Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label italy. Show all posts

Monday, June 4, 2018

"Do you like Pope Francis?" New Italian Families Minister: "Let's just say I prefer Cardinal Burke"

Lorenzo Fontana

In the first post-war Italian elections of 1948, Pope Pius XII told Catholics that they could not vote for the socialist and communist left.

A few generations later, in the elections of 2018, the current occupant of the Papal throne sided with the socialist and communist left.

This would have been a stunning development if we had not already become so used to the radical and bizarre directions Francis has attempted to take the Church in the last five years.  

Fortunately, the majority of Italian voters were on the other side.

Lorenzo Fontana, 38, became the Minister for Family and Disability in the new Italian coalition government of Giuseppe Conte on June 1.

Gloria TV just reported on a 2016 interview he had with Italian media:
In November 2016, he told liberoquotidiano.it that he impressed his future wife Emilia on her first visit to Verona by taking her to the Old Latin Mass. 
To the question whether he is "ultra-Catholic" Fontana replied, “I try to be Catholic. It is not easy.” 
Asked, if he likes Pope Francis, Fontana said, “Let’s say that I prefer Cardinal Burke.”
Here is the current Wikipedia entry on Fontana's politics:
Fontana is widely considered a social conservative. He calls himself a "crusader" who fights against abortion, same-sex civil unions and stepchild adoption, which he considers as a "weakening of the family". He is also against "pro-LGBT" sexual education, stating that Vladimir Putin's Russia "is the reference for those who believe in a nationalist model of society". On 2 June 2018, the day after becoming minister, he added that "gay families do not exist". 
He strongly opposes illegal immigration to Italy, claiming that it is, together with the "gay marriages and the so-called gender theory in schools", a serious threat that "aims to erase the Italian people along with their communities and traditions". 
Fontana is married and has one daughter. He is a Roman Catholic.

H/t Hilary White at What's Up with Francis Church @WUWTS

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

MAHOUND FLASHBACK: Gaddafi and Berlusconi Together in Pictures

"It feels good to be a gangsta."
For the fun of it, I occasionally republish posts from the first twelve-months of this blog. I was fond of this one for the pictures (obviously).

Original publication date: April 18, 2015.

With Libya all but in the hands of ISIS, and Italy under sea-borne invasion by Muslims using Libya as a jumping off point (and they're now murdering Christian hangers-on in transit), I thought it would be appropriate to remember in images two former leaders from a more innocent time. It was only a few years ago...

"Damn! The casual look upstages me again!"
"Before I formally address the nude, could I please hold your hand?"
"You always look different!"
"You always look the same!"
"Is that Old Spice?"
"It IS Old Spice!"
"A potpourri gift basket from the Libyan people to the Italian people!"
"Is it permitted?"
"Of course, Orrence, you're one of us now!"
"I can't release my hand."
"I can't release my hand either. I think my joker of an assistant put superglue on the gun barrel."
"I want to introduce those of you at this pool party to my homeless uncle."
"No fair. The deal was I would dress up as Crockett and YOU would dress up as Tubbs."

Friday, November 13, 2015

Orthodox Jew Stabbed in Milan; Israeli Commandos Raid West Bank Hospital to Capture Another Stabber

Forensic police at crime scene (inset: Nathan Graff) from The Telegraph

As of this writing, the attacker has not been caught. He or she was wearing a face mask and there are conflicting reports of a "blonde blue-eyed man" and an "Arab woman". One source reports a getaway car driven by two others.

I'm reprinting this particular article because it also includes the underreported story of an Israeli raid on a West Bank hospital to capture a Palestinian stabber, which occurred Wednesday. It perhaps was included to add "balance" but it is interesting nevertheless.

Note the reference to a report from the Pope's only news source, La Repubblica. One wonders whether the story made it into Bergoglio's daily ten-minute skim.

Somewhat contra to a source quoted in this article, Milan has had its share of anti-semitic and anti-Israeli demonstrations and incidents, though not on the scale of some others Western European cities.


