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In a passionate speech at the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II issued a call for the First Crusade to liberate Jerusalem from Muslim occupation. “Deus vult!” the cry went up from the assembled crowd. “God wills it!” And Christendom responded.
That was a different era. Today the West is no longer Christendom but a secular civilization in decline and undergoing an accelerating capitulation to Islamic imperialism. Instead of a Pope Urban II rallying the Church Militant in defense of the faith, we are saddled with a pacifist Pope Leo XIV calling for “interfaith dialogue” and “communion” between Christianity and the Islamic ideology that is, both historically and currently, an existential enemy of Western civilization.
The Church Militant, by the way, refers in Catholic theology to those serving as soldiers (from the Latin milites) of God engaged in spiritual warfare against sin and evil in the world – not only internally against our own broken nature but externally against Satan and his evil agents.
Fresh from declaring that Jesus Christ rejects the prayers of those who wage war, in denial not only of thousands of years of righteous Jewish and Christian warriors appealing to God for victory but also of more than 1600 years of Catholic “just war” theory, Pope Leo is currently on a tour of territories whose Christian populations have been either radically reduced or nearly eradicated by Islamic supremacism. His message is one, frankly, of willful ignorance: that Christians and Muslims can live together in peace, and that anyone who says otherwise is ginning up conflict and hatred for reasons of bigotry and/or politics.
The fact that he keeps using Lebanon as a positive example of Muslims and Christians living together, when the Christian population there has been persecuted and reduced to just 30% of the country, is an issue.
He seems to always grade Islam on a curve. pic.twitter.com/pyGdb6BG6I
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 16, 2026
“I know that in Europe,” Leo begins in the video clip above,
there are many times fears that are present but oftentimes generated by people who are against immigration and trying to keep out people who, maybe from another country or religion another race. In that sense, I would say that we all need work together.
Leo glossed right over the real reason why “many times fears are present” in Europe: the presence of millions of Muslim migrants, a flood of whom is still ongoing, is forcing a fundamental and unsustainable transformation of those Christian countries into increasingly Islamized colonies in which sharia law, no-go zones, terrorism, streets blocked by masses of praying Muslims, soaring knife crime and a literal rape culture, and open hostility toward Jewish and Christian infidels are now part of the new normal for all indigenous Europeans, who oftentimes are treated by their own globalist elites – like Pope Leo – as the real threat to civil society.
“One of the values of this trip,” Leo added about his tour, “is precisely to raise the world’s attention to the possibility that dialogue and friendship between Muslims and Christians is possible.”
Possible? Well yes, but almost anything is within the realm of possibility. Unicorns are possible. Dialogue and friendship are certainly possible, but by definition they are two-way streets. Christians are perfectly willing to live in peace and friendship; this is not in question. The issue is, are Muslims willing to reciprocate?
I understand that as Pope, the Chicago-born Leo is in the business of promoting peace on earth for men of good will. But Christians and Muslims have different understandings of what the word “peace” entails. For Christians, the word is defined as the absence of conflict; for devout Muslims, peace means a world in which all have submitted to Allah and live under sharia. Hence, their view is that the world is divided into Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harb – the world of Islam and the world of war. This is not a worldview conducive to tolerance and inclusion. And yet it is always Christians, never Muslims, who are expected to concede, to defer, to change, and to be “welcoming,” even at the cost of our traditions, our values, even our churches themselves, and too often even our lives.
Pope Leo and his ilk seem unable or unwilling to grasp that “interfaith dialogue” between Christians and Muslims is always, in reality, a monologue in which we are expected to listen and accommodate the latter accordingly. Sayyid Qutb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, argued that interfaith dialogue with the West should be undertaken only to draw infidels over to Islam, bringing concessions with them.
The willful blindness of Pope Leo and multicultural fantasists aside, there are no historic or contemporary examples in which Islam and Christianity live perpetually side-by-side as equals in peaceful harmony. Individual Christians and thoroughly Westernized Muslims, yes, but not the two cultures as a whole. The demonstrable reality is that wherever Islam gets a foothold in Christian countries, it leverages that foothold and exploits Western freedoms, rights, and pluralism in order to expand its political and social power. It wields deception, coercion, demographic jihad, and ultimately violence in order to subvert the host culture and begin seizing control, once its population has become a significant enough minority (this could be as low as a single-digit percentage of the population; Muslims make up an estimated 4-7% of the Belgian population, 6.6% of Germany, perhaps 7% of England, and 10% of France). Eventually Christians and Jews flee, are expelled, or are reduced to scant dhimmi minorities in their own countries.
