Less than two weeks after Poland’s massive “Rosary at the Borders” event, Archbishop Wojciech Polak has warned the priests of his diocese that he will not hesitate to suspend anyone who takes part in anti-immigrant activities.

Polak, who is the metropolitan archbishop of Gniezno and primate of all Poland, has threatened to suspend “a divinis” (from priestly activity) any member of the clergy of his archdiocese who takes part in activities directed against migrants.

“If I hear of a protest against migrants in which any of my priests has participated, my response will be swift: every priest who joins these events will be suspended,” he said in an interview this week. “I have no alternative as head of my diocese. In a situation where there are priests who explicitly support one side of a political conflict, I must act immediately.”

“Christ suffers in refugees and we need to open up to these refugees,” he said. “That is not the usual opening of borders without any control, but the wise systemic help that we can and should give, and which will not pose any threat to us,” he added.

More than a million Catholics showed up along the Polish borders on Oct. 7 to pray the rosary, asking the intercession of the Virgin Mary to “save Europe from Islamization.” The feast of the Holy Rosary celebrated on that day commemorates the 1571 victory over the Ottoman Turks at Lepanto, a battle that turned the tide for the Christian “Holy League” against the Muslim invaders.

In preparation for that decisive encounter, Saint Pope Pius V ordered the churches of Rome opened for prayer day and night, and urged the faithful to invoke the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary through the prayer of the Rosary. On hearing of the Christian victory, the Pope established a new feast day in the Roman Liturgical Calendar, originally called Our Lady of Victory and now known as the feast of the Holy Rosary.

According to the spokesman for the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Father Pawel Rytel-Andrianik, the Oct. 7 event drew “millions of people” to pray the rosary together and was the second-largest prayer event ever held in Europe, after the 2016 World Youth Day.

“This exceeded the boldest expectations of the organizers,” he said.

The Archbishop of Krakow, Marek Jedraszewski, who sits in the former chair of Karol Wojtyla, presided over the rosary recitation, calling on the faithful to “pray for Europe to remain Christian to save its culture.”

Several mainstream media outlets suggested that the Rosary at the Borders carried a message that was xenophobic and anti-Islamic.

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The Associated Press (AP), for example, suggested that the event smacked of “a problematic expression of Islamophobia” while warning that the event had “anti-Muslim overtones.”

Citing an “expert on xenophobia,” the AP said that the border prayer event “reinforces the ethno-religious, xenophobic model of national identity,” and represents a “problematic expression of Islamophobia” in the country.

The AP was not the only mainstream media outlet to criticize the overtly Christian commemoration, which was supported by Poland’s bishops as well as the country’s prime minister.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) called the rosary prayer “controversial,” suggesting that the event could be seen “as support for the government’s refusal to accept Muslim migrants.”

For its part, Newsweek magazine proclaimed that the border prayer was a “controversial event seen as anti-Muslim,” repeating the charge that “the prayers seemed like a way to express Islamophobia.”

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PARIS (AP) — A French ex-intelligence chief is expected to addresses failures in tracking Islamic extremists, at the trial over deadly 2012 attacks on a Jewish school and French soldiers.

Bernard Squarcini, now a private security consultant, was heading the French police counterterrorism agency when Mohammed Merah went on a shooting rampage, killing three French paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi.

Squarcini said at the time that Merah acted as a lone wolf, self-radicalized when in prison for petty crimes and wasn’t affiliated with an extremist network. But Merah had been placed on the “fiche S” listing, a register of people suspected of being radicalized, as soon as 2006 because of his relationship with older brother Abdelkader Merah, who is on trial for complicity to terror in connection with the three shooting attacks Mohammed Merah carried out in and near Toulouse.

Mohammed Merah was on the U.S. government no-fly list and in 2010, French military intelligence had been alerted by U. S. officials after he turned up in southern Afghanistan and was caught at a random roadway checkpoint by Afghan police, then handed over to the U.S. military.

He was also quizzed by a police official months before the carnage.

The 23-year-old Merah died days after the killings, following a 32-hour standoff with France’s police special forces, and questions immediately rose about the slow police response. Squarcini said authorities couldn’t have foreseen the attack at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school because Merah planned it at the last minute.

Prosecutors believe Abdelkader Merah played an active role in radicalizing his brother and in plotting the attacks, although Mohammed said he acted alone during his standoff with police, according to a transcript obtained by the French newspaper Liberation a few months afterward.

