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Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke

Cardinal Burke doubles down on danger of Islam

Cardinal Raymond Burke is doubling down on the threat Islam poses to the Christian world, pointing again to its inherent goal of world domination, now more attainable owing to the loss of Christian identity in the West.

In a new interview posted this week by Il Giornale, Cdl. Burke warns that Christians aren't recognizing Islam for what it really is. 

"It is clear that Muslims have as an ultimate goal conquest and power over the world. Islam, through the sharia, their law, will rule the world and allow violence against the infidels, like the Christians," he explained.

Appointed patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta by Pope Francis, Cdl. Burke points to history as proof that Islam has always had this goal of world conquest with special designs on Europe. 

"The whole history of the Islamic presence in Europe is an attempt to conquer it," he commented. 

"We just celebrated, on September 8, the victory of the Knights of Malta after a three-month siege by the Muslims in 1565. Malta would have been the springboard to Europe."

This reaffirms the same point Cdl. Burke made in July regarding the Christian battles with Muslims at Lepanto in 1571 and Vienna in 1683. 

"These historical events relate directly with the situation of today. There's no question that Islam wants to govern the world."

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This week the cardinal contrasts the God of Christianity — Triune and Incarnate — with the God of Islam. 

"Islam is a threat in the sense that the true Muslim Allah must rule the world," he clarified. "Christ in the Gospel said, 'Give to Caesar what is Caesar's.'"

The former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Church's highest court, noted that the Qur'an itself, to which Muslims answer, calls for worldwide domination. 

"On the contrary, the Islamic religion which is based on the law of the Qur'an aims to govern all countries where there are Muslims," he continued. 

"While they are the minority they cannot insist, but when they become the majority they must apply the Sharia."

The same could in the not too distant past, at least, have been said of the commitment of the Catholic Church to disestablishment and toleration.

As late as Vatican II, and even after.