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British Xmas card mocks Polish pope (and President Bush)
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| 06.12.2007
Posted on 12/06/2007 9:30:58 AM PST by lizol
British Xmas card mocks Polish pope
06.12.2007
Poles in the UK protest against a Christmas card which features John Paul II and George W. Bush.
The deceased John Paul II is lying on a catafalque. George Bush is standing over him. The speech bubble next to his face says: "What happened to Santa?". This Christmas card is selling like hot cakes in Britain, causing outrage amongst the Polish community.
Poles have already informed they would organise street protests.
"It's appalling. Using the image of the deceased Holy Father is a scandal. Muslims protested at the cartoons deriding Muhammad. Why should offending Christians go disregarded?", says Tomasz Giza, who has lived in London for 5 years, quoted by "Dziennik".
The case has been discussed in Polish Radio London 24, with hundreds of listeners expressing their outrage on the phone. It was then that an idea to organise street protests was conceived.
"Retailers should be banned from selling the postcards. Even if the deceased person were not the pope, it would still be grossly disrespectful. I mean, it is a funeral photo, after all", says Karolina Stolecka, working in one of London hotels, quoted by "Dziennik".
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bds; bush; bushhassers; bushhate; catholic; grinchstolechristmas; gwb; jpii; leftmascard; poland; polishjokes; pope; tolerantleft; uk
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:30:59 AM PST
by
lizol
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:31:51 AM PST
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
To: NYer; Coleus; narses; Salvation; Pyro7480
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:32:45 AM PST
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
To: lizol
Using the image of the deceased Holy Father is a scandal. Muslims protested at the cartoons deriding Muhammad. Why should offending Christians go disregarded?",
Because Christians don't run around lopping off people's heads or blowing people up with dynamite fanny packs at the slightest drop of a hat, that's why.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:33:47 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
To: lizol
Sometimes I think the muslims are right - relating to their reactions to such events.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:34:19 AM PST
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
To: reagan_fanatic
Where’s the picture of Catholic Rage Boy?
THERE IS NONE!
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:37:14 AM PST
by
fredhead
(What this world needs is a few more Rednecks - Charlie Daniels)
To: lizol
So how many Muslims have been killed as the Polish street erupts in violence?
To: lizol
Puhlease! The pope was a man. Is it tasteless? Yes. Blasphemy? No.
And no, the Muzzies are NEVER right in their violent actions.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:37:37 AM PST
by
Blogger
(Propheteuon.com)
To: lizol
The hypocrisy is just amazing.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:38:18 AM PST
by
stentorian conservative
("I don't have to hire a consultant to develop a conservative image, I am a conservative." -D Hunter)
To: lizol
Actually, that’s pretty funny!
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:40:33 AM PST
by
humblegunner
(My KungFu is ten times power.©)
To: Blogger
Who said it was ‘Blasphemy’?
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:40:44 AM PST
by
Pyro7480
("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
To: Blogger
You’re the first to use the word blasphemy here...but go on with your straw-man.
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To: humblegunner
Actually, that’s pretty funny! But not for a Christmas card.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:43:11 AM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
(No buy China!!)
To: humblegunner
I’ll admit I laughed but it is pretty tasteless.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:45:26 AM PST
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Pyro7480; macamadamia
When the Muzzies commit their attrocities, it is usually became someone has “blasphemed” the prophet or something. Was just making the comparison since others are equating offending Muslims and offending Catholics.
In either case, it may be tasteless, but it isn’t worth the lather people are working themselves up to.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:45:53 AM PST
by
Blogger
(Propheteuon.com)
To: fredhead
Where’s the picture of Catholic Rage Boy?
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:45:54 AM PST
by
JZelle
To: lizol
Tasteless and anti-Catholic, which is an ingrained, 400 year old British habit.
Too bad they can’t make fun of the Muslims instead of the Poles, but I think I can guess why.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:47:16 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: lizol
I am more offended by the continual use of X-mas instead of CHRIST-mas. Yes, I know what the X stands for, but I still don’t like abbreviating the Lord’s name.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:47:32 AM PST
by
Blogger
(Propheteuon.com)
To: lizol; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; nickcarraway; Romulus; ...
Sometimes it's just so difficult to 'turn the other cheek'.
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posted on
12/06/2007 9:48:07 AM PST
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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