News Flash, News Flash, Sheikh Muhammed Munjaid, a Saudi cleric of importance, former diplomant to the US, has claimed that, according to Islamic law "Mickey Mouse should be killed!". Yes, the Disney cartoon figure, Mickey Mouse is so upsetting to a fundamental believer in Islam that, however one might do it, Mickey Mouse must be killed (perhaps by a mouse-trap?) You can read Michael Ledeen, "Save Mickey from the Terrorists", PJ Media, August 24, 12:18 PM. Rediculous? No! It certainly sounds silly that a Muslim should kill Mickey Mouse, especially because the cartoon figure is not real. But Disney and its workers are very real! To kill Mickey Mouse, as long as he is popular in the market, can only mean to terminate the creators, producers and distributors of the infidel Mickey Mouse (and do think of the Danish Mohammed cartons). Am I being extreme? Perhaps the Sheikh, certainly exuding the "peace that is Islam", is only joking? Or is the joke on those who find Islam to be a religion of peace? Cardinal Pietro Parolin and fans, please think about the fact that a religious Muslim cleric could find Mickey Mouse cartoons to be so objectionable to Islam that the silly view that Mickey Mouse should be killed could even be held as respectable. Think also that any real attempt to kill Mickey, means taking out the real people who create Mickey. Or is Saudi Islam not real Islam? If so, just where can one find "real" Islam?

A note or two more on Islam (with some reference to the position of Gregory below). Raymond Ibrahim has printed An Al-Qaeda Reader in which Ibrahim (mother language is Arabic and he possesses academic titles on Islam) has translated the writings of bin Laden and others of his group. Ibrahim goes on to show that the theses of those of Al-Quaeda can be and are substantiated by reference to the Koran, Hadiths or other standard Islam texts. The destruction of the Twin Towers was an act fully in accord with permissible islamic behavior. @Gregory or the Cardinal may not think that ISIS is "islamic". Alas, IS fighters think they are true followers of Islam,and they can cite scripture. Turn to Memri tv or Palestine Watch and you will find clip after clip of statements by believing Muslims that should give a non-Muslim qualms. I note that there are some fine thinking Muslims that resist the impetus of "core" Islam, but that means re-interpretaton and, to misquote Obama, a "fundamental transformation" of core Islam (= codified cogntive and behavioral features as paradigmatically obligatory).

According to Rita Beuer, a German researcher, in her book Im Namen Allahs. Christiliche Verfolgung (In the Name of Allah. Chritian Persecution) there is not one single Muslim majority nation in this world where Christians are not persecuted to one degree or another. Beuer shrinks back from considering the relation between the verbal acts of Muslims and the essential nature of Islam. A wise thing here and Germany as the political culture here sticks its head in the blessed sand of igorance and can arrest (it has been done so) critics of Islam.

Finally, an ISIS fighter (or whoever is the klling Muslim is) cries out Allahlu akkbar, usually translated as "God is greater or greatest". A ex-Muslim friend of mine translates it as "Allah is (the) greatest". The question arises as to what make Allah "great". Loving the world so much that He sacrifices his own Son? No!!!!!!!!!!!! "Greatness" refers to the power of Allah, not to God's "love". Beuer was wrong with the title of persecution "in the Name of Allah". No, persecution, including subjugating by terror, is the allahu akkbar power over life and is as such a direct manifestation of the power of Allah, who is not subject to any essential note that limits his power. The ISIS killers or any other "core" Muslim is subjugating,by force or terror, the infidel in accord with the paradigmatic examplary, the aboslute power of Allah. And power over death, indeed, inflicting a humiliating death, is a divine power cut off from the essential note of love. (It was the quoting of the last (?) emperor of Byzantium about the negative nature of Islam that got Pope Benedict into such trouble in Regensburg that the Church began kowtowing, excusing itself, in short, realized an islamic act of submission to Islam.) The ISIS fighter, like the Al-Qaeda fighter, like Saladin is glorifying Ahha by inflicting the humiliation of death or dying for it. Death, not love (of life), defines a fundamental islamic orientation.

In essence, with its cult of death, Islam (not every Muslim) is nihilistic, essentially the same as other nihilisms. In this regard, if one can read French, see Anna Gaifman, La Mort sera votre Dieu. Du nihilisme russe au terrorisme islamiste. Geifman, beginning life as a fully secularized Jew, was born in Russia (which has suffered so from nihilism, starting in the 19th Century and culminating in the Bolshevik revolution) and is a Jew, now living in Israel and, having regained her faith, is confronted by the anti-Semetic nihilism of islamic Hamas (which wants to kill all Jews, not just Israelis). She is uniquely qualified to write about Islamic nihilism, viz., cult of death. She has published a book in English, the title escapes me now.

P.S. For what it is worth, I am now writing the first draft of a study on the Marxist/Leninist doctrine of force, violence and terror. It does not take much to transfer my knowledge of Marxism to the nihilism now facing such a gentle and really sweet woman, but a Jew, Prof. Gaifman. If Cardinal Parolin or Gregory (whom I see as a victim of the obfuscating theses of that Prelate) or any other defender of Islam as "a religion of peace" finds my analysis to be false, please list your sources so that I am persue them. At least, may there be peace between us and let us keep are heads on!

Iraqi bishop warns that West will suffer from Islamism
Archbishop Nona appealed to western media to “try to understand us.”

“Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle East, because you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims. Also you are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions, even at the cost of contradicting your principles.”

“You think all men are equal, but that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal. Your values are not their values.”

