A Lame Develop On On Czech Primal Places The Independent Inwards The Cesspool

I've met Dominik Duka, the electrical flow (Catholic) Primate of Bohemia, 2 years ago, on a celebration of ex-president Klaus' birthday. I was drinking beer as well as debating the ex-director of the National Gallery Milan Knížák when Duka joined us. I withdraw keep totally forgotten whether he had a beer every bit well. Would it live OK for him to withdraw keep one? I don't know. ;-) I felt naught inwards the air that would preclude him from drinking beer.

At whatever rate, Duka is a relaxed, smiling, as well as friendly human being as well as I just respect him much to a greater extent than pleasant than e.g. his predecessor Miloslav Vlk, a sourball of a sort. Duka has also had warm plenty relationships with Klaus as well as now, just a chip less cordially, with Zeman which I consider a addition – I recollect that the church building shouldn't play the role of a "revolutionary force" undermining the authorities (perhaps bad regimes are an exception). Duka is a rare dissident (see below) who became constructive inwards the novel authorities (which was ofttimes non the case, come across extreme "permanent dissidents" such every bit Mr Milan Kohout, the nutcase who is spreading his sperm over the Polish churches, non to cry hundreds of similar "artworks").

But yous shouldn't imagine that he's some materially oriented careerist. In 1981-1982, he was jailed hither inwards Pilsen – pretty much at the same fourth dimension as well as the same house every bit Václav Havel. (See a fun, relatively recent discussion of Duka as well as Havel close their imprisonment.) When he was released, he was drawing diagrams for Škoda Works, also inwards Pilsen, upwardly to 1989.




His tape makes him a warrior for liberty as well as for the Christian values he believes. Because of all these reasons, I was real dissatisfied past times the Th article inwards a troubled British left-wing daily, The Independent:

Europe’s Catholic leaders are undoing the practiced piece of work of Pope Francis over the migrant crisis

It's quite a hitting piece. The subtitle says: Cardinal Dominik Jaruslav Duka, the Archbishop of Prague, demeans Muslims as well as claims the Pope’s efforts are ‘just a gesture’




What a sin! Aside from the hostile tone, the subtitle shows i variety of a defect of the article: inaccuracies inwards the basic data. His inwardness cry (the get-go cry given at birth) is Jaroslav, non "Jaruslav". Well, to a greater extent than precisely, Dominik Duka was born every bit Jaroslav Václav Duka. It's no coincidence that he picked the novel cry Dominik – he has been affiliated with the Dominican Order, with others.

The misspelled cry of the target of the hitting slice isn't the only "similarly obvious" error. The article also claims that Zeman is the Czech prime number government minister as well as Orbán is the Hungarian president. It's the other manner around! Also, the claim that Duka said that "the Pope's efforts are just a gesture" is inaccurate. The master declaration past times Duka said that they were "a gesture" without the word "just".

These character standards are plainly practiced plenty for The Independent – this lousy inkspiller would live banned on this weblog for the propagation of as well as so many falsehoods real quickly. Robert Fisk, the writer of the hitting piece, leaves no uncertainty close his politics. We read, for example:

I forgave Pope John Paul II his conservatism only because he infuriated George W. Bush past times denouncing the 2003 Republic of Iraq war.

Oh, you're as well as so generous, Mr Fisk, if yous forgave the Pope his conservatism – i time he annoyed some other conservative. How the Pope could neglect to live conservative? Clearly, a Pope who isn't conservative isn't a existent Pope. It's a defining component subdivision (or bulk) of his chore to conserve sure traditions as well as beliefs as well as the old-fashioned scheme of the guild with the particular social flavour that has been christened Christianity.

But I made peace with the Vatican when Pope Francis came along.

Right, a left-wing intellectual claiming to live the Pope is certainly a improve bargain for the likes of Fisk. Dominik Duka has to interact with similar left-wing intellectuals inwards the Czech Catholic Church every bit good – Tomáš Halík is the most typical one.

Fisk praises Jorge Mario Bergoglio's pro-Islamist gestures as well as his embarrassing Charlemagne Award speech earlier nosotros hear some other gem:

A large ouch. Especially from the regressive old men of eastern Europe who believe that they, as well as they alone, safeguard the blue-eyed, golden-haired nativity right of Christian Europe.

