§ There are now many Catholic commentators who are questioning the
Church's blindness about the danger Europe is facing.
§ "Islam has every chance massively to strengthen its presence
in Europe with the blessing of the Church.... the Church is not only leading
Europe to an impasse, it is also shooting itself in the foot." — Laurent
Dandrieu, cultural editor of the French magazine Valeurs Actuelles.
§ "It is clear that Muslims have an ultimate goal: conquering
the world...Islam, through the sharia, their law...allows violence against the
infidels, such as Christians....And what is the most important achievement?
Rome." — Cardinal Raymond Burke, interview, Il Giornale.
§ "[T]hey are not refugees, this is an invasion, they come here
with cries of 'Allahu Akbar', they want to take over." — Laszlo Kiss Rigo,
head of the Catholic Hungarian southern community.
§ François Fillon published a book entitled, Vanquishing Islamic
Totalitarianism, and he rose in the polls by vowing to control Islam and
immigration: "We've got to reduce immigration to its strict minimum,"
Fillon said. "Our country is not a sum of communities, it is an identity!"
Everyone in Italy and the rest of Europe
will "soon be Muslim" because of our "stupidity", warned Monsignor Carlo Liberati,
Archbishop Emeritus of Pompei. Liberati claimed that, thanks to the huge number
of Muslim migrants alongside the increasing secularism of native Europeans,
Islam will soon become the main religion of Europe. "All of this moral and
religious decadence favours Islam", Archbishop Liberati explained.
Décadence is also
the title of a new book by the French philosopher Michel Onfray, in which he
suggests that the Judeo-Christian era may have come to an end. He compares the
West and Islam: "We have nihilism, they have fervor; we are exhausted,
they have a great health; we have the past for us; they have the future for
them".
Archbishop Liberati belongs to a growing
branch of Catholic leaders who refuse to see the future belonging to Islam in
Europe. They speak in open opposition to Pope Francis, who does not seem too
impressed by the collapse of Christianity due to falling birth rates, accompanied
by religious apathy and its replacement by Islam.
