Vatican gets it’s anti-Muslim hate on
This anti-Muslim crap is getting nasty. Now the Vatican has decided to get explicitly racist about Muslims with a Vatican official complaining about the lack of births amongst native Christian Europeans.
According to Father Gheddo, Christians are going to loose Europe to Muslims because the Muslim immigrants are allegedly having more children than native Christians are:
The challenge must be taken seriously,” said Father Gheddo, of the Vatican’s Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.
“Certainly from a demographic point of view, as it is clear to everyone that Italians are decreasing by 120,000 or 130,000 persons a year because of abortion and broken families – while among the more than 200,000 legal immigrants a year in Italy, more than half are Muslims and Muslim families, which have a much higher level of growth.”
He said: “Newspapers and television programmes never speak of this. However, an answer must be given above all in the religious and cultural fields and in the area of identity.”
The reason they don’t speak of it is because it’s straight up racism. This is on top of anti-Muslim male bashing by Cardinal Policarpo last year and a call by Cardinal Biffi to turn away Muslim immigrants in favour of Catholics.
Please don’t conflate criticism of religion — a label that can demonstrably be changed voluntarily by the person — with racism.
Muslims are not a race, they are people who identify with a religion. It has nothing to do with one’s physiological features or heritage, and everything to do with what religion one holds.
To be anti-Islam is not harmful to anyone, since Islam is a set of ideas. To be anti-Muslim is harmful, since Muslims are people; but those people are identified by their ideas, not their race. Neither position is racism, which is far worse than either.
The guy wasn’t criticizing Islam. He was having a case of the vapours over Muslim women (largely women of colour) allegedly having children at a faster pace than white women (aka: native Italians). That is racism.