Wilders' mission

[garfield]

Why do we put up with this shit? , because 99% of muslims vote Labor or whatever other lefty party that will give them benefits for life no questions asked and take it up the arse when required.

[pim]

This is from the English-language version of a Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant. The articles are a lot more fulsome and detailed in the original Dutch so the English-language version is a summary.

Wilders to step up international anti-Islam campaign

Thursday 27 December 2012

PVV leader Geert Wilders is to step up his campaign against Islam in 2013, the parliamentarian told Nos television in an interview. The fight against Islam is a mission for life, Wilders told the broadcaster. nos.nl/artikel/455673-wildersaanpak-islam-prioriteit-2013.html. Wilders said he would step up his fight against ‘the biggest sickness’ the Netherlands has had at home and internationally, ‘from Australia to America, from Switzerland to wherever.’ Wilders also again renewed his statement that the Netherlands has a ‘Moroccan problem’. It is Moroccan racism that they rarely rob each other, Wilders said.

www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/12/wilders_to_step_up_internation.php

They call him the "Wildebeest" in the Netherlands. And it isn't a compliment. It's not surprising that he's become an international roadshow because back in the Netherlands he's become a sideshow. I spent some time visiting relatives in Holland last year. Let me tell you that notwithstanding any laws banning the burka that the Wildebeest claims credit for - or should that be "notoriety" - the burka was just as evident as ever in the streets of Rotterdam and A'dam.

If anything what exercises the anti-immigrant brigade in Benelux right now is not the Moroccans or the Turks but the Eastern Europeans who have come to the West in their millions looking for work under the Schengen arrangements.

Last April there was a political crisis brought on in NL over the crisis in the Euro. Like Australia at the moment NL politics are such that no one party wins an outright majority so elections are always followed by months of political horsetrading in order to form a government. This has happened just once (OK twice, but the other time was so long ago - 1942 - that nobody remembers it so the current hung parliament in Australia is a situation we're not used to) in Australia but in NL it's routine. The former mminority Dutch Government was centre-right and hung on the support of the Wildebeest. When the Euro crisis hit and the NL Government was trying to put together a pretty severe austerity package which is exactly what Joe Hockey and Wayne Swan would do in this situation to stop the NL economy from tanking, the Wildebeest bailed. The result was the government imploded, new elections, more horsetrading and ultimately a new government - still centre right à la Liberal Party but without the Wildebeest. And they all think they're better off without him. Certainly the tone of public debate has improved.

The Wildebeest has been sidelined in the Netherlands but he has done his market research and concludes that there's rich pickings to be had in English-speaking settler societies of North America and Australasia.

We'll see. Or at least I won't because I won't be going to see him. But Buzz sounds as if he will. Can we expect you to spam the board now with posts about the Wildebeest, Buzz? In addition to your other spammings about God's family tree?

[chequeredflaggg]

yeah, funny, isnt it...the west is full of eastern religions, but the only one that trouble just seems to keep following around is the Islamozoids..

Never hear boo from anyone else.
Always everyone elses fault, of course.
Nothing ever sticks to the ROP.

[slartibartfast]

Wilders is no different from the worst of Islam.

They both spread hate.

[Deleted]

Then there are WESTERN religions and the sordid stuff they get up to (including in the USA).




From the Los Angeles Times....

Sex abuse scandal is a blemish on the powerful Catholic clergy

By DAVID HORSEY | 5:00AM - Tuesday, February 05, 2013



CARDINAL Roger Mahony has been relieved of his public duties by Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry has quit his job as regional bishop in Santa Barbara. And the website of the Catholic archdiocese of L.A. is displaying tens of thousands of pages of formerly secret files detailing accusations of child molestation against 122 priests — all the church’s dirty laundry that Mahony and Curry did their best to hide for many years.

For a decade now, the sex abuse scandal has rocked the Roman Catholic Church in city after city. The scandal in Los Angeles led to a settlement between the church and 500 abuse victims in 2007, but the archdiocese had resisted opening personnel files. Now, though, the files are wide open and the stark evidence of a cover-up has brought to disgrace one of the most powerful and admired men in the church, Cardinal Mahony. The good works of a lifetime are tainted by the fact that he saw evil, had the authority to stop it and, instead, tried to keep it in the darkness by giving offending priests out-of-state assignments and barring them from talking to therapists who might blow the whistle on their misdeeds.

It goes without saying that the Catholic hierarchy from Rome on down has long been engaged in a cynical effort to protect the institution of the church by hiding pedophile priests. Still, there is also an element of Christian idealism at work here. At the heart of the faith is the principle that any sinner, no matter how wicked, can be redeemed by God’s forgiveness. That goes for priests, too. In the context of church teaching, there is logic in allowing clergy to repent and ask forgiveness, rather than turning them over to the police. But it is a naïve logic that depends on a miracle cure for a disorder that even years of therapy cannot always remedy.

This forgiveness principle was misused in the most horrible ways by priests who were eager to get past repentance and on to the next victim. Just one example: The newly released files tell the sick tale of one priest who placed his hand on the forehead of the boy he had just violated and absolved him of sin. According to the boy, this happened 15 times.

Archbishop Gomez characterized the files as "brutal and painful reading."

"The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil," Gomez said in a letter to L.A.’s Catholics. "There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children. The priests involved had the duty to be their spiritual fathers and they failed."

Of course, the files describe things that happened in the 1980s and the church insists steps have been taken to prevent such things from happening today. We all pray that is true. But, as they say in politics, the cover-up is more damaging than the crime, at least to the powerful men who try to keep terrible secrets. Cardinal Mahony is the latest to learn this lesson.

From the cathedrals of America to St. Peter’s in Rome, other powerful men need to get the message as well. So far, however, too many seem very slow to learn. It will be hard to believe the church has fully reformed until the current generation of Catholic bishops and cardinals is gone from power and new men (and women?) rise to take their place with no blemish of scandal on their robes.

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Related news stories from the Los Angeles Times:

• Cardinal Mahony

www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-sex-abuse-scandal-20130204,0,150544.story