Marine Le Pen Hits Out At Pope After Call For Open Borders

French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen has criticised the Pope for pressuring Western countries to open their borders to migrants, accusing him of asking states to disregard their own citizens.

In an interview with La Croix International, the leader of the Front National chided Pope Francis for asking “that states go against the interests of their own people by not placing conditions on the acceptance of significant numbers of migrants”.

The 48-year-old added that, in her view, the Argentine cleric’s pronouncements on immigration exceed his role as a religious leader.

“To me, this falls within the realm of politics and even interference, since he is also a head of state.”

Pope Francis is technically a foreign leader as Sovereign of the Vatican – a walled city-state with some of the strictest immigration and citizenship rules in the world.
Asked about her own religious views, Ms. Le Pen said: “I have a strong faith and I am fortunate in that I have never doubted it.

“However, I admit that I am angry with the Church because I think that it interferes in everything except what it should really be concerned with,” she added.

Ms. Le Pen also discussed a potential showdown with in the second round of the French elections with Emmanuel Macron, a centre-left politician in the mould of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

“I have always said that I’d like to be up against Emmanuel Macron in the second round because then the choice will be clear-cut,” she said.

“He is an unashamed globalist who wants to speed up the total opening of borders, free-exchange, and the evisceration of France in favour of private and financial interests.

“I, on the other hand, propose a return to the nation-state, the most effective structure to ensure security, prosperity, and democracy, and to protect our identity.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/04/15/marine-le-pen-pope-asks-states-go-people-opening-borders/
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Marine Le Pen on Muslim Street Prayers

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Baron Bodissey

http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/04/marine-le-pen-on-muslim-street-prayers/#more-42700

 

Below is a message from Marine Le Pen to French voters about the growing numbers (multitudes) of culture-enrichers in the streets with their, er, derrières elevated towards the sky.

https://vid.me/9PJQ 

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Transcript:

00:04		Voilà France of Monsieur Macron and Monsieur Fillon!
00:08		Voilà the result of ten years of laxity when nothing was done to fight
00:12		communitarianism. Worse: communitarianism was maintained, almost encouraged,
00:16		by national politicians, while declined at the local level: totally insane.
00:20		The street prayers that now take place every week in Clichy,
00:24		the Paris quarter, are of course shocking to the inhabitants. I already denounced
00:28		years ago the generalized indifference, and I repeat it strongly today:
00:33		Streets are public spaces, where religion shouldn’t be expressed.
00:37		I respect all religions and all beliefs. I think that faith, no matter
00:41		which one, eminently deserves respect, but that it is a personal measure
00:45		that one has in one’s heart and that one expresses, that one shares in a temple when
00:49		practising [his religion]. But there’s no justification for tolerating those proselytizing displays
00:53		in the public space. We know very well that those inacceptable drifts
00:57		are the hotbeds of the radicalization. [We know]
01:01		that when authorizing this type of manifestation, the public authority is initiating a move that is
01:05		no longer strictly religious, but that is ideological, political and that
01:09		clearly goes against national unity. Even worse: this communitarian reflex
01:14		has terrible consequences for the radicalization and the indoctrination of “youths”,
01:18		who are encouraged to cultivate an unacceptable form of rejection of secularism
01:22		that is the essential principle of our Republic, and who are even encouraged to
01:26		nurture a true hatred for France. So we could deliberate ad infinitum on the responsibility
01:30		of this or that municipality for the conditions and results of this situation,
01:34		but it’s not the point: it’s appropriate now to send an extremely strong answer
01:38		and apply some basic principles that I remind you of in my presidential promises.
01:42		In any case society doesn’t have to finance the construction
01:46		of temples [mosques]. It’s the responsibility of the faithful and
01:50		and, of course of those for whom it is their religion. The funding
01:54		cannot of course be coming from foreign powers either, since we know fairly well
01:58		that they might be trying — through such means — to propagate an ideology in France contrary to
02:03		our Republic. I don’t want clientelist practices
02:07		to develop in France from which some municipalities would try to buy votes
02:11		by — unacceptably — bypassing the 1905 law
02:15		that defined secularity in France and clearly organized
02:19		the relationship between public power and religion. Finally, I would like to directly
02:23		address my Muslim compatriots: to tell them that I am on the side of the huge majority
02:27		of them, who live their faith and their religion in a totally peaceful way
02:31		with respect to republican rules, and who are the first to be shocked by the
02:35		tendencies I am denouncing. Because it is they who are the first victims
02:39		of the deplorable image that is driven by this hijacking of religion
02:43		that my Muslim compatriots, and the rest of the nation — believers or not —
02:47		need to know that I am going to lead, as the head of state, a strict policy
02:52		concerning that subject, deeply anchored in a respect for the rules of secularism
02:56		in order for us all, together, united as French people, to be able simultaneously to
03:00		protect religious freedom and the non-impingement of religions on the public space.

