Agradar aos muçulmanos é o principal vector da política externa norte-americana

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Entre outras coisas, ficará a saber o que é The Blowback Theory e The Infinite Muslim Terrorists Theory, teorias que explicam porque é que os muçulmanos matam os infiéis e porque é que não nos devemos defender.
Brilhante como sempre, Daniel Greefield!

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In France, American embassies and consulates have been directed to "empower" Muslim and push for the passage of "social reforms" that will benefit them. In the UK, American diplomats were directed to again "empower" Muslims and made outreach to them a top priority. In Israel, the US consulate in Jerusalem caters only to Muslims and does its best to pretend that Jews and Israel don't even exist. And when Obama visited Greece, what else did he do but push the political and religious authorities to open more mosques and Islamic schools. America's own interests and our obligations to our allies have been put aside to focus on a single goal of overriding importance. Pandering to the Muslim world. It's as if we have no other foreign policy goal anymore beyond keeping Muslims happy.

The United States has its first Special Representative to Muslim Communities in the person of Farah Pandith. We also have Rashad Hussain, a Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. (No relation to Barack Hussein Obama. The name Hussain is common among Muslims as a tribute to Mohammed's grandson, Hussain ibn Ali, the 'Martyr Of Martyrs' in Islam.) Hussain (Rashad, not Barack) had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which helped create both Al Qaeda and Hamas, and defended Islamic Jihad leader Sami Al-Arian. Farah Pandith is a Kashmiri Muslim who began her career as Barbara Bush's secretary. But just creating two new Muslim posts in the diplomatic sector isn't enough.

NASA Administrator Bolden told Al Jazeera that the agency's new priority is outreach to Muslims. After gutting NASA and killing its space program, the agency focused on its new top priority by appointing Waleed Abdalati, as its new Chief Scientist. Waleed Abdalati is a twofer, as a Muslim and a Global Warming researcher. So the Obama Administration gets to kill off the space program and replace it with Global Warming junk science headed by a Muslim. It's what the devil would call synergy.

Is any of this working? Does the Muslim world love us now? No they don't. And France, the UK, Israel and Greece like us less for tampering with their internal affairs at Muslim instigation. All the outreach in the world can't help, because it's not outreach, it's pandering. Not only is it condescending, but it sends a message of weakness and desperation. When we pressure our allies on behalf of Muslims, we're sending them a signal that our first priority is fulfilling the marching orders we received from the Muslim world. And this not only fragments our traditional alliances, but it encourages Muslim regimes to support further acts of terrorism to improve their position.

This frantic flurry of outreach reveals that we consider Islam to be the primary threat to global stability and a major national security threat. The positive image reveals the negative. We're so obsessed with pandering to Muslims because we're afraid of them. The Muslim world knows it, and gloats, when it isn't busy acting offended. The American public knows it too, even behind the camouflage tarp of learning about other cultures, that we're trying to defuse the violence. But trying to defuse violence through appeasement is not a good strategy unless you're willing to go all the way to Dhimmitown.

By enslaving our foreign policy to Islamic interests, we're already much of the way there. Chief Justice Stephen Breyer has adopted a new Constitutional understanding of free speech, in which you're free to say what you want as long as it doesn't run the risk of getting Muslims violently angry. In Europe you can be arrested for yodeling even in the shadow of the Alps-- if it offends a Muslim. A 21st century revival of The Sound of Music might now feature the Von Trapp family escaping into the mountains only to end up under arrest because some immigrant from Algeria, Morocco or Turkey was offended because the sound of "The Lonely Goatherd" resembled his own prayers to Allah a little too much.

What does this have to do with foreign policy? Everything. If we treat the Muslims of the world as a collective group always balanced on the edge of exploding, then there is no more difference between foreign and domestic policy when it comes to Muslims. Accordingly every Western country with a Muslim minority must pursue only Muslim approved policies at home and abroad. If Thailand, Israel or India begin fighting Muslim terrorism-- they must join in on the Muslim side. If France passes a Burqa ban, then the United States must begin lobbying to overturn it. If Danish cartoons in a local newspaper offend Muslims, then the Prime Minister of Denmark must be compelled to apologize for his country's free speech before being allowed to become NATO's Secretary General.

The combination of Muslim terrorism and immigration eradicates all differences between foreign and domestic policies. There is only one policy. A Muslim policy. And the bottom line of the Muslim policy is that Muslims get what they want. At any cost. Any price. Freedom, morality, loyalty, national values and human rights are dispensable now. Appeasing Muslims is not.

Appeasing Muslims had tied the free world in an infernal knot. Each country pressures its own citizens and other countries to do whatever Muslims want. This would be unjustifiable even if it worked, but the damnedest thing of all, is that it doesn't actually discourage Muslim violence. It actually encourages it. And why not? If countries pandered to murderers, rapists and robbers instead of putting them in prison-- would there be less murders, rapes and robberies. Or would there be more?

The only way we can justify our craven appeasement is through the belief in the discredited Blowback Theory of Muslim violence. The Blowback Theory holds that Muslim violence is only retaliatory. That every time Muslims kill people, it's only because they're retaliating for a wrong done to them. Whether that wrong be a Predator drone taking out a terrorist (who was only retaliating for being yodeled at), drawing a cartoon of an illiterate 7th century pedophile worshiped by a billion people with deficient morals, or some battle fought 600 years ago. Whatever it may be-- the Blowback Theory holds that Muslims are always in the right to kill us. And we're always in the wrong to defend ourselves against being killed.

The corollary to the Blowback Theory is the Infinite Muslim Terrorists Theory. The Infinite Muslim Terrorists Theory holds that every Muslim grievance creates new terrorists. Like an angel getting its wings every time a bell rings, the Infinite Muslim Terrorists Theory warns us that every time we offend Muslims, it bring forth new terrorists. And shooting them does no good. Because shooting terrorists only offends Muslims even more. And that generates still more terrorists. Kill a terrorist and four more take his place. And if the process keeps going, there will eventually be more Muslim terrorists in the world than there are Muslims, causing the entire world to implode into the event horizon of a singularity.

The paradox of the Infinite Muslim Terrorists Theory is that it insists that the vast majority of Muslims is peaceful, and yet threatens that every single one of those peaceful people can be converted into homicidal maniacs if we're not careful. And when combined with Blowback Theory, it puts the blame for the instant terrorist conversion on us. Like Gremlins that we're afraid of feeding after midnight, we take care to step lightly around Muslims, for fear that they will suddenly turn into monsters bent on killing us. Such thinking might be considered bigoted, but with Blowback Theory we know that if they do turn into homicidal monsters, it will be entirely 100 percent our fault.

