The meeting came five years after the Cairo-based Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib, grand imam of Al-Azhar, froze talks with the Vatican to protest alleged anti-Islam comments by then-Pope Benedict XVI.
AP The meeting occurred five years after Al -Azhar suspended talks with the Vatican after tensions mounted during the reign of then-Pope Benedict XVI. The now-retired Benedict delivered a speech in 2006 in which he was perceived to have linked Islam to violence, sparking deadly attacks on Christians.
Benedict had demanded greater protection for Christians in Egypt after a New Year’s bombing on a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria killed 21 people. Since then, Islamic attacks on Christians in the region have only increased.
Al-Azhar has shown himself over the years to be anything but a preacher of peace, cooperation and mercy: he has justified anti-Semitism on Qur’anic grounds; called for the Islamic State murderers of the Jordanian pilot to be crucified or have their hands and feet amputated on opposite sides (as per the penalty in Qur’an 5:33 for those who make war against Allah and his messenger or spread “mischief” in the land); and broken off “dialogue” with the Vatican after Pope Benedict XVI dared to criticize the jihad massacre of 21 Christians in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve 2011. Al-Azhar was also revealed to be offering free copies of a book that called for the slaughter of Christians and other Infidels.
El-Tayyib sent a message of congratulations to Francis upon his 2013 election and said he hoped for renewed cooperation. Francis responded, and has made clear over the course of his three-year pontificate that relations with Islam are a top priority.
In a recent interview with the French Catholic newspaper La Croix, Francis took a conciliatory line toward Islam, saying “I sometimes dread the tone” when people refer to Europe’s “Christian” roots.
“It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam,” he said. But he added that Christianity, too, had its “triumphalist” undertones. “It is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations to Islamic jihadists” (who are killing tens of thousands in their quest to create an Islamic caliphate around the world)
He added that when looking to the causes of Islamic extremism, it is better to “question ourselves about the way in an overly Western model of democracy has been exported.”
Hahaha Robin I never said that there never could be false people in the RCC,what I said is that it is impossible that the RCC herself is a false church cos that would mean that from the very beginning humans have hijacked God.This is impossible.No human can hijack God and that is why the RCC is not the antichrist.You also talked about me reading the scripture.I know the scripture very well.The problem with islam in the west is because you guys don’t know scripture and that is why islam is on rampage in the west.The real truth is I am glad islam came to the west cos you cannot call yourself a complete christian if you don’t live with moslems.Christianity is the baby while islam is its placenta.So if christianity exists alone unchallenged it would be disastrous.This is so because Christianity itself has what I like to call 10 percent liberalism and 90 percent religion.it is this 10 percent liberalism that make us tolerant.But this will lead to problems if the religion is unchallenged cos the liberal content of a person will increase while his religion decreases.Most christians in the west only possess as we speak around 30 percent religion and 70 percent liberalism.That is why they are called liberal christians and they pander to islam.But there are worse cases where the religion depreciates to 0.This is how atheism is born.islam believes it is in the west to conquer but actually it is in the west to cut liberalism in christianity.This is the job of islam. I know moslems watch this website and that is why I am saying this.when the religious composition of christians reach 90 percent islam will be in trouble.But when religion moves above 90 percent then christians will be in “crusader mode”.Tell the moslems that it is religion and also the strongest one.it is indeed religion the more you attack it the stronger it gets.Crying “Hatespeech”(whatever that means)will not save them.So Mr Robin kiss and hug a catholic christian cos you are gonna need it.Take my advice cos I have seen too many religions in the world.I was educated in moslem schools.My elementary school was moslem,my highschool was moslem and I went to a moslem controlled university which writes exams at 8am on sundays but never writes exams on fridays.The west prides herself as “the developed world”,because she has fantastic economy and infrastructures.But I don’t see development in terms of skyscrappers and metrolines.I see development in terms of experience and the ability to survive with your culture and identity intact.I see the west as the least developed cos it does not know all the ideologies of this world and that is why islam is running riot there.There is no use of building fantastic cities like new york,las vegas and san antonio if the moslems defeat you cos in the next 300 years moslems will say it was a moslem called “imran ahmad” that first landed on the moon.No matter how many skyscrappers or metrolines the west builds,the world is still a jungle where everything you can overpower becomes your food.so let the church be quiet at the foot of the cross while waiting for the lord to order us on the next line of things.ISLAM no doubt is the antichrist.To bonni I say thank you for letting me use your platform.
