An original Translation from Michael Laudahn:

From Der Westen:

 Celebrated a pontifical mass at the St Mariae Geburt [= birth] parish church: archbishop Flavien Joseph Melki, high representative of the syrian-catholic church in Lebanon. He fulminated against militant moslems. 

The guest of the St Mariae Geburt church warned that islam could conquer Europe within 50 years, pushed by polygamy and a large number of children: The extreme points of view held by the archbishop of the syrian-catholic church surprised also city dean Janssen.

On sunday, the Mülheim church of St Mariae Geburt had a stressful guest: Archbishop Flavien Joseph Melki, high representative of the syrian-catholic church in Lebanon, celebrated a pontifical mass at the parish church. The sermon given in french by the 81-years old archbishop and gradually translated into german already made it clear: Here is a man who harshly subdivides the world into christians and moslems. Here the threatened minority, there an aggressive religion whose young partisans at best can be converted, according to his perception.

In Beirut, Melki founded the ‘Home of Hope’, a kind of christian boarding school, where presently there are 30 children accomodated, attended, educated, of which eight from moslem families, according to the archbishop. Mülheim church attendees have donated for this project through their door-to-door collection.

Melki undertakes one pastoral voyage per year through european countries. He is always invited and accompanied by a private individual: Hellmuth Dieken, a muralist active worldwide, at the same time a representative of the small catholic association, The United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Dieken lives in Waldbröl, his sister in Speldorf. This way, the contact to St Mariae Geburt came about, according to deacon Martin Bader.

After the holy mass, a reception followed at the catholic meeting venue on the church hill: Here, Melki evoked in front of about 30 parish members the danger of a militant islam, which – pushed by polygamy, a large number of children and financial support from the ‘petrostates’ – threatens to conquer Europe within 50 to 100 years.

City dean Michael Janssen, who afterwards admitted that the archbishop’s opinions were not known to him in this degree of acuity, intervened during the round-table talks with some reconciliatory tones: ‘In Mülheim’, according to Janssen, ‘we are having a very good inter-religious dialogue.’

He mentioned expressly the ‘Engel der Kulturen’ [= angel(s) of the cultures] art project planned for the 5th of september, where christian, jewish and moslem representatives cooperate. According to Janssen, he talks a lot with moslems, among which there are moderate and fundamentalist people: ‘Fundamentalism is the death of every religion, and if we are honest, then also we catholics do have fundamentalists.’