“Muslim converts to Pope Francis: ‘If Islam is a good religion…as you seem to teach, why did we become Catholic?’”

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"Muslims who have converted to Catholicism have penned an open letter to Pope Francis challenging him on his attitude towards and preaching on Islam. 

'If Islam is a good religion in itself, as you seem to teach, why did we become Catholic?' the converts ask Francis in the letter. 'Do not your words question the soundness of the choice we made at the risk of our lives?' 

The letter continued to gain signatures over the weekend, approaching 3,700 by Monday afternoon...

'We believe that it is not necessary to be a recognized theologian to recognize the demonic nature of Islam,' a representative of the group of former Muslims told LifeSiteNews, 'but that anyone of a sense, without even having faith, can understand that [one] cannot serve both the Church and Islam.'

The letter asks the Pope specifically about his teaching on Islam in Evangelii Gaudium (paragraphs 252 and 253), in which Francis writes in part, that 'authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.'...

Citing the Qur’an, they illustrate that Islam seeks to make an enemy of all and declares that Christians 'are only impurity' and that Allah must exterminate them. 

The Catholic converts also entreat Francis to not be deceived by the Quranic verses that are considered tolerant, because they say the verses are annulled by the Verse of the Sword (Qur’an 9.5)...

Writing about Francis having been lauded by various Muslim leaders as a defender of Islam, Catholic Islam expert Robert Spencer referenced him as 'The Pope of Islam.'"