Catholicism verses Islam differences and similarities

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inJesus this is not right. If you are a believing and practicing christian, you will not be harmed. paying Jizyah is no problem. It is for your security and safety and for the safety of few muslims living in the christian controlled lands. So that they are not harmed.

If you are a believing Jew or a christian, you belong to the people of the book with special privilieges. You are not a Kafir or infidel unless you take upon yourself teh title of an enemy of Islam (Peace). Then you will be like the Muslims of today who are taking up arms against established governments. If you act in a bad manner or be abusive or take up arms against the Muslims state, then you will be punished.

Simple thing is: You are not a Kafir, You are not an infidel, as per the teaching of the Quran. Beileve it or leave it. You cannot show from the Quran that any innocent man may be punished or killed. So please stop accusing Islam. Thanks.
Can you imagine the outcry from muslims if we did that to them? Extortion is what I call it.

It was also more than just paying money and being humiliated on a daily basis. The dhimmi (subjugated ones).
jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/why-dhimmi.htm

**Dhimmitude is the status that Islamic law, the Sharia, mandates for non-Muslims, primarily Jews and Christians. Dhimmis, “protected people,” are free to practice their religion in a Sharia regime, but are made subject to a number of humiliating regulations designed to enforce the Qur’an’s command that they “feel themselves subdued” (Sura 9:29). This denial of equality of rights and dignity remains part of the Sharia, and, as such, are part of the legal superstructure that global jihadists are laboring to restore everywhere in the Islamic world, and wish ultimately to impose on the entire human race.

If dhimmis complained about their inferior status, institutionalized humiliation, or poverty, their masters voided their contract and regarded them as enemies of Islam, fair game as objects of violence. Consequently, dhimmis were generally cowed into silence and worse. It was almost unheard-of to find dhimmis speaking out against their oppressors; to do so would have been suicide. For centuries dhimmi communities in the Islamic world learned to live in peace with their Muslim overlords by acquiescing to their subservience. Some even actively identified with the dominant class, and became strenuous advocates for it.

Spearheaded by dhimmi academics and self-serving advocacy groups, that same attitude of chastened subservience has entered into Western academic study of Islam, and from there into journalism, school textbooks, and the popular discourse. One must not point out the depredations of jihad and dhimmitude; to do so would offend the multiculturalist ethos that prevails everywhere today. To do so would endanger chances for peace and rapprochement between civilizations all too ready to clash.

But in this era of global terrorism it must be said: this silence, this distortion, has become deadly. Before 9/11 it was easy to ignore and whitewash dhimmitude, but the atrocities changed the situation forever. In jihads throughout history, untold millions have died. Tens of millions have been uprooted from their homes. Tens of millions have been stripped of their cultural identity. To continue to gloss over the destruction wrought by jihad ideology and its attendant evil of dhimmitude is today to play into the hands of jihadists, who have repeatedly vowed to dhimmify the West and destroy any recalcitrant elements. While jihadist groups, even with their global diffusion, are not strong enough to realize this goal by themselves, they have a potent and destructive ally, a genuine fifth column, in the dhimmi academics and dhimmi journalists they have recruited in the West. They have succeeded in confusing millions in the West into mistaking honesty and truthfulness for bigotry, and self-defense for oppression.

…**

It is disgraceful that anyone even tries to justify this and to think it is ok. It is abuse of the highest order.
 
Booklover, please read some good books and find out the truth and use your brain too to sift falsehood from truth.

If all the Muslims were force converted muslims, that means unwilling Muslims, would they fight the christian forces of Kaisar or Kisra (Iranians) so whole heartedly? That is the key answer to your false claim of foced conversions. I tell you clearly that Islam does not allow any forced conversion.

It was by the sublime pure true teachings of Islam that people of many nations accepted Islam and went out to fight the aggressors with all might. Then there was pure spiritualism spread by the Saints ( Aulia Allah, the friends of Allah). That was a pure message of love for all, Hatred for none which won over the hearts of most people in India and far East… There was no aggression.

The topic here is turning to politics of the israelis and Palestians. Replies are being given to the protestors. I have least (interest) to do with any politics. I keep politics away from religion. The message of Muhammad was perfectly spiritual. There was no politics. But the bad people (forces) forced muhammad to use force to repel force. He was forced into some politics. Otherwise his program was hundred percent peaceful, like that of Jesus or Moses a.s.
By telling anyone that ‘we should use our brains to sift falsehood from truth’ is really ironic. This is from a group of people who are either in denial, or twisting, their own history of islam to suit their needs.

There is nothing spiritual in a message from a guy who was all about murdering the populace, or enslaving them, or subjugating them, along with focusing on sex all the time. islam was forced on people. They had to accept it, or die.
 
Wow, the issue of forced conversions is in play again today.

jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/021731.php

We see this happening way too often. And no outrage from the muslims - gee, how come? I thought you have been telling us that there is no forced conversions?

And no help from muslim governments since they look to be complicent in the act.

Should these girls draw some cartoons in order for there to be outrage from all the ‘moderate’ muslims?
 