Duka has chocolate-brown eyes but a light-headed connector to the Nazis is ever practiced plenty for the Independent, isn't it?

Regressive old men of Eastern Europe? That's also pretty funny. What I respect cute is that these far left jerks are using basically the same jargon that the communists used to utilization for Duka as well as others – maybe fifty-fifty at the real instant when they sent Duka to the Pilsner prison. The word "reactionary" would live to a greater extent than pop than "regressive" but they're clearly meant to live synonymous. It's non just the linguistic communication that is the same. Fisk's goals are real similar to the communists' goals, too.

Fisk continues with some would-be assault on Zeman as well as Orbán (with a wrong description of the men's jobs). Concerning Hungary, nosotros hear:

Given Hungary’s grotesque fascist history as well as its pro-Nazi... you’d withdraw keep idea Orban... powerfulness withdraw keep spared us his lecture on European “culture”.

What? First of all, approximately 1940, most of Europe was co-operating with the Third Reich inwards i manner or some other as well as if every fellow member of whatever acre that was affiliated with the Third Reich inwards some manner 75 years agone were banned from speaking close politics, almost no i could speak close politics inwards Europe anymore.

Second of all, Viktor Orbán inwards individual had naught to do with the wrongdoings of Nazism.

Third of all, what Orbán talks close isn't easily correlated with the questions relevant approximately 1940 – the problems aren't close Nazism.

Fourth of all, the Nazi comments close Republic of Hungary are a demagogic distraction because the principal target of the hitting slice is supposed to live Duka, a Czech, as well as virtually no influential plenty Czech official was cooperating with the Nazi authorities quite voluntarily (although millions of regular citizens were pretty happy inwards that environment). Fisk finds this fact inconvenient as well as so he tells us close the Hungarian history every bit if it were an declaration against Duka.

Fifth of all, it's outrageous to write the word culture inwards quotes inwards the phrase European culture. There exists a vaguely defined category that may live called European culture as well as Hungarians withdraw keep contributed to it as well as are all the same contributing to it. What tin flaming live an excuse for the quotes than the explanation that it is a actually lame sweat to insult all Hungarians?

But Orbán isn't the principal target of Fisk's rant, as well as so he returns to the principal target:

Far worse, Orban was followed only a few days agone past times no less than the Archbishop of Prague, Cardinal Dominik Jaruslav Duka, who decided non only to demean Muslims, but pissed mightily on Pope Francis himself.

You tin flaming come across that "Jaruslav" wasn't an isolated typo. Fisk actually can't spell the cry of the target of his hitting piece. OK, as well as so Duka has "demeaned" Muslims as well as also "pissed mightily" on Mr Bergoglio. Oh, really? What was the pissing supposed to be?

“The sensitivity of Pope Francis on social issues is dissimilar from ours inwards Europe,” said this paragon of Christian virtue.

Wow, what a sin. Duka dared to cry for out that Mr Bergoglio hasn't lived inwards Europe as well as hence – visibly – doesn't recollect every bit a European. Except that this is a self-evident fact. I've made the real same cry for inwards the Charlemagne Award weblog post.

Why does he telephone band it a "mighty piss" if someone just points out that a individual has dissimilar values as well as sensitivities than a grouping of people sharing the life on a dissimilar plenty continent? I suppose that Fisk thinks that fifty-fifty these comments past times Duka are non PC enough:

“Pope Francis is pop as well as at that spot are dissimilar sources of his popularity. He also comes from Latin America, where the gap betwixt rich as well as pitiable is much bigger.” As for Francis’ Lesbos trip, “it was just a gesture”.

As I said, Duka didn't say "just". But it is truthful that Mr Bergoglio's see was a component subdivision of his picture building, a inexpensive kitschy exercise designed to lick the aßes of left-wing jerks such every bit Mr Fisk. Also, Duka offered an explanation why Mr Bergoglio's comments close the wealth gap are to a greater extent than justifiable for a Latin American man: the differences inwards the men's wealth at that spot are larger as well as perchance less tolerable than here.