And for all the cringing and crawling, appeasing and advocating, the violence continues to grow. Because you can end violence by taking a firm stand, not by falling to your knees. Read more at sultanknish.blogspot.com

 

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Bioideologias

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ZENIT: O senhor fala em seu livro sobre “bioideologias”. Poderia nos explicar em que consistem e suas consequências para a pessoa humana?

Roberto Esteban Duque: As bioideologias são moralismos que buscam o poder para fazer com outros homens o que lhes compraz. O adversário é a religião tradicional, que pressupõe a existência de uma natureza humana comum, fixa e universal; daí a necessidade de substituir tal religião pela educação. A isso aponta a lei de 2007 de Educação para a Cidadania, aprovada na Espanha. Interessa-lhes mais a modificação da consciência através da cultura que a mudança das estruturas. São aparentemente resíduos das ideologias, mas se diferenciam delas porque sustentam a inexistência de uma natureza humana ou, pelo menos, sua completa modelabilidade,, tanto no humano quanto no natural. Aqui já se pode advertir uma contradição: enquanto a natureza humana não é algo evidente para a opinião pública, exige-se uma quantidade imensa de direitos, apoiando-se nos direitos humanos.

O que as bioideologias apresentam é a construção a la carte da identidade humana. Aqui reside seu êxito. O homem é produto da evolução, muda segundo as circunstâncias e é possível fazê-lo evoluir no sentido desejado. Seus meios preferidos são a reivindicação de direitos, a engenharia educativa e a propaganda, apoiados pela engenharia médica e genética. As bioideologias adotam o papel do vitimismo, a “cultura da reclamação”, muito útil para a propaganda, sendo a discriminação um dos seus conceitos centrais. O ódio e o ressentimento são seus sentimentos básicos, ainda que contem também com seus fins lucrativos.

Outro denominador comum é a eugenesia, que assemelha a natureza humana à natureza animal. Daqui se chega a solicitar a morte por motivos humanitários: aborto, eutanásia, contracepção artificial. Da mesma forma, reivindica-se o “direito” à autodeterminação de quem se considera diferente, acentuando o igualitarismo até limites insuspeitados, como negar as diferenças naturais e biológicas (heterossexuais e homossexuais, idades naturais), exaltando o desvio natural e o patológico, como a homossexualidade e a pedofilia. Seu último fundamento é o emocional: os desejos e os caprichos, produto da moral hedonista. Nega-se a vida natural (desconstrução da natureza humana histórica) e se pretende, a partir de um notável sectarismo, que se aceitem seus preconceitos como verdades irrefutáveis, assumindo um caráter individualista em sua pretensão de libertar o homem das suas ataduras naturais e físicas.

As consequências para a pessoa, como podemos perceber, são múltiplas. Socavam o consenso social e o ethos, levando à ditadura do relativismo e à indiferença, exaltando o igualitarismo, ainda que discriminado aos que não são do grupo. Acreditam que se podem alterar não somente as leis humanas positivas - como as que regem o casamento e a família -, mas as próprias leis da natureza - como a diferença de sexos e as leis que regem a mudança climática. São formas da contracultura, reações intelectuais astênicas contra as normas culturais. Devem sua força à persistência do modo de pensamento ideológico que impregna a cultura dos meios de comunicação, intelectuais e políticos. Apelam à ciência para justificar seus desejos. São meros grupos de pressão que agem na mídia e na cultura, sendo parte do suculento negócio da contracultura. Se não existe uma natureza humana, tudo depende finalmente da vontade de poder.

O ecologismo, a homossexualidade e o feminismo são algumas conhecidas bioideologias. Mas seria bom notar que as bioideologias da saúde atemorizam as pessoas, estendendo o conceito de doença ao que impede a satisfação do desejo. Consideram a gravidez como um mal – daí a distribuição gratuita de anticoncepcionais e a defesa do aborto -, mas consideram a impossibilidade de satisfazer o desejo de ter filhos como equivalente a uma doença e, portanto, esse desejo deve ser satisfeito como problema público, como o caso da reprodução assistida artificial. A demagogia compassiva dos governos intervencionistas, apoiando-se no humanitarismo, faz sua esta bioideologia, justificando o genocídio do aborto e da eutanásia.

ZENIT: O senhor acusa duramente todos os feminismos. Não há matizes? De fato, na década de 20 e 30, na Espanha, houve feminismos católicos. Não é verdade que, graças à ação em prol dos direitos de muitas mulheres, hoje a família é mais uma comunidade na qual todos contam, do que uma instituição patriarcal na qual a mulher casada seria considerada menor de idade e precisaria da autorização do marido para uma série de decisões de cunho legal ou profissional?

Roberto Esteban Duque: Você acha que sou duro? Eu só me limito a constatar que a Espanha está encabeçando políticas feministas radicais. Que outra coisa seria a “ideologia de gênero”? As políticas do atual governo da Espanha são paradigmáticas quando às reivindicações feministas na relativização dos papéis sexuais, como o casamento homossexual, a impregnação “de gênero” da educação, como a Educação para a Cidadania, e o favorecimento da promiscuidade sexual, com a distribuição da pílula abortiva.

Naturalmente, existiu um feminismo compatível com o catolicismo, um feminismo clássico, que se limita a estender o princípio da igualdade do sexo feminino perante a lei. Mas logo depois, nos anos 60, politizou-se o âmbito familiar: as fontes de opressão sexual já não são as leis discriminatórias, mas a função de mãe e esposa. A deriva do feminismo rumo à liberdade sexual e a cultura da morte, a anticoncepção e o aborto livre serão seus sinais mais característicos.

O que acontece desde os anos 90? Simples: substitui-se o conceito de sexo (determinação biológica) pelo de gênero (construção cultural), acudindo à demagogia do aprofundamento da democracia e a extensão ou ampliação de direitos, com o fim de politizar o âmbito familiar. São estas as propostas progressistas de que uma nação precisa? Realmente os católicos podem se permitir o luxo de permanecer de braços cruzados e não opor resistência ao que poderíamos chamar de “hegemonia cultural progressista”?

