His Holiness

                                                                                                                                              Benedict XVI

                                                                                                                                              Città del Vaticano

                   The relationship between Christians and Muslims

Your Holiness,

the problem of relationship between Christians and Muslims is extremely topical today and it is necessary that You should deal with it responsibly before the whole Church, before the whole world but also before God. We are presenting to You some inspiring views for Your relevant statement on these issues.

Brief diagnosis and statistics:

1)    The relationship between Christians and Muslims on Christian territories

Half a century ago in Western Europe there was a tiny percentage of Muslims, approximately the same as of Christians in Muslim states. The official declaration of the Second Vatican Council Nostra aetate about the respect for other religions, and in particular its statements concerning Muslims, opened the door to a Muslim antimission in Western Europe and practically put an end to the Christian mission in Muslim territories. Over the past 30 years about 3000 mosques and Muslim houses of worship were built in Germany. There are already several million Muslims in this country and their number is still rising. Muslims build their mosques and houses of worship in England, France and other countries, even in Italy. The Netherlands have already passed the polygamy law, i.e. plural marriages. In Western Europe there are 52 million Muslims and, according to the forecasts, there will be 104 millions of them within 20 years. The birth rate of Muslims is 8.1 and of Christians 1.8; however, as a result of gender equality promotion the birth rate of Christians is rapidly decreasing. Muslims in Christian countries have already started to discriminate Christians, e.g. they insistently demand that the crosses should be removed from all public places such as hospitals and schools and these unfair requirements of theirs are satisfied. Muslims do not assimilate into Christian territory nor do they become converted to Christianity – for the fact is that if a Muslim in Europe became a Christian, he would run the risk of being sentenced to death. Even in the European territory the Muslims yielded not an inch from the essence of their religion which is violent. Activities of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue consist in a series of concessions and betrayals of Christianity; however, Muslims make neither concessions nor do they betray their faith. There is no dialogue.

2) The relationship between Christians and Muslims in Muslim states

In all Muslim countries Christianity is bloodily persecuted and in the past 30 years it is more and more ousted. Some facts from the Muslim countries for the year 2010:

-         In the night of 6th January, Muslims shot six Copts after the Christmas Mass in Egypt.

-         On 23rd January, Muslims killed 150 people in Nigeria.

-         On 23rd February, father and his two sons, the Chaldean rite Catholics, were killed in their family house in Mosul (Iraq).

-         In the morning of 8th March, Muslims attacked three villages in Nigeria. They were shouting in a rage: “Allahu Akbar” and killing defenceless Christians with knives and machetes. They were catching villagers in fishing nets and animal traps and then hacked them to death. Archbishop Ben Kwashi said: “I could see machete wounds in the necks of children. Kids from age zero to teenagers, all butchered from the back, macheted in their necks, their heads. Deep cuts in the mouths of babies.” The death toll is estimated at 500, some sources state that it was more than 1000.

-         On 31st October, Muslims broke into the Syrian-Catholic church in a Baghdad ward where the Mass took place. First they shot the priest and then began firing into the crowd of believers. 58 people were killed and at least 80 injured.

-         Muslims in Somalia killed a Christian in front of his house. He left a wife and 10 children.

-         Muslims ordered 250 Pakistani Christian families to leave their homes after the believers protested against sexual abuse of Christian women and girls.

-         On 21st June in the morning, an 11-year-old son of Christian parents (his father was policeman) went shopping. His family lived in Pakistani town Jelam. Along the way he sang a Christian song. When Muslims heard it, they accused him of insulting Muhammad. His mother said that her son did not commit anything like that. Enraged Muslims killed her and her 4 children.

-         On 9th November, a Christian woman Asia Bibi (37 years) was sentenced to death in Pakistan. Asia was accused of blasphemy because she said to women who pressed her to embrace Islam: “Jesus died on the cross for our sins and what Muhammad did for you? Jesus is alive.”

-         Since 1990, 90% of all immigrants to Europe have been Muslims. There is not a single case known of a murder of a Muslim in the Christian territory for his Islamic faith. In France there are more mosques than churches. 30% of all French children and youth under 20 are Muslims. In large cities it is 40%. Within 39 years France will become an Islamic republic.