If you are a believing Jew or a christian, you belong to the people of the book with special privilieges. You are not a Kafir or infidel unless you take upon yourself teh title of an enemy of Islam (Peace). Then you will be like the Muslims of today who are taking up arms against established governments. If you act in a bad manner or be abusive or take up arms against the Muslims state, then you will be punished.
You are one scary person, planten.
Simple thing is: You are not a Kafir, You are not an infidel, as per the teaching of the Quran. Beileve it or leave it. You cannot show from the Quran that any innocent man may be punished or killed. So please stop accusing Islam. Thanks.
If I reject the Koran, am I innocent?
 
You are one scary person, planten.

If I reject the Koran, am I innocent?
Why is he scary? This is what islam is all about - and worse for us infidels. It is about time they start telling the truth about islam. This is what I have been writing all along - if we don’t realize the truth then we will be as duped as those poor souls that are not only dying now, but in the past, because of islam - or subjugated. This is why they hate the Israelis - they are not behaving as proper dhimmi should behave.

As for any infidel as being innocent - no infidel is considered innocent and that is why we see the muslims aim bombs at schools, children school buses, pizza parlors, etc in Israel and elsewhere.
 
Why is he scary?
Because he represents a large majority of a billion Muslims.
This is what islam is all about - and worse for us infidels. It is about time they start telling the truth about islam. This is what I have been writing all along - if we don’t realize the truth then we will be as duped as those poor souls that are not only dying now, but in the past, because of islam - or subjugated. This is why they hate the Israelis - they are not behaving as proper dhimmi should behave.
Many have been saying the same for a long time as well, and they disregard Jews mostly becasue Mohammed did.
As for any infidel as being innocent - no infidel is considered innocent and that is why we see the muslims aim bombs at schools, children school buses, pizza parlors, etc in Israel and elsewhere.
Mine was a rhetorical question to planten. At least he’s a bit more open about his ideology unlike many of the Moslem apologists that visit here.

There is a better way to combat Islam.
 
Because he represents a large majority of a billion Muslims.

Many have been saying the same for a long time as well, and they disregard Jews mostly becasue Mohammed did.

Mine was a rhetorical question to planten. At least he’s a bit more open about his ideology unlike many of the Moslem apologists that visit here.

There is a better way to combat Islam.
I think that to combat islam is to ensure our laws don’t cave to their demands, segregation, and to force them to keep their ‘religion’ at home - or reclassify it as a political movement and then go from there. Otherwise, trying to convert them or anything else - well, you can see the results of that. The only thing that I can say to describe them are zombie-robots on a mission. da’wa.

And da’wa always comes before the violence.

And education of our youth should be #1 and getting them out of our colleges and make sure that their twist on history is replaced by the truth.

And all of this will upset the muslims - and our lefties.

I have several emails to board members of colleges about the MSA - their ties to the muslim brotherhood, and ‘The Project’ documents stating their stealth jihad aimed at our youth.

‘The Project’ documents were found in the early 21st century in Europe and is known by our FBI/CIA. Why they continue to allow the MSA to exist in our schools is beyond me - but it could be due to political correctness. I don’t know.

What is your suggestion as to how to combat islam? Waiting until the violence is in our backyards? I don’t think that should be the solution. Because that is what has happened in every country they migrate to - it ends up in violence against the infidels. The atrocities against the dhimmi populations is mostly not documented on the mainstream media and people usually end out converting in order to get rid of the violence against them. All that does is condemn the children to islam then.
 
What is your suggestion as to how to combat islam?
Be a practicing Catholic 1st and an American 2nd. 😉

As an American I would:
Withdraw all foreign troops and return them to America after sending every troop into Pakistan/Afghanistan to kill/capture those who attacked us 7 years ago. (The Constitution does not support an empire, but does support justice)

Stop all US tax-payer aid to all nations to include Israel and the UK and all Muslim nations. (You are free to give yourself- I would give voluntarilly to Israel and friends like Austrailia and UK…)

Maintain my 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights and like some of your suggestions tell people the truth about Islam.

Reject Islam as a political ideology and try convince others similarly.

Not support offensive wars.

Give other nations the same right to self determination as I demand for my own and not interfere in their internal affairs.

As a Catholic I would:
Not be afraid of Islam or give it any theological quarter of legitimacy.

Give to charitable causes that help people in need regardless of faith or circumstance.

Keep my peace.

The Catholic faith and the US Constitution, if followed, would at least not make us responsible for unnesessary death and waste of resources. If I am held responsible for the deaths of Iraqis if we pulled out now I am guilty of the deaths in Darfur for not stopping that genocide. I do not think it is in the Christian ethic to go to war to make peace when we are not threatened. Pakistan and Iraq, Egypt, Arabia, Iran…cannot attack the United States of America unless we are over there to let them. They have no means other than a suicide murderer crossing our borders illegally and that is not a reason to bomb a city to nothing. We can and should guard our borders and not worry about Syria/Iraq.