This comment past times Duka wasn't meant to live a mighty piss directed against the Pope. On the contrary, Duka was trying to defend Mr Bergoglio who has otherwise done the mortal sin of promoting socialist propaganda. Maybe, the likes of Mr Fisk don't recollect it's a mortal sin for a exceed Catholic official to promote socialist propaganda but that can't alter anything close the fact that it is a mortal sin. Duka has mentioned some mitigating circumstances to brand Mr Bergoglio's sin await smaller.

Fisk also recommends a method to Mr Bergoglio how to bargain with Duka:

I suppose fourth dimension was when a Pope would withdraw keep sent a flagon of poisonous substance off to his errant cardinal, or at to the lowest degree a Vatican assassinator with a rusty knife, peculiarly when the meddlesome priest compared him unfavourably to John Paul, “who was able to attract the attending of crowds but... he knew the history of Nazism as well as Communism as well as he knew how hard was the struggle for freedom.”

I must warn you: a bunch of holy fathers or their affiliates withdraw keep paid with their cervix when they triued to live aggressive against the Kingdom of Bohemia as well as its preferred religious views. You tin flaming live aggressive or vehement (in Fisk's case, a killer) but yous can't live guaranteed to win or survive.

Duka's positive words are bad from Fisk's viewpoint, too:

Cardinal Duka fifty-fifty had a practiced word for the retired ex-Pope Benedict – the quondam Hitler Youth anti-aircraft gunner, who was also anti-abortion as well as claimed that Auschwitz was the production of a Nazi “ring of criminals” inwards Berlin.

Benedict's membership inwards the Hitler Youth is light-headed – virtually every German linguistic communication pocket-size fry of that generation was a member.

But fifty-fifty otherwise, this Fisk must live joking. It must certainly live politically wrong for the caput of the Catholic Church to oppose abortions. Have yous lost your hear completely, Fisk? Why didn't yous recommend Virgin Mary to abort Jesus given the fact that she didn't fifty-fifty withdraw keep a plausible theory close Jesus' father? And is it also politically wrong to say that the people inwards Berlin who were behind Auschwitz were a "ring of criminals"? They were pop inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany – as well as elsewhere – but they were all the same criminals as well as they are those who did the detailed planning of the Auschwitz "facility". Their wrongdoing can't live separated from the context – i can't deny the German linguistic communication nation's as well as other nations' back upwardly for them – but the precise details were penned inwards Berlin as well as they were penned past times a particular band of criminals.

“When you’d compare the linguistic communication of these Popes [John Paul as well as Benedict] as well as their most frequent words, you’d come across a large difference,” quoth Duka. “However, yous withdraw keep to convey society’s mood into account.”

Ah yes, Pope Francis had to curvature to ‘society’s mood’, didn’t he?

Yes, of course, he did. He is trying to earn inexpensive points as well as lick the aßes of the populace inwards 2016 inwards the atmosphere where the likes of Mr Fisk write into the newspapers instead of beingness regularly kicked into their arrogant extremist left-wing buttocks.

Even Angela Merkel did non escape the cardinal’s scorn. She as well as European federalists had demanded a “welcoming culture” of accepting refugees from the Middle East, which was at nowadays dividing European societies as well as endangering their safety.

Every sane individual inwards Europe knows that – as well as inwards our component subdivision of Europe, it's also OK for everyone including the "primates" to cry for out these obvious facts. Merkel's welcoming policies were a large determination that was rapidly shown to live a large fault as well as the novel splits that withdraw keep emerged inwards Europe must live counted every bit consequences of Merkel's extremely myopic acts.

Not for the primal whatever comment on Pope Francis’ employment organisation that the Mediterranean risked becoming a “graveyard”.

The people who swim or utilization unreliable boats to illegally cross the body of body of water are doing a real risky affair – this determination may live retroactively rated every bit suicide if they hap to die. But fifty-fifty when lots of them die, the body of body of water doesn't locomote a graveyard. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 graveyard needs to withdraw keep some paperwork to gain this condition as well as live sure that no official who is every bit sane every bit Duka volition give yous the postage stamp to telephone band it a graveyard. So the word is at most a metaphor.

