http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/04/was-jacques-hamel-a-martyr-to-the-faith-or-to-his-illusions-about-islam/?ref=yfpWas Hamel naive about Islam?
... Hamel served in a parish committed to the very illusion of ecuмenical agreement with Islam that de Mattei abhors. The Belfast Telegraph reports the nuns gave reading lessons to Muslim kids in the tower blocks. Church authorities soared above such neighborliness. Courting dhimmitude, they donated the land beside Hamel’s church to local Muslims to build the mosque his two young killers attended. During Ramadan, the parish hall “and other facilities” were given over to Muslims.
Political ignorance does not a martyr make. Hamel was an ecuмenist who was willing to sell out his faith by gifting Muslims properties belonging to the Roman Catholic Church.
In his last pastoral letter, Hamel called for communities to live together and “accept each other as they are.” But accepting Islam means recognizing its totalizing nature. Authentic acceptance is unsentimental. It is a prod to staying watchful. To befriend Muslims as individuals does not cancel the necessity to know Islam’s history, its millenarian ambitions, and its enduring theological imperative toward violence.
In the end, giving gifts to non-Christian Muslim terrorists will not placate them. but will only encourage and embolden them to kill those who do not convert to Islam. Those Christians who do not understand the mindset of these ISIS terrorists will pay the price, not of martyrdom, but of the ultimate sacrifice of their lives on the altar of political expediency.
This haste to canonize Hamel is a mistaken response. It would provide the illusion of having acted when, in truth, no action was taken. A theatrical gesture of symbolic defiance but with no correlative in the real world only embolden those forces moving against us. Canonization proceedings—in this instance, at this time—would communicate passivity, not sanctity, in the face of lethal aggression.
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