There are many things we can do but the best is to follow the example of Christ and not give others reason to attack us. Jesus did not command us to force others to believe like Mohammed did, buut if we try to we will be no better than Mohammed. Yes, I think we must be attacked first before we have a right to strike back, but I think we can prevent an attack with out giving up our freedoms or starting wars overseas.
 
Be a practicing Catholic 1st and an American 2nd. 😉

As an American I would:
Withdraw all foreign troops and return them to America after sending every troop into Pakistan/Afghanistan to kill/capture those who attacked us 7 years ago. (The Constitution does not support an empire, but does support justice)

Stop all US tax-payer aid to all nations to include Israel and the UK and all Muslim nations. (You are free to give yourself- I would give voluntarilly to Israel and friends like Austrailia and UK…)

Maintain my 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights and like some of your suggestions tell people the truth about Islam.

Reject Islam as a political ideology and try convince others similarly.

Not support offensive wars.

Give other nations the same right to self determination as I demand for my own and not interfere in their internal affairs.

As a Catholic I would:
Not be afraid of Islam or give it any theological quarter of legitimacy.

Give to charitable causes that help people in need regardless of faith or circumstance.

Keep my peace.

The Catholic faith and the US Constitution, if followed, would at least not make us responsible for unnesessary death and waste of resources. If I am held responsible for the deaths of Iraqis if we pulled out now I am guilty of the deaths in Darfur for not stopping that genocide. I do not think it is in the Christian ethic to go to war to make peace when we are not threatened. Pakistan and Iraq, Egypt, Arabia, Iran…cannot attack the United States of America unless we are over there to let them. They have no means other than a suicide murderer crossing our borders illegally and that is not a reason to bomb a city to nothing. We can and should guard our borders and not worry about Syria/Iraq.

There are many things we can do but the best is to follow the example of Christ and not give others reason to attack us. Jesus did not command us to force others to believe like Mohammed did, buut if we try to we will be no better than Mohammed. Yes, I think we must be attacked first before we have a right to strike back, but I think we can prevent an attack with out giving up our freedoms or starting wars overseas.
Yeah, I say we should stop ALL of our hard earned tax money to ALL muslim nations - and nations that are obviously falling to islam.

As for Iraq and Afganistan - we have a problem there and that is saudi arabia, Iran, Pakistan and some other muslim nations. We would have to go into a lot of other nations because as we have seen Pakistan is helping the Taliban and Al Qaeda grow and train - and the saudis are funding it, as they are funding hamas and the palestinians to become jihadists and buy more bombs to lob into Israel - and iran is helping hezbollah - and not only lobbing bombs and increasing their stockpile of bombs - but making Lebanon into a pig sty also. It became dangerous for Christians a few decades ago to live in their own homeland.

I don’t know how to do this - but we are in a world war. And we have a lot of nations that are being attacked by muslims and that includes China, Russia, India, and muslims are entering S. America. If you think we would be safe in rolling up our into ourselves, I think you are kidding yourself. We let our own citizens go to Pakistan and get trained in the radical isalm and we have our own lawyers fighting to get them back after they have been brainwashed for 4-5 years now.

I say - give the whole family the boot out of here - but no one asked me!:rolleyes:

Anyway - we have a big problem looming. And I really do not think our nation as a whole have a clue.

A book, ‘A Never Ending War’, goes into it a bit. And we haven’t even starting to address the other forms of jihad against us.

I have thought about this too - I am a Catholic first too. And all that does is fule the fire to muslims reading this because they will always revert to the Crusader junk. Especially since their violence is all based on religion to them. It is all entertwined for them. Their honor, religion, and violence, etc is all twisted logic for them.

But, I don’t see our Church as a whole even having a clue either. We have a Pope that is more interested in global warming than more and more of our Catholics, and other Christians turning to secularism. Pope John also did nothing while more and more Catholics were turning to secularism in his own backyard - Europe! While the muslim population was growing and starting its infestation of Europe. Individual churches just lay down and are willing to die and not thinking that all they do is condemn the children to islam! I mean this martyrdom stuff leaves me speechless! The martyrdom of muslims is just outright murder of infidels while they die - and our martyrdom is just laying down and letting them do it!

And the thing is that the infestation is further along in Eastern Europe and Pope John didn’t make a squeak! I don’t know how far away the threat was to him in his mind - but geographically it is only a spit away. This current Pope has said some things but his appearances are rare indeed.

One European country not tolerating the intolerant ones is Italy though. I have been doing some reading on jihadwatch about Italy’s actions towards the intolerant ones and they are not taking their crud.

Oh well, it was nice chatting with you.
 
