Pope Francis recently released a new encyclical. Portions of it deal with environmentalism, global warming, and climate change. Naturally, this has prompted controversy. It’s noteworthy that Francis didn’t merely make a passing comment on global warming during this or that sermon, but that he issued a papal encyclical on the matter. Encyclicals are much more formal and … [Read more...]
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‘The Real Bomb Is in Islam’s Books’
FrontPage Magazine During his visit to Egypt last week, “Pope Francis visited al-Azhar University, a globally respected institution for Sunni Islamic learning,” and “met with Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the imam of the government-run Al-Azhar mosque and an Islamic philosophy professor.” This has been reported by several media, often with much fanfare. Unfortunately, however, … [Read more...]
Egypt’s Top “Moderate” Cleric: Apostasy a “Crime,” Punishable by Death
Coptic Solidarity The line between “moderate” and “radical” Muslim continues to fade. On the question of apostasy in Islam—whether a born or converted Muslim has the right to abandon Islam for another or no religion—the radical position is well known: unrepentant apostates are to be punished with death. Yet one of the Muslim world’s greatest authorities, the Grand Sheikh … [Read more...]
Humility and Hubris
Crisis Magazine By William Kilpatrick Much has been written about the Pope’s humility, and he himself has often spoken about the need for humility. Yet it is possible to detect a certain amount of hubris in the positions he takes on political and scientific matters. For example, it takes a certain level of hubris for a man to take a public stand on the threat of global … [Read more...]
Report: ‘Raymond Ibrahim Documents the Persecution of Christians, Also in Europe’
Danish journalist Peder Jensen recently wrote a report about my talk in Copenhagen for the website Document.dk. Titled, "Raymond Ibrahim Documents the Persecution of Christians, Also in Europe," an English translation of it, as well as the photo accompanying the report, follow: Author and translator Raymond Ibrahim was born in the United States to Coptic Christian … [Read more...]
‘A Field of Jihad’ The Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2023 (Christmas Edition)
Gatestone Institute The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of December 2023. Christmas-Timed Slaughters and Nightmares Nigeria: Beginning on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day, Muslim terrorists massacred nearly 200 Christians. Well-armed Muslim Fulani tribesmen hacked, stabbed, riddled with bullets, and … [Read more...]
The Muslim ‘Vatican’ Declares Open Season on All Israelis
The Stream The more than 1,400 Israelis who were brutally slaughtered by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, got what they deserve—according to the most prestigious university of the Muslim world, Al Azhar, located in Cairo. A fatwa, or authoritative decree, issued on Oct. 19, 2023 by Al Azhar’s Fatwa department, asserts that The term “civilians” does not apply to the Zionist settlers of … [Read more...]
Turkish ‘Princess’ Vows that Islam Will ‘Break the Western Cross’
Resorting to jihadist rhetoric, Esra, the daughter of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan—who just gained another five years as president—recently attacked the West and Christianity. In a tweet written, not in her native Turkish, but in Islam’s tongue, Arabic, the "first daughter" declared that “There is little left for the Islamic crescent to break the Western … [Read more...]
Bedlam at City Council: Somali ‘Culture’ Takes Minneapolis by Storm
In a May 11, 2023 article, we explored the oft-repeated claim that all cultures are created equal—or, in Pope Francis’s words, “Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others.” Two days later, that claim was put to test right here in the USA, when all bedlam broke lose in Minneapolis. On May 13, 2023: A … [Read more...]
Is Any ‘One Culture Superior to Others’?
Recently, while apologizing to “indigenous peoples” and denouncing Christians—without the all-important historical context—Pope Francis declared that “Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others...” This—claiming all cultures are equal—is a very dangerous position, not least as it leads to … [Read more...]