Priest fined for speaking against Islam

WorldNetDaily ^ | January 19, 2004 | WND

[kitkat]

***Great priest. Has anyone been fined for insulting priests?***

GOOD THINKING! What would happen if the Catholic Church and the other Christian churches joined together to protest hate speech against them? What if they demanded a law against it?

[Viking2002]

The Godless Socialist establishment is now firmly ensconced into the French political machine, and is in the process of stamping out the last vestiges of free expression and independent thought. This is the very thing that we're fighting against in this country, and it's a fight we have to win.

[Bobby777]

this guy should be able to preach to his flock ... of course, it's France, so who knows ...

bad thing is, America is creeping towards this ...

and BTW, I agree with him ...

[Bob Mc]

"It will start with hate speech crimes for those who oppose homosexuality on religious grounds. It might spread to speaking against Islam."

And how long before Islamics start making hate speech opposing homosexuality, and the whole nonsensical multicultural "house of cards" comes tumbling down.

Going to get interesting, that's for sure.

[pointsal]

ping....what's the address.... his parish needs a donation.

[Benjo]

How long before we start getting punishments in this country for "hate speech"?

People are already getting punished for hate speech in this country. Furthermore, it doesn't even have to be hateful, just political speech that someone doesn't like. I read a couple of weeks ago that the Secret Service arrested a man who wouldn't move off a quarter mile from where Bush was set to speak (the man was carrying a sign objecting to some Bush policy). It wasn't a security issue. The Secret Service told him flat out that it just didn't like the message on his sign.

The man refused to move. The police arrested him. He was convicted and fined. The judge said he wasn't going to second guess the Secret Service. I say "why not?", especially when the Secret Service is abridging our constitutional right to voice our complaints to any public official, including even the president.

[livius]

I think Islam is definitely going to be the problem of this coming century. It is being aided and abetted by political correctness, and the dangerous thing is that this is preventing people from even discussing the real nature of the problem.

I have nothing against Middle Eastern folk or even against Muslims in general. But they have something against us - namely, the fact that we're not Muslims - and they are the ones initiating the conflict. But anyone who points this out is somehow guilty of hate speech.

[omega4412]

Glad to see there is still a Frenchman in the tradition of Charles Martel and Charles DeGaulle.

[dennisw]

All the populations infected by the Muslim religion are indoctrinated by the Quran – a holy book which is the manual for the extension of the kingdom of the devil at the expense of the kingdom of Christ."

He must have been appalled when the Pope kissed the Koran in 1999.

 

When the Pope Kissed the Koran

By Stephen Hand
editor, TCRNews.com

Back in 1999, on the 14th of May, according to the Patriarch of the Chaldeans, at the end of an audience between the Pope and some delegates of the Islamic Shiite and Sunni factions, the Pope bowed as “a sign of respect” toward a copy of the Koran which was presented to him as a gift. When the book was officially “presented to him,” the Pope, perhaps a bit perplexed concerning the appropriate protocol for such an official gesture, kissed it; again, as a “sign of respect toward the 34 million followers of Islam”. The event was reported by the Fides news service. It turned out to be more controversial a sign than the Pope and Vatican ever expected, since both Neomodernist and Integrist reactionaries pounced on it. The former to suggest that all religions were essentially one, and the latter to suggest that the Pope had, well, er, left the Faith.

[rogator]

Even popes make mistakes. I'll bet JP II is still mentally kicking himself in the butt for that one. I am sure he had noble intentions.

[muawiyah]

Actually, the French government used to murder people for insulting priests.

Currently they penalize priests for giving sermons, but it could change at any time for no reason at all.

[joesnuffy]

It is time that ordinary Muslims stood up to be counted.- John Rhyes-Davies

They were counted the last time they stood up against terror and atrocities aimed at Jews, Christians and the west...

Last count = 0

[Salvation]

**Priest fined for speaking against Islam**

WWWhat?

[dsc]

"It is time that ordinary Muslims stood up to be counted."
- John Rhyes-Davies

Rhyes-Davies is almost there. This is the part he doesn7t get yet:

"Indeed I would add there is no such thing as 'moderate' Islam. All the populations infected by the Muslim religion are indoctrinated by the Quran – a holy book which is the manual for the extension of the kingdom of the devil at the expense of the kingdom of Christ."

When an "ordinary Muslim" stands up to be counted, my advice is, shoot first.

[DonQ]

In case you were wondering if Domqueur was somewhere in Morocco or Algeria, it is in France. A tiny spot north of Paris, famous for its catacombs. It's worth noting that this priest was being fined for something he said in his church bulletin. I wonder if the hate crimes law is similar to the libel law, where truth is an absolute defense.

As for John Rhys-Davies, one remarkable thing about his anti-Arab sentiments is that he first came to our attention by playing an Arab in the first and third Indiana Jones movies, and I think he also played Gamal Nasser in a TV movie about Sadat.