Yeah, I say we should stop ALL of our hard earned tax money to ALL muslim nations - and nations that are obviously falling to islam.
We should give no use US tax payer funds to any nation. All but a few in our government are of this mindset. Both parties will continue it unabated. This is I think our most serious threat not Islamic terrorists.
As for Iraq and Afganistan - we have a problem there and that is saudi arabia, Iran, Pakistan and some other muslim nations.
I disagree. I did agree with President Bush when he said in 2001/2002 we will follow where ever they go but he did not keep his promise. If he had kept his word we would have had satisfaction long before now.
We would have to go into a lot of other nations because as we have seen Pakistan is helping the Taliban and Al Qaeda grow and train - and the saudis are funding it, as they are funding hamas and the palestinians to become jihadists and buy more bombs to lob into Israel - and iran is helping hezbollah - and not only lobbing bombs and increasing their stockpile of bombs - but making Lebanon into a pig sty also.
It is a mess we helped forment.
It became dangerous for Christians a few decades ago to live in their own homeland.
Islam is dangerous to all non-Muslims. We need to fight the ideolgical battle, not the military one in the larger war.
I don’t know how to do this - but we are in a world war. And we have a lot of nations that are being attacked by muslims and that includes China, Russia, India, and muslims are entering S. America. If you think we would be safe in rolling up our into ourselves, I think you are kidding yourself.
The problem is the rest of the rest of the world does not see the danger and thinks Islam has some legitiamcy or at least is given deference to it. Let China, Russia, and India fight their Islam battles. Our example should be one of restraint and peace if we are able to protect ourselves and I think we can do that better, cheaper and safer here at home.
We let our own citizens go to Pakistan and get trained in the radical isalm and we have our own lawyers fighting to get them back after they have been brainwashed for 4-5 years now.
I’m no fan of some lawyers but I think Americans…like everyone should be free to follow what path they want. Sometimes there are consequences for doing so as John Walker Lynn has found out. It’s not a reason to restrict travel or make me take off my shoes at the airport to get on a plane or have to undress partially to enter a courthouse in middle America.
I say - give the whole family the boot out of here - but no one asked me!:rolleyes:
I’d like to be President of the world too, but I think I’d be lonley after a while after giving everyone I don’t like the boot so I think it’s a good thing I’m not.
Anyway - we have a big problem looming. And I really do not think our nation as a whole have a clue.
I agree, not enough realize what the cause of allah is.
A book, ‘A Never Ending War’, goes into it a bit. And we haven’t even starting to address the other forms of jihad against us.
Which is why a non-interventionst policy would expose the truth of Islam faster and more obvious than on the battlefield in Iraq.
I have thought about this too - I am a Catholic first too. And all that does is fule the fire to muslims reading this because they will always revert to the Crusader junk.
Let them rant.
Especially since their violence is all based on religion to them. It is all entertwined for them. Their honor, religion, and violence, etc is all twisted logic for them.
Illogic will expose itself to the logical but not if we keep doing stupid things like giving them money and weapons.
But, I don’t see our Church as a whole even having a clue either. We have a Pope that is more interested in global warming than more and more of our Catholics, and other Christians turning to secularism.
The Church is very wise with regard to Islam. Her mission is not to inflame the divide but to bridge it.
Pope John also did nothing while more and more Catholics were turning to secularism in his own backyard - Europe!
I would not lay Europes slide away from the faith on the Church but on the Europeans.
While the muslim population was growing and starting its infestation of Europe. Individual churches just lay down and are willing to die and not thinking that all they do is condemn the children to islam!
It is the secular governments that have taken the teeth away from the Church. In an effort to accomodate Luthers ideology of ‘my idea is as good as the Church’…they have lost their way and we are following.
I mean this martyrdom stuff leaves me speechless! The martyrdom of muslims is just outright murder of infidels while they die - and our martyrdom is just laying down and letting them do it!
Christ is the example, but I don’t think it fair to say they just lay down. They remain until they are killed or driven out.
And the thing is that the infestation is further along in Eastern Europe and Pope John didn’t make a squeak! I don’t know how far away the threat was to him in his mind - but geographically it is only a spit away. This current Pope has said some things but his appearances are rare indeed.
I think he didn’t want to start a holy war and I think it smart. The non-Muslims are not unified evident of what he saw in Europe just as you described. I think that war is inevitable but fighting it as we are now…dumb. Islam will never be defeated by war and though wars will happen we should not start them.
One European country not tolerating the intolerant ones is Italy though. I have been doing some reading on jihadwatch about Italy’s actions towards the intolerant ones and they are not taking their crud.
Islamic law/ideology is not compatible with the idea of personal liberty and western democracy because once in the majority they strip both by applying Islamic law. This is why it is so important to keep Americas Declaration’s promise alive; that man is given by God Life and Liberty, not to be infringed by governments and our Constitution is intended to protect that for Americans specifically and ideally for all men. Jihadwatch …Robert Spencer…I’m mixed about them. I likd his book ‘The Myth of Islamic Tolerance’ but he (and teh web site) seemingly supports military action against Islam now and I described above I think that is the wrong approach.
Oh well, it was nice chatting with you.
You as well.
 
Sorry, but I disagree with you about how to deal with islam. And time and again we have seen peaceful Christians, Buddhists and even Hindus not seeking war all being slaughtered by muslims.

Right now we have a stealth jihad going on in the USA, and also Canada, Europe and Australia. From what is going on in Europe - it will succomb probably in about a decade and not many more years beyond that.

