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by Giulio Meotti
• May 26, 2016 at 5:00 am
- In 2006, Pope
Benedict XVI said what no Pope had ever dared to say -- that there is
a link between violence and Islam. Ten years later, Pope Francis never
calls those responsible for anti-Christian violence by name and never
mentions the word "Islam."
- Pope Francis does
not even try to re-evangelize or reconquer Europe. He seems deeply to
believe that the future of Christianity is in the Philippines, in
Brazil and in Africa. Probably for the same reason, the Pope is
spending less time and effort in denouncing the terrible fate of
Christians in the Middle East.
- "Multiculturalism"
in Europe is the mosque standing on the ruins of the church. It is not
the synthesis requested by Pope Francis. It is the road to becoming
extinct.
- Asking Europe to
be "multicultural" while it experiences a dramatic
de-Christianization is extremely risky. In Germany, a new report found
that "Germany has become demographically a multi-religious
country." In the UK, a major inquiry recently declared that
"Britain is no longer a Christian country." In France, Islam
is also overtaking Christianity as the dominant religion.
In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI (left) said what no Pope had
ever dared to say -- that there is a link between violence and Islam. Ten
years later, Pope Francis (right) never calls those responsible for
anti-Christian violence by name and never mentions the word
"Islam." (Image source: Benedict: Flickr/Catholic Church of
England | Francis: Wikimedia Commons/korea.net)
To scroll the list of Pope Francis's apostolic trips -- Brazil, South
Korea, Albania, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Cuba, United States, Mexico,
Kenya, Uganda, Philippines -- one could say that Europe is not exactly at
the top of his agenda.
The two previous pontiffs both fought for the cradle of Christendom.
Pope John Paul II took on Communism by toppling the Berlin Wall and the
Iron Curtain. Benedict XVI took on "the dictatorship of
relativism" (the belief that truth is in the eye of the beholder) and
bet everything on re-evangelizing the continent by traveling through it (he
visited Spain three times) and in speeches such as the magnificent ones at
Regensburg, where he spoke bluntly about the threat of Islam, and the
German Bundestag, where he warned the gathered politicians against
declining religiosity and "sacrificing their own ideals for the sake
of power."
by Fred Maroun
• May 26, 2016 at 4:00 am
- By making an
accusation of disproportionality without defining the meaning of the
term, Bernie Sanders and Haaretz betrayed not only the
Palestinians and the Israelis, but also their professions. They made
false and unsubstantiated accusations while ignoring the thousands
more deaths that the Palestinians are inflicting on their own people
-- by training toddlers and children for war, using their own people
as human shields and failing to provide shelters for them, as the
Israelis do for their citizens.
- Unsubstantiated
claims of disproportionality divert attention from the fact that
preventing more wars requires replacing Gaza's Iranian-backed
terrorist regime with a regime that is interested in the well-being of
the Palestinians.
- In addition to
helping Bernie Sanders attract the naïve and anti-Israel vote, and
helping Haaretz attract anti-Semitic readers, unsubstantiated
claims of disproportionality divert attention from the fact that
preventing more wars requires replacing Gaza's Iranian-backed
terrorist regime with a regime that is interested in the well-being of
the Palestinians.
As a fourth Gaza war looms on the horizon, we should be aware of the
hypocrisy and demagoguery of past Gaza wars: because we are likely to see
more of the same.
The Accusation
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a candidate in the Democratic primaries
for president, claimed that Israel's response in the 2014 Gaza war was
"disproportionate," and Haaretz columnist Asher Schechter
agreed. Yet neither Sanders nor Haaretz provided evidence to back
that claim.
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