loves God and the Messenger (peace be upon him) and who knows salvation can only be achieved through devotion and good work, he is truly God conscious. The God bound and God conscious soul feels a gentle urge to take the faith to others…The spirit of this witnessing is one of sharing, learning from others and being a pilgrim with fellow believers. This “invitation” and “giving good news” is to be taken with the spirit of meeting fellow humans both Muslims and non-Muslims. It is for building trust and mutual understanding and to remove stereotypes. This spirit of witnessing builds trust and brings people together to work for the common good.
Pope Francis, who as the Bishop of Rome views himself as the de facto representative of Christ on Earth, landed in Abu Dhabi on Sunday for the first-ever papal trip to the Arabian Peninsula. The purpose of the event was for the Pope to meet with Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar, for an Interfaith Dialogue to unite Roman Catholicism and Islam.
Francis is engaging in a conference on interreligious dialogue sponsored the Emirates-based Muslim Council of Elders, the purpose of which was to promote what is considered a more “moderate brand of Islam.” Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb is an Imam of Sunni Islam and trains clerics and scholars from around the world.
Prior to leaving for the United Arab Emirates, Francis did a video praising his “friend and dear brother,” el-Tayeb, and congratulated him for calling the meeting to assert that “God unites and doesn’t divide.”
“I am pleased with this meeting offered by the Lord to write, on your dear land, a new page in the history of relations among religions and confirm that we are brothers despite our differences.”
The supposedly “moderate” el-Tayeb is on record calling for the death of any Muslim who leaves the Islamic faith for Christianity. The Imam’s desire to kill Christian converts came as recently as 2016.
El-Tayeb affirmed on his television show during the 2016 Ramadan celebration, “Contemporary apostasy presents itself in the guise of crimes, assaults, and grand treason, so we deal with it now as a crime that must be opposed and punished…. Those learned in Islam [al-fuqaha] and the imams of the four schools of jurisprudence consider apostasy a crime and agree that the apostate must either renounce his apostasy or else be killed.“
Despite him being an enemy of the Christian church, the Pope still referred to el-Tayeb as his brother.
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Pope and Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh: Terrorism due to “incorrect interpretations of religious texts” and poverty
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Pope Francis and the Grand Sheikh of al-Azhar, Ahmed el-Tayeb, have published a “A Document On Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together,” and it’s as filled with falsehoods and wishful thinking as one would expect coming from a practiced deceiver such as el-Tayeb and someone so eager to be deceived as Pope Francis. Christine Douglass-Williams has already detailed here some of the reasons why any thinking person should be suspicious of el-Tayeb’s sincerity, and I plan over the next few days to highlight some of the more egregiously false statements in the document itself.
Here’s one: Terrorism is deplorable and threatens the security of people, be they in the East or the West, the North or the South, and disseminates panic, terror and pessimism, but this is not due to religion, even when terrorists instrumentalize it. It is due, rather, to an accumulation of incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride. This is why it is so necessary to stop supporting terrorist movements fuelled by financing, the provision of weapons and strategy, and by attempts to justify these movements even using the media. All these must be regarded as international crimes that threaten security and world peace. Such terrorism must be condemned in all its forms and expressions…
Terrorism is due to “an accumulation of incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride.”
So are the authoritative sources in Sunni Islam, the schools of Sunni jurisprudence (madhahib), all incorrect in their interpretations of the Qur’an and Sunnah? Here is what they say about jihad warfare against non-Muslims:
Shafi’i school: A Shafi’i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates about jihad that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians…until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)…while remaining in their ancestral religions.” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).
Of course, there is no caliph today, and hence the oft-repeated claim that Osama et al are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But they explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes “obligatory for everyone” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: ‘Umdat al-Salik specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until “the final descent of Jesus.” After that, “nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus’ descent” (o9.8).
Hanafi school: A Hanafi manual of Islamic law repeats the same injunctions. It insists that people must be called to embrace Islam before being fought, “because the Prophet so instructed his commanders, directing them to call the infidels to the faith.” It emphasizes that jihad must not be waged for economic gain, but solely for religious reasons: from the call to Islam “the people will hence perceive that they are attacked for the sake of religion, and not for the sake of taking their property, or making slaves of their children, and on this consideration it is possible that they may be induced to agree to the call, in order to save themselves from the troubles of war.”