Please don’t post such long comments especially without dividing them into paragraphs.
This very confused Pope is no friend to Christians. He should grow a beard and he would fit right in with his real friends.
What the heck is wrong with this man? Is he a Muslim in disguise?
Alzheimer.
To ramez and Robin shultz,people like you guys are the main problem of the faith.To Robin,I say the RCC is not an antichrist and to ramez I say the protestant church is very fine.To robin I ask you a question,are you telling me that the RCC hijacked the power of God without God doing anything?I thought God was almighty and all powerful so how can mere men hijack his church?The RCC is not the one and only church as some say but it is definitely the leader of the whole church.I now say to ramez that God himself ordained the reformation.while God used martin luther for this,luther later left God and spoke blasphemy against God.he also let his hatred of the RCC turn into something else.So while I agree that the reformation is from God,I don’t agree with luther.Mind you I am a protestant but I hate luther.I believe Christ doesn’t want all his power in one place so that the RCC does not become too powerful and tyrannical.I am a protestant who loves the RCC icons.They are not idols.An idol is not a statue cos God told moses to make the bronze snake statue and God has not changed!!!so do u want to tell me moses made an idol?ok what about the small statue of the winged cherub on the ark of convenant that is placed in the temple in which direction ancient jews pray?so are the jews not bowing towards the holy of holies which has the ark with the so called ” idols”.That is not an idol.so what is an idol?An idol is anything that the bible does not sanction.it may be a statue or an image or even anything one places above God e.g obsession with anything or any part of your body.someone mentioned shoebat.Shoebat is the greatest christian in the west today.he is very insightful and I love him.He is a watchman so don’t expect him to go easy on you.To Ramez who said that catholics kept the civilisation,what about Africa?Africa is majorly protestant but do you know how many times they have been martyred in the hands of moslems?The moslem terrorist group called Boko haram in west africa has killed over 9 thousand christians and most of them are protestants.You westerners fight yourselves over catholic and protestant issues cos you have not yet seen islam.when you see islam you will become friends under the banner of christ along with our jewish brothers.Remember christ said in john 17:21 that “that they may all be one”.Let us eschew the bitterness that the reformation brought along with it.There is gonna be a war,a big war and I am expecting to see protestant crusaders on the frontlines alongside their catholic brothers.To Emma I say go back to the RCC and look for a good priest that preaches the truth.Truthful priests are still many in the RCC.seek and you shall find.leave pope francis alone.Anything the pope says,he is on his own.It is a bad leader for the RCC now but I pray along with the catholics and other christians of the world that God will bless us with a good leader of the RCC and of christendom.To bonni,I say thanks for fighting a demonic ideology.You are one of the reasons why moslems hate jews.To christians who hate jews,I say you are not christian cos you can’t love christ and hate his family.To jews who hate jews and israel,I say may Jehovah heal you.Thank you once again Bonni and keep the flag flying.
Sir, Have you read the Bible? If you have, you would know God put us in a Perfect world. We DISOBEYED HIM. After that, the world was NO longer PERFECT. You say if God is all powerful, He could STOP UNBIBLICAL teaching. You are correct. He absolutely could!! He could stop EVERY evil. However, that is NOT His plan. And, if He did stop all the evil in the world, it would be PERFECT again, right?? It won’t be PERFECT, again, until Jesus returns. Only then, will He separate the “wheat from the tares”. Read your Bible, Africanson.
Pope Benedict was so much better than him. Maybe this is the reason they conspired against him. Such a shame to call him leader of the church.
