ANOTHER DAY, another explosive statement from Jorge Bergoglio’s “Ding Dong School of Apostasy.” According to the “pontiff,” the Arab invasion of Europe is an opportunity for cultural exchange.
Cultural exchanges in Calais, France
Much else of what the pretend pontiff said on the migrant crisis in an interview with a French magazine, judging from reports, was characteristically confusing but boiled down to his familiar condemnation of “ideology” and pointed criticism of right-wing nationalist groups. But then Jorge would have called the Crusaders ideologues for their rigid close-mindedness. He said the migrant crisis will not lead to “great change.”
Ideologues expressing the “poison of politics”
The full text of the interview is not yet available, but here are some quotes:
“If Europe wants to rejuvenate itself, it must rediscover its cultural roots … But forgetting its own history, Europe weakens itself. And that’s when it risks becoming an empty place,” the pope told Jean-Pierre Denis, editor-in-chief of the French magazine “La Vie.”
“Today, we can speak of an Arab invasion. It is a social fact,” the pope said in response to a question on why he believes Europe risks becoming an “empty place.” He immediately added that anyone looking for a “‘great change’ – those dearest to the far-right – will remain disappointed.”
“How many invasions has Europe experienced in the course of its history? It has always been able to overcome them; moving forward and finding itself better through the exchange between cultures,” the pope said, in an apparent reference to Europe’s Renaissance, which was partially fostered through the preservation of Greek philosophical works by Muslim scholars in Spain and elsewhere in the Arab world.
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The pope responded to the rise of far-right populism in Europe, which has given way to such movements as Germany’s “anti-Islamization” PEGIDA as well as anti-immigrant political parties, by stating that ideologies are the “poison of politics.”
“When a country closes itself to a healthy notion of politics, it ends up being a prisoner hostage to ideological colonization. Ideologies are the poison of politics. You have the right be right or left. But ideology takes away freedom.
“If you want to avoid everyone turning towards extremes, you must nurture friendship and the pursuit of the common good, beyond political affiliations.”
Mr. Bergoglio should take a few thousand young men from the Middle East and Africa into the Vatican to prove that he himself is not an ideologue.