Roberto Esteban Duque nasceu em Mira (Espanha), em 1963. Foi ordenado pelo bispo José Guerra Campos, em 1991. Cursou teologia na Universidade São Vicente Ferrer de Valência, com especialização em matrimônio e família pela Universidade Pontifícia Lateranense de Roma. É doutor em teologia moral pela faculdade de São Dâmaso de Madri. Read more at www.zenit.org

 

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Britânico arrisca pena de 2 anos por meter bacon nos sapatos de muçulmanos

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«Western countries have learned to harshly punish those who offend Muslims, not because of the crime itself, but its potential to set off a murderous response by the Muslims themselves. For all that the politicians pretend that they're cracking down on those who make the poor Muslim dears feel unwelcome in Albion, Columbia or Marianne, in the name of human rights, it's the explosive reaction that they're worried about»

e, para finalizar:

«But it is vital that we remember what is really important here. Ham and shoes. And anything that offends Muslims. It is vital that we forget the terror, the massacres, murders, rapes and honor killings. It is vital that we pay no attention to the fact that nearly every rape in Oslo in the past five years was perpetrated by the Religion of Sex Slaves. Ignore the Muslim university speakers preaching that there is a permanent state of war between Islam and the rest of the world. It's a thin line between thinking forbidden thoughts and doing forbidden things. If you concede reality, then you might as well be a ham shoe stuffer yourself.»

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The UK Home Secretary has warned about complacency in the face of Islamic extremism. But there are no worries about complacency when it comes to things that irritate Muslims. As a drunken fellow from Bristol found out when decided it would be funny to stuff pieces of ham into the shoes of mosquegoers. Twenty years ago this might have made for an amusing limerick. Today it's a possible two year jail term.

"It is difficult to imagine a more offensive incident", said Her Honour Judge Carol Hagen. Her Honour clearly lacks imagination. But even if she can't imagine a pig with a burning koran in its mouth being catapulted in the direction of Mecca, there is the teacher who was savagely beaten by Muslim thugs for the crime of teaching Muslim girls. Smashing in a man's face seems worse than some ham in a shoe. The prosecutor harrumphed that pork products in shoes were a "premeditated attack specifically targeted at the Muslim community". As premeditated attacks go, this has more in common with Dr. Seuss, than with the sort of attacks that the Muslim community specializes in. When the Muslim community launches a premeditated attack, there's burning rubble and body parts that have to be scraped up off the sidewalk. The only thing that had to be scraped off this time around was stale pork. Not to be left behind in the misplaced outrage sweepstakes, the ham stuffer's attorney called it, "a brutal, misconceived, drunken prank." It was doubtlessly drunken, but how brutal was it? On a scale of silly to brutal, putting pork in shoes ranks somewhere below a water bucket over the door and above a joy buzzer. But when even your own lawyer describes something that has more in common with a Dada art exhibit, than the savage beating of a teacher, as brutal, then there isn't anyone left to make the case for you. Read more at sultanknish.blogspot.com

 

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Ex-parlamentar kuwaitiana defende esclavagismo sexual

Prática, aliás, perfeitamente respaldada pelo Alcorão e pelo exemplo do profeta Mafoma.

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Salwa al Mutairi, una presentadora de televisión y activista política kuwaití, propone legalizar la esclavitud sexual como solución para combatir el adulterio. Según ella, la solución pasaría por ‘liberar’ a mujeres no musulmanas atrapadas en guerras de otros países y reciclarlas como concubinas al servicio de hombres de su país.

Para ilustrar su punto de vista, la activista kuwaití pone como ejemplo a Harún al-Rashid, califa de la dinastía abasí que gobernó en el siglo VIII y que, al parecer, contaba con 2.000 concubinas.

La mujer recomendó que la trata de blancas se realice por medio de agencias especializadas como las que gestionan la contratación de criadas, y sugirió que la edad mínima de las esclavas sea de 15 años.

Mutairi dice contar con el respaldo de algunos sabios religiosos de Arabia Saudí y Kuwait, uno de los cuales presuntamente relacionó la idea de las prisioneras de guerra con la conquista de una nación no musulmana por un país musulmán.

Los comentarios de Mutairi que han aparecido en Internet y en medios del Golfo Pérsico han causado indignación entre los internautas de muchos países.

A uno de ellos, Mona Eltahawy, le gustararía saber “si le habría gustado a Salwa al Mutairi haber sido vendida como botín durante la ocupación de Kuwait por Irak” durante la Guerra del Golfo de 1990–1991, informó el diario británico The Daily Mail. Read more at www.minutodigital.com

 

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Jihad e Esclavagismo, realidades vivas do islão

Vivas porque se encontram no Alcorão e na tradição do profeta do islão, logo são normativas para os muçulmanos ad aeternum.

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Raped and Ransacked in the Muslim World by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPageMagazine.com May 31, 2011 http://www.meforum.org/2920/raped-and-ransacked-in-the-muslim-world

Plundering the possessions, lives, and dignity of Christians in the Islamic world: is this a random affair, a product of the West's favorite offenders—poverty, ignorance, grievance—or is it systematic, complete with ideological backing?

Consider the very latest from the Muslim world:

Pakistan: Muslim landowners used tractors to plough over a Christian cemetery in order to seize the land illegally. A young Christian mother was raped by six men. "In both cases, police covered up for the culprits." Iraq: A Christian youth was kidnapped and decapitated: his family could not pay the €70,000 ransom demanded by his abductors. "The murder was meant to intimidate Christians so that in the future they will more readily pay ransom demands." Egypt: Christian girls continue to be abducted and forced into conversion or concubinage (which amount to the same thing) and "kept as virtual slaves."

None of this is surprising listening to popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini:

If only we can conduct a jihadist invasion at least once a year or if possible twice or three times, then many people on earth would become Muslims. And if anyone prevents our dawa or stands in our way, then we must kill them or take as hostage and confiscate their wealth, women and children. Such battles will fill the pockets of the Mujahid who can return home with 3 or 4 slaves, 3 or 4 women and 3 or 4 children. This can be a profitable business if you multiply each head by 300 or 400 dirham. This can be like financial shelter whereby a jihadist, in time of financial need, can always sell one of these heads (meaning slavery) [translated by Nonie Darwish; original Arabic recording here].

Huwaini actually made these scandalous assertions some eighteen years ago. But because they were only recently exposed, he was invited to "clarify" his position on Hikma TV last week. Amazingly, though he began by saying his words were "taken out of context," he nonetheless reasserted, in even more blunt language, that Islam justifies plundering, enslaving, and raping the infidel. (Al Youm 7 has the entire interview, excerpts of which I translate below.)

Huwaini: "When I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her"

According to Huwaini, after Muslims invade and conquer a non-Muslim nation—in the course of waging an offensive jihad—the properties and persons of those infidels who refuse to convert or pay jizya and live as subjugated dhimmis, are to be seized as ghanima or "spoils of war."

