The Mohammedanization of Europe‏

The Mohammedanization of Europe‏ U.S. President John Kennedy and His Wife Jacqueline Exit a French Catholic Church in May 1961 Now They Would Be Hard-pressed to Find Such a Church France was once known as the Eldest Daughter of the Church for its early embracing of the Catholic Faith. No longer. Now, according to a Hudson Institute report, there more mosques being built, and more frequently, than Catholic churches, and there are more practicing Mohammedans than practicing Catholica in France. Nearly 150 new mosques are currently being built in France, home to the largest Mohammedan community in Europe. The total number of mosques in France has already doubled to exceed 2,000 in the last ten years. The Rector of Great Mosque of Paris recently suggested that the total number of mosques should double, to 4,000, to meet the growing demand. In contrast, the Catholic Church in France has builty only twenty new churches in the last ten years and has formally closed more than 60 churches, many of which could become mosques. Once essentially every Frenchman was a Catholic. Now only about only 4.5% Frenchmen (about 1,900,000 people) are practicing Catholics. Putting these elements side by side furnishes empirical evidence of the claim that Mohammedanism is on its way to overtaking Newchurch as the dominant religion in France. The Turkish Premier Erdogan Tayyp made it clear that the construction of mosques and emigration are part of a strategy for the Mohammedanization of Europe. He publicly repeated the words of a Turkish poem, written in 1912 by the Turkish nationalist poet Ziya Gökalp: "The mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers." The Catholic archbishop emeritus of Smirne, Turkey, Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, recounts a conversation that he had with a Mohammedan leader: "Thanks to your democratic laws, we will invade you. Thanks to our religious laws, we will dominate you." [Some information for this Commentary was contributed by La Stampa.]