Took 'Em Out*

Coronavirus in Italy Kills 13 Catholic Priests

ROME — The death toll of Catholic clergy in Italy from Chinese coronavirus has now reached at least 13, as three more priests died this week in less than 72 hours.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/20/coronavirus-in-italy-kills-13-catholic-priests/

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If you read this story, by some amazing chance, the coronavirus in Milan took out the newspaper editor (anthrax 911 redux), a chaplain (lay person, possibly) at the University, a monsignor (individuals who have rendered valuable service to the church), a parish vicar (an agent of a superior), a vice-rector of a cathedral (vice-, same root as vicar, agent of a superior), "Father Luigi Giussani, who bore the same name as the founder of the Comunione e liberazione movement", whatever that means, and deputy master of ceremonies at the cathedral, again, whatever that means. 

These were not flunkies putting wafers into believers mouths. This flu took out the Italian Catholic Mafia leadership - as it reads to my too inquisitive nature. Pure speculation on my part.

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Cardinal Burke Calls For Restoration Of Masses: ‘Without The Help Of God, We Are Indeed Lost’ 

“In our totally secularized culture, there is a tendency to view prayer, devotions and worship like any other activity, for example, going to the cinema or to a football game, which is not essential and therefore can be cancelled for the sake of taking every precaution to curb the spread of a deadly contagion,” the American cardinal said.

“Therefore, we cannot simply accept the determinations of secular governments, which would treat the worship of God in the same manner as going to a restaurant or to an athletic contest,” Burke said. “Otherwise, the people who already suffer so much from the results of the pestilence are deprived of those objective encounters with God Who is in our midst to restore health and peace.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/21/cardinal-burke-catholic-mass-coronavirus/

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Nine Catholic bishops with COVID-19 die in a single week

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/nine-catholic-bishops-with-covid-19-die-in-a-single-week-36233

Between Jan. 8 and Jan. 15, bishops across three continents died as a result of the coronavirus. The deceased bishops ranged in age from 53 years old to 91. Five of the bishops died in Europe, where a new strain of COVID-19 has led many countries to implement further restrictions.

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Are Muslims Immune to Coronavirus? 

By Raymond Ibrahim

The Islamic world is not suffering from COVID-19 the way non-Muslim nations are, because Islam naturally makes Muslims "cleaner" than infidels.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/03/are_muslims_immune_to_coronavirus.html

Islam... 06 Slave Trade

Informative and well worth the read.

The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Arab Slave Trade

By Special Contributor On Jan 1, 2020

By Victor Sharpe

... Traveling back in time, we must acknowledge the abiding horror of the slavery practiced by Muslims upon hapless black Africans – a searing crime which existed from Islam’s founding in the 7th century.

While the anti-slavery abolitionist movements in Europe and North America began their epic movement to end slavery during the 19th century, there was barely any opposition to slavery as practiced within Islam. While abolitionist movements in Europe and North America were gaining steam, slavery continued throughout the Muslim world.

.... It must be remembered that during the cataclysmic American Civil War, some 330,000 white American soldiers alone gave their lives to end the enslavement of black Americans.

... In tragic contrast, the Islamic societies—rooted in concepts of supremacy, submission, and sacrificing one’s life and the lives of others to the glory of the jihad struggle—had barely any opposition to slavery, which continued apace throughout the world of Islam.

... It is particularly sad that so many African Americans routinely espouse Islam and take Arab names while ignoring or being utterly ignorant of the Muslim Arab slave trade; even though it led to the deaths and slavery of untold millions of Africans.

Even after Britain outlawed the slave trade in 1807 and Europe abolished the slave trade in 1815, Muslim slavers continued their ghastly trade and enslaved millions of Africans. Throughout African villages the ever -present threat of approaching Arab slave traders sent terror into the hearts of men, women and children.

Possibly as many as eleven million Africans were transported across the Atlantic. Some 95% went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish, and French possessions, and 5% of the slaves went to the United States.

IN AMERICA THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF POLITICAL ‘THINKERS’ DO NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE ISLAM AS A POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL FORCE AND TOO MANY FELLOW AMERICANS THUS SLIDE INTO DANGEROUS IGNORANCE AND APATHY, WHILE ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW INCREASINGLY INFILTRATES OUR REPUBLIC AND SUBVERTS THE CONSTITUTION.

https://realityanddenial.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/1427/#more-1427

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UnSpun 179 – Dr. Bill Warner: “Political Islam”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzsQGCiFvM

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Islam's Hidden Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

By Raymond Ibrahim

As John Alembillah Azumah, an African academic and author of The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa, said in an interview:

Slavery was a very important part of Islamic expansion in West Africa, and in fact in the Sudan, and from the very earliest period of Islamic penetration of Africa. ... Slavery was a very endemic part of Islamic interaction with Africa. And in West Africa, the jihad's period of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries involved massive slave raiding and slave trading; and many of the slaves that were captured and sold and sent to the transatlantic slave trade [were captured by Muslims]; most of those who were doing the slaving at the time were Muslim communities.