As my Freedom Center colleague Daniel Greenfield put it recently after the Pope visited Algeria and paid his respects at a monument celebrating genocidal jihad,
In 1955, Algeria had over 1 million Catholics and 140,000 Jews. Today, as Pope Leo visits Algeria, there are some 8,000 Catholics in Algeria and there are fewer than 200 Jews.
99% of the population of what was one of the old territories of Christianity are Sunni Muslims.
Subsequently, when Leo visited Lebanon, he praised the country as a model of Christian-Muslim coexistence: “I think one of the great lessons that Lebanon can teach to the world is precisely showing a land where Islam, Christianity are both present and are respected, and that there is an opportunity to live together, to be friends.”
In fact, Lebanon was a Christian-majority country from the first century AD onward until as recently as the 1980s. In a few short decades Christians there went from a 60+ percent majority to a minority of perhaps 30 percent. To gain an understanding of how that came about, read the autobiography of Act for America activist Brigitte Gabriel about her childhood experience as a Lebanese Christian.
As one poster on X wrote,
Celebrating Lebanon as a model of coexistence, without naming the very real persecution, demographic collapse, and Hezbollah-driven hostility that has decimated the Christian population, risks producing a romanticized narrative that does not serve the truth — or the Christians still living there.
As went the Middle East, now goes Europe, where Islam has asserted itself with the complicity of the continent’s globalist leaders as the “strong horse” over a Christianity in decline. Other Western societies such as Australia are soon to follow – even the United States is not immune – unless dramatic, perhaps even illiberal, steps are taken to turn the tide and reclaim the West’s predominately Christian identity. This will require a Church Militant willing to stand in defense of our faith and push back against Islamic persecution and hostility. At the very least, the entire West needs to undertake a new, lawful Reconquista through remigration. If such steps are not taken, the demise of Christianity and the dominance of Islam will be accelerated and assured.
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Photo credit: painting of Pope Urban II calling for the First Crusade by 19th century Italian painter Francesco Hayez (public domain)
There is no, NOT ever, peace between the followers of Mohamed and the followers of Jesus Christ. These are two diametrically opposed spiritual systems and spiritual entities. Only ignorant and as you say willfully blind would think this is possible. Leo has another world order in mind.
A spiritual revolution.
Mixing the two is akin to trying to mix oil and water, it may look like its mixing for a few sec0nds and the division starts. The Islamic area of the world is the Mideast, that is a given. They generally oppose anything Christian or western. In WWII they sided with the NAZI’s of Germany, oil for arms, training, and gold. Supreme Commander of the war was Dwight David Eisenhower saw right through them and their beliefs. During his Presidency he created a law that forbid any Islamic migration to the west saying they cannot not and will not assimilate into our culture peacefully. Barrack Obama disregarded and withdrew that law creating large Islamic Communities in Michigan, Minnesota, California, and Illinois. They have not asimilated at all and grow larger every year. We have seen hour their customs violate OUR laws, we have seen the massive fraud and theft of tax payers money, We have seen increases in violent crimes of murder and rape. It is suspected that Obama is a Muslim himself and the reason for his spured support of their migration. The last time the Muslim Horde crossed the Straits at Constaniple was in the late 1400’s but at the Pope’s decree was pushed back by the Spanish and Danish armies. They want world dominati0n. They welcome death, Christians don’t. FUnny how both began with Abraham and are so different. Obama and HRC , in my mind created this mess and today its like trying to put a genie back in a bottle, impossible.
In Deuteronomy 22, verse 10 ‘you shall not plough with an ox and a donkey yoked together’.
In Amos 3, verse 3 ‘ Can two walk together except they be in agreement’.
In Isaiah 5, verse 20 we are warned against calling evil good and good evil.
In Proverbs 3, verse 7 advises us to turn away from evil.
