The Italian government has collapsed following Salvini’s pulling his support from the government. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned as he was set to face a vote of no confidence brought about by Matteo Salvini’s Lega Party.
At the center of the rise of “populist” movements in Europe has been the hijrah and Islamic supremacist incursions.
Conte blasted Salvini, accusing the Interior Minister of “political opportunism,” and “slammed Salvini for various issues including his use of religious symbols, a critique often deployed by members of the Roman Catholic clergy hostile to Salvini’s anti-mass migration policies.” Meanwhile, that is exactly what the Pope of Islam has been doing in counseling the Catholic flock to fling open Europe’s doors to unrestricted mass immigration, because in his view, it is the Christian thing to do. And the Pope’s views are not without opposition within the Church. Cardinal Robert Sarah — prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments — compared “the modern influx of Muslim migrants to the invasions of barbarian tribes that ultimately brought down the Roman Empire in a.d. 475.” Sarah also issued a warning about Muslim migration and the subsequent destruction of Europe, and cautioned that “it is a false exegesis [interpretation of scriptural text] to use the Word of God to promote migration. God never wanted these rifts.” This is exactly what Pope Francis has been doing for quite some time, while the Vatican remains walled up, and the Pope remains surrounded by security.
Salvini stands firm and unapologetic about defending Europe’s tradition and Christian identity, which is rooted in the principles of human rights for all, equality before the law, and individual freedom. Salvini has made specific reference to defending Europe from an “Islamic caliphate,” stating:
For our children, to leave behind an Islamic caliphate with sharia law in our cities is not something I want to do and I’m going to do everything in my power to avert this sad ending for Europe.
Now that the Italian government has collapsed, the next steps are up to Italian president Sergio Mattarella, where he will either call an election or form another coalition. Lega Senate leader Massimiliano Romeo has warned that should the Lega party be forced out of the Italian government, Italy would be “harmed…. lose sovereignty. And we would return under the thumb of Merkel.”
“Italian PM Resigns, Attacks Populist Salvini As Government Collapses,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, August 20, 2019:
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned, forcing the collapse of the populist coalition between the Five Star Movement and Matteo Salvini’s Populist-right Lega (League).
The Italian PM was set to face a vote of no confidence brought by Salvini’s party after the Five Star Movement overwhelmingly opposed a recent vote on the Italian-French TAV train tunnel project.On the floor of the Italian senate, Mr Conte blasted Salvini, accusing the Interior Minister of “political opportunism,” according to a report from Italian newspaper Il Giornale.
“Government crises are faced in Parliament, not in the public squares,” Conte continued and slammed Salvini for various issues including his use of religious symbols, a critique often deployed by members of the Roman Catholic clergy hostile to Salvini’s anti-mass migration policies.
While he announced his resignation as Prime Minister, Conte said that he hoped Italian President Sergio Mattarrella would not choose to hold a snap election, saying it could block current reforms.
“I announce that I intend to complete this institutional step in a coherent manner. The President of the Republic will lead the country in this constitutional passage. I take this opportunity to renew my thanks for the advice he has always given me,” Conte said.
The decision on the way forward for the Italian parliament now rests with the Italian President who, along with being able to call new elections, could call on the Five Star Movement (M5S) to form another working coalition.
Some have suggested that the M5S could partner with the establishment left-wing Democratic Party (PD) but others, such as Lega Senate leader Massimiliano Romeo, say that such a move would only help funnel even more votes to Salvini’s party…..
CRUSADER says
What can poster Mario Alexis Portella share with JW from his standpoint in Italy?
https://thegreatarchitect.blog/author/thegreatarchitect2019/page/2/
Peter Buckley says
Well, the UK is about to leave the EU very soon. And it would not surprise me one bit to see Italy doing the same very soon:
https://www.thelocal.it/20181017/italy-eu-eurosceptic-italexit-brexit
The EU is on its last legs. I give it ten years. Even in France, the anti-EU vote is in the forties:
https://www.westmonster.com/40-of-french-voters-back-leaving-the-european-union1/
Just a matter of time……..
CRUSADER says
So….ITexit 2020
and
FRexit 2030…
Rob Harris says
Italy plus Spain and Greece should exit the Euro first.
CRUSADER says
MAP
also has posted at
https://clarionproject.org/author/mario-alexis-portella/
http://www.faithfreedom.org/author/rev-mario-alexis-portella/
lisa says
So confused. Is Salvini pro mass migration or anti mass migration? And what about conte? He was PRO mass migration????
gravenimage says
Lisa, why are you confused? Salvini is anti mass immigration.
gravenimage says
Italy: Prime Minister resigns, blasts anti-mass Muslim migration Salvini, government collapses
…………………..
Conte is a fool–the Italian people are better off with him resigning.
Sharon ODONNELL says
Agreed!
The Bible tells US to share the Gospel,
if they don’t listen ,we are told to
wipe the dust off Our feet, move On to the next Town .
Not import Christian murdering foiregners
Amongst US.+
Matthew 10:14
14And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words,
shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town.
15Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah
on the day of judgment than for that town.…
Sharon ODONNELL says
Foreigners
Angemon says
Claimed the demagogue, as if Salvini were the first to do such a thing…
Shirley Ann says
I can not answer for President Trump, but I can tell you that he has done everything to curtail the Two Prong Invasion. The Muslims are arriving by Air & the Illegal Aliens through Our Southern Border. Lately on the Southern Border, Pakistani, Iraqi, Ghana,etc. BENEFIT SEEKERS are being found, Mingled with the Aliens of Central & South America.
One Half of the American People(DEMS) want Open Borders & are Fighting Every Curtailment by President Trump.
Time is Needed, but I don’t know how much time we have left.
James Lincoln says
Shirley Ann,
You are correct, Pres. Trump is doing his absolute best. Ironically, he is trying to protect the very people, i.e., the far left, who continue to fight him tooth and nail.
It would be great if we could deport them along with the illegals.
Unbelievable.
J_not_a says
The non moo slums who defend the moo slums the most vociferously are the idiots who know the least about it. That’s been my observation at any rate.
CRUSADER says
Catholic Priest: Islam “Not a Religion of Peace”;
Interfaith Dialogue Currently “Useless”
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“Islam justifies killing and war in its sacred texts.”
So said American Catholic priest Mario Alexis Portella in a striking,
but mostly ignored, recent interview.
The author of the new book “Islam: Religion of Peace? The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up”, Portella is also quoted as having said that unless the Koran changes, dialogue with Islam is “useless.”
Originally published November 22 but only covered in the English press more recently, Father Portella’s interview was conducted by Italian newspaper La Verità (The Truth) — and what the clergyman had to say could today get him in trouble with both Muslim and Christian clerics.
Asked by interviewer Marcello Mancini about a statement he made asserting that Western weakness has neutered free speech (i.e., “hate speech” laws), Fr. Portella had a warning. “Islamists have infiltrated government posts and lobbyists, such as the United Nations, and from that strategic position they have been able to convince the heads of state through the soft law, to criminalize any sort of criticism against Islam,” he said. “In this manner they can embed themselves in society even more.”
Note here that there were many warnings about how Islamists had infiltrated the Obama administration, and vile Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour is regularly given platforms in the United States through which to spew propaganda and hate.
Fr. Portella, who has spent time in Iraq, was also asked about how Christians are being persecuted in the Middle East and face extinction there. He said they were disillusioned because “after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and the American invasion, the West has left them in [a] political state of anarchy.”
“Christians live in fear because they are harassed by Muslims who now occupy the posts vacated after ISIS,” he added.
Fr. Portella doesn’t seem optimistic that dialogue can solve the problem, either.
Asked about Pope Francis’ apparently more Pollyannaish view, the clergyman said that deceit was the issue: Muslim representatives say one thing to the pope’s and other Westerners’ faces, but another to Muslim audiences in their own nations.
Relevant here is that Islam upholds a type of officially sanctioned dissimulation known as taqiyya, which, TheReligionofPeace explains, can involve “gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.”
As to the truth, Fr. Portella said that one only “has to look at the original Islamic texts” to understand Muslim violence.
Yet the West is so politically correct, he complains, that those texts “are ignored by scholars and activists who maintain that they are being misinterpreted by those … [whose aim is] terrorism and the Islamization of the world.”
This head-in-sand assertion, Portella says, “is simply not true.”
Yet the texts do tell the tale.
Note, too, that they include not just the Koran — actually only 16 percent of the Islamic canon — but also the Hadiths and Sira (all three together known as the Islamic Trilogy).
This is noteworthy because while nine percent of the Koran preaches jihad and political violence, 21 percent of the Hadiths does, and a whopping 67 percent of the Sira is devoted to it, according to Bill Warner, director of the Center for the Study of Political Islam.
Thus did Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut write in 2015 that “violence and domination” are “deeply rooted … and sanctioned with promises of rewards” in Islam, and, consequently, “fundamentalists will always find people to excite and people to persecute.”
(Just one example of a violent injunction is in the Koran, Sura 8:12, which states, “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.”)
It’s also noteworthy, in this age of relativism and its cousin religious-equivalence doctrine, to contrast this with the Bible. Warner tells us that 5.6 percent of the Old Testament and zero percent of the New Testament are devoted to political violence. In terms of word count, this works out to zero in the latter and 34,039 in the Hebrew Bible. What of the Islamic Trilogy?
It comes in at 327,547 — 9.6 times greater than the Old Testament.
Yet there’s still more to consider. Warner also points out that while the “political violence of the Bible was for that particular historical time and place,” the “political violence of the Koran is eternal and universal.… The violence remains a constant threat to all non-Islamic cultures, now and into the future.”
Given this, the findings of a comprehensive German study of 45,000 immigrant youths, reported in 2010, are unsurprising. To wit: While increasing religiosity among the Christian youths made them less violent, increasing religiosity among the Muslim youths actually made them more violent.
Thus, Fr. Portella says that a certain condition is required for peaceful coexistence and “reciprocal dialogue.” It “is necessary for the imams who sustain the words in the Quran in a fundamentalist manner to revise their book,” he states. “Above all, they must correct the hadiths (the sayings and acts of the Prophet) which justify violence.”
