Is Pope Francis the biggest useful idiot that Islam has in its pocket these days? It would seem so. Robert Spencer has reported on the Pope’s upbeat get-together in September with Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa, the secretary general of the Muslim World League (MWL), a group linked to financing jihad. The two exchanged meaningless religious pleasantries about world peace and universal love — what else does the leader of millions of Catholics say to a terror funder?

Below, during a papal visit to Istanbul in 2014, the Grand Mufti shared the Koran with the Pope as they prayed together. Francis has said that true Islam is not violent despite extensive evidence to the contrary.

Francis’ years of liberal pandering toward Islam has made him a figure of ridicule, at least to Spencer, who used the latest papal misadventure in multi-faith diplomacy as an opportunity for comedic mockery.

Spencer’s calling Francis the “defender of Islam” may not be entirely complementary.