Bloodied Israeli flag at Milan Expo, six weeks ago
The Muslim population of Italy's financial capital is now estimated to be close to 10%.

Google "Milan Jewish" under "news" to find the latest on the Milan stabbing.

From the Daily Mail:
Knife attacks on Jews spread to Italy as man is stabbed seven times in the back and face in Milan’s Jewish neighbourhood
  • Israeli man was repeatedly stabbed in the Jewish neighbourhood of Milan 
  • Victim has been named as ultra-Orthodox Jewish man Nathan Graff, 40 
  • Anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating whether it is a hate crime 
  • Jewish community is afraid it is 'attempt to mimic the attacks in Israel'
An Israeli man was repeatedly stabbed in the back and face in a Jewish neighbourhood in Milan last night.
The 40-year-old victim, named as ultra-Orthodox Jewish man Nathan Graff, was stabbed outside a kosher pizzeria. 
The attacker has not yet been caught and his motives are not known, but a judicial source said anti-terrorism prosecutors were investigating whether it was a hate crime. 
Police spokeswoman Magica Palmisano said the victim was attacked from behind and suffered three wounds to the back, three to the face and one to the arm. 
The victim sustained non life threatening injuries and was taken to hospital for treatment. 
The victim holds Israeli citizenship and members of the Jewish community in Milan said he was wearing a kippa, or skullcap, at the time of the attack. 
Witnesses heard the attacker shout 'I'll kill you' twice in Italian,' La Repubblica reported. 
The attack took place opposite a Jewish school in San Gimignano. 
'Let us hope this was an isolated incident,' Milo Hasbani, co-president of the Jewish community in Milan, told reporters after meeting city officials to discuss the stabbing. 
'We have never had problems in Milan. We are well integrated into the city and have no fear... We don't think this was a personal affair, there is nothing to suggest that.' 
However a member of the local Jewish community told La Repubblica: 'We are afraid that this is an attempt to mimic the attacks in Israel.' 
Police said they were looking at CCTV footage in the area to try to identify the attacker. 
Meanwhile, undercover Israeli agents posing as a pregnant woman and her family members infiltrated a Palestinian hospital and gunned down the relative of a suspect being treated in its surgical unit in Hebron, West Bank. 
The undercover raid was carried out after more than 20 officers posing as locals entered the hospital overnight into yesterday morning.
Israeli commandos storm West Bank hospital to capture sheltered stabber
Azzam Shalaldeh, wanted for an alleged attack on an Israeli last month, was arrested in the raid, while his cousin, 27-year-old Abdallah, was shot and killed as he emerged from a bathroom. 
The Israeli military said forces entered the hospital to arrest Azzam Shalaldeh, who they say stabbed an Israeli last month. 
During the arrest, a man at the hospital attacked the troops, who responded by shooting him, the military said. 
The raid comes as a nearly two month-long outburst of Israeli-Palestinian violence - in which 12 Israelis and 78 Palestinians have been killed - shows no signs of abating. 
Hebron, the largest West Bank city, has been a particular flashpoint in the unrest. Several hundred Jewish settlers live in fortified enclaves in the city, amid tens of thousands of Palestinians.

Sunday, September 6, 2015

"Among them, there were almost no women, no children — the overwhelming majority were young aggressive males…"

Let us in, infidels, or we'll throw our poop at you!*

What confuses many people about what is now called "the European refugee crisis" is that it is expected to be about one thing, with one cause and, perhaps, one solution.

A few days ago, we saw the body of a drowned four-year old child, washed up on a Turkish beach. You've seen it and I won't republish it here. Nor will I look at it again.

He looked exactly like my four-year old son.

That is one aspect of the crisis. It is horrific and tragic. And it is very real.

But there are a number of other aspects to the crisis, and they are just as real. The following depicts one of them. It is a Facebook post, written by a Polish man named Kamil Bulonis. You can see the original here on his actual Facebook page. It has 16,606 shares.

And this is why the existence of Facebook, for the moment at least, is a good thing. This report--and there are many others like it--completely undercuts the narrative of "mainstream" journalists. This is simply not being reported by them, for whatever reasons.