If convicted of complicity to terror, Abdelkader Merah faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Daniel Llorente, a Cuban dissident who made news in May by running into the island nation’s communist May Day parade waving an American flag, remains trapped in Havana’s notorious mental institution. Family say doctors have not diagnosed Llorente with any illness or charged him with any crime.

The Castro regime has a long history of using the institution in question, known commonly as Mazorra, to isolate and torture pro-democracy dissidents.

This week, the Miami-based outlet Marti Noticias published an interview with son Eliécer Llorente, who stated that “it is obvious State Security is keeping him there,” either to punish the man for his repeated pro-American transgressions or to prevent him from staging more acts of protest. As Llorente is not officially an inmate of the state and has not been charged with any crime, he does not technically count as a political prisoner.

The younger Llorente says his father has refused all medication and food that come from the state, so his family sends him crackers and milk. “He says that he will not eat from the hand of the oppressor,” Eliécer told Martí.

The outlet notes that medical professionals at Mazorra had issued a report in June clearing Llorente of any mental illness, but that report has disappeared and been replaced a month later with a government-provided document claiming Llorente was “aggressive” and required institutionalization.

Llorente had faced charges of “public disorder” following the incident in May, but a local court dismissed the charges in August. The dismissal appeared to have no effect on Llorente’s confinement.

The younger Llorente had also previously told Martí that his father had accused one medical staffer in particular, Dr. Marien Guerra Guerra, of lying to him about his legal status before he confirmed he had been exonerated of the charges against him.

Prior to his son’s interview this week, the Cuban independent outlet 14 y Medio published an interview with Daniel Llorente most recently on October 1, in which Llorente explained, “They tell me here that my situation is on standby because my cause is being examined.” Llorente was aware, however, that the state had dropped the charges against him. He noted that officials did not allow him to leave a tiny area of the mental ward or have much interaction with people.

In that interview, Llorente revealed two tattoos, one on each fist, of the Cuban and American flags. 14 y Medio also noted that Llorente has requested political asylum in the United States, but, despite repeated assurances by President Donald Trump that he would support the Cuban freedom cause, he has yet to receive permission to enter the country.

Llorente referred to America as “the greatest defender of human rights, hope, freedom, justice, brotherhood, and the pursuit of happiness” in the world.

Llorente ran into Havana’s May Day parade this year proudly waving the American flag for several seconds before plain-clothed Cuban police attacked him, publicly beating him, and dragging him away. Following his arrest, authorities told Llorente he would be transferred to Mazorra for “believing in God,” which doctors deemed a sign of mental illness.

The Castro regime has long used Mazorra as an alternative prison for political dissidents. In a 1995 report, Amnesty International noted that they had received reports that “political prisoners were being sent to psychiatric institutions’ detention pavilions controlled by the State, where they are confined in dangerous conditions with poor hygiene and exposed to ill treatment from personnel and other inmates.”

How many sexual predators are currently roaming around free in Hollywood? Well, in just the last few days, members of Hollywood’s own royalty have outed countless predators who, to the best of our knowledge, have not been brought to justice. And unless and until these predators are identified and charged, what we have on our hands is a city teeming with the kind of criminals who are more likely than any other to repeat their crimes.

There is not a story being told that is not heartbreaking, devastating, chilling, and unforgettable. All of these helpless young women and men assaulted and stripped of their innocence by real-life monsters, by men enabled within a Hollywood culture that, as we have seen, makes it nearly impossible for the shattered victims to identify their abuser.

Even in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal — an alleged predator many now claim they and untold others knew about, a man accused of hunting countless innocent women over three decades — the victims still do not feel comfortable identifying their abusers.

No one can blame them. It is up to the powerful in Hollywood to end its enabling omerta, to replace it with a culture that encourages these women to come forward. But it is becoming more and more obvious by the day that this will never happen. The Motion Picture Academy, the Producers Guild…all are circling the wagons to keep the scandal in-house, to ensure the wildfire touches no one other than Weinstein.

Which means that these emotionally shattered men and women will never feel comfortable coming forward, which means that, at the very least, almost all of the following monsters still roam free to destroy others:

…the pigs who preyed on 13 year-old Molly Ringwald.

…the monster who sexually assaulted nine year-old America Ferrera.