In Romans 12, verse 21 we are instructed to overcome evil with good.
There can never be any agreement or accommodation between Christianity and islam, and the Pope of all people must know this. If he doesn’t then I think he’s in the wrong job. His job is to preach the gospel and to spread the good news of the New Testament.
What an enlightened comment!! Thank you!
Yes, the New World Order where the Antichrist will be the ruler.
What we have with the Muslims is a “Clash of Civilizations”, as explained in this book by Samuel Huntington in 1996.
excellent article
I would take a combination of Charles Martel and Pope Urban II any day of the week.
‘CATHOLIC CRUSADES’ ARE FALSE
the unique way the satanic catholic fake church pulled people in to assist them was quite satanic…
Wiki Reports: “Crusades”
>>> 1) “Hundreds of thousands of people from many different classes and nations of Western Europe became crusaders by taking a public vow and receiving plenary indulgences from the church.”
Note:
A) I don’t imagine we need to go much in detail on what those indulgences were about…
B) Free soldiers… fighting under the impression they were doing “works” to wipe away their sins.
>>> 2) “Pope Urban II claimed that anyone who participated was forgiven of their sins.”
Note:
A) And we know what violent, thieving behavior that led to…
B) I’m curious at really how many catholics became soldiers?
C) Of course we know that Poop Urban had other motives… namely to take advantage of the Crusades in hopes to reunite the Orthodox with catholicism… nifty plan… aye?
>>> 3) Crusaders often pillaged the countries through which they traveled, and contrary to their promises the leaders retained much of this territory rather than returning it to the Byzantines.
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Sounds a lot like a muslim who becomes a martyr is forgiven of everything too…
The satanic catholic/islamic connection exists
You are a man born at the wrong time. I bet if you had been born in the 11th century you would have showed everyone the right way. I’m certainly glad, that with the hindsight, of a millennium, you are here to school us today.
Just think about all those C’lics that were forgiven of all their sins for joining the crusades…
No Purgatory Prison for them.. ever…
We can only imagine how many C’lics would like a Poop to declare such a thing today… aye?
Of course… the satanic catholic fake church believes God has retired and handed everything over to them…
Now… it’s just a matter of continually convincing the C’lics to keep earning those Indulgences by handing over their money… a get into Heaven free card… with a do not stop at Purgatory Prison…
Monopoly in reverse… aye?
You have no idea what the hell you are talking about. You have demonstrated, in your own words, [and the all knowing Wiki ] that you have no idea what indulgences do for your soul, how they work, any understanding of Purgatory, nor Penance.
Go ahead fly boy, run your face all you want. While you’re at it, start knitting that fire-retardant suit. Won’t do you any good, but it’ll be fun to watch.
Although, as a Catholic, I should pray for you. Well, on the bright side you gave me something to confess….
Sumsrent needs to stop trying to get an education from YouTube and start reading some books.
Spirit of San Jacinto
I know exactly what I’m talking about regarding the satanic catholic fake church…
C’lics wrongly believe that if they haven’t performed enough good deeds or Indulgences on earth… then…
They’ll stand before the (non-existent) Purgatory Judgement Throne … and end up in Purgatory Prison.
Essentially… Purgatory and indulgences are necessary because the “Catholic Jesus” is unable to save completely…
Now… I’m not making these things up… it’s all true… I’ve just given names to it all…
Salvation doesn’t enter into their lives… per se’… until they die.
Which I refer to as the Purgatory Judgement Throne…
Once they die… then… Salvation might come or not.
It all depends on whether they’ve done enough good works and indulgences throughout their life to pass the entrance exam into their so called paradise.
They have to maintain their Good works on earth, before they die, to get Salvation…
If they DON’T pass the exam… they are sent to Purgatory Prison, where they have to serve out their sentence.
Indulgences are like… getting seven years off their Purgatory Prison sentence for following Poop Francis on Twitter… or getting time off for climbing the stairs in Rome… <<< All True.
Not a wonder why Poop Urban made up the lie of how those who participated in the Crusades were forgiven of their sins…
So Sumsrent – you’re telling me that because Jesus, the unblemished lamb, was sacrificed, and because of that, I’m free of all sins, past and future. I can go a rape and pillage spree for my remaining years, and I’m all good??? Yeah, sorry dude, not buying.