The refugee crisis is a humanitarian tragedy (see above). It's also an invasion by Muslim thugs and actual or potential terrorists. Perhaps policies can be crafted to deal with both of these realities...

Post translated by "Green Infidel" for Gates of Vienna
One and a half hours ago, on the border of Italy and Austria, I saw with my own eyes massive incidents involving immigrants… in all my solidarity with people finding themselves in a difficult life situation I must say, that what I saw breeds fear… 
This great mass of people — sorry that I write this, but it’s an absolute horde. Vulgar words, thrown bottles, loud cries of “We want Germany” — is Germany at present some kind of paradise? I saw how they surrounded the car of an older Italian lady, pulled her out by her hair and wanted to drive off in that car. The coach I was on in a group, they attempted to overturn. Excrement was thrown at us, they banged on the doors, so that the driver would open them, they spat at the window… I ask, for what purpose? How can this wild horde assimilate in Germany? For a moment, I thought I was in a war… 
I really feel sorry for these people, but if they were to reach us [Poland] — I don’t think they would receive any understanding from us… For three hours we waited at the border, which ultimately we did not cross. The whole group was escorted back to Italy in a police cordon. The coach looks destroyed, covered in excrement, scratched and with broken windows. And this is the idea to solve our demographic issues? These great, giant regiments of barbarians? Among them, there were almost no women, no children — the overwhelming majority were young aggressive males… 
Yesterday, reading the news on all the websites, I was still subconsciously caring, worried about their destiny, but today, after what I saw, I am simply afraid, but happy at the same time that they do not choose our nation as their destination. We Poles are simply not ready to accept these people — not culturally, and not financially. I don’t know if anyone is ready. A pathology is entering the EU, which up until now we never had a chance to see. And my apologies to anyone I may have offended anyone with this entry. 
Finally, I’ll add that cars arrived containing humanitarian aid — first and foremost, with food and water, yet they simply overturned these cars… through the megaphone, the Austrians announced that they agree for them to cross the border — they wanted to register them, and allow them to go further — but they didn’t understand these announcements. They understood nothing. And in all this, that was the biggest horror… among a few thousand people, nobody understood Italian, English, German, Russian or Spanish. The power of the fist was what mattered… they fought for the right to proceed further, and they had this right — but they didn’t understand this! In the coach of the French group they opened the luggage compartment — everything that was inside, in a few moments was stolen, a few of the items were strewn across the ground… in my short life, I had never had a chance to witness such scenes, and I have a feeling that this is only the beginning. On a final note I’ll add, that it’s good to help — but not at any cost.
So, what is the solution?

How about this as a start: Let families in if they are non-Muslim or only quasi-ethnic Muslim (such as some Kurds). Refuse entry to Koran thumpers and solo Muslim males.

Are there problems with this strategy? Of course. I can think of at least ten off the top of my head. But it would certainly be an improvement over what we have now.


*Lampedusa, 2011.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Just Because: Gaddafi and Berlusconi Together in Pictures

I know it's wrong. But with Libya all but in the hands of ISIS, and Italy under sea-borne invasion by Muslims using Libya as a jumping off point (and they're now murdering Christian hangers-on in transit), I thought it would be appropriate to remember in images two former leaders from a more innocent time. It was only a few years ago...


"Why is Muammar wearing a photograph of an anti-Italian guerrilla fighter on his lapel?"
"Why does Silvio always dress up his mistresses to look like American rap singers?"
"Damn! The casual look upstages me again!" 
"Before I formally address the nude, could I please hold your hand?" 
"You always look different!"
"You always look the same!"
"Is that Old Spice?"
"It IS Old Spice!"
"A potpourri gift basket from the Libyan people to the Italian people!"
"Is it permitted?"
"Of course, Orrence, you're one of us now!"
"I can't release my hand."
"I can't release my hand either. I think my joker of an assistant put superglue on the gun barrel."
"I want to introduce those of you at this pool party to my homeless uncle."
"No fair. The deal was I would dress up as Crockett and YOU would dress up as Tubbs."