The Curious Progressive Love of Islam

The Catholic Thing ^ | December 29, 2017 | David Carlin

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Among present-day American leftists (who prefer calling themselves progressives), a curious characteristic is their sympathy for Islam. They deplore what they call Islamophobia, regarding it as a sin as bad as racism or sexism or homophobia or transphobia; and they are horrified that a man they consider to be an Islamophobe, Donald Trump, should be in the White House.

Why is this sympathy for Islamic “curious”? Because no religion could be more at odds with progressive ideas than Islam. For one thing, Islam believes in God, an all-powerful God who controls everything in the created world. Progressives, on the other hand, tend to be atheists or at least semi-atheists.

For another, Islam has always taught that women must be socially inferior to men; it is a strongly patriarchal religion, and progressives hate few things more than they hate patriarchy. Islam also puts a strong emphasis on chastity, condemning adultery and fornication and – especially – homosexuality. And it considers monstrous that progressive favorite, same-sex marriage.

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So what explains the Roman Catholic church's love affair with islam?

Pope kissing Koran

YOUR pope kissing the koran. Fits right in with YOUR Catechism of the Catholic church.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM

841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."330

And that was just the beginning.

Francis is bearing the fruit of that groundwork that was laid so many decades ago and taking it to a whole new level.

[livius]

LOL! A federal grant is the only way to go!

[YogicCowboy]

Yeah, it’s not curious at all; it’s predictable:

The darkness hates the light. Totalitarians, of whatever feather, hate liberty.

[livius]

JPII was a bit gaga at that point and I’ve never been sure he actually knew what he was kissing.

Frankie, on the other hand, is actively trying to promote “Chrislam” and a strange fusion with liberal Protestants. Not to mention his pro-gay agenda.

He’s a heretic and many people know it now. I had a wonderful dream the other night that he had somehow disappeared and the Catholic Church had gone back to being One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.

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Islamophilia?

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For one thing, Islam believes in God, an all-powerful God who controls everything in the created world. Progressives, on the other hand, tend to be atheists or at least semi-atheists.

If their "god" is so dang omnipotent, why does it require that smell mortals defend its "honor" and kill in its name?

Their "god" sounds exactly like a Snowflake to me.....