Dhimmi Pope! He is no dhimmi! I believe that the man has reverted, going by all his favorable actions for the Cause! He ordered all his Churches in the West to welcome and accept Muslim ‘Syrian’ refugees. As though this is not enough, he brought a few Muslim families and settled them in the Vatican! Settled them, where they can be fruitful and multiply! In a City-State where all the men are lifelong bachelors, and the women, all spinsters! And now this! This is no dhimmi; if we believe that he is still ‘Catholic’, then it is we who are dhimmis.
CC, it’s getting harder and harder to argue against that thinking.
I have written to him, this ‘Pope’. Telling him it obvious to Catholics worldwide he is a secret convert. As well as an arch Marxist. He IS a Marxist/Socialist/Communist from South America. I wrote he has betrayed and abandoned Catholics and all Christians by extension. He is the pope of the last prophecy of Fatima (1917) and of course I told him that!!! This pope is prophesied as betraying and abandoning his people to save his own skin. This scum Francis has openly admitted he is a v big coward. He is so stupid, he thinks ‘just be nice and they wont harm me or the Vatican’……this is the mark of a monumental fool. I told him his deceit and disgusting abandonment of Catholics/Christians is v likely to place him in an unsafe position, that perhaps it would be his ‘own’ who would demolish the Vatican and rebuild and begin again.
The main body of the ordinary people in the Catholic church are beginning to hate him and it seems he’s oblivious to this, living in a fantasy land of rottenness. I told him that too, and as well gave him a large amount of info that shows the Bible and Koran are exact opposites. He is an outrage, a disgrace to the man who founded Christianity, who would NEVER have chummed up so close with an ideology so clearly demonic. He took in muslims when Christians were doubly suffering by being attacked in the camps as well as in their homes etc. This disgusting behaviour will not go without retribution for the Catholic church and it is likely to lose followers to the Orthodox churches. Told him I would never be seen in a Catholic church, even though born to it. Or the Protestant, but NOT the Anglican, which is just as bad. I wrote all that too him and much more. For him to say Christian women should intermarry with the scum spawn of the devil is truly beyond shocking. They will be treated so badly and lose any rights etc. He is a plant in the same way Obama is. Benedict was forced to resign in some way, its now obvious and this scum pope is doing the bidding of someone else, or the Islamic bloc countries and he is likely to have converted secretly to Islam a fair while ago. Meaning he has been biding his time to achieve the Pope position so that he can aid Islam’s spread into Europe and have Rome destroyed.
Of course he doesn’t have Europe’s safety or interest in his mind. He knows nothing about Europe really, coming as he does from south America where there are many rampant Marxists. I said its also obvious he has no knowledge of true Islam and saying the Koran and Bible are the same is a shocking heresy and enormous insult to an incredible person called Jesus and all the earlier Jewish prophets.
The biggest danger this scum lying POS now faces is from his own. Start praying for his removal.
Did you get an answer, Ingrid?
Interesting that you mentioned marriage, as I just experienced this. Catholic Church refused to conduct our marriage because my future husband was Jewish and would not consent to raising any future children in the Roman Catholic Church. We were then instructed to attend Mass every Sunday for 6 months. On each Sunday, we were to place money in separate envelopes with our names written on them to “prove” that we were in attendance!! Then, here comes Frankie, encouraging Catholic Women to breed with moslem men!! Man is thoroughly off the rails!! So….a Catholic Woman cannot marry a Jewish Man, but marriage to a moslem is encouraged by the Pope!! Yet, so-called”Christian Catholics” fall all over themselves trying to touch his filthy garments!!
Hi Bonni. no I haven’t heard back yet and I am waiting. I will write another at the weekend. I have a lot of info for this scum traitor Pope and I am going to keep giving it to him in instalments. I told him that I am telling Catholics to turn their back and walk away. I have started having some success with this.
Don’t hold your breath.
Course the Korahn and Bible including the Tanach are the same. Where does the bloody Pope think Mohammed got his ideas from? Mohammed took Tananch and Bible mucked it about and called it a new religion with plenty of violence and atrocities thrown in.