And as for us causing the problems in the Middle East - that is an excuse that they use, and also the left in our country, uses. It is their problems that they themselves cause. In fact, if you really want to consider who messed with the borders and didn’t understand islam - it was the French and English. But, even them I don’t blame because when they left they even admitted that for the first time the dhimmis were being treated fairly.

The current radicalization started in the 1920s and grew during the Hitler/Nazi friendship with Al-Husseini. The ties to the muslim brotherhood, also includes Al Qaeda, Hamas, Saddam Hussein (who was actually more of a secularist who used islam when he needed to use it), Arafat, the wahabbi movement (which is currently being exported from saudi arabia to our own, and European, Australian, etc mosques and madrassas). The MSA is one of their organizations also. With the documents called ‘The Project’ found in Europe earlier this century that confirms this.

The Church really has done nothing to help matters. Christians in Armenia died - the church did nothing. Christians in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Lebanon have died - the Church has done nothing. The secularization of Europe which some think left it vulnerable to the current islamization of Europe - the Church has done nothing.

If the Church has done something - they could be waking up Christians around this globe to the slaughter of so many, or the subjugation and forced conversions of so many to islam which (I keep writing this) condemns the children to islam and they will never know the Church. And a muslim’s viewpoint of Christ is not that great - even though they try to tell us it is on these threads. Instead they tell us that islam is to be respected along with other religions. And so we get Catholics just blindly thinking islam is benign and has no bad intentions. Think again! They want us either dead, converted or subjugated!

I am thinking that Rome will really wake up when Europe is mostly gone and their (muslim) eyes are on the Vatican. the muslims have called for the Popes annihilation recently - they are not too happy with him over his comments or open conversion of a muslim to Christianity. They are certainly on a good start in Eastern Europe - and that isn’t that far away from Rome if you look at the map. And we helped the muslims slaughter Christians in that area.

right now the UK is noticing that their population are turning against the muslims. What will happen there is what happened elsewhere - but look at lebanon - it starts out peaceful, the numbers grow, the demands grow, Christians among the population side with the muslims and crimes against Christians grow, infiltration takes place, appeasement, more violence and then… a violent, run down country as we see Lebanon now. With hezbollah stock piling weapons in the North against Israel. The Christians have either fled, or are now dhimmi - or killed off. It is happening in europe too. It is happening here too - only they don’t think the stealth jihad will take only a decade - it will be slower is what they think.

All I am saying is that we have a very big problem and we are not getting a handle on it and instead are allowing segregation, the MSA and the brainwashing of our children, and the political correctness of not putting islam into its place. We will see more sister amy types converting and the Church… well, what are they doing? Not much.
 
I should add that the Christians are usually unarmed while the muslims somehow manage to get themselves armed. hhmmm, it is funny that way.

Brigette Gabriel’s book, Because They Hate, goes into what happened in Lebanon. A small microcosm as to what is happening elsewhere. It isn’t pretty. But the troubling part is that people flee IF they can get out - one day there will be nowhere to flee to.
 
If Muslims one day decided to impliment the sharia in their “zones” , what would the response likely be? and did such a scenario happen before in the States? is there a way to grant them what they want or it would most probably lead to violence? this scenario happened in Northern Lebanon a year ago and led to a one month war of heavy bombarding in which these people, who had plenty of money and weapons, were opposed and defeated and there ghettos demolished…but you see, they resorted to war to impliment their ideologies against the “kuffar” who refuse their ideologies.
 
Sorry, but I disagree with you about how to deal with islam. And time and again we have seen peaceful Christians, Buddhists and even Hindus not seeking war all being slaughtered by muslims.