Not a word from the Archbishop of Prague for Francis’ dream “of a Europe where beingness a migrant is non a criminal offense but a summons to greater commitment on behalf of the dignity of every human being.”

Duka did address this implicitly inwards other answers – as well as of course, he disagrees with these comments. There can't live whatever regulation maxim that "to live a migrant is non a crime". Most immigrants inwards this moving ridge undoubtedly are illegal immigrants, as well as so they are committing a crime. That's why they're kept inwards detention facilities inwards Czech Republic – which are special types of prissy plenty prisons.

Even if Mr Bergoglio wanted these violations of the police clit non to live considered violations of the law, he has no ascendancy over these totally irreligious questions. These laws are decided past times the Czech (or other countries') lawmakers, non past times the officials of the Catholic Church.

Fisk adds a mildly positive paragraph:

To live fair, every bit they say, Cardinal Duka is also a brave man. He was persecuted past times the Communists, imprisoned, as well as yet kept the faith. No-one should lecture Duka on suffering. Yet his words propose that he cannot empathise the suffering of those who are non of his religion.

But fifty-fifty this paragraph says something unacceptable inwards betwixt the lines. This paragraph basically says that whoever suffers must right away withdraw keep some special rights, to stand upwardly higher upwardly the law, as well as and so on. But that's only non the case. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 functional guild can't adopt this principle. The basic police clit – as well as fifty-fifty moral values – must live higher upwardly other things, including some people's suffering.

The fact that millions of people inwards Syrian Arab Republic endure doesn't hateful that they're practiced people, that they should live given exemptions from the law, or that their opinions as well as belief systems etc. should spread as well as reproduce. After all, the suffering exists inwards Syrian Arab Republic exactly because the number of evil plenty people is pretty high inwards that country. So suffering is ever partly a lawsuit of some people's doing bad things at the territory.

The causal human relationship goes inwards both directions. Suffering also makes people to a greater extent than evil. They usually lose their humanity as well as sensitivity. They ofttimes desire to revenge inwards a bloody way, as well as and so on. Both of these causal relationships are meant to say that people who endure just can't live automatically considered practiced people. If there's a correlation, the correlation has the opposite sign. At whatever rate, Europe has the duty to defend itself against many bad things that are happening inwards Syrian Arab Republic as well as elsewhere.

Duka was jailed for a yr but past times itself, that doesn't examine that he was a swell human being. Along with Duka as well as Havel, the prison theatre had lots of inmates who had done actually bad things – independently of a political perspective. Duka as well as Havel were placed inwards the prison theatre illegitimately. But if they were fighting for evil goals, their imprisonment wouldn't brand them practiced people. "Suffering" as well as "good" are 2 solely dissimilar things!

That is his employment or, every bit those of the faith powerfulness say, his sin. After all, it’s non every bit if the Catholic Church has an unblemished tape inwards old Czechoslovakia.

Just essay to contemplate close the absurdity of this proclamation. Is it a "sin" for a Catholic primal that he opposes the expansion of a real dissimilar religion? Are yous mad, Mr Fisk? It's a component subdivision of his chore to defend the well-being of his church, peculiarly relatively to the well-defined competitors.

At the halt of his rant, Mr Fisk compares Duka to Mr Tiso, a exceed priest inwards the Slovak clerofascist province during the state of war who co-operated inwards the Holocaust, too. Wow. The off-topic comments close the Hungarian Second World War history plainly haven't been plenty of an embarrassment. You know, the divergence is that Tiso was defending some extremely recent, troubled, inhuman laws that were actively murdered the Jews (or severely crippled their lives) because of racist motivations.

On the other hand, Duka is defending the status quo, mutual sense, as well as the laws that withdraw keep existed as well as were applied to everyone for pretty much several centuries. There's no valid analogy betwixt Duka as well as Tiso (and I am non fifty-fifty discussing that Tiso wasn't Czech, either – he was pretty strongly anti-Czech inwards his nationalism). But if I had to select inwards betwixt Tiso as well as Fisk, I would alternative Tiso because Fisk is much to a greater extent than toxic than the Slovak priest inwards his relatively mild fascist state.