The huge distortions the Koran has made has completely destroyed any similarities between the 2 books. The Koran is only a v small part of the massive body of Islamic writings. Its like just one book in the whole of the Bible, like Exodus or judges etc.It contains 6000 words of violence, and the whole of the Islamic writings contain 328000 words as against the Old Testaments 31000. The Old Testament is a history. It describes violence used to conquer Canaan for example. It does not say to continue violence until the whole world is forced to believe its teachings. Not at all. ALL the violence in Islam writings are totally directed at continuing horrific violence until the whole world is converted, enslaved or dead. The Bible is nothing like this.
Servant of the Devil, this pope! It baffles me, how come Catholics cannot see that their religion is the religion of the “Great Whore” which is mentioned as a warning in Revelation. It is sickening to read catholic pages such as e.g. Shoebat, who cannot stop bashing Protestants and spewing lies about this and that. This, to me. indicates that catholicism is NOT among the Christian denominations; they are pharisees.
Shoebat is not a Catholic. Mecca is the seat of the anti Christ. In the manuscript called The Doctrina Jacobi dated 634AD, one of the many eyewitness accounts of the v brutal arrival of the scum Saracens in the middle east, Israel, an old sage says with a very loud groan that ‘The man who has come with the Saracens is not a prophet as he comes with a sword and murders with his own hand’. He went on, ‘I fear we are now preparing to receive the antichrist of prophecy into the world and it has now become clear that it is the prophet of the Christians which is the true messenger from god’. Now that was said 1400 years ago and this old man was right. I can almost hear his groan down those 1400 years. They KNEW back then and we still haven’t attended to ridding the earth of it. That thing Mohammed has fooled billions that he is the correct and only prophet just as the prophecy said the antichrist would. The thing now appears to have fooled the present Pope as well, but the prophecies of Fatima ( 1917) which were revealed to 3 Catholic children mean many Catholics have been expecting this disgusting traitor pope. His treason will not save him though according to the Fatima prophecy.
The focus on Rome etc as being the antichrist appears because for millennia Christians knew so little about Islam and its true motives. Also it removes too close inspection of Islam and Mecca, and it has been v clever. The descriptions in the Bible have a closer description of where Mecca is situated. The Red Sea and the Gulf is by far the busiest seaway in the world now due to the humungous oil trade. The ‘city in the desert’.
The thing himself prophesied that one day muslims will become the scum and rubbish of the world and be pushed back between the 2 mosques like a serpent returning to its hole. Now that thing using a snake as symbolic is crucial here. In the 3 Semitic religions serpents/snakes represent pure evil and even Satan himself. That thing Mohammed KNEW you see. He knew what he was and where his message came from. Twice in his life he said he was possessed by demons and once he said he was possessed by Satan. He was v accurate in this. Also what sort of prophet talks about his/hers/its future followers like THAT??? He also said they would become ‘treacherous and untrustworthy’. Well as he knew he was demonic he knew what he was brainwashing them with was evil so of COURSE they would become ‘treacherous’ wouldnt they??? Otherwise the demonic teachings would have failed.
Shoebat isn’t a true Catholic, he swings between sects.
Francis I the Talking Mule has spoken!
Francis is the new benedict arnold of the Christian faith. What part of being a Christian does he not get?? Muslimes will never ever get along with Christians ever! Can he be impeached?
No, the Pope cannot be impeached or forced out. The only way Pope Francis no longer becomes Pope is either if he dies, or resigns.
Or the Cardinals kill him.
A number of people have called for this piece of shit’s impeachment. Perhaps their spell-checker wasn’t turned on. Mine said IMPALEMENT. And seeing this low-life slime is supposedly the Vicar of Christ on earth, perhaps he can set the example & have himself impaled as the ultimate act of faith.
If this walking barrel of amoebic dysentery needs help, then just sing out. Just cover my expenses, the service is free.
The Jesuit Black Pope sold his soul to the Devil. And sells out the world’s Christians.
A man I once spoke to about Jesus Christ responded by saying that, he “would rather Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven.”
It appears that’s what the Jesuit Black Pope believes.
Can the Catholic Church remove the pope from office how is that done. He has shown he is a trader of Christians and he is a socialist or communist whatever you want to call it. He wants to kneel down to the Muslims and let them take over. What a disgrace. I will no longer attend Catholic Church due to the pope being a trader to his religion and church.
