Fr Rob of Thrown Back

Getting around to reading some of my favorite blogs this afternoon.

Fr Rob's has an excellent post from Feb 10th that I wish I had found sooner, entitled Peace, Religion of. He brings up issues that I had kept on the back burner of my mind for awhile, including the very school (Catholic) that he is talking about.

At the time the news broke about Muslims wanting to take a Catholic School and make it a Muslim school, I remember our own Catholic High Schools where we also had Muslim and other non-Catholic students attending. None were ever required to take Catholic religion courses or to attend Mass. They could CHOOSE to, if they so desired, respectfully. But it was not a requirement, ever.

I therefore could not imagine that it would be a requirement in other schools, either.

Fr Rob mentioned the murder of one priest, Fr Andrea Santoro in Turkey, but that isn't the only example from Turkey:
A priest is beaten in Izmir, to the cries of “we will kill you all”



At the same time, however, his article and others I have been reading raised the hair on the back of my neck, especially in light of the increasing population of Muslims in European countries..........



Warnings have been 'out there' for a long time already, dating back even further than this piece from FrontPageMagazine.com | May 12, 2003
A New Muslim Country

I also found these to be interesting reading:

The radicalisation of Muslim youth in Europe: The reality and the scale of the threat
Testimony of Claude Moniquet, Director General of European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center April 27, 2005
Hearing of the Committee on International Relations
Subcommittee on Europe and Emerging threats
United States House of Representatives

Show Them Who Is the Boss in France
From the desk of Paul Belien
Sun, 2005-11-06 18:19

Those media that tell us that the rioting “youths” want to be a part of our society and feel left out of it, are misrepresenting the facts. As the insurgents see it, they are not a part of our society and they want us to keep out of theirs. The violence in France is in no way comparable with that of the blacks in the U.S. in the 1960s. The Paris correspondent of The New York Times who writes (note from WICatholic, request for archive payment found at this site) that this a “variant of the same problem” is either lying or does not know what he is talking about. The violence in France is of the type one finds when one group wants to assert its authority and drive the others out of its territory. American MSM who imply that there is a direct line from Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to stand up for a white man on an American bus in 1955, to the rabble that are now throwing molotov cocktails into French buses containing passengers, are misrepresenting the facts. (The only comparison between America and France is that many of the bus drivers in the Parisian suburbs, like those in New Orleans, seem to be white women whose vulnerability attracts rioters and looters).


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