…the music executives who abused and allowed the abuse of Kaya Jones.

…the director who sexually assaulted 16-year-old Reese Witherspoon.

…the director who harassed and punished Björk.

…the men who sexually assaulted Corey Haim and Corey Feldman as children.

…the man who assaulted Terry Crews.

…the men who assaulted James Van Der Beek.

….the countless, unnamed “predators” in the fashion industry.

…the man who sexually assaulted 16-year-old Laura Dern.

…the doctor who molested a 13-year-old McKayla Maroney.

…the TV executive who assaulted Maureen Ryan.

…these harassers.

…this A-List animal.

…Lady Gaga’s abuser.

…Gabrielle Union’s abuser.

…the producer who declared a 15-year-old Jennifer Lawrence “f**kable.”

And that is merely the tip of the #MeToo iceberg.

Keep in mind that what is alleged here are not wolf whistles. These are crimes. Crimes!

Again, we cannot blame the victims. The problem is the system, a Hollywood system of omerta that traumatizes even those working on the crew, a system that allows this to happen:

“I’ve been on a couple of shows where the entire crew was required to sit through a one-hour course on harassment with a quiz at the end,” one woman told THR. “On one of those shows, I had a supervisor physically assault me on the very same day and within hours after having attended the course. I decided not to complain to HR because of my previous negative experiences.”

And this:

Another woman said she was told not to report an incident of harassment because she’d be branded a “liability” by potential future employers, while yet another employee said she was actually taunted by a male co-worker, who told her that the company’s Human Resources department would not address her claim. Yet many of these employees don’t speak up, fearing their less-visible status in the film industry does not afford them the protection that the business’s biggest stars may receive.

What we have here is an epidemic of systemic sexual abuse victimizing cast and crew alike. No one is safe. And there is no other industry where this kind of rape culture would be allowed to flourish without challenge. But when you have a corrupt national media that make network presidents of wannabe screenwriters, that is a whole other level of enabling.

One wonders…

How many victims must pile up before Hollywood’s elite decide it is time to do something more than self-serving damage control? How many young lives must be destroyed before our media demand the involvement of an outside task force or action from the Justice Department or a congressional inquiry?

Afterward, you are rarely presented with even a single good option. Stay silent and you have acquiesced to whatever happened. Tell a friend and nothing much will be done. Come forward to an authority figure and you’ll face unfair consequences: people will be uncomfortable around you, perceiving ulterior motives; people will look for reasons that this happened to you, specifically; maybe you simply won’t be believed. There will be retribution—the power dynamic in these situations makes it a foregone conclusion. Men like Harvey Weinstein prey on women who are inexperienced enough that they can be penalized if they say no and implicated if they give in. — Jia Tolentino – October 11, 2017.

 

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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kerpernick was very upset that he wasn’t invited to the NFL’s “weekly social activism” meeting, but it didn’t take long for a true American hero to put Kaepernick in his place.

The NFL’s meeting was centered on speaking with players about social issues they are passionate about and what the league can do to coddle players ever more than they already have.

As pointed out by the Independent Journal Review, Kaepernick was upset that he wasn’t invited to the meeting to offer his expertise on kneeling during “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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Kaepernick has been unemployed since the end of last season because none of the 32 NFL teams want him to play for their organization.

Kaepernick’s legal team released a statement, which was posted to Twitter by Adam Schefter, a reporter for ESPN’s “NFL Insiders.”

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Benghazi hero Kris “Tanto” Paronto saw Kaepernick complaining about not being invited to the meeting and decided to send him a reminder about what real heroes look like.

Paronto uploaded a photo of U.S. soldiers taking a knee, which looks like they are saying a prayer together as a unit.

The caption on the photo read: “Real Men Taking a Knee,” and included several hashtags reminding people that freedom isn’t free.

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Paronto perfectly encapsulated how an overwhelming majority of Americans feel about NFL players disrespecting the national anthem and the American flag.

Heroes like Paronto understand what true sacrifice is and what it means to have your friends killed in combat while defending this great nation.

They fought and bled for this country — giving entitled athletes the opportunity to lead extravagant lives with millions of dollars.

People like Kaepernick have no clue what hard work and sacrifice actually look like. The American people will stand with Paronto long before they ever kneel with Kaepernick.

H/T Independent Journal Review

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