As for Puratory, it is found in Macabees and Matthew 5:25-26,Matthew 12:32, Luke 12:42-48, and especially Corinthians 3:10-15.
You can disagree, that’ fine, but that is not what it appears you are after. Seems all you want to do is poke the bear.
There was not other church except the Catholic church for 1500 years. I disagree with some Protestant precepts, but I respect them as fellow Christians. Meh, you’re just a douche.
No, just total moron in reverse.
Now there is one other thing that comes into play here…
If they have a loved one in Purgatory Prison… they can do Indulgences on earth to reduce that loved ones Prison sentence.
NOTE: (How they know they have a loved one in Purgatory Prison is beyond me… I guess they just assume some family member might be there and just in case… they perform Indulgences. And who knows? Maybe those extra Indulgences are transferred over to their personal Indulgence bank.)
Likewise… If they get sent to Purgatory… their living loved ones can perform Indulgences to reduce their own prison sentence too.
All true…
Of course… I’m not certain if the Purgatory Prison Time includes televisions and three squares a day? A recreational yard? Or orange jumpsuits or Black & White striped sleepwear with numbers printed on them? <<< No one has explained this yet?
But the good thing is… even though their sentence might be 13 million years long… they have hope. Hope that a loved one still on earth can produce the mighty Indulgence of all time… so fabulous it impresses the Vicar Poop… and buys them a reduced sentence out of Purgatory Prison."
FOLKS… Christ Jesus is Lord… and the catholic fake church is satanic.
Keep beating your new toys into the ground…Purgatory prison and indulgences.
Nobody cares and no one is scared.
Although I disagree with your comments, I am glad to live in a country in which people can spout nonsense.
Can you point to anything Roman Catholics do that is honorable and beneficial to society as a whole? We’ll wait.
Care to allude to “public schools” versus Catholic schools? I attended both. Any guess as to which had much more discipline?
Yeah, we run fundraisers for charity [ Tunnel to Tower, Children’s Hospital, LAMB, deliver dinners to the poor in our area who either can’t afford it or can’t get out of their house due to disability, and many more. We act out our faith and do charity for neighbors. Set a good example for others to follow.
Yeah, I’ve been to both too, so ….? Public school was completely slack. Even back in the 70s where the public schools in Northern Virginia decided to do away with grades. You got pass/ fail, and on and on.
I simply cannot imagine a big talking pussy like you joining one of the crusades. If you would have even gone you would have ended up on a pike with some Muslim pissing on you. Or you would have been one of the camp whiners until one if the Knights would have skewered you. You are simply way too chickenshit to believe in anything but the cowardly version of the pathetic you.
If God told me to take you on Crusade I would have had to say no. Thank you, but no God, he’s weak, stupid, a whiner and he eats too much food. He can’t even lift his sword.
I see indulgences are your newest meme du plume. Gee, you learned a new word.
You really shouldn’t be writing about that which you know nothing about.
“wiki” lol what a clown.
Christianity is no more a religion of peace than Islam is. Perhaps you have forgotten the intra-faith wars of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation? Catholics and Protestants, and Protestants and Protestants, persecuting and killing each other for 300 years over heresy and blasphemy just like the Muslims do?
The Renaissance (the rebirth of reason), Scientific Revolution, Age of Enlightenment (the light of reason), Industrial Revolution, United States of America, and capitalism are not the products of Christian philosophy but the products of Aristotelian philosophy.
Why are modern Christians today so peaceful? Precisely because of Aristotelian secularism. Christians today are more concerned with the secular values of pursuing life on earth, liberty on earth, and happiness on earth, than they are in preparing themselves for some magical, supernatural, utopia in a Christian Heaven when they are dead.
“There is no future for the world except through a rebirth of the Aristotelian approach to philosophy. This would require an Aristotelian affirmation of the reality of existence, of the sovereignty of reason, of life on earth—and of the splendor of man.
