Temper tantrums notwithstanding, we are a band of very serious Infidels here at IBA.
J, from Justify This, brings us the news that Belgium is now prosecuting clergymen for teaching the truth about Islam:
One of the rare Belgian churches that is packed every weekend is the church of Saint Anthony of Padova in Montignies-sur-Sambre, one of the poorest suburbs of Charleroi, a derelict rust belt area to the south of Brussels. Holy Mass in Montignies is conducted in Latin and lasts up to four hours.
Yesterday over 2,000 people attended the service by Father Samuel (Pere Samuel). The priest's sermon dealt with his persecution. The Belgian authorities are bringing the popular priest to court on charges of racism.
Father Samuel has been prosecuted for "incitement to racist hatred" by the Belgian government's inquisition agency, the so-called Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (CEOOR), because of a remark he made in a 2002 television interview when he said:
"Every thoroughly islamized Muslim child that is born in Europe is a time bomb for Western children in the future. The latter will be persecuted when they have become a minority."
Last Thursday the Belgian judiciary decided that the priest will have to stand trial before the penal court in Charleroi. He reacted by repeating his time bomb statement and added that he would be honoured if he had to go to jail for speaking his mind. He added that Jesus, too, had been convicted.
During yesterday's sermon he called upon the faithful to accompany him to court. "We will turn this into an excursion, driving there in full buses."
Father Samuel's passport gives his name as Charles-Clement Boniface. That is not entirely correct. He was born in 1942 in Midyat, Turkey, as Samuel Ozdemir. The latter is a surname the priest dislikes because, he explains, it was imposed on his family by the Turks. Samuel was a Christian:
"At home we spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus." The Aramaics are a Catholic minority in Syria and Turkey. They speak an old Semitic language, which Jesus and the apostles used and which Mel Gibson had his actors use in his movie The Passion of the Christ.
In his sermons and on his website Father Samuel speaks out against secularism, but also fights on another front of the three-way culture war, warning against "the islamic invasion" of the West. He says he has witnessed in Turkey what the future has in store for Europe. He claims Muslims are invading Europe and warns for an impending civil war. According to Father Samuel "so-called moderate Muslims do not exist."Link...
Great, another fellow Mikrasian being attacked for telling the truth about what happens(happened) in Asia Minor. When will these laws of "incitement" be recognized for the fascist nonsense that they are? How can anyone make claims that the EU is in any way democratic when they punish people for speech and essentially crimes of thought and sanction member countries for elections? The Eye of Sauron is everywhere these days.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the EU officially recognizes the Armenian genocide?
ReplyDeletePastorius, they are trying to make the Turks admit to it. But will the EU ever confess for their role in letting so much of the slaughter happen in the first place (the many countries in Europe seeking alliance with the Turks at various times) as well as the US? The ships all sat in Smyrna Harbor while the Christians were slaughtered and the city burned. The Brits poured boiling water on Greek and Armenian swimmers trying to escape the flames by swimming to the ships for refuge. Hundreds drowned trying this. Only one Japanese ship helped, out of all watching from so many nations in that harbor. The captain dropped his cargo and brought on board the swimming refugees. And this was Smyrna, 1922. Thanks, Standard Oil Co.!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the particulars. I do know that there was much Jihadi language accompanying the genocide. Most people don't know that the Armenian genocide was a Jihad.
ReplyDeleteWell, there are many things that people dont know. And they dont even care. As long they can go to disco, they have the ham in the fridge, doesnt matter what islam do..Only when muslims will come to take his fridge (because of the inpure ham) and ask him nice to convert, or else...only then they will find out..But, funy, to late...
ReplyDelete"I didn't know the particulars. I do know that there was much Jihadi language accompanying the genocide. Most people don't know that the Armenian genocide was a Jihad."
ReplyDeletethis brings to mind a story i heard on an online talk a while back ( i checked the facts and they were accurate ).
This story is also relevant today, as anyone who knows of it would be wary of those who call themselves the "moderate" muslims.
In the early 1900's there was a group called the "young turks" (committee of union and progress ), self proclaimed muslim "moderates" who overthrew the sultan of the ottoman empire.
They declared that the non muslims would be treated as equals and protected under their rule. But once they got in power that all went out the window. over the next decade they slaughterd over a million armenians.
AND THEY WERE THE MODERATE MUSLIMS!
the turks have worked very hard to cover up the genocide and the first time i ever heard about it was in israel when i saw a poster on one of the walls in the armenian quarter in jerusalem.
Jihad, jihad; genocide, genocide--same old, same old.
ReplyDeleteTalk about arrogance! These totalitarians think that nothing is important except what they do, what they want, what they say.
Turkey hides behind modernism; the truth is the same as it always was if one looks deeply enough.
Part of the problem was also a realization amongst the Christians of Asia Minor of the modern notion of nationalism. The main parties in play here were the Armenians, Pontic Greeks, Ionian Greeks and the Assyrians. The Armenians were treated of all of these like dogs. Worse than dogs. They were the ones who really started agitating for their own nation and rights. The Pontics and Assyrians lived mainly in the central mountainous regions. The Ionian Greeks lived as they had for 3,000 years in the West and coastal regions. The Greeks in major cities such as Smyrna (Izmir) and Constantinople (Istanbul) were rather well off and enjoyed a much better and more ethnically preserved lifestyle than did the Armenians, who were at the bottom of the social heap. But the attacks began before the Young Turks, and once the Young Turks took things into action, they did not stop with the Armenians. This is key, particularly to me. The Assyrians and Pontics were put on death marches and slaughtered en masse during the same time period, as were the Ionians. The slaughter of the Ionians and Armenians (among other non-Muslims) in Smyrna in 1922 remains one of the blackest days of our history.
ReplyDeleteFor an excellent account of the events and history in Smyrna, I highly recommend Marjorie Housepian Dobkin's Smyrna 1922. A heartbreaking account of the Pontic slaughters can be found in Thea Halo's Not Even My Name, written with her Mother Sano Halo and her memories of the death march that decimated her family and her life afterwards. I have yet to write an account of my family's flights from the various cities they lived in in Asia Minor mainly for anonymity. But maybe I will, especially after reading about Diamanda Galas' latest project.
"Every thoroughly islamized Muslim child that is born in Europe is a time bomb for Western children in the future. The latter will be persecuted when they have become a minority."
ReplyDeleteWe need to pay attention to the good padre; he speaks the truth. Take a look at what the Germans are saying about the "youths" from Muslim families being brought up in an atmosphere where violence is a GOOD thing!
If we all don't pay attention, this pestilence will come to our shores too.
AOW,
"Talk about arrogance! These totalitarians think that nothing is important except what they do, what they want, what they say."
Exactly! Don't they remind you a lot of a bunch of two-year-olds? Unfortunately, they are two-year-olds with IEDs and RPGs etc.