Pope Leo is conspiring with Democrats to harm Trump… America will suffer the consequences: AYAAN HIRSI ALI

On April 9, Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod, one of the Democratic Party’s most experienced executives and the architect of Barack Obama’s rise to power; Four days later, Leo issued the first of a series of harsh public criticisms of President Donald Trump and his Republican administration.

Hal Lambert, founder of Point Bridge Capital and one of the more clear-eyed observers of the intersection between American politics and corporate power, saw coordination that others saw as coincidence.

‘This is 100 percent political, okay? “This is all about President Trump trying to hurt the Catholic vote in the midterms and the Republican vote in the midterm elections,” Lambert said on CNN Monday.

A Pope who breaks bread with partisan agents and emerges days later to attack a sitting president has, in my opinion, ceased to work as a shepherd of souls. Instead he has become a political actor, and a graceless one at that. This fits the Vatican’s recent pattern.

When Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, condemnation of Israel came easily from Pope Francis; The massacres and kidnappings occurred without openly condemning Hamas.

Pope Leo has been conspicuously silent on the systematic persecution of Christians by Muslims in Muslim-majority countries. This includes forced conversions in Pakistan and disappearances in Egypt, as well as the burning of churches and the massacre of Christian communities in Northern Nigeria.

Each of these is a direct expression of a clash of civilizations that Pope Leo refuses to name. I’ve been saying this for over twenty years. I got paid for saying this. I say again: The West is losing this war. Not on the battlefield, but in the cathedrals, the chancellery, and the press conferences of men who were chosen to be shepherds and chose instead to become diplomats.

As I write this, Pope Leo is in Algiers, shoes off, pen in hand, bowing before the Golden Book in the Great Mosque of Algiers.

I do not envy Muslims their mosques. I object to the performance of theology through such gestures; I object to the implicit suggestion, increasingly evident in Vatican discourse, that the differences between Islam and Christianity are merely cultural and that interfaith harmony can be achieved by erasing doctrinal distinctions.

Last Thursday, Pope Leo XIV met with David Axelrod (above), the architect of Barack Obama’s rise to power.

Axelrod with Barack Obama in 2009; He is considered one of the Democratic Party’s most experienced operatives

Mistaking this for humility requires a deliberate generosity of interpretation. The more accurate reading is of a man like Leo, who long ago chose compromise over faith and has since devoted considerable effort to presenting that choice as a form of wisdom.

The Pope’s main job—the irreplaceable, special, urgent job for which he was elected—is to proclaim the uniqueness of Christ. Incarnation, resurrection, the insistence that God entered history at a fixed point and in human form, and that this singularity is the basis on which all human existence rests.

It is either the most important fact in world history, or it is nothing. And if this is true, as I believe, then no amount of interfaith warmth can eliminate this truth without destroying faith with it.

The principle of giving to Caesar what is Caesar’s is one of the greatest gifts that Christianity has given to civilization. But this is where the Pope went most wrong.

Pope Leo’s first major conflict with the Trump administration was over immigration enforcement, denouncing the administration’s clearly democratically elected policies.

Ironically, immigration is also the most powerful strategic weapon in the arsenal of those who want to advance Islamic civilization against the West. This is not just my analysis. This is the clear teaching of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most influential Islamic theologian of the modern age, who has captured the attention of millions.

He told his followers not to waste time with bombs. Conquer Europe through immigration, he said. By settlement. From the wombs of Muslim women.

As I write this, Leo is in Algiers, bowing in front of the Grand Mosque of Algiers, shoes off, pen in hand in front of the Golden Book.

This is a clearly stated doctrine of demographic conquest, and it works. In response, Western peoples now vote for restrictive immigration policies throughout election cycles in Europe and America.

Pope Leo responded to none of these with theological seriousness. There is not a word about Qaradawi’s doctrine. Not a word about the theological premises driving this migration strategy. It is precisely the language of humanitarian aid that is being used with perfect timing in the Western world against a government that is now trying to respond to the demands of its voters.

If that were all, the damage could be contained. Not.

Now, as the Islamic Republic of Iran, a regime that has recently massacred tens of thousands of its own citizens, rushes toward nuclear weapons, Leo’s response is to lend his moral authority to the opposition. It provided effective cover for the theocratic regime under which one of the world’s largest underground Christian churches grew. After all, this is a regime that converts religions and kills people.

Iranian Christians, who worship in secret at mortal risk, deserve a Pope who will name them after their oppressors. Instead, they got a Pope who offered gestures of solidarity to the civilization that oppressed them.

Moral leadership – the articulation of what is worth defending, why the foundations of Western civilizations are important, why the Church produces universities and hospitals, and the concept of individual conscience – are the Pope’s domain. That job is not being done.

When Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7, condemnation of Israel from the Vatican under Pope Francis was immediate; The massacres and kidnappings took place without any clear condemnation from Hamas itself.

Immigration is the most powerful strategic weapon in the arsenal of those who want to advance Islamic civilization over the West. This is not just my analysis. This is the clear teaching of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most influential Islamic theologian of the modern age.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Founder of the AHA Foundation, and Contributor to Western Substack Restoration.

Scripture had named this failure long before Leo came along and repeated it. The men who founded this papacy bear a disturbing resemblance to the Pharisees of Jesus’ own day; guardians have become so preoccupied with maintaining institutional power that belief has become incidental.

The appropriate response to such corruption was once demonstrated unambiguously in the holiest of sanctuaries. When Christ found the temple occupied by people who had rebuilt it in their likeness, he did not seek common ground with them.

Instead he took them out.

This same willingness to refuse to confuse the ship with what it carries, to act according to what the faith actually demands, is what ordinary Catholics and all those who understand what is at stake in the collapse of the Church must now find the courage to insist on.

None of these preclude the possibility of coexistence. World civilizations must find ways to coexist with each other, and the work is certainly worth doing. But the coexistence built on erasure rather than honest reckoning never outlasted the differences he refused to name.

The clash of civilizations does not fit into the Vatican calendar. He acts on his own terms, indifferent to misrepresentations and diplomatic declarations, and will reach conclusions with or without the involvement of the Church.

The only question history will ask is whether shepherds graze their flocks or sign guest books in foreign mosques when that time comes.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Founder of the AHA Foundation, and contributor to Restoring the Western Substack.