Aristotle and Objectivism agree on fundamentals and, as a result, on this last point, also. Both hold that man can deal with reality, can achieve values, can live non-tragically. Neither believes in man the worm or man the monster; each upholds man the thinker and therefore man the hero. Aristotle calls him “the great-souled man.” Ayn Rand calls him Howard Roark, or John Galt.” – Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff from his book, “The Ominous Parallels: The end Of Freedom In America”
“If there is a philosophical Atlas who carries the whole of Western civilization on his shoulders, it is Aristotle. He has been opposed, misinterpreted, misrepresented, and—like an axiom—used by his enemies in the very act of denying him. Whatever intellectual progress men have achieved rests on his achievements….
If we consider the fact that to this day everything that makes us civilized beings, every rational value that we possess—including the birth of science, the industrial revolution, the creation of the United States, even the structure of our language—is the result of Aristotle’s influence, of the degree to which, explicitly or implicitly, men accepted his epistemological principles, we would have to say: never have so many owed so much to one man.” – Ayn Rand
Dear THX 1138:
Now you have me confused. Just the other day you posted here on FPM that at the core of Christianity is “suicidal altruism”.
Yet here you say that: “Christianity is no more a religion of peace than Islam.”
These two declarations appear inconsistent, wouldn’t you agree?
One final note – As an Objectivist, your reliance on the brilliance of Aristotle’s influence on Western thought is commendable. Did you know that he used objective “reason’ to conclude that the source of all that exists was an eternal “divine entity” that he called the “Unmoved Mover” aka God ?
Kent
You toss about a donkey’s breakphast in describing your version o “christians” and “christianiy”. And you land well short o reality.
Take some time one evening, soon, and sit down with a decent bible and read the book o acts. More accurately rendered “some acts o some apostles”.
In there you will see how normal everyday believers.
I personally have known a njmber o people who did very much the same things in our present era, and most commonly with results very similar to what we see in that book in “acts”.
I have seen nations, or at least signiphicant parts o nations totally transphormed to he better through the pouring out these men did and continue to do today.
In contrast I observe the antics this “pope” persists in doing and I shake my head in disgust. No relation to reality. And even less relationship to anything I read in that book, Acts.
Ladies and gentlemen, batter No. 21, Intrepid, is on deck. Looks like he’s hungry for another home run……
Still racking up the downvotes as usual.
Same old shite. just a different day And yet without Aristotle and Objectivism we are doing just fine. Time to pack up and move along. Try kindergartens for your captive audience. You fail with every comment and TLDR. Don’t care.
Just go away old man. I really don’t have the time or inclination to respond in kind anymore. Life’s too short.
I don’t care about downvotes. I disagree with much of what THX 1138 has to say. Why don’t you tell us some of the aspects of Objectivism that we should appreciate that are being ignored?
Do you think Francisco’s Money Speech is informative? Do you think your god Trump’s thoughts on tariffs and monetary policy make sense?
You are confusing Christianity with secular humanism, as is the Pope.
Same old self involved crap, just a different day.
This Roman Catholic has little respect for this Pope. It takes both an incredible ignorance of history, and an ignorance of the current atrocities committed in the name of Islam, to take the positions this Pope is taking.
However, I suspect President Trump is alienating desperately needed GOP supporters with his recent posting as a Christ-like figure and his comments. I pray the U.S. doesn’t end up paying a “huuuge” price for this.
The most corrupt Pope and politically active pope ever to hold the office, but then what do you expect of anything coming out of Chicago. I use to work in the Chicago area putting up the Catholic television network antennas and dishes. What I saw going on in the places the nuns or priests lived and some of their actions and utterances were a true eyeopener. Waste like you never saw before, same gender relations, and being subjected to advances changed my mind about that group served NE Illinois of which this idiot is from. Then we have Chicagoland Barrack Obama who came out of nowhere to become POTUS?
and this used to be roman catholic has even less respect toward this “pope”. The most recent run o popes has been a steady downhill ooze……
Population percentages alone are meaningless. If ninety people were in a room with ten deadly scorpions or ten rabid rats, the humans would flee despite being in the majority.
Ninety Texans in a room with ten deadly scorpions or ten rabid rats would soon be removing the dead carcasses of the scorpions or the rats.