Huwaini cited the Koran as his authority—boasting that it has an entire chapter named "spoils"—and the sunna of Muhammad, specifically as recorded in the famous Sahih Muslim hadith wherein the prophet ordered the Muslim armies to offer non-Muslims three choices: conversion, subjugation, or death/enslavement.

Huwaini said that infidel captives, the "spoils of war," are to be distributed among the Muslim combatants (i.e., jihadists) and taken to "the slave market, where slave-girls and concubines are sold." He referred to these latter by their dehumanizing name in the Koran, ma malakat aymanukum—"what your right hands possess"—in this context, sex-slaves: "You go to the market and buy her, and she becomes like your legal mate—though without a contract, a guardian, or any of that stuff—and this is agreed upon by the ulema."

"In other words," Huwaini concluded, "when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her."

Lest Muslims begin attacking all and sundry, however, Huwaini was careful to stress that Islam forbids Muslims from plundering and enslaving nominal or even "heretical" Muslims, such as Shias. He used the Iran-Iraq war as an example, saying that a Sunni man is not permitted to enslave and abuse a Shia woman, "for she is still a Muslim and thus considered free."

Unfortunately Huwaini's position is not "radical." One is reminded of when Sheikh Gamal Qutb was asked on live TV if Islam permits men to rape their female captives. The one-time grand mufti of Islam's most authoritative university, Al Azhar—the institution that once gave us the "adult breast-feeding" fatwa—refused to answer and, when pressed, became hostile and stormed off the set.

Let us now return to the atrocities that opened this article and ask: In light of the above, is it any wonder that Christians under Islam are routinely raped and ransacked, even as the "humanitarian" West yawns?

Raymond Ibrahim is associate director of the Middle East Forum Read more at www.meforum.org

 

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No Franquistão, respeitinho pelo islão

