Maggie's Farm

Re: Attempts to Islamize the West

To me the more shocking than a pronouncement from the Vatican that is as clear as Barry Bonds use of steroids is the opening of the article.

Given the Muslim outrage the last time the Pontiff said something substantive about the history of Islam and the West, it has fallen to his secretary to make public observations about what is going on


Pope Benedict XVI’s private secretary warned of the Islamisation of Europe and stressed the need for the continent’s Christian roots not to be ignored.

“Attempts to Islamise the west cannot be denied,” Monsignor Georg Gaenswein was quoted as saying in the weekly Sueddeutsche Magazin to be published Friday.

“The danger for the identity of Europe that is connected with it should not be ignored out of a wrongly understood respectfulness,” the magazine quoted him as saying.


That the Pontiff has kowtowed to Islam by not making the pronouncement himself is an act of ignominy.

If Christianity is to face the growing demographic overtaking of it by Islam it would be better served by a Pope who has the courage to face the challenge at the head of his Church, not behind a secretary reading from a parchment.