Headlines:
- Cardinal Tipped to be the Next Pope warns of an Islamic conquest of Europe
- Australia: Pauline Hanson Calls for Muslim Immigration Ban in Maiden Speech to Senate
- India Promises $1 Billion in Aid During Afghan President’s Visit
Cardinal Tipped to be the Next Pope warns of an ‘Islamic conquest of Europe’
An Austrian cardinal who is one of the favourites to become the next Pope has warned that Europe faces its biggest threat from Islam since the 17th century. In an astonishing speech the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Vienna, Christoph Schönborn, warned that many Muslims wanted to eradicate Christianity and conquer Europe. He was speaking at the Holy Name of Mary festival on Sunday which dates back to 1683 when it was first held in gratitude for the victory of the Austrian Habsburg Empire over the Ottoman Turks. The Local newspaper said the cardinal said: ‘Will there be an Islamic conquest of Europe? Many Muslims want that and say: Europe is at the end.’ He asked God to have mercy on Europe and said the continent was ‘in danger of forfeiting our Christian heritage’. In a comment which is bound to be seen as an endorsement of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party Cardinal Schönborn said people were seeing their loss ‘not only economically, but above all, in human and religious matters’. [Source: Daily Mail]
From Western politicians to religious leaders all seem to have only one thing on their mind – the Islamic threat. Yet the same people do not look at what their governments and armies are doing in the Muslim world. Conquest, pillage, exploitation of Islamic lands by Western crusaders is a crime against humanity but this is conveniently overlooked by West’s elite.
Australia: Pauline Hanson Calls for Muslim Immigration Ban in Maiden Speech to Senate
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson has heralded her political comeback by warning Australia is at risk of being “swamped by Muslims” and telling those who are unwilling to adapt to the Australian way of life to “go back to where you came from”. Referencing her maiden speech to Parliament in 1996, in which she made the same claim about Asians, the One Nation leader repeated her call for a ban on Muslim immigration and warned Australians would eventually be forced to live under sharia law, if something did not change. “We are in danger of being swamped by Muslims who bear a culture and ideology that is incompatible with our own,” she said. Senator Hanson claimed “indiscriminate immigration and aggressive multiculturalism” had caused crime to escalate and social cohesion to decline, and said too many Australians were now afraid to walk alone in their neighbourhoods at night. “Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular and cohesive society,” she said. “We have seen the destruction it is causing around the world.” [Source: ABC News]
The call to ban Muslims from Western shores is fast sweeping the Western world, and many Western countries are actively repatriating Muslims. Instead of raising concerns, the leadership of the Islamic countries continues to deal with the West as if nothing has happened.
India Promises $1 Billion in Aid during Afghan President’s Visit
India promised $1billion in development aid to Afghanistan Wednesday during Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s two-day trip to New Delhi. Officials from the two countries also signed three agreements, including a treaty that would allow them to extradite criminals, economic offenders and people linked to terrorist activity. The atmosphere for this visit was in marked contrast to the last time Ghani was in New Delhi. During a visit in April of last year, he received a cold reception. At the time, Ghani was courting India’s rival, Pakistan, in a bid to improve the security situation in Afghanistan. He was hoping Pakistan would use its influence to bring the Afghan Taliban to the table to negotiate peace in Afghanistan. Pakistan says it has limited influence with the Taliban and cannot force them beyond a certain point without facing resistance. Since then, the Afghan president appears to have given up on Pakistan and has tilted toward India, in a move that has irked Islamabad. Relations between Kabul and Islamabad have been on the decline just as Afghanistan’s relations with India have improved. This was the eighth meeting between the Afghan leader and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who have also been in frequent contact via telephone or video conferences. “A large part of the discussion was devoted to the challenge of terrorism,” according to Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar about the Wednesday meeting. The two sides agreed that the use of terrorism as a tool to achieve political objectives was “the single biggest threat to peace, stability and progress in the region and beyond,” according to a joint statement. The statement added, “They called upon the concerned to put an end to all sponsorship, support, safe havens and sanctuaries to terrorists, including for those who target Afghanistan and India.” This was an apparent reference to neighboring Pakistan, whom both have accused of sponsoring or supporting terrorism in the region – charges Islamabad denies. [Source: Voice of America]
In the absence of a clear strategy, the Pakistani leadership has handed Afghanistan over to the Americans and Indians to use Afghan soil to undermine Pakistan’s territorial integrity. Pakistan’s efforts to join America’s global war on terror in 2001, has resulted in hostile enemies permanently based on Pakistan Western borders that routinely support terror operations inside Pakistan.