“If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims of the enemy you have welcomed in your home.”

www.catholicnewsagency.com/…/iraqi-bishop-wa…

Thoughts on Islam and Christianity:The VAST majority of Catholics refuse (or at least decline) to renounce sex (carried out in marriage), to have no children, to cloister themselves in a monastery, to hold to silence as the Trappists do or to sacrifice one's whole of life to serving (includes making Christ's mercey known) the poor, the disadvantaged, the wayward, the "bums" of society, etc. Some, a small minority of Catholics, do realize what the vast majority does not do. Yet, both the majority and minority ARE Catholics because they assoicate religiously together in certain ways (deeds and beliefs). If a Catholic eats alot (as it appears that a certain Pope does), drinks heavily (but not immorally), spends a life having fun and games (but remaining in moral bounds), said person is a Catholic, but extremely different from a Trappist monk. What is theoretically taking place? "ACTING" religiously in certain ways is grammatically "verbal" and the "ways" are adverbal. When we talk of "Catholicism" we have taken up the adverbal "ways of acting" and examined then nominally for their typifying features. We then take such features to be the essential notes of "Catholicism". But "Catholicism" itself does NOT exist. What exists are the activities of religiously associating people according to certain ways and beliefs. Much of the problems traditional Catholics have with Pope Francis is that he often appears not to be acting and speaking in accord with the "ways and beliefs" previously accepted as the constitutive, viz., essential features of WHAT it is that ontologically constitutes the defining notes of a Catholic's Catholicism. Catholics are not the same "thing" as Catholicism. What does this have to do with Catholicism and Islam? What I have said about Catholics can also be said about Muslims. Let me initiate, and no more, an explanation.

Certainly some Muslims help Christians and some Muslims murder them. Indeed some Muslims are killed by Muslims. Note that Islam, like Catholicism, does not act because it does not exist, believers exist and do act. To judge Catholicism and Islam is not to compare specific acts, rather to judge if the acts fall within the religious "-ism" concerned. The killing of some Muslims by other Muslims does fall under the ontological "essence" of Islam. (Let us not forget that "good" Catholics and "good" Protestants got into a hell of a war of mutual slaughtering call "The 30 Years War" [1618-1648]). Christians do on occasion kill Christians. In order to judge why, "Christianity" must be examined as an essential reality. To understand the behavior of Muslims (and it varies enormously) it is wise to examine "core" beliefs. Remember that "-slm" in Islam is usually translated as "submission/subjugation". A typifying "way of acting" for a Muslim (presuming s/he knows the "faith" is one of submission to Allah so as to subjugate the world to Ahhal producing the societal Umma ruled by the sharia. Ideally Christianity menas for its acting believer to act according to love, not according to subjugation. This is a radically fundamental difference!!! In this short space, I cannot begin to dissect the falsity of Cardinal Parolin's logic. I can only say that he has with his thesis endangered the well-being, indeed, the life of Christians, Yazidis, some Muslims, particulary Jews, homosexuals and many other "infidels".

I suggest that one read the following: Raymond Ibrahim (a Copt), Crucified Again (discussed are the repeated persecutions of Christian in accord with Islamic belief through out the entire history of Islam), Robert Spencer (a Malakite [?] Christian, A Religion of Peace. Why Christianity is and Islam is not, also his popular introduction A Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (Spencer has written a dozen books on Islam), and Andrew Bostom (an erudite Jew), Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism. From Sacred Text to Solemn History. (Spencer has debated many, many, many times Muslims and non-Muslim defenders of Islam or excuse makers for Islam--all of whom repeat the false logic of the Cardinal). J'accuse the Cardinal of endangering the very life of Christians, and other infidels (includes "heretic" Muslims) by the omission of supplying information about Islam and excusing in a egregiously falsifying manner the problematic of the centuries long Islamic persecution of Christians and others and vile anti-Jewish core of Islam, ever since Mohammed destroyed without mercy Jewish tribes (stole their women for, well, sex slavery). ISIS acts according to the Scriptures and exists because my president, Pres. Obama, has consistently refused to acknowledge the problematicism of Islam, to the point of forbidding the FBI in its training manuals to mention islamic problems. Indeed, Spencer used to lecture to FBI trainees, no more as his views were forbidden my B. Hussein O.

Pardon this long comment. Relative to the matter much more space is needed. I do ask that the reader at least glance at the books mentioned, a tiny fraction of information available, yes, for the excuse making Cardinal. The prelate has objectively committed an act of ommision.

Islam is actually an evil Satanic murderous religion. I would boldly state that ISIS is truer to its Islamic roots than any other Islamic group.
Any person with half a brain can see that Cardinal Pietro Parolin doesn't know what the heck he is talking about, just like all the other liberal clergy. ISIS has said repeatedly that they would kill any Christians. ISIS practices Islam, they have killed thousands of Christians, for anyone to refute this does the Christian martyrs injustice. Lets not defend these barbaric killers!

Islam was founded by Mohammed. ISIS can only trace its roots back to 2002 even though their leader, Baghdadi, lays claim to a form of authority from the earliest days of Islam. Also, unlike al-Qaeda, whose tactic was to focus on the “far enemy,” the West; ISIS is opposed to the “near enemy,” rulers in the Islamic world. ISIS is a violent extremist army committing senseless, brutal attacks against minorities, Muslims and Christians. They govern according to harshly interpreted principles of Islamic law and have appointed themselves the leading proponent of the Muslim faith; yet they destroy Churches, Shires and Mosques and reportedly intend to target Islam’s holiest site, Mecca.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin makes the distinction and it would be difficult for any right minded person of faith to credit this psychotic, extremist faction of Islam as having any legitimate status to the religion of Islam.

WHAT THE HELL! Cardinal Pietro Parolin denied that the massacres in Iraq are clashes between Islam and Christianity!!!

Is there idiots running the Vatican! This is so sick and twisted! I bet they said this because they are afraid they will be bombed! Not caring for Christian lives but their own heads! This is outrageous! Shame on you Cardinal Pietro Parolin!!! You make me