The Pope’s New Secretary: Islam Is a ‘Culture of Death’
Posted on May 4, 2014 by creeping
Contrary to Pope Francis, who said that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence,” his new Coptic secretary has a different opinion.
BCF: (translated by “Frau Katze”)
Pope Francis has a new secretary who speaks Arabic and has very clear words about Islam. It is no coincidence.
The
new secretary, Father Yoannis Lahzi Gaido, is a Copt from Egypt, where
Christians are a beleaguered minority who have had experience with Islam
for 1,350 years. His realistic view of Islam lacks any Western gloss.
[...]
The
new secretary of Pope Francis is Coptic Catholic Christian and comes
from the diplomatic service of the Vatican. In his CV, his critical
remarks about Islam stand out… Father Yoannis Lahzi Gaido was born in
1975. He visited the Diplomatic Academy of the Holy See and entered the
diplomatic service in 2007. His first destination was the Apostolic
Nuncio to Congo in Brazzaville…
[He
came to the Pope’s attention] for his ability to speak Arabic…The
Egyptian has become the interpreter of the Pope when he receives news
from the Arab world.
Among
the friends of the new secretary is another well-known Egyptian, the
famous Muslim Magdi Cristiano Allam, a journalist and writer who
converted to Christianity, and was baptized by Benedict XVI at the
Easter Vigil in 2008 in St. Peter’s Basilica.
There were violent riots in various parts of the Islamic world, including fatalities, as a consequence of this.
Allam
has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009. After the
election of Pope Francis, he took an increasingly critical position
towards the Catholic Church, which he accuses of disregarding the
warnings of Benedict XVI and adopting the “dictatorship of relativism”
and appearing soft on Islam. He says Islam is a “real threat to Christianity and the freedom of man.”
In his book “Grazie Gesù”(Thank you Jesus) that Allam published in the year of his baptism, he wrote about Father Yoannis Gaido:
Father
Yoannis Lahzi Gaido, an Egyptian, deserves a special mention. [He was]
for years chaplain to the church of Santa Domitilla in Latina and is
currently Secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature in Brazzaville.
I met him in Rome, and he has given me years of friendship and expressed his solidarity [with me].
He
has a profound knowledge of the real Islam, as it is actually present
in the hearts and minds of the majority of Muslims, and not distorted by
the ignorance, naivety, good nature and ideological blindness of the
West, which is exploited by mystifiers and hypocrites.
Father
Yoannis shares my position on Islam completely and I was close to him
as a brother Christian, as the organized media storm after my
conversion, that tried to discredit and defame me, reached its climax.
Allam cited an interview that Father Gaido gave on 31 March 2008:
I
have always tried to be a friend that respects the different religion
of the other, without being afraid to tell the truth or to emphasize
that Christianity is a call to freedom.
And
when Magdi asked me about the Copts in Egypt, I did not hide the
enormous difficulties under which Christians must live in places with a
Muslim majority.
These
difficulties are not caused by a few Islamists, but by a culture of
death and violence that is based on very clear verses [of their
scripture] that they quote,
calling for violence and jihad, saying they should murder all who are
different and killing [those who express] freedom of conscience. Just
to think differently is enough to be sentenced to death.
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
ISLAM - THE CULTURE OF DEATH
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