Right now we have a stealth jihad going on in the USA, and also Canada, Europe and Australia. From what is going on in Europe - it will succomb probably in about a decade and not many more years beyond that.
Where in the Christian ethic or Gospels is offensive war listed as a viable Christian act? Where is it in US law that gives the US the ‘right’ to attack others before being attacked? How do you reconcile that with being a Catholic first as you stated earlier?
And as for us causing the problems in the Middle East - that is an excuse that they use, and also the left in our country, uses. It is their problems that they themselves cause. In fact, if you really want to consider who messed with the borders and didn’t understand islam - it was the French and English. But, even them I don’t blame because when they left they even admitted that for the first time the dhimmis were being treated fairly.
See the bolded green statements for a contradiction. Yes, for the 1st time in 1300 years they were treated more fair than under Islam and we are building Islaimc their ‘democracies’ to keep their ideology alive. I don’t see it as a good thing they vote in Hamas but how hypocritical will we be when we overthrow another freely elected Islamic governemnt we helped create?
The current radicalization started in the 1920s and grew during the Hitler/Nazi friendship with Al-Husseini. The ties to the muslim brotherhood, also includes Al Qaeda, Hamas, Saddam Hussein (who was actually more of a secularist who used islam when he needed to use it), Arafat, the wahabbi movement (which is currently being exported from saudi arabia to our own, and European, Australian, etc mosques and madrassas). The MSA is one of their organizations also. With the documents called ‘The Project’ found in Europe earlier this century that confirms this.
The current radicalization started around 610 AD.
The Church really has done nothing to help matters. Christians in Armenia died - the church did nothing. Christians in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Lebanon have died - the Church has done nothing. The secularization of Europe which some think left it vulnerable to the current islamization of Europe - the Church has done nothing.
Should the Church call for a crusade to fight the Europeans and bring them back in the fold or one against teh Muslims? What verse(s) support your idea?
If the Church has done something - they could be waking up Christians around this globe to the slaughter of so many, or the subjugation and forced conversions of so many to islam which (I keep writing this) condemns the children to islam and they will never know the Church. And a muslim’s viewpoint of Christ is not that great - even though they try to tell us it is on these threads. Instead they tell us that islam is to be respected along with other religions. And so we get Catholics just blindly thinking islam is benign and has no bad intentions. Think again! They want us either dead, converted or subjugated!
Blame the governments that threaten the Church with a revocation of a tax status if they speak out in the political arena because Scientology must be honored as a religion too. This is not the fault of the Church. It is the fault of Americans and Canadians, French, English…who willingly give up being Catholic for political reasons. The travesty is the 1st Amendment should protect Catholics amd our spiritual ideology but it has been used as a weapon against us and we accept it like a lemming.
I am thinking that Rome will really wake up when Europe is mostly gone and their (muslim) eyes are on the Vatican. the muslims have called for the Popes annihilation recently - they are not too happy with him over his comments or open conversion of a muslim to Christianity. They are certainly on a good start in Eastern Europe - and that isn’t that far away from Rome if you look at the map. And we helped the muslims slaughter Christians in that area.
I think Rome is more aware of the issue than you are giving them credit for.
right now the UK is noticing that their population are turning against the muslims. What will happen there is what happened elsewhere - but look at lebanon - it starts out peaceful, the numbers grow, the demands grow, **Christians among the population side with the muslims **and crimes against Christians grow, infiltration takes place, appeasement, more violence and then… a violent, run down country as we see Lebanon now. With hezbollah stock piling weapons in the North against Israel. The Christians have either fled, or are now dhimmi - or killed off. It is happening in europe too. It is happening here too - only they don’t think the stealth jihad will take only a decade - it will be slower is what they think.
Urge Christians not to side with Muslms. Why bash the Church?
All I am saying is that we have a very big problem and we are not getting a handle on it and instead are allowing segregation, the MSA and the brainwashing of our children, and the political correctness of not putting islam into its place. We will see more sister amy types converting and the Church… well, what are they doing? Not much.
Your arguemnt should be with the government- as mine is- not the Church.
 
Where in the Christian ethic or Gospels is offensive war listed as a viable Christian act? Where is it in US law that gives the US the ‘right’ to attack others before being attacked? How do you reconcile that with being a Catholic first as you stated earlier?

See the bolded green statements for a contradiction. Yes, for the 1st time in 1300 years they were treated more fair than under Islam and we are building Islaimc their ‘democracies’ to keep their ideology alive. I don’t see it as a good thing they vote in Hamas but how hypocritical will we be when we overthrow another freely elected Islamic governemnt we helped create?

The current radicalization started around 610 AD.

Should the Church call for a crusade to fight the Europeans and bring them back in the fold or one against teh Muslims? What verse(s) support your idea?

Blame the governments that threaten the Church with a revocation of a tax status if they speak out in the political arena because Scientology must be honored as a religion too. This is not the fault of the Church. It is the fault of Americans and Canadians, French, English…who willingly give up being Catholic for political reasons. The travesty is the 1st Amendment should protect Catholics amd our spiritual ideology but it has been used as a weapon against us and we accept it like a lemming.

I think Rome is more aware of the issue than you are giving them credit for.

Urge Christians not to side with Muslms. Why bash the Church?

Your arguemnt should be with the government- as mine is- not the Church.
You’re right about the radicalization starting in 610AD 😃 But, what I am talking about is that after the Ottoman Empire fell, there was ‘relative’ peace. The numbers of non-muslims were much higher than they are now. And this should show us all how the koran is the base of all the problems - it doesn’t take much for the violence to start up again and the number of countries that fell to islamic violence grew enormously since the early 20th century.

As for the Church doing something - I would say that there is a definite lobby by muslims, via CAIR - there could indeed be one from the Church - or a united front of ALL Christians having a lobby in Washington. there is also a lobby of Jews in Washington. And I am not only talking about the USA - what about Europe? While Pope John was Pope - more fell to secularism that was mind boggling. There is no outreach program.

And this is the most important thing that the Church can do! STOP the acknowledgement that islam is an ‘Abrahamic’ religion, and that it is equal to any other religion. It is not either. NO ONE is studying islam in the Church because if they have even read less than I have they would know that their claims of being ‘Abrahamic’ is a wish. To post the correct information about islam the religion and also its history and agenda (to kill, convert or subjugate us).

I am not even talking an offensive war. I have time and again said that we need to enforce our laws and stop muslims from changing our laws to acquiesce to their specific religion and also to stop segregation which is based on us being dirty - it is hogwash all their other excuses for it, to stop polygamy, to infiltrate their institutions, to correct the history books and tell freely what islam’s history has been (violence), etc.