The pope is a DOPE!!!!
Love it….by the way, I’m stealing it !
He is so prideful. Wants to make himself appear more “holy” than the rest of us by sucking up to these monsters!! That’s not holy, Frankie, that’s EVIL!! And Jesus wept……..
“The now-retired Benedict delivered a speech in 2006 in which he was perceived to have linked Islam to violence, sparking deadly attacks on Christians.”
Read this carefully. Do you see the ridiculous contradiction?
Here’s a bit of bible study the pope can teach the heathen evil imam.
Matthew 6:6-13King James Version (KJV)
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
And of the 99 names for Allah, not one is Father or Love…..
But al Makr or greatest of all deceivers
So just simply substitute Satan for Allah in the Quran.
Perhaps the pope can insist on more Catholic Churches in Egypt be constructed.
Evil meets evil.
The pope is an utter disgrace.
A false preacher that goes entirely against the teachings of Christ.
Christ warned his followers about false prophets and strongly condemned evil, just as John the Baptist.
And this disgrace of a pope entered into USA politics and tried to challenge trump.
He has no moral authority except as grand pope of the hypocrites.
“Koran and Bible are the same” does this super sized idiot think we are ALL illiterate?
I would simply make a list of five or ten things comparing the two founders of the two faiths. It would be a very clear statement of the difference between good and evil. ISSLIME is remarkably evil from it very roots. This old brain marganilized fool(raca) is the best devils advocate ever.
I miss Benedict. Had it not been for this imposter, I would have never left the Catholic Church. The Catholic (universal) Church has been hijacked by this imposter. Then, “the way is narrow”. It hurts tremendously, more than most would know, to have to turn my back on the church of my youth.
Good for you, emma. The Catholic Church is a falsehood; a worshipper of dead skulls, of show in wealth, of pedophilia! It is stinking Rotten, I tell you! Take a look at this wise page, and praise yourself lucky to have escaped a falsehood, a deception! https://ivarfjeld.com/2016/05/18/the-whore-is-dressed-in-purple-and-pearls/
Emma, the RC church has changed it’s teaching many, many times. RC used to teach salvation was ONLY through RC. That’s why the children HAD to be baptized in a RC church.
Perhaps the pope will offer himself up to be crucified by the savages he seems to be so fond of. But unlike Christ I doubt this dope will rise up in three days.
Maybe needs testing for the onset of some ‘brain’ disease !
The Faux pope,Francis the fickle, has sold himself to the Muslim Devils & also led his sheep to slavery. Perhaps Francis should read more about Judas Iscariot!
Francis sounds like Obama. Bringing back the crusades talk. Problem is, the Crusades ended long ago. Muslims killing Christians never ended. Francis took his name after Saint Francis, but I believe he’s acting more like Francis the talking Mule.
One hopes against hope that the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, good Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyib has publicly apologized for his anti-Christian attitudes expressed against now Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI and for all the violence in 2006 he did nothing to stop. Reach out cannot be a one-way act nor is it ever.
Why would he?
This pos is an enabler, like Obama in turning the Judeo/Christian world into an Islamic one!
Belgium: Lawmakers nominate jailed Palestinian Barghouti for Nobel
Via Times of Israel:
Belgium lawmakers from across the political spectrum nominated jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize, Palestinian media reported on Wednesday.
Barghouti is currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail for his role in murderous terror attacks during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s.
Palestinian activists have been campaigning for his nomination for a Nobel since April.
Lawmakers from both the Belgian Senate and House of Representatives penned a letter to the Nobel nominating committee praising Barghouti as a peace activist and key to future talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
“He is an important actor for the future of a region more fragmented than ever,” the letter reads, according to the Palestine News Network. “Peace requires the freedom of Marwan Barghouti and of the political prisoners, and more generally the freedom of the Palestinian people living for decades under occupation.”
http://antisemitism-europe.blogspot.com/2016/05/belgium-lawmakers-nominate-jailed.html
‘Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli jail for his role in murderous terror attacks. Lawmakers from both the Belgian Senate and House of Representatives penned a letter to the Nobel nominating committee praising Barghouti as a peace activist.’