Boletim da Perseguição aos Cristãos, 2 a 25 de Maio de 2011

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Bulletin of Christian Persecution May 2 - May 25, 2011 May 2, 2011 Pakistan Hundreds of Muslims in Gujranwala attacked Christians' homes, a school and a Presbyterian church building after learning that police had released two Christians accused of "blasphemy" - amid reports of another alleged desecration of the Quran. May 3, 2011 Pakistan In the aftermath of the April 30th Muslim attacks on a Presbyterian seminary after a false accusation that Christians desecrated the Koran, at least 3,000 Christians have fled for their lives. May 6, 2011 Nigeria Muslim attackers killed seventeen Christians and burned down several Christian homes in the village of Karum. Since the introduction of Sharia law in northern Nigeria in 1999, thousands of Christians have been killed by Muslims, and local officials have failed to bring the perpetrators to justice. Update HERE on the killing of Christian Nigerians. May 7, 2011 Pakistan Police have charged a mentally ill Christian with "injuring religious feelings" under Pakistan's widely condemned blasphemy laws. Syria Christian communities across Syria have been attacked by anti-government protesters in recent weeks who are being led by hard-line Islamists. Also Christians have come under pressure to either join in protests demanding the resignation of President Bashir Assad, or else leave the country. Eye witnesses report seeing around 20 masked men on motorcycles open fire on a home in a Christian village outside Dara'a, in southern Syria. Another source said that churches had received threatening letters over Easter, telling them either to join the protests or leave. In Karak, Muslim Salafists forced villagers to join the protests and remove pictures of the president from their home. One man who refused was reportedly found hanged on his front porch the next morning. Egypt Update of this story: Thousands of Christians flocked to Saint Mark's Cathedral in Cairo Friday in response to a protest organized by Salafi Muslims last week in front of the church. The conservative Islamist group had gathered its members to protest for the release of the wives of two Coptic priests, who some believe have been detained by the church after allegedly converting to Islam. There was a strong military presence at the cathedral Friday ahead of the protest. Mina Salib, one of the protesters, said that "Christians all over Egypt were deeply disturbed by last Friday's protest and came to express their anger and assert their defense of the Cathedral against any attacks." Mina added that people immediately responded to the call to protect the church as result of the attack directed against Pope Shenouda. May 8, 2011 Egypt Christians Copts in the area of Embaba were attacked Saturday evening by Muslim Salafis. The attacks lasted for 14 hours. The Muslims fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, houses and businesses. 12 Copts were killed and 232 injured. The church of Saint Mina was the first to be attacked. According to its pastor Fr. Abanoub the attack started at 5.30 PM on Saturday May 7, when church parishioners noticed a large number of Salafis, estimated at 3000 men, congregating near the church. Anticipating trouble, the army was called. The Salafis went to the church and asked to search it because they believed a Christian girl named who had converted to Islam, married a Salafi and wanted to revert back to Christianity, was hiding inside the church. The second church attacked by Salafis was St. Mary and St Abanob, also in Embaba. Muslims prevented the fire brigade from reaching it. The third church attacked was St. Mary Church in Wehda Street in Embaba, the ground floor of which was completely torched. More HERE. May 9, 2011 Malaysia (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Islam is under siege in Malaysia because aggressive Christians are determined to convert Muslims who are nonchalant about their faith, several Islamist groups alleged. The Muslim Organisations in Defence of Islam accused Christians of strategising an elaborate plan to ensure that more and more Muslims leave the faith, which is illegal in Malaysia. The National Evangelical Christian Fellowship, together with partners Global Day of Prayer, Marketplace Penang and Penang Pastors Fellowship, said the claims against their community were lies. May 12, 2011 Pakistan (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Once more, Pakistan's 'black law' strikes again. A Muslim businessman has used the infamous blasphemy law against a rival and former associate, who happens to be Christian. More and more, the law is being used to persecute the country's Christian minority or settle personal scores. The victim is Gulzar Masih, from Sialkot, who owns a bookstore. Yesterday, he and his son had to flee town, fearing reprisals by local Muslims who tried to set fire to his shop. Only the intervention of police stopped the attackers. May 15, 2011 Egypt (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Violence erupted in a Cairo neighborhood when pro-Coptic protesters clashed with unidentified men, leaving at least two people dead and 60 injured. The demonstrators initially staged a sit-in in front of the state TV building to demand greater rights for the religious minority. Problems between Egypt's Muslim majority and its Coptic Christian minority have been on the rise in recent months, with a number of violent clashes reported between the two groups. More HERE. May 16, 2011 Iraq (Hat tip to JihadWatch) An Iraqi Chaldean Christian man was abducted, tortured and then beheaded by Al Qaeda jihadis. The victim was from Kirkuk, northern Iraq. He had been kidnapped three days ago and the family had received a ransom request. However, negotiations for his release did not work out and so he was brutally murdered. A pastor in Kirkuk said that kidnappers had pressured his employer to fire him because he was a Christian. More HERE. Nigeria Christians from a local Evangelical Church congregation in this Plateau state town have been displaced after Muslim extremists set their church building and some homes on fire last month. The Rev. Ishaku Danyok of the church said that the April 29 incident occurred after Muslims approached Christian music shop owner Gabriel Kiwase and told him that his music was disturbing them as they said their prayers. The young Christian man "quietly switched off the music set, and then the Muslims left, only to return about 20 minutes later to burn down the music shop and then go on rampage, burning down houses belonging to some Christians in the town," Danyok said. Update HERE. May 17, 2011 EU (Hat tip to Persecutin.org) A religious liberty campaigner has been heckled at an EU meeting for saying Christians should not be sent to prison for peacefully expressing their opinions. A room full of feminist and homosexual activists jeered at Dr Gudrun Kugler when she spoke about the intolerance faced by Christians in Europe. Some of the crowd said that Christians ought to be thrown in jail if they make a "negative comment" against a "minority group". May 18, 2011 Pakistan Two more shocking cases have surfaced in Pakistan where Christians were badly treated by Muslims. The first concerned two Christian women working at a Lahore, Pakistan, hospital, who were allegedly "manhandled" by a leader at the Fatima Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, April 19, 2011. A source close to the situation said that Nusrat Bibi and Muneeran Bibi, who are both married female sanitary workers at the hospital were "brutally thrashed" and "unlawfully detained for several hours," after being assaulted by a Muslim officer at the medical facility. In another disturbing case, this one in a town located in the Punjab, the Christian Communication Network Pakistan (CCNP) told ANS that "a gang of Muslim men, on the behest of a former member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly, "invaded two Christian houses" in the city. Adnan Sher, an activist of CCNP, said that a Christian man, Sharif Gull, was abducted at gunpoint by the Muslim "hoodlums." Adnan Sher then alleged that the Muslim mob also attacked at the house of another Christian man, Idrees Asif. He added that the alleged culprits, armed with clubs, thrashed the men and women of Asif's family and ripped off the cloths of the Christian women and made publicly nude. Azerbaijan (Hat tip to Persecution.org) Within the space of three days in mid-May, three Protestant communities in the town of Sumgait (Sumqayit) north of the Azerbaijani capital Baku were raided by police and officials of the State Committee for Work with Religious Organisations. Syria Syria's minority Christians are watching the protests sweeping their country with trepidation, fearing their religious freedom could be threatened if President Bashar Assad's autocratic but secular rule is overthrown. For many Syrian Christians, the flight of their brethren from sectarian conflict in neighboring Iraq and recent attacks on Christians in Egypt have highlighted the dangers they fear they will face if Assad succumbs to the wave of uprisings sweeping the Arab world. Iraq The body of Chaldean Christian Ashur Issa Yaqub was found on Monday (May 16) with marks of severe torture and mutilation. He had worked as a construction worker from the northeastern city of Kirkuk, and al Qaeda members had demanded $100,000 for his release, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Sources close to a Christian reportedly kidnapped, tortured and murdered by al Qaeda over the weekend said the kidnappers had pressured his employer to fire him because he was a Christian. May 19, 2011 Pakistan An influential Muslim family in a village near Sheikhupura is holding a 17-year-old Christian girl hostage because one of her brothers allegedly eloped with a woman from the Muslim family. The Muslim parents have threatened further retaliation against the Christian family if they do not produce their daughter, whom they have also threatened to publicly shoot dead as an "honor killing." An area clergyman identified only as Father Emmanuel called the situation "critical," saying it has pitted the area's 1,800 Muslim families against its 70-to-100 Christian families and could lead to violence. More HERE. Indonesia Islamic extremist groups disrupted two post-Easter services in Cirebon as police failed to stop the violence, this according to Hendardi, chairman of the Setara Institute, an NGO fighting for human rights and religious freedom in Indonesia. The activist slammed police for its "powerlessness" vis-à-vis "hostile" acts perpetrated by radical movements, which interrupted religious services. Pakistan The situation in Abbotabad is "critical" for religious minorities, who are "fasting and praying for peace in the region", Fr Javed Akram Gill, a parish priest in the town where Osama Bin Laden was killed tells AsiaNews. The priest confirms that the death of the Al Qaeda "has raised fears within the Christian community" because "every time the Americans say or do something, Christians [in Pakistan] become the number one target." Together with the Catholics, the faithful of other Christian denominations "prefer to stay inside" and their leaders refrain from making pastoral visits. Egypt On the morning of May 19 two Coptic priests went to St. Mary and St. Abraham Church and opened it together with some of the Coptic residents, but later in the day thousands of Muslims surrounded the church to protest its opening, hurled stones at the church building and the Copts, who responded by throwing stones. The army and the police stood there watching and did not intervene. Unable to secure the church, the army and police closed it and arranged for a "reconciliation" meeting between the Coptic priest and the Salafi sheikhs. "The atmosphere of the meeting was belligerent," said attorney Ashraf Edward, "and one of the sheikhs threatened us by saying that should the church be opened without their permission it would end up like the church in Soul which was demolished by Muslims." May 20, 2011 Pakistan Two nurses at the Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore, were attacked and abducted for several hours by a fellow Muslim. The man also charged them with theft after stealing their mobile phone and a sum of money. In a second incident, a group of Muslims - at the behest of a former MP of the area - attacked the houses of two Christians, to force the owners to abandon them and transfer the land ownership over to him. Turkey Turkey's Christians are under siege. May 23, 2011 Germany A Coptic Christian bishop warns the native Germans about the threat of Islamic dhimmitude and where it leads. Pakistan (Hat tip to Persecution.org) Pakistani Christians have expressed concerns about renewed kidnappings and abuse of women and girls by Muslims in a country still reeling from the recent assassination of a Christian government minister. Among those targeted was Sehar Naz, a 24-year-old employee with Pakistan's State Life Insurance Corporation in Punjab province, who was recovering of her injuries Monday, May 23, after she was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a Pakistan Army officer. May 24, 2011 Sudan Sudanese National Security Intelligence and Security Service agents have arrested a Christian woman in a Darfur camp for displaced people, accusing her of converting Muslims to Christianity, said sources who fear she is being tortured. At the same time, in Khartoum a Christian mother of a 2-month-old baby is wounded and destitute because she and her husband left Islam for Christianity. More HERE. Pakistan Christians in Pakistan remained concerned Monday, May 23, over the situation of Pastor Paul Ashraf and his family after they reportedly narrowly survived a drive by shooting by suspected Islamic militants in Punjab province, seriously injuring their eldest son. "Pastor Ashraf was in a van with his wife, Rubina Ashraf, and eldest son Sarfraz Ashraf, on April 27 when two unidentified men on a motorbike opened fire" on their car, said the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement. . . . Pastor Ashraf and Rubina were unharmed but Sarfraz" who drove the vechicle, "was shot in the side and face. The masked gunmen fled from the scene when they saw that Sarfraz had been seriously injured," CLAAS explained. May 25, 2011 Algeria Algerian authorities have ordered the immediate closure of seven Protestant churches and demanded that the Algerian Protestant Church Association close all churches under their authority. Produced by Political Islam.com Publisher: Bill Warner; Edited by Asma Marwan Permalink Read more at www.politicalislam.com

