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<h1 class="">Cardinal Burke: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">it’s reasonable to be afraid of Islam’s desire to govern the world</span></h1>
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<div class="">by <strong><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/author/staff-reporter/" title="Posts by Staff Reporter" rel="author">Staff Reporter</a><br><a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/07/22/cardinal-burke-its-reasonable-to-be-afraid-of-islams-desire-to-govern-the-world/">http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/07/22/cardinal-burke-its-reasonable-to-be-afraid-of-islams-desire-to-govern-the-world/</a><br></strong></div>
<div class="">posted Friday, 22 Jul 2016</div>
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<div class=""><img style="margin-right: 0px;" src="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/content/uploads/2016/07/PA-24442413-800x500.jpg" class="" alt="Cardinal Burke (AP)" height="266" width="427"> <div class="">
Cardinal Burke (AP) </div>
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<p class="">T<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">he cardinal said <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">the best response was to fortify the Christian foundation of our societies</span></span></p>
<p>Cardinal Raymond Burke has said<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> there is “no question that</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> Islam
wants to govern the world”</b></span>, and that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>Western societies should return to
their Christian roots.</b></span></p>
<p><a href="http://religionnews.com/2016/07/21/us-cardinal-says-christian-nations-in-west-must-counter-islamic-influx/">Speaking to David Gibson of Religious News Service</a>,
Cardinal Burke, the patron of the Order of Malta, said <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>Muslims were
“<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">lovely people</span>” who themselves talked about religion “in a very peaceful
manner”.</b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>But </b></span>he said<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> too few people understood the tradition of Islamic
thought on government: that, when Muslims became a majority population,
“they have the religious obligation to govern that country.</b></span> If that’s
what the citizens of a nation want, well, then, they should just allow
this to go on. But if that’s not what they want, then they have to find a
way to deal with it.”</p>
<p>Cardinal Burke said that, for anyone “not at peace with the idea of
being under an Islamic government”, it was reasonable to be “afraid” of
such a prospect.</p>
<p>The cardinal was speaking ahead of the publication o<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">f<b> </b>a new book, <b><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/Products/CBI-P/hope-for-the-world.aspx">Hope for the World: To Unite All Things in Christ</a></b>.</span>
Like books by Pope Francis and Benedict XVI, and God or Nothing by
Cardinal Robert Sarah, the book takes the form of an extended interview.
The interviewer is Guillaume d’Alançon, a writer who also works for a
French diocese.</p>
<p>In the book, Cardinal Burke says: <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>“Islam is a religion that,
according to its own interpretation, must also become the State.</b></span> The
Koran, and the authentic interpretations of it given by various experts
in Koranic law, is destined to govern the world.</p>
<p>“In reality, <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>there is no place</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> for other religions,</b></span> even though they
may be tolerated, as long as Islam has not succeeded in establishing its
sovereignty over the nations and over the world.”</p>
<p>The cardinal says that<span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> Islam and <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">Christianity</span> are radically
different.</b></span> In the interview with Gibson, he says that Church leaders are
mistaken if they “simply think that Islam is a religion like the
Catholic faith or the Jewish faith”, rather than recognising its
ambitions to govern.</p>
<p>He argues that<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b> tolerance is a feature of Christian charity,</b></span> and
that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b>the right response is “to be firm about the Christian origin of our
own nation, </b></span>and certainly in Europe,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)"><b> and the Christian foundations of
the government, and to fortify those”.</b></span></p>
<p>Cardinal Burke has made similar comments in the past. In 2014, <a href="http://theradicalcatholic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/an-intereview-with-cardinal-burke.html">he told the newspaper Una Voce Austria</a> that “the Muslim life is taking over in countries which were formerly Christian”, partly thanks to high birthrate.</p>
<p>Last year, the cardinal said in <a href="https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=fr&u=http://www.atlantico.fr/decryptage/cardinal-burke-face-islam-est-pas-deraisonnable-ressentir-certaine-peur-peur-juste-2365587.html/page/0/2&usg=ALkJrhgzEh5gi7HIYjEGVs0ppcaLHFiLPA">an interview with a French newspaper</a>: “we must remember that Islam is a government, not just a religion”.</p></div></div></div></div>