The Belgian government has proven they are as EVIL and as SATANIC and DANGEROUS as Filthy, Satanic, Muslim Terrorist Killers.
Nobel is now worthless. It became so the moment that it was awarded to a worthless do-nothing named Barack Hussein Obama!
the pope needs to be impeaced..
Pope Francis isn’t a Dhimmi Pope he’s an apostate Pope, he’s a Pope that has the spirit of the anti-Christ … He’s the “end times” Pope.
And, everything he’s doing is to destroy Christianity.
The RCC has never represented true Christianity from the get-go.
They have “self appointed” themselves as some form of representative of “Christianity”, but they are as pagan as they come.
The history of the Catholic Church is an abomination.
The sad fact that so many have believed their doctrine for so long is a disgrace.
The sooner they fall, the better, along with the entire body of Christendom.
I sure would like to know what kind of secrets they are hiding.
No White Infidels have defended Western Civilization more unwaveringly and successfully than White Roman Catholics till WWII. I mean, HELLO, don’t the names of Charles Martel and Jon Sobieski who repelled the Koranimal invaders at Tours in 732 C.E. and at the Gates of Vienna in 1683 C.E. ring any bells? What about the Crusades? For the record, I’ll go one step further and assert that you Protestants (whom I don’t consider to be Christians apart from Islamosavvy racially aware White ones) are the reason Mohammedans continue to be the baleful scourge they are to date; ‘cuz the Protestant Brits sides with the Turks in the early 1850’s Crimean War, thus protecting the Turks against annihilation at the hands of the Russians back then.
Brits who sided with Muslim Turks in the Crimean War were the leaders, NOT the PEOPLE!
I’m a Protestant Christian. I’m not ashamed to be a follower of Jesus.
“Better a Turk than a ‘Papist’!” is a Protestant-influenced British proverb.
The key to defeating Islam and securing the survival of your unrivalledly intelligent and physically charming race, Linda, is the alliance of Prostestants with racially aware Islamosavvy White Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians and you and ilk’s conversion to either Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy is but a small step in the right direction and a guarantee of your salvation, for the fact that there’re more White Catholic and Orthodox Christians, collectively dubbed “traditional Christians,” than Protestants is ample evidence of the genuineness of their faith rather your yours.
So, Ramez, you don’t consider “protestants” to be Christian?? The 1st Christians were JEWS, you dumb ass!! Roman catholicism WAS NOT even thought of until Constantine was the emperor of Rome!! I get sick to my stomach, when I think of all the people who have followed this EVIL, MANMADE “religion”, who are spending eternity in HELL, because they believed what they were TOLD to BELIEVE!!!! Do you know what “discernment” means, Ramez?? Read a BIBLE, ask GOD to tell you what HE says is TRUTH. If you REALLY want to know, HE will make HIS TRUTH known to you!! Then, you will have DISCERNMENT, and you will realize that what Roman catholicism teaches, is BULLSHIT!!!! Sorry about my language, but when it comes to RC, there is no other way to describe it’s theology!!!!
Ramez,
Jesus did not call Himself “Christian”. He thoroughly identified Himself as a JEW!!! He sought to cleanse the Jewish Faith and open it to Gentiles. We who follow Christ, are all JEWS!
How far is this dope willing to go, I doubt we’ve seen it all yet!
Now I wouldn’t be surprised to turn down an alley in Bradford and see this traitor kneeling infront of the local imam!!.
Community outreach, isn’t it?? Lol.
We’ve seen him kiss the flakey feet of these swines, telling us spreading the gospel is just the same as jihad!! what next.?
Sadly millions listen and trust the word of this dhimmi Pope!
Curse him, traitorous, Judas like character!
@English D – I fully expect this Pope will announce that Islam and Christianity are compatible.
I believe he will announce the formation of a “Chrislam” type of religious doctrine.
I think he already has.
Give him a cross as a gift, ya right