 

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A Grande Traição

O futuro de Israel, mais do que nunca, está nas mãos dos americanos. É preciso urgentemente que os sectores conservadores da grande república unam esforços para anular a acção pró-islâmica da actual administração, que tem favorecido o mais formidável inimigo da cristandade como nem Jimmy Carter, o responsável pelo sucesso da Revolução Iraniana, ousou favorecer.

Obama defende criação de Estado palestino em áreas ocupadas por Israel

«Padres pedófilos, filhos do Maio de 68»

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Preti pedofili, figli del 1968

di Massimo Introvigne

Gli Stati Uniti sono il Paese del mondo dove la Chiesa Cattolica è stata più colpita dalla tragedia dei preti pedofili. Sono anche il Paese dove questa tragedia è meglio conosciuta grazie alla storica decisione dei vescovi americani di affidare a uno dei più autorevoli istituti accademici di criminologia del mondo, il John Jay College della City University of New York, il maggiore studio sul tema mai realizzato su scala internazionale. La City University of New York non è un’università cattolica ed è anzi un tempio del «politicamente corretto». I vescovi americani – non da soli – hanno finanziato lo studio, ma non ne hanno in alcun modo influenzato i risultati. Il John Jay College ha prodotto un primo rapporto del 2004, che analizza in modo minuzioso statistiche riferite a cinquantadue anni, dal 1950 al 2002, un rapporto supplementare nel 2006 e ora un nuovo grande studio, datato maggio 2011, dal titolo «Le cause e il contesto dell’abuso sessuale dei minori da parte di preti cattolici negli Stati Uniti, 1950-2010».

Lo studio, come sempre accade in questi casi, va letto tutto, mentre già molte agenzie di stampa hanno battuto i loro comunicati dando rilievo soltanto a cinque righe – peraltro capite male – che sembrerebbero escludere ogni correlazione tra crisi dei preti pedofili e omosessualità. Lo scopo del rapporto del 2011 è quello – dopo avere presentato nel 2004 dati accurati per rispondere alla domanda su «quanti» preti hanno abusato di minori – di affrontare la questione, ancora più difficile, del «perché» lo hanno fatto.

Il nuovo studio inizia riepilogando e aggiornando i dati quantitativi, che a sette anni dal rapporto del 2004 – di cui si troverà una sintesi nel mio libro Preti pedofili (San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo [Milano] 2010) – rimangono ancora poco conosciuti, specie in Italia. Lo studio del 2004 riferiva che nell’arco dei cinquantadue anni dal 1950 al 2002 4.392 sacerdoti americani su circa 109.000 che avevano esercitato il ministero, cioè il 4%, erano stati accusati di rapporti sessuali con minori. Accusati, naturalmente, non significa condannati: a una condanna penale si era arrivati in meno di metà dei casi, in qualche caso forse per l’abilità degli avvocati o la prescrizione ma in altri perché gli accusati erano effettivamente innocenti.

Altri due dati quantitativi molto importanti sono richiamati dal rapporto. Il primo è che l’impressione che i media danno secondo cui i preti cattolici sono una categoria «a rischio» per quanto riguarda la pedofilia è falsa. Dopo avere osservato che nessun’altra istituzione ha aperto i suoi archivi e favorito ricerche così precise come quelle che negli Stati Uniti hanno interessato la Chiesa Cattolica, il rapporto passa in rassegna le comunità protestanti, i Testimoni di Geova, i mormoni, gli ebrei, e ancora le scuole pubbliche, le società sportive giovanili, i boy scout e conclude che – benché i dati limitati non permettano conclusioni certe – tutti gli elementi parziali che emergono sembrano indicare almeno che in tutti questi ambienti il rischio di abusi di minori non è più basso rispetto alle parrocchie e alle scuole cattoliche. Se poi si passa a un dato di carattere generale, si nota che negli Stati Uniti 246 minori ogni centomila sono vittima di abusi sessuali. Non è possibile sapere quanti minori «vengono in contatto» con preti cattolici, ma se prendiamo come riferimento i cresimati possiamo concludere che vittime di abusi in ambienti cattolici sono quindici minori ogni centomila. Detto in altre parole, le parrocchie e le scuole cattoliche purtroppo ospitano anche loro dei «pedofili» ma sono un ambiente sedici volte più sicuro rispetto alla società in genere.

Un altro dato, confermato dagli aggiornamenti 2003-2005 e ora 2006-2009 dei dati del rapporto del 2004, è che il numero di abusi di minori da parte di sacerdoti cattolici diminuisce di anno in anno in modo davvero molto significativo. Il primo grafico del rapporto (p. 8) mostra un picco all’inizio degli anni 1980 e una discesa che diventa rapidissima negli ultimi anni fino ad arrivare a livelli oggi perfino inferiori rispetto all’inizio degli anni 1950. Per capire perché non è questa l’impressione che ha l’opinione pubblica occorre consultare il secondo grafico (p. 9), il quale mostra che – mentre gli abusi diminuiscono – le notizie relative ad abusi aumentano e raggiungono la quota massima nel 2002, l’anno della devastante inchiesta del quotidiano Boston Globe che secondo il rapporto dà inizio alla fase più acuta della crisi. Si tratta sia di un maggiore interesse giornalistico, sia del fatto che i tribunali ricevono nuove denunce da parte di studi legali specializzati (e milionari) che riesumano casi, veri o presunti, di venti o trent’anni prima. «Nel 2002 – riferisce il rapporto, citando l’anno record – le denunce di abusi sono state fatte nella maggior parte dei casi da vittime adulte o dai loro avvocati da venti a quarant’anni dopo che l’abuso si era verificato».