[Heavily armed police stormed the Catholic St. Thomas Morus Church in the district Vogelheim of Essen. Photo: Justin von Brosch]

“Mentally Confused” Man Breaks up Good Friday Mass in Essen

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Baron Bodissey

http://gatesofvienna.net/2017/04/mentally-confused-man-breaks-up-good-friday-mass-in-essen/#more-42715

 

Yet another full-bearded mentally ill person of Middle Eastern origin has surfaced in Germany, this time at a Good Friday mass today in Essen.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for translating this article from the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung:

Panic at Good Friday Mass in Church in Essen
By Sinan Sat and Frank Stenglein
April 14 2017

500 believers in panic during a mass when a suspicious man enters the building. Heavily armed police storm the building.
It was meant to be a contemplative mass on the evening of Good Friday, but became a nightmare: 500 believers fled the Catholic church of St. Thomas Morus in Vogelheim in panic, when an apparently mentally confused man disrupts the service. His Arab appearance apparently reminded the visitors of an Islamic attacker.
Initially, some just feel uneasy when the man enters the room in the church where the Croatian community is celebrating a well-attended mass. When the 33-year-old disrupts it by ostentatiously running around, the first leave, frightened. When suddenly a loud bang is heard, there is no stopping them. “Panic broke out among the believers,” says police spokesman Peter Elke.

Two women injured in scramble

Most of the 500 believers in panic storm towards the exit, and a scramble results, in which two women aged 56 and 18 are slightly injured. For some of the elderly visitors at the mass, even though apparently unharmed, it is too much. Outside, they need support by others, and a few later need emergency treatment for circulatory problems.
The police, alarmed by numerous emergency calls, storm the church minutes later. At the confessional, the officers, armed with machine guns, meet a few brave visitors at the mass who stayed in the room and detained the 33-year-old interrupter.
Quickly they realize: “The man was neither armed, nor did he have explosives with him,” stresses Peter Elke. It is unclear where the loud bang came from that scared the congregation and caused the panic. It was probably the cross falling to the floor. The pastor and the acolytes were just solemnly carrying it through the aisle, as part of the ritual, when the man intensified his heckling. Before that, he drew visitors’ attention with his “insane gaze” and scratching at the wooden benches.

No one was directly threatened, however. According to eye witnesses, the man had Arab features and a long beard. It was obvious that the picture of an Islamic terrorist spontaneously rushed through the minds of many believers, according to Peter Elke. This explains the panic. Police can confirm that according to the name in his passport, the man is of Arab ethnicity. “We arrived very quickly at the church with a large and appropriately equipped force,” says Peter Elke. The danger could have been real, after all.

The pastor stayed in the church, too

Besides the men who held him, the pastor also bravely stayed in the church room when the police finally arrested the man. Essen firefighters meanwhile took up the medical assistance of the lightly injured and shocked church visitors, who, after they fled, observed the goings-on from a safe distance.
Quickly there is word that it probably is a “confused person”. As of this evening, no more specifics can be learned; the suspect is being interrogated by police.

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