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From Daniel Williams and Alan Cooperman at the Washington Post:
ROME, April 12—After two decades of contact and dialogue with the Islamic world under Pope John Paul II, the Vatican is rethinking an outreach program that critics say is diluting Catholicism and has brought almost no benefits to beleaguered Catholic minorities in Muslim countries.
The Church is finally taking notice of the oppression of non-Muslims in Islamic nations:
...Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, said the next pope might more emphatically demand rights for Christian minorities in Islamic countries and the freedom of all people to choose their faith.
“There may be a greater insistence on religious liberty,” said Fitzgerald, the church’s point man on Islamic relations.
...Justo Lacunza Balda, who heads the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, a Vatican research group, said criticism was focused on the lack of reciprocal goodwill gestures in many Muslim countries. “Humanly speaking, it is of course important to see some payback,” he said.
The Church is taking notice of the Islamofascist goal of destroying the Judeo-Christian tradition:
...One Turkish newspaper, Hurriyet, said the pope had not apologized for the Crusades and that Muslims were waiting. Radical Islamic Web sites sometimes predict that Muslims will conquer Europe and set up headquarters in the Vatican.
Bat Ye’or’s message is getting out. For 30 years she has been warning of how Islamofascists wage Jihad by immigrating to a target nation in large numbers, and then refusing to assimilate. It appears that the Church is finally aware of this danger:
...Now, the large Muslim minorities that have emerged in historically Christian European cities have engendered suspicion from the majority populations.
This is extremely good news.
(Hat Tip to Kate Wright. )