Dunque, per quanto le denunce e le inchieste giornalistiche aumentino, i casi diminuiscono, il che dimostra che le misure di prevenzione adottate dopo l’arrivo a Roma del cardinale Ratzinger come prefetto della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, nel 1981, funzionano. Il rapporto le passa ampiamente in rassegna, dando atto dell’efficacia delle misure – che sarebbero state prese peraltro rispetto ai primi scandali con qualche ritardo, a proposito del quale il testo ricorda le critiche di alcuni sacerdoti statunitensi al beato Giovanni Paolo II (1920-2005) – e proponendo due critiche. La prima è che, se la maggioranza dei vescovi si è adeguata alle prescrizioni di Roma e della Conferenza Episcopale, ci sono stati alcuni vescovi «ritardatari» e «i media si sono spesso concentrati sui ritardatari, benché questi fossero soltanto una minoranza dei capi delle diocesi, perpetuando così l’immagine di vescovi che nel loro insieme non stavano rispondendo al problema dell’abuso sessuale dei minori» (p. 119). La seconda critica è che la Chiesa Cattolica, mentre si occupava energicamente del problema, non sempre comunicava in modo adeguato con l’esterno. Sì, «la Chiesa ha risposto alla crisi e, come risultato, si è verificato un sostanziale decremento nel numero dei casi di abuso sessuale» (p. 122). Ma non è sempre riuscita a farlo sapere all’opinione pubblica.

I dati quantitativi formano la base per impostare la risposta al quesito sul come sia stato possibile che un numero – più piccolo di quanto molti pensano, ma comunque non irrilevante – di sacerdoti cattolici statunitensi si sia reso colpevole di abusi sessuali di minori. Il rapporto esamina anzitutto la tesi più diffusa in quelli che chiama «media popolari» (p. 34), notando come sorprendentemente abbia ricevuto «sostegno da diversi commentatori più seri» (ibid.): quella che lega gli abusi sui minori al celibato. Ma, osserva lo studio, «è un’ovvia osservazione statistica che la maggioranza degli abusi sessuali su minori sono commessi da uomini che non sono celibatari» (p. 35): pastori protestanti, maestri di scuola, allenatori di squadre giovanili, e anche padri di famiglia che abusano dei figli ovviamente non hanno fatto promesse di celibato. A questo dato comune negli studi sociologici – ma che sembra tenacemente sfuggire alla stampa popolare e anche a qualche ecclesiastico – il rapporto aggiunge che il celibato tra i preti cattolici c’era negli anni 1950 e 1960, è rimasto negli anni 1970 e 1980, e c’è ancora oggi. Dal momento però che gli abusi su minori sono relativamente rari negli anni 1950 e 1960, esplodono negli anni 1970 e 1980, diminuiscono negli anni 1990 e diventano di nuovo rari negli anni 2000 ci dev’essere una variabile diversa dal celibato che spiega questo andamento. Venendo all’unico punto del rapporto del 2011 che ha subito attirato l’attenzione della stampa internazionale, posto che la «colpa» non è del celibato, può darsi che sia della tolleranza dell’omosessualità nei seminari cattolici a partire da una certa data? Qui gli autori del rapporto si sono trovati in qualche difficoltà, perché contro il loro studio del 2004 – il quale documentava che l’ottanta per cento dei sacerdoti che abusano di minori hanno come vittime ragazzi e non ragazze – avevano protestato a gran voce le organizzazioni omosessuali. Questa volta confermano il dato – secondo cui l’80,3% degli abusi sono di natura omosessuale (p. 104) – ma invitano a distinguere fra identità e comportamento.

«Quello che non si capisce bene – scrivono – è che è possibile per una persona partecipare in un atto con una persona dello stesso sesso senza assumere o riconoscersi un’identità omosessuale. Più di tre quarti degli atti di abuso sessuale di giovani da parte di preti cattolici, come abbiamo mostrato nello studio del 2004, sono atti tra persone dello stesso sesso (preti che abusano di vittime di sesso maschile). Ma è possibile che, benché le vittime di questi preti siano state nella maggior parte dei casi maschi, così definendo gli atti come omosessuali, il sacerdote non abbia mai riconosciuto la sua identità come omosessuale» (p. 36). Quanto ai sacerdoti sia arrivati in seminario, sia usciti dai seminari come omosessuali – le due categorie non coincidono –, secondo il rapporto statisticamente «sono più a rischio [degli eterosessuali] di avere rapporti sessuali dopo l’ordinazione» (p. 62), ma nella maggior parte dei casi avranno rapporti con adulti e non con minori.

Dunque, nessuna marcia indietro rispetto al 2004. Quando il rapporto del 2011 afferma che «i dati clinici non sostengono la conclusione […] che l’identità omosessuale è legata all’abuso sessuale di minori» (p. 74), questa affermazione – che certo vuole anche gettare acqua sul fuoco rispetto alle critiche al rapporto precedente – si riferisce appunto all’identità, mentre il legame fra gli abusi e «atti» o «comportamenti» omosessuali è confermato, né – i numeri essendo quelli che sono – sarebbe stato possibile il contrario. Dove però il rapporto dice qualcosa di nuovo è quando nega che le subculture omosessuali che si sono sviluppate nei seminari negli anni 1980 – e sono state stroncate, almeno in parte, negli anni 2000 – abbiano a che fare con gli abusi di minori. Non che queste subculture non ci siano state: ma quando hanno raggiunto la loro più grande diffusione la maggior parte di sacerdoti responsabili di abusi era già stata ordinata. Le subculture omosessuali nei seminari e l’abuso di minori sono fenomeni paralleli, non successivi. L’uno non è causa dell’altro e devono piuttosto avere le stesse cause.

Quali cause? Fenomeni complessi non hanno mai una causa sola, insiste il rapporto. C’è stata una ridotta efficienza del diritto canonico, che non si aspettava una crisi di queste proporzioni. La controprova è che, migliorata la normativa canonica, gli abusi sono diminuiti. C’è stata una scarsa attenzione alla formazione del clero sui temi della sessualità, dell’amore e del matrimonio: è significativo che il rapporto citi al riguardo il Magistero del beato Giovanni Paolo II e colleghi i risultati ottenuti nella lotta agli abusi alla maggiore riflessione, ispirata appunto dal Magistero, sul corpo e la sessualità nei seminari, un tema caro anche a Benedetto XVI.

