MUSLIM-CATHOLIC DOCUMENT ON WORLD PEACE "FULL OF OUTRAGEOUSLY FALSE & MISLEADING STATEMENTS"
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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All that this dialogue has led to is Christian leaders being quiet about Muslim persecution of Christians, for fear of offending their dialogue partners. Has this been reciprocated by Muslims? Have Muslim spokesmen stopped being critical of Christians and Christianity? Of course not. The “dialogue” is all dawah on one side and Useful Idiots, eager to be deceived, on the other.Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, said it on February 8, 2013 as he was suppressing a planned talk (by me) at a Catholic conference on that persecution: “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.”Remember that Mohamed Atta, about the plane he had hijacked on September 11, 2001, told passengers over the intercom: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.” The Catholic Church appears to have adopted that statement as its policy regarding Muslim persecution of Christians.“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 Praises New Interreligious Initiative for World Peace,” by William Mahoney, ChurchMilitant, August 28, 2019:VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) – Pope Francis lauded a new initiative Monday to implement a joint interreligious document on world peace that he and the grand imam of al-Azhar signed in February.The initiative, a higher committee established in Abu Dhabi Aug. 19 to ensure the objectives of the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” are met, includes Vatican and Muslim officials. This ‘Document on Human Fraternity’ is full of outrageously false and misleading statements. TweetPope Francis praised the new initiative in a press release from the Holy See on Wednesday: Although sadly evil, hatred and division often make news, there is a hidden sea of goodness that is growing and leads us to hope in dialogue, reciprocal knowledge and the possibility of building, together with the followers of other religions and all men and women of good will, a world of fraternity and peace. Church Militant spoke with Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, about the document and this new initiative. “This ‘Document on Human Fraternity’ is full of outrageously false and misleading statements,” he said. “One is the claim that terrorism is due to ‘an accumulation of incorrect interpretations of religious texts and to policies linked to hunger, poverty, injustice, oppression and pride.'” Spencer explained how this claim about terrorism is false and misleading: If terrorists’ interpretations of Islamic religious texts are incorrect, then so are the interpretations of those texts by all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, all of which, without exception, teach the necessity of the Islamic community worldwide to wage war against unbelievers and subjugate them under the hegemony of Islamic law. Bishop Miguel Guixot, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and a member of the higher committee, offered a different interpretation of “Document on Human Fraternity” in an interview with Vatican News: I think the Abu Dhabi declaration is a global appeal to the ‘civilization of love’ that contrasts with those who want a clash of civilizations! Prayer, dialogue, respect and solidarity are the only winning weapons against terrorism, fundamentalism and all kinds of war and violence. They are weapons that are part of the spiritual arsenals of all religions. Peace is a precious good, an aspiration that lives in the heart of every man, a believer or not, and which should inspire every human action. Spencer disagrees that dialogue is a winning weapon against terrorism: “Pope Francis’ much-vaunted ‘dialogue’ has never saved one Christian from being persecuted by Muslims, or prevented one church from being destroyed by jihadis. Nor will it ever do these things, as it is based on fantasy and wishful thinking, not on reality.”…
