Was the RC priest Hamel a martyr or victim of his own doing?

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Was the RC priest Hamel a martyr or victim of his own doing?

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http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/04/was ... m/?ref=yfp

Excellent piece of journalism

Christian charity does not entail any obligation to accommodate Islam’s muscular expansion in the West. One way to love the enemy is to defeat him. Yet Hamel’s parish was actively lending itself to Islam’s ascendancy. Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray is a lesson in the price Christianity pays for the fanaticism of profligate mercy.

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This haste to canonize Hamel is a mistaken response. It would provide the illusion of having acted when, in truth, no action was taken. A theatrical gesture of symbolic defiance but with no correlative in the real world only embolden those forces moving against us. Canonization proceedings—in this instance, at this time—would communicate passivity, not sanctity, in the face of lethal aggression.

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.

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