Spain: Municipality removes Stations of the Cross, says they show “lack of respect” for Muslims

[rangerrebew]

Spain: Municipality removes Stations of the Cross, says they show “lack of respect” for Muslims

November 28, 2015 9:22 am By Robert Spencer 13 Comments

Expressing one’s own culture and heritage, you see, demonstrates a “lack of respect” for Muslims. In order to show proper “respect” for Muslims, one must change one’s behavior to suit their sensibilities, and never, ever ask them to change their behavior to bring it in line with Western customs and mores. Everyone in the West today knows that, except for a few obstinate “Islamophobes.”

Stations of the Cross Cenicientos

“Stations of the Cross Removed: ‘Lack of Respect for Unbelievers and Muslims,'” The Eponymous Flower, July 20, 2015 (thanks to David):

    (Madrid) The Socialist Natalia Nuñez was elected last May 24th as the new Mayor of Cenicientos in Spain. The municipality in the Autonomous Community of Madrid has a population of 2,073 inhabitants. One of the first acts of the PSOE representative was the removal of the Stations of the Cross in the small town by the pilgrimage church of Nuestra Señora del Roble, the city’s patron.

    The Mayor charged  the Way of the Cross with a “lack of respect” towards non-believers and those are who “profess the Muslim religion and culture.” Nuñez described the Way of the Cross in interviews dismissively as “those stones”.

    The destructiveness of the “Alcaldesa” of Cenicientos caused quite a stir in Spain. The more so because the Way of the Cross represented by the stone steles  were only represented by the Roman station number, but without a cross or other religious symbol. Their  placement was financed by the citizens with a support of the Culture Programme of the provincial administration for 3,000 euros. It was at no cost to  Cenicientos. Only three months after its construction, now that the local elections had taken place, they were again removed.

    “If Stone Steles Offend a Muslim, Will You Want Tomorrow to Demolish the Churches and Chapels?”

    A citizens’ committee presented a collection of signatures, which were handed over on July 17 at the City Hall. The committee addressed the mayor the question whether the destruction of the Cross, even presented in this simplicity, shows no “lack of respect towards the Catholics.” It calls for the return of the stone steles to their place.

    Father