‘There is no such thing as an apolitical Islam,’ Bishop Marian Eleganti said in a new interview. ‘It is a system of domination.’
(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Marian Eleganti, in an interview published Thursday, said that Islam cannot be integrated into Western political systems that the Christian faith has shaped.
During the interview with La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana published August 13, the auxiliary bishop emeritus of Chur, Switzerland, emphasized that it’s impossible for Islam to be integrated into the Western world, which holds Christian foundations. The bishop further highlighted the “anti-Christian” agenda of both Islamists and modernism and the dangers of mass migration into Europe.
“Personally, I am convinced that Islam cannot be integrated into our political systems, which have been shaped by Christianity,” Eleganti said during the interview.
“There is no such thing as an apolitical Islam, one of purely internal religious devotion. It is a system of domination. And the more its followers are convinced of this, the less it can be integrated. The result is parallel worlds,” he added.
During another part of the interview, the Italian outlet cited a 2017 Pew Research Center report that projected that by 2050 there will be 57.9 million Muslims in Europe, accounting for 11.2 percent of the population. The interviewer also noted that while the Muslim population is steadily growing in Europe, the native population, which primarily includes at least nominal Christians, is declining.
Eleganti stressed that this is a result of European Christians having “far too few children of our own” and compensating by importing Muslim migrants. Asked about how the Catholic Church has responded to this mass migration, the bishop underscored that the hierarchy refuses to see the reality of the situation.
“(The Church) refuses to see things as they really are and speaks only of charity – against which there is nothing to object. But that doesn’t solve the problem,” he said. “A father who wants to help orphaned children and already has two of his own must still assess whether he can afford to adopt another child.”
“His love for his neighbor is expressed in a reasonable way. He evaluates whether the child can be integrated into the existing family, both from a human-psychological and a financial standpoint,” he added. “One too many adoptions could place a heavy burden on the family and perhaps even put it at risk. Those who cannot provide for a child cannot adopt. Any child understands this.”
Pope Leo XIV’s pro-migrant rhetoric
Indeed, Pope Leo XIV and other prominent Catholic prelates have taken numerous opportunities to praise and only highlight the dignity of migrants while largely ignoring the Church’s full teaching on immigration.
While the Church affirms that immigrants should be treated with dignity and respect, as the Holy Father suggested, it also notes that a country has a right to secure its borders. In the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB’s) “Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples,” the conference outlines that countries are under no obligation to accept all who wish to enter.
In particularly egregious remarks during the pontiff’s June visit to Spain, he praisedmigration into Europe, days after a migrant from Muslim-majority Sudan attacked and attempted to behead a man in Northern Ireland.
Just under two months later at the end of July, 50,000-60,000 migrants swarmed into the small Spanish territory of Ceuta illegally from the predominantly Islamic Moroccan border.
During the reckless surge, at least 86 people died, mostly by drowning while trying to swim onto the Spanish shores.
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