The knights of the First Crusade were not too particular about whom to attack, so, while headed east, they devastated the Jewish communities of the Rhineland. Mournful sacred poems about these massacres are still part of the Tisha B’Av liturgy. The surname Shapiro was taken by refugees from Speyer.
Unfortunately the German knights who attacked those Jewish communities had learned the practice in Spain fighting for the Reconquista, where Jewish communities copped it from both sides.
The muslims, while busy persecuting and extorting Jews, also spread stories to the Christians that the Jews had helped them in their invasion.
The paradise of “al Andalus” is a complete lie, and the muslim occupation of the Iberian peninsular is replete with instances of massacres, pogroms, persecutions, treachery and lies, plus wide scale deliberate environmental destruction.
The religion of Peace’s leader, Muhammed, had a sword that was named “Vertebrae Splitter.”
Does that sound like a positive, loving force for good in the world?
How about the 72 virgins—wth is that all about? Who are these virgins? Do they have a say in it, or are they just mindless heavenly sexbots? What happens to your wife and family in heaven when the men are getting jiggy with their 72 virgins?
With tenets like this, how can anyone seriously call this a religion? Their prophet is a mass murderer and a pedophile and their heaven is a frat boy wet dream. Of course, there is all the other stuff about killing the infidels and the Jews too…
and taking all their property and women
Like most of those that make up the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Leo is a fraud, imposter and blasphemer. That celibacy is extolled over the Sacrament of Marriage for the Shepherds of the Church has wrought us thousands of family members and children traumatized from sexual abuse, hundreds, if not thousands of Catholic Churches and schools closed and continuous inanities and unGODly directives from spineless hierarchs.
Long before the Ten Commandments had been given, another Commandment had been proclaimed. I call it Zero Commandment:
“Be fruitful and multiply”
Catholic clergy is violating this Commandment.
I’m a practicing Roman Catholic and I can say with a heavy heart, this pope is a fool.
Pope Leo has, instead of picking up the sword of God, picked up the guitar of John Lennon.
I think if you look into the proponents of one world religion, and the characters and ideas associated with it you will know what is going on with the Pope.
Just read the Koran people. It’s a tough disjointed and tedious read, but the conclusion you’ll reach is that you have three choices. Convert, submit to Dhimmi status or die. Dhimmi status is what Mamdani wants to do to white people in New York City. Particularly rich white people. Not much tolerance going on there.
When it comes to Muslims, there are NO interfaith discussions, just you convert to their way of thinking or become one of two things. A second class who must pay a heavy tax for remaining alive or number 2, die.
“interfaith dialogue” is how muslims perform da’wah and gaslight the useful idiots
There has been a Marxist takeover of the Catholic Church. It’s time for true Catholics to break away and start a true church free from delusional indoctrination. This is not Catholicism; this is radical Marxist subversion.
All communists come from Chicago. That’s their demon spawning grounds.
The pope needs to talk with Brigitte Gabriel.
I actually made that comment before I saw her name in your article.
How Hell on Earth got started! (According to Islamic history) Scene: In Heaven. It is 610 A.D. God is on His Throne. ACTION! The LORD: “Gabriel, where are you”? GABRIEL: “Here I am, LORD”! The LORD: “Come here, I have a mission for you! Forget my Son JESUS, I have a Newer, Better Religion, and I’m calling it ‘Islam’! I want you to go down to Arabia to this illiterate Arab Goat-Herder, named ‘Mohammad’, and reveal it to him, and tell him to spread it around”!
Islamo nazi Palestine :
Mit deutschem Gruß für Palästina – DER SPIEGEL.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211210015727/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/mit-deutschem-gruss-fuer-palaestina-a-9582b8ae-0002-0001-0000-000041123966
With German greetings to Palestine.
December 19, 1947 • from DER SPIEGEL 51/1947.
Kaukji is the predestined commander-in-chief of a volunteer army for Palestine. Together with the Grand Mufti, whose confidant and best friend he is, he was one of the ringleaders of the bloody Palestinian Arab uprising against Jewish immigration in 1936-39. He was severely wounded at that time and fled Palestine. During the war, he met with the Grand Mufti, who had also gone on a journey, in Germany. He has not forgotten what he found so appealing back then: his volunteers are sworn in with the “German salute” under the green flag of the Pr_phet.