Will the Next Pope Be Another ‘Pope of Islam’?

Will the Roman Catholic Church continue its policy of ignoring jihad and appeasing Muslims?

By: Robert Spencer – Front Page Magazine; frontpagemag.com

Will the next pope continue the last pope’s consistent record of appeasing Islam?

The late Pope Francis had a long record of whitewashing Islamic jihad violence and making moral equivalence arguments in order to downplay jihad terror. Back in 2017, Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, noticed the pope’s yeoman service for the Islamic cause and thanked him for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.”

Francis was not just a defender of Islam but also a defender of the Sharia death penalty for blasphemy. After Islamic jihadists in Jan. 2015 murdered the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who had drawn Muhammad, Francis obliquely justified the murders by saying that “it is true that you must not react violently, but although we are good friends if [an aide] says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch, it’s normal. You can’t make a toy out of the religions of others. These people provoke and then (something can happen). In freedom of expression, there are limits.”

Pope Francis apparently believed that murdering people for violating Sharia blasphemy laws is “normal,” and wasn’t terrorism. “Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist,” he said in a 2017 speech. “There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia.”

cont’d…https://www.frontpagemag.com/will-the-next-pope-be-another-pope-of-islam/