-         Over the past few years the Muslim population in England has increased from 80 000 to 2.5 million. There are more than 1000 mosques (many times rebuilt churches).

-         Within 15 years or less, Muslims will comprise more than a half of the Dutch population. The situation is similar even in other countries.

-         The German government issued a statement which claims that it is no longer possible to cease and reverse the decrease in the German population. By 2050 Germany will become a Muslim state.

-         Muammar al-Gaddafi said: “There are signs that Islam will gain victory in Europe – without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.” In the name of “peace” there were killed around 2,000 Christians in Iraq, out of whom more than 200 were killed directly in Mosul. Tens of thousands of Christians left the city.

Virtually every week (if not even day) there are reports on the martyr’s death or cruel persecution of Christians in the Muslim countries. All Christians in those areas are in constant danger. When some of the MEPs appealed to the EU Council and Commission – in particular High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton – to negotiate the safety of Christians with Iraq, Belgian socialist Véronique De Keyser arrogantly opposed them. The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue reacts in a similar way. After the massacre of Christians in Nigeria, the Vatican spokesman Father Lombardi hypocritically stated that the massacre took place not owing to the Christian belief of the peasants but owing to social problems. Apostatical hierarchy is responsible for the escalation of the persecution by Muslims. Moreover, it paralyzes the immune system of the Church. Christians donate Muslims their churches and Muslims turn them into mosques. On the other hand, Muslims in Egypt and elsewhere destroy even old Christian churches and there is nobody to stand up for the Christians.

If there was a massacre of a Muslim village like of the Christian one in Nigeria, Muslims would launch worldwide jihad and would take revenge tenfold on innocent victims. Nigerian Christians had not found the patronage even in Vatican which did not pay homage to their martyrdom by a single word.

The fruit of interreligious dialogue after the Second Vatican Council is massive antimission in the formerly Christian territories and destruction of Christians in Muslim territories.

Your Holiness, abolish the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue because it betrays Christ and supports the mission of Islam. Appeal likewise to international organizations like the UN and the EU to ensure observance of human rights and freedoms of Christians within the bounds of justice and to grant Christians in the Muslim territories the liberty to spread their belief freely. If this is not fulfilled, then it is necessary to impose effective sanctions. For example: A Christian woman was sentenced to death for her faith. Therefore, Christian states should deport all Muslims as a sign of protest against violence. If Muslims do not grant freedom of religion, according to the same principle they will not be allowed to profess their faith in Europe. At least 250 families from Pakistan and tens of thousands of Christians from Iraq were expelled from their houses by Muslims because of their faith. The same number of Muslims should be expelled from Europe.

In relation to the doctrinal issue we ask: Is the Christian God identical with the Muslim Allah? Let the Vatican respond to this question. And another question: Will the Muslims who deliberately persecute Christianity and Christ as the only Saviour be saved without Him?

What did the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue do for persecuted Christians in Arab countries? What would happen if some Muslim was executed in the Christian Europe for being a Muslim, for worshipping Allah and the Koran? The Muslim hierarchy would certainly not say that it was a social problem and that they were not going to deal with it, as it was said by the Vatican spokesman Father Lombardi.

Your Holiness, can You see into what state apostatical Christianity has brought Europe? The prospects for the future are very gloomy.

We would like to remind You again that it is You who bear the greatest responsibility for whether the Church will see her reform and hence her recovery too. What do You have to do?

1)      to prohibit an atheistic historical-critical theology (HCT)

2)      to do penance for John Paul II and his gesture in Assisi

3)      to set binding biblical attitude towards other religions

4)      to discharge apostatical bishops and consecrate orthodox Catholic ones, whose task will be to reform the Church.

Praying for You and asking for Your blessing

bishops of the UOGCC

            + Samuel OSBMr

            + Elias OSBMr

            + Methodius OSBMr

            + Markian OSBMr

                                                                                                                                      Lvov, 8th December 2010

Cc: Bishops of the Orthodox Churches

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