La singola causa principale è però per il rapporto la crisi morale generale che ha colpito gli Stati Uniti negli anni 1960, «the Sixties» in America e «il 1968» in Europa. La pillola anticoncezionale, la legalizzazione dell’aborto, la cultura consumistica hanno determinato un’autentica rivoluzione nel comportamento sessuale, con conseguenze precedentemente inimmaginabili in tutti i settori della società. Alcuni si sono spinti fino alla giustificazione teorica, o almeno alla ricerca di ampie scusanti, per i rapporti sessuali con i minori. Nella stessa Chiesa Cattolica tra i «postumi del Vaticano II» (p. 7) c’è la penetrazione all’interno del clero e dei seminari di una mentalità influenzata dalla rivoluzione sessuale, anche se questa rivoluzione riguarda la società nel suo insieme e non solo la Chiesa Cattolica.

Qui, senza mai citarla esplicitamente, il rapporto arriva alle stesse conclusioni della Lettera ai cattolici dell’Irlanda di Benedetto XVI, del 19 marzo 2010, che identificava nel «rapidissimo cambiamento sociale», nel venire meno della «tradizionale adesione del popolo agli insegnamenti e ai valori cattolici», e nel fatto che all’interno della Chiesa «il programma di rinnovamento proposto dal Concilio Vaticano Secondo fu a volte frainteso», il «contesto generale» all’interno del quale «dobbiamo cercare di comprendere lo sconcertante problema dell’abuso sessuale dei ragazzi».

Per quanto il rapporto del 2011 del John Jay College inserisca qualche clausola che omaggia lo stile politicamente corretto, e le obbligatorie critiche per i ritardi della Chiesa, i dati che offre confermano sia l’analisi di Benedetto XVI sia che le misure offerte dal Papa alla Chiesa vanno nella giusta direzione. Il rapporto, naturalmente, propone un’analisi che rimane nel mero ambito delle scienze umane e come tale non può tenere conto della dimensione ulteriore che il Papa non cessa di segnalare: la crisi, che è causa per Benedetto XVI di profondo dolore e vergogna e dove nessuna statistica può valere a scusare la gravissima responsabilità dei colpevoli, ha anzitutto cause spirituali, e deriva ultimamente dal venire meno della fede, della preghiera, della consapevolezza dell’altissima responsabilità del sacerdozio in contesti purtroppo più vasti di quello dei pochi preti davvero pedofili. Per quanto utili siano gli studi e i dati sociologici, anche i rimedi dovranno includere necessariamente una dimensione spirituale. Read more at www.cesnur.org

 

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Beatificado padre católico alemão morto em Dachau

Para quem não sabe, aqui fica mais um exemplo de que a Igreja Católica foi um dos maiores opositores ao regime nacional-socialista, quer institucionalmente, quer através das acções individuais dos seus ministros e dos leigos inspirados pelo Evangelho:

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BERLIN — Germans in Pope Benedict XVI’s home state of Bavaria celebrated Sunday the beatification ceremony of a priest who was honored for practicing his Roman Catholic faith in defiance of the Nazis. The pope, who grew up in Bavaria, sent Cardinal Angelo Amato from the Vatican to celebrate the beatification Mass for Georg Haefner in Wuerzburg Cathedral, the DAPD news agency reported.

During his traditional Sunday greetings to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square, the pope, who grew up in Bavaria and was forced by the Nazis to serve as a teen in the Hitler Youth, praised Haefner.

“In the confusion of National Socialism, Georg Haefner was willing, as a faithful shepherd, to protect his flock and deliver the sacrament and the water of life to many people, until the end of his life,” the pope said, speaking in German.

“He forgave those who wronged him and in a letter to his parents from prison, he wrote, ‘We want to be at peace with everyone.’”

Haefner died of hunger and disease in Dachau concentration camp in 1942.

Friedhelm Hofmann, the bishop of Wuerzburg, said Haefner represented all members of the Catholic church who perished for their faith during the Nazi-era.

( dapd/Timm Schamberger / Associated Press ) - The bishop of Wuerzburg, Friedhelm Hofmann, celebrates the beatification of a priest in the Cathedral of Wuerzburg, central Germany Sunday May 15, 2011. Georg Haefner, painting in background, was honored for practicing his Roman Catholic faith in defiance of the Nazis. Haefner died of hunger and disease in Dachau concentration camp in 1942. Friedhelm Hofmann said Haefner represented all members of the Catholic church who perished for their faith during the Nazi-era. Read more at www.washingtonpost.com

 

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Iraque: muçulmanos raptam, torturam e decapitam cristão

Eis a Religião da Paz em todo o seu esplendor, cumprindo os seus mandamentos:
Alcorão 8:12 (http://quran.com/8/12)
(El-Hayek): [Lembra-te] «de quando o teu Senhor revelou aos anjos: Estou convosco; firmeza, pois, aos fiéis! Logo infundirei o terror nos corações dos incrédulos; decapitai-os e decepai-lhes os dedos!»

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Kirkuk (AsiaNews) – An Iraqi Christian man was abducted, tortured and then beheaded. The victim was from Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Police found his body this morning. He had been kidnapped three days ago and the family had received a ransom request. However, negotiations for his release did not work out and so he was brutally murdered. For the archbishop of Kirkuk, his death is an “inhuman act” because it goes “against every human and religious principle”. Iraqi Christians have been living in a state of high tension since the killing of Osama Bin Laden, fearing possible revenge by local Muslim extremists. Ashur Yacob Issa was 29 years old and had three children, a source in Kirkuk told AsiaNews. He was abducted three days ago for ransom. His kidnappers wanted US$ 100,000 to release him. However, negotiations with his family “did not work out”, a local Christian said. The incident came to a terrible end this morning, when police found the young man’s body, by the side of a bridge. The body showed “horrific marks of torture”, the source said. The head had been cut off and the eyes gauged out of their socket. The crime sent a shockwave through the city, especially in its Christian community. although the victim was kidnapped in order to get a large sum of money, the death of Osama Bin Laden by the US on 2 May has raised the tension level in the Christian community. Since then in fact, it has been living in fear of possible reprisals by Muslim extremists....

"Iraqi Christians have been living in a state of high tension since the killing of Osama Bin Laden, fearing possible revenge by local Muslim extremists." This is the real "backlash," as opposed to the endless media handwringing in the West over a supposed backlash against Muslims that never actually materializes. "Kirkuk: young Christian abducted, tortured and beheaded," from Asia News, May 16 (thanks to C. Cantoni): Read more at www.jihadwatch.org

 

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