Pope's private secretary warns about the Islamisation of Europe

Info courtesy of Mrs TG

Daily Express July 2007

Georg Gänswein, the urbane Private Secretary of Pope Benedict XVI

POPE Benedict XVI’s private secretary has warned of the 'Islamisation' of Europe and demanded that the Continent’s Christian roots should not be ignored.

"Attempts to Islamise the west cannot be denied," Monsignor Georg Gaenswein was quoted as saying in a copy of the weekly Sueddeutsche Magazine published today.

"The danger for the identity of Europe that is connected with it should not be ignored out of a wrongly understood respectfulness," the magazine quoted him as saying.

Gaenswein also defended a speech Pope Benedict gave in Regensburg, Germany, last year linking Islam and violence, saying it was an attempt by the Pontiff to "act against a certain naivety."

In the interview with the respected German weekly, Gaenswein confirmed that the Pope wrote his own speeches and that the remarks had not been edited.

He said: "I believe that the speech from Regensburg, as it was held, is prophetic."

Asked if the idea of a serious dialogue with Islam that exists in the real world was naive, given that it was a religion where human rights were trampled under foot, he said: "Attempts to Islamize the West cannot be denied.

"The danger for the identity of Europe that is connected with it should not be ignored out of a wrongly understood respectfulness.

"The Catholic side is clearly aware of this and also says so. Particularly the speech from Regensburg should work against this wrongly understood respectfulness.

"It has to be said that there is no such thing as Islam and it does not have a voice that is obligatory and binding to all Muslims.

"Under this term (ie Islam) many different groups are put together, that are partially hostile to each other, some even extremist, who refer their doings to the Koran and who use rifles for their goals.

"On the institutional level the Holy See tries to make contacts and conduct talks in conjunction with Papal advice to create inter-religious dialogue and ties."

Muslims around the world protested against Benedict’s speech, with churches set ablaze in the West Bank and a hard-line Iranian cleric saying the Pope was united with US President George W. Bush to "repeat the Crusades".

An Italian nun was also gunned down in a Somali hospital where she worked and the Vatican expressed concern that the attack was related to reaction to the Pope’s remarks.

Gaenswein said: "We first learnt of the harsh reactions at the Rome airport after we had returned from Bavaria. It was a big surprise, also to the Pope.

"The huge fuss that arose was because of newspaper reports that took a certain quote out of context and presented it as the Pope’s personal opinion."

Recently, the influential archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Meisner, said in a widely-publicized interview on Deutschlandfunk radio that the "immigration of Muslims has created a breach in our German, European culture".

Video: Warning to the Catholics

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Anjem Choudry, the voice of Al Qaeda and the Islamic Holy War within Britain, your day of judgement swiftly approaches - As the arrow to its target from the archers bow

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