As for other countries - we don’t even have to have an offensive war - defensive would be nice. No one in Europe is even offensively trying to bring people back into the fold. It is like the Pope had a better time getting out of Europe when he was alive. This one is so old that he comes out a few times a year and then goes back to sleep for months on end. he doesn’t even have to be the one doing the hard work - send out those around him to start working to bring people back. They could be doing a whole heck of a lot more, or have done a lot more, before the situation in Europe has been getting so bad. There is still hope and they hide in palaces. Once they are in a country - we are the ones who help them grow and spread their untruths about islam - as we do on these threads.

I even saw posts by our own who would rather be braindead and just let the muslims spread untruths than call them on it - just because they read some words that said islam is a valid religion - or something like that.

Who cares about Scientology?! If our clergy were doing their jobs that would be an afterthought as would other secular ‘religions’. People are searching and the Church is in hiding. There are probably things that they can do that I have not even thought of - I shouldn’t be the idea person here! They should be banging their heads as to ideas how to bring people back into the fold and stop helping islam/muslims out - a death cult!

Personally, I think the current Pope hit it on the mark about the change to secular music, language, etc all had a negative effect on the Church. I don’t like the one gal who sings in our church - in fact, it irritates me whenever she opens her cakehole. She has a beautiful voice - but I find it all very boring that she trumpets her voice while most just sit there in ‘braindead’ mode. It is a sort of a very, weird way that the people are being left out. Our church has a pretty large congregation too. But that is not the case everywhere.

As for the Pals voting in hamas - a known terrorist group - or Hezbollah in Lebanon that is another known terrorist group - I would say that we fall so short on the propaganda front that we are pathetic. We could do more there - and even the Church could do more in the propaganda front.

As for any area in the USA allowing Sharia law - that tells me that our lawmakers, politicians, and regular folks are clueless as to what sharia law says about our non-muslim rights. It is so totally against the constitution that I don’t even know where to begin. If they want a modified sharia law - then tell them that civil law - we will practice our laws and within their church - they can practice sharia law. And if the two clash - our civil laws outweigh their sharia law. To even think that sharia law is superior, or should be considered as a law in any segment of our land, shows we are so very ignorant of it.

Personally, I think it should be banned outright everywhere - but I know that muslims are grouping together so their voting power is stronger and so they can practice sharia law without us watching them. (this is a tactic that they have used in so many countries, along with uncontrolled birth rates, etc)

Anyway - I don’t have all the answers, and I know that I can be more radical than most, but the only ones I see doing something are ex-muslims! They know the danger. Well, Brigette Gabriel is not an ex-muslims, but a Lebanonese Christian who also knows the very, real problem of islam and its problems for us since she fled Lebanon and lived in a bomb shelter for about 10 years of her life with her parents in Lebanon. She knows how her country was before and after.

OH, and another comment about us allowing them to build up a so called Democracy in places - it is a joke. We think it is oh, so neat that they can vote and then vote for thugs/terrorists. I say - it is our money being thrown at them and they accept it - so yes, we should have a say about their governments. When they want to decline our jizya payments then they can be left to their own devices and if they misbehave - then sanctions should be used to control their violence. It is like the poorest behaved of children that we are dealing with. And OUR OWN politicians, and judges/lawyers, should be required to learn the koran, sharia law, etc. Then they wouldn’t be even hinting that it is a consideration to let go in any community!
 
I don’t think of myself as bashing the Church - I am just a bit disgusted as to what I have seen happen over the past 30-40 years. Why are we unable to say something without it being called ‘bashing’?

We can do all the urging we want, but if the Church is undercutting our attempts then how helpful is that? When I read articles of Church ‘scholars’ (I don’t know who these scholars are or who appoints them as such) that is soooooo apparent to me that they haven’t read one thing about islam and have only gotten their ideas from ‘muslim scholar’ - basically deception/da’wa. Why is it bashing that I say that they need to read and wake up?! to me it is the truth!

I ran across an article that I am talking about about a year ago in the Catholic Voice and emailed the place that puts the paper out and who knows what happened to the email. It is like the Church, or anyone who tries to contact such people who set themselves up as ‘scholars’, and our leaders, also set themselves up as unreachable to the regular people who might have a valid point.

Have you ever tried to contact the Vatican? that is a fun excursion into the deep hole of oblivion too.

Everyone thinks that stating the truth about islam means that we are bad Christians, or bad Catholics, or just bad people. While muslims are making doodoo out of non-muslims and condemning children to islam! go figure.
 
I don’t think of myself as bashing the Church - I am just a bit disgusted as to what I have seen happen over the past 30-40 years. Why are we unable to say something without it being called ‘bashing’?
In a few posts you have thrown JPII under the proverbial bus a number of times and have accused Pope BenedictXVI of being asleep at the wheel because he hasn’t written you back seemingly.

Think about what this says and more importantly what it does not say.

841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.

