Worse and worse: In Italy some naïve bishops have decided to do their part for the interfaith racket, by teaching their flock about the "true" Islam, the Good Islam, the Islam whose Qur'an is the "revealed Word of God," the Islam that evil islamophobes try to keep hidden. More on this madness can be found here: "Italy's Catholic bishops promote Koran as 'revealed Word of God' in schools," by Gaetano Masciullo, LifeSite News, October 26, 2026:

Italy's Catholic bishops are promoting a new Islamic education program that describes the Koran as the "revealed Word of God," while Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has said Catholic religion classes should be treated as a "laboratory of culture and dialogue."

On October 21, Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI), presented the new educational initiative, "Factsheets for Understanding Islam," at an event in the Palazzo Borromeo – the seat of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See in Rome. Promoted jointly by the CEI, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, and the Italian diplomatic mission, the program is designed for teachers of Catholic religion classes in state schools.

Any Catholic teachers who may have thought there was something threatening about Islam must now get with the program, see Islam for the wonderful religion it is, and teach that to their innocent pupils.

Reflecting on his years as a religion teacher, Zuppi stated: "The only thing that was clear was that there was no need to teach catechism." For this reason, according to him, Catholic religious education classes in schools should be conceived as a mere "laboratory of culture and dialogue."

"The eleven sheets go beyond the usual clichés. They begin with 'What Is Islam?' and 'A Brief History of Islam,' then go on to address faith and theology [and] the Qur'an as the revealed Word of God," Vatican News reported.

Created by a joint team of Catholic and Muslim experts who negotiated over differences to produce a single, mutually agreed text, the 11-module curriculum presents Islamic doctrine, including describing the Koran as the "revealed word of God," under the pretext of eradicating "ignorance" and fostering social cohesion.

The Qur'an is not described as "according to Muslims" or "Muslims believe" that "the Qur'an is the revealed word of God." No, the Qur'an is described in these materials to be used in Catholic schools simply as "the revealed word of God." That's what Muslims think. That's not what Christians think. Or at least not until now, when the good bishops seem determined to confuse their flock. How discombobulating that must be to the young Catholic pupils, who always thought that their religion was the one true one, only to find their religion teachers suggesting that there is another one as well — Islam.

Will those materials about Islam now to be used in Catholic schools include the Qur'anic verses that call for violence against Unbelievers? Of course not. Think of all that will be left out from these classes on Islam. There is, for example, this: "So when you meet the disbelievers in battle, strike their necks until you have thoroughly subdued them, then bind them firmly." (47:4) Or this: "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip." (8:12) Or this: "So when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists [Christians are meant, for their belief in the Trinity makes them, in Muslim eyes, polytheists] wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them of every ambush." (9:5) And there are dozens more of the same violent ilk. And none of them will be included in the Catholic schools' teaching about Islam.

And will these new materials include the most famous hadith of Muhammad, including those where he explains that "I have been made victorious through terror" and "War is deception"? Will the pupils learn that Muhammad insisted that "Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated"? Or will Archbishop Matteo Zuppi, so eager to prevent "Islamophobia," want to keep those Qur'anic passages and those hadith from the Church's innocent charges?

"I would send everyone to school, because there is remarkable ignorance [about Islam]…. The sheets represent the exact opposite of the clash of civilizations," Zuppi added. He also praised the joint Catholic-Muslim text as a great "antidote to violence and ignorance," while warning that news headlines critical of Islamic proliferation are "dangerous with islamophobia."…

How will the texts that Catholic and Muslim clerics prepared jointly serve as an "antidote to violence and ignorance"? It is only keeping hidden the violence that is instinct in the Qur'an, a violence directed at all non-Muslims, including the Catholics who are accused of "shirk" — that is, polytheism — because of their worship of the Trinity. How will Archbishop Zuppi's materials expose the supposed falsity of that "clash of civilizations" he wants to wave away? Only, it seems, by hiding what the texts and teachings of Islam really contain.

The Muslims must have been beside themselves with joy at the naivete of the bishops they were dealing with. If enough European Christians were to accept the version of Islam that those bishops are eager to disseminate, who will be able to withstand the Muslim conquest of Europe?

Father Alberto Gastaldi, director of the CEI National Office for Education, School, and University, defended the initiative by describing interreligious dialogue as "the very hallmark of Catholic educational commitment" and hailing the classroom as "the first true laboratory of dialogue."

Interreligious dialogue with Muslims — what may be called interfaith racketeering — always ends up being a farce, with Christians hornswoggled into accepting the sanitized version of Islam that Muslim clerics peddle, while the Muslims constantly complain about "Islamophobia."

"In a school classroom, learning about Islam through reliable and respectful resources does not mean abandoning one's own identity. Rather, it means practicing that integral humanism which knows how to make room for the other.… Interreligious dialogue is not an occasional concession," Gastaldi declared.

"Make room for the other"? When and where, in the last fourteen centuries of Islam's existence, have Muslims ever "made room for the other"? When have Muslins engaged in real "interreligious dialogue," instead of deceiving those of other faiths as to Islam's true intention "to dominate and not to be dominated"? Islam is a faith that was spread by military conquest; everywhere it conquered other lands and peoples, it offered those non-Muslims it conquered, if they were people of the book (Christians and Jews) only three choices: to convert to Islam, to be killed, or to accept the status of "dhimmi," which allowed them to live and even practice their religion as long as they accepted a host of economic, social, and political disabilities, including the onerous capitation tax known as the "jizyah."

Bishop Gastaldi claims that "interreligious dialogue" is not "an occasional concession." No, it isn't: when that dialogue is with Islam, it is an uninterrupted series of concessions to those whom Oriana Fallaci scornfully described as "the sons of Allah."

These bishops are blind guides, absolutely the wrong men for this moment in history, where the myrmidons of Islam are by the tens of millions now living inside the historic West, with their numbers steadily increasing, as they undermine Western civilization from within. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, so I have heard it said, but where, and who, is he?