While such action appears unlikely, in thus prescribing Portella is touching on the real issue. In critiquing Islam (or anything else), people generally focus on the teachings. But let’s analogize this with a question: What’s more significant, what a parent says — or the example he sets?
Actions speak louder than words, as is said; virtues (and vices) are caught more than they’re taught. Or as a very wise man I know put it recently, “People don’t follow ideas.”
“People follow people.”
Now consider that Christians may use as a guide for behavior, “What would Jesus do?” (WWJD); likewise, Muslims view Mohammed as a role model, considering him “the Perfect Man.” But there’s a profound difference.
Jesus is known as the Prince of Peace; in fact, His role-model status is so unassailable that instead of impugning Him, anti-Christian forces instead generally co-opt Him for their own purposes (e.g., claiming He was a “liberal”).
Yet what of Mohammed?
He was a warlord who launched close to 30 military campaigns, many of which he led himself. He was a caravan raider (a bandit) and captured, traded in, and owned slaves. He ordered massacres, used torture, and had dissidents assassinated. He was a polygamist and made it lawful for masters to have sexual relations with female captives. Mohammed also wasn’t very fond of dogs, an attitude begetting their mistreatment in the Islamic world (warning: disturbing links).
One could quip here, if the dog is man’s best friend and Mohammed hated dogs, was he really part of the family of man? In fairness, though, as with Attila the Hun or Genghis Khan, Mohammed was largely a man of his time and place. Thus could we let him rest in peace and put his memory to bed — except for one thing: More than a billion people worldwide won’t.
This brings us to the real point.
If someone said Attila the Hun or Genghis Khan was “the Perfect Man” and used him as his role model, would you turn your back on that person?
So maybe, just perhaps, the Koran can be rehabilitated.
But can Mohammed?
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/30838-catholic-priest-islam-not-a-religion-of-peace-interfaith-dialogue-currently-useless
( Podcast video )
Terry Gain says
Crusader
Great post. Thank you.
Terry Gain says
But Father Portella is not American. He is Italian.
Mario Alexis Portella
Mario Alexis Portella is a priest of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and chancellor of the Archdiocese of Florence, Italy. He has a doctorate in canon law and civil law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, a Master of Arts in medieval history from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Arts in government and politics from St. John’s University. He is the author of the recently published book “Islam: Religion of Peace? – The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up” and he is a columnist for the monthly online journal Il Mantello della Giustizia.
CRUSADER says
MAP was born in the USA !
Mario Alexis Portella, a native New Yorker, is a priest of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Florence, Italy. He has a doctorate in canon law and civil law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome; he also holds a M. A. in Medieval History from Fordham University in New York, as well as a B. A. In Government and Politics from St. John’s University, also in New York. He is the author of several books, Islam: Religion of Peace? — The Violation of Natural Rights and Western Cover-Up; Ethiopian and Eritrean Monasticism — The Spiritual and Cultural Heritage of Two Nations; and Abyssinian Christianity: The First Christian Nation? — The History and the Identity of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians.
https://thegreatarchitect.blog/author/thegreatarchitect2019/
https://www.jihadwatch.org/tag/fr-mario-alexis-portella
gravenimage says
+1
Heidi says
All European parliaments and almost all European political parties are infiltrated by islamists. This is what Erdogan told them and they are following suit “Democracy is just the train we jump on until we get there. The mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the mosque cupolas our helmets and the faithful our soldiers” and “Thank God we are followers of Sharia”. This quote from Erdogan shows one in which direction the train is set to run „I am calling on my citizens, my brothers and sisters in Europe. Don’t have just three children; have five. The place in which you are living and working is now your homeland and new motherland. Stake a claim in it. Open more businesses, enroll your children in better schools, have your families live in better neighborhoods, drive the best cars, live in the most beautiful houses. That’s because you are the future of Europe. It will be the best answer to the vulgarism, antagonism and injustices made against you.“
CRUSADER says
It’s as if with Erdogan’s words,
we are privy to Hitler’s thoughts — ahead of time!
Oh, yeah, we were : MEIN KAMPF !
Peter says
Here is a video of Conte “colluding” with Merkel in Davos to undermine Salvini’s pro-Italy policies on immigration:
https://youtu.be/rddoy5qhH7w
Eric Jones says
Salvini should be prime miniter. Globalist want open borders and an end to nation states. The globalist want total corporate control. For Europe they are using Muslim migration to take down the nation state. The Globalist don’t relize that the Islamist willl not be satisfied until they impose sharia where ever they are.
We in the USA need to take note of this. We need to enforce our immigration laws, enforce our borders and never surrender to sharia.
Eric
CRUSADER says
ACT For America !
http://www.ACTforAmerica.org
ronyvo says
I am glad for the movement many European counties are taken. There is hope in the air. This movement would or should wake up those who are still in deep sleep ignoring the extreme Islamic danger invading their beautiful countries and ruining their precious Jodo-Christian values.