It says Muslims profess the faith of Abraham. It does not suggest the Church thinks they actually follow or understand it. The Church acknowledges One God which disputes the Islamic claim Catholics associate others with God like Islam/Quran says we do, and though it is clear the Mulsim method of adoration (the five pillars) of the one, merciful God is different from Catholics I think it is said as such to acknowledge only what we ourselves believe as a bridge to reach out peacefully to them.

It mentions nothing of Mohamemd or allah which is significant. Many people I think take this the wrong way as suggesting the Church has given Islam some legitimacy. I don’t read it that way and eveything the Popes and most other Church Fathers have said with regard to Islam that I have seen seems to agree with me. I’d welcome to know if I am wrong.

If it be true, what do you think would be gained if the Pontiff said explicitly to the tens of thousands of youth in Austrailia with him now: (with respect to the Pope-my words) ‘My Children. Be it known the militant ideology of Islam is the manifestation of evil as revealed in the unholy Koran. The nature of its mimmiced communal prayers and ritual obligations to pre-Mohammedan pagan objects and practices, misdirects the intent of prayer away from God…Sadly, the messenger of allah is thought of more highly than our Lord, Jesus Christ. The Moslem is dedicated to the messenger of allah as of allah itself and he will not be set aside or apart. The Moslem will say both Christ and Mohammed are but men only, prophets in the line of Moses, with Mohammed as being the final one from the God of Abraham to humankind. I must tell you this is not true…Go in Peace to love and serve the Lord.’

Todays Gospel reading is apt for our discussion:
13:18 "Hear then the parable of the sower.

Think of the fruit you are trying to bear.
 
In a few posts you have thrown JPII under the proverbial bus a number of times and have accused Pope BenedictXVI of being asleep at the wheel because he hasn’t written you back seemingly.

Think about what this says and more importantly what it does not say.

841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.

It says Muslims profess the faith of Abraham. It does not suggest the Church thinks they actually follow or understand it. The Church acknowledges One God which disputes the Islamic claim Catholics associate others with God like Islam/Quran says we do, and though it is clear the Mulsim method of adoration (the five pillars) of the one, merciful God is different from Catholics I think it is said as such to acknowledge only what we ourselves believe as a bridge to reach out peacefully to them.

It mentions nothing of Mohamemd or allah which is significant. Many people I think take this the wrong way as suggesting the Church has given Islam some legitimacy. I don’t read it that way and eveything the Popes and most other Church Fathers have said with regard to Islam that I have seen seems to agree with me. I’d welcome to know if I am wrong.

If it be true, what do you think would be gained if the Pontiff said explicitly to the tens of thousands of youth in Austrailia with him now: (with respect to the Pope-my words) ‘My Children. Be it known the militant ideology of Islam is the manifestation of evil as revealed in the unholy Koran. The nature of its mimmiced communal prayers and ritual obligations to pre-Mohammedan pagan objects and practices, misdirects the intent of prayer away from God…Sadly, the messenger of allah is thought of more highly than our Lord, Jesus Christ. The Moslem is dedicated to the messenger of allah as of allah itself and he will not be set aside or apart. The Moslem will say both Christ and Mohammed are but men only, prophets in the line of Moses, with Mohammed as being the final one from the God of Abraham to humankind. I must tell you this is not true…Go in Peace to love and serve the Lord.’

Todays Gospel reading is apt for our discussion:
13:18 "Hear then the parable of the sower.

Think of the fruit you are trying to bear.
Ambiguity in the Pope’s words do not help one iota. You, so far, are the only one that infers anything close to sanity.

And islam is NOT Abrahamic, not even close. I ask that THEY read just a bit. In fact, silence would be better than what they have written so far.

As for throwing the Popes under the bus - they do that themselves with inaction or ambiguity in their words of what islam is all about.

I don’t have to worry though there will be no clarity coming from the Church - I already know that. And as for thinking like you do that all this means is war - I think we can stop this just by standing up for our civilization by enforcing our own laws and being aware of creeping sharia. And I don’t see any words coming about that either.

While no one says anything and leaves words to be misinterpreted - and I will tell you I think you are reaching too - more of our fellow human beings die at the hands of muslims. More are subjugated and many are kidnapped into slavery (oh, yeah - forced conversion and marriage is not slavery to a muslim - I almost forgot (yes, note sarcasm:shrug:)) and many will eventually convert to islam in order to stave off humiliation and chaos/death/torture in their lives - and many will never know Christ.

Let us all sit back and sing kumbaya - and “can’t we all get along”. Yes, I am being sarcastic because it ain’t gonna happen.

REad the website on my signature. No place that muslims have migrated to has ended out in any good for the infidel.

Thanks for the conversation. I think I am going to quit for now. I will go and learn the words to kumbaya and think that things will be all rosey and glorious because our Church refuses to get a clue - but, I will say this again, when the muslims hordes are breathing down the Vatican’s throats - I bet they figure it out real fast. Eastern Europe is just a spit away and Western Europe is their back yard. Africa is across the street and the Middle East is around the block. They will start feeling like Israel feels - only they have more real estate than Israel has.
 
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