However, “if the infidels, upon receiving the call, neither consent to it nor agree to pay capitation tax [jizya], it is then incumbent on the Muslims to call upon God for assistance, and to make war upon them, because God is the assistant of those who serve Him, and the destroyer of His enemies, the infidels, and it is necessary to implore His aid upon every occasion; the Prophet, moreover, commands us so to do.” (Al-Hidayah, II.140)
Maliki school: Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a pioneering historian and philosopher, was also a Maliki legal theorist. In his renowned Muqaddimah, the first work of historical theory, he notes that “in the Muslim community, the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” In Islam, the person in charge of religious affairs is concerned with “power politics,” because Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations.”
Hanbali school: The great medieval theorist of what is commonly known today as radical or fundamentalist Islam, Ibn Taymiyya (Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya, 1263-1328), was a Hanbali jurist. He directed that “since lawful warfare is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is God’s entirely and God’s word is uppermost, therefore according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be fought.”
This is also taught by modern-day scholars of Islam. Majid Khadduri was an Iraqi scholar of Islamic law of international renown. In his book War and Peace in the Law of Islam, which was published in 1955 and remains one of the most lucid and illuminating works on the subject, Khadduri says this about jihad:
The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God’s law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world….The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. (P. 51)
Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law of the International Islamic University in Islamabad. In his 1994 book The Methodology of Ijtihad, he quotes the twelfth century Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd: “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah.” Nyazee concludes: “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.
How did someone with incorrect interpretations of religious texts become a professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law at International Islamic University?
Anyway, as for the idea that poverty causes terrorism, it’s just a call for Western nations to write more checks to governments of Muslim countries. It’s also demonstrably false. The New York Times reported that “not long after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001…Alan B. Krueger, the Princeton economist, tested the widespread assumption that poverty was a key factor in the making of a terrorist. Mr. Krueger’s analysis of economic figures, polls, and data on suicide bombers and hate groups found no link between economic distress and terrorism.”
CNS News noted in September 2013 that “according to a Rand Corporation report on counterterrorism, prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2009, ‘Terrorists are not particularly impoverished, uneducated, or afflicted by mental disease. Demographically, their most important characteristic is normalcy (within their environment). Terrorist leaders actually tend to come from relatively privileged backgrounds.’ One of the authors of the RAND report, Darcy Noricks, also found that according to a number of academic studies, ‘Terrorists turn out to be more rather than less educated than the general population.’”
Yet the analysis that poverty causes terrorism has been applied and reapplied and reapplied again. And now here is the Pope signing on to this falsehood.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/pope-signs-declaration-with-grand-sheikh-of-al-azhar-condemning-terrorism-and-oppression-carried-out-in-gods-name
AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/pope-my-trip-to-uae-wrote-a-new-page-in-history-of-the-dialogue-between-christianity-and-islam
AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/robert-spencer-in-frontpage-the-grand-sheikh-francis-of-al-vatican
AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/pope-and-al-azhar-grand-sheikh-the-fact-that-people-are-forced-to-adhere-to-a-certain-religion-must-be-rejected;
EXCERPT:
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SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/pope-signs-declaration-with-grand-sheikh-of-al-azhar-condemning-terrorism-and-oppression-carried-out-in-gods-name
AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/pope-my-trip-to-uae-wrote-a-new-page-in-history-of-the-dialogue-between-christianity-and-islam
AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/robert-spencer-in-frontpage-the-grand-sheikh-francis-of-al-vatican
AND:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/02/pope-and-al-azhar-grand-sheikh-the-fact-that-people-are-forced-to-adhere-to-a-certain-religion-must-be-rejected;
EXCERPT:
But el-Tayeb said this as recently as 2016: "Contemporary apostasy presents itself in the guise of crimes, assaults, and grand treason, so we deal with it now as a crime that must be opposed and punished….Those learned in Islamic law and the imams of the four schools of jurisprudence consider apostasy a crime and agree that the apostate must either renounce his apostasy or else be killed."Has el-Tayeb renounced this view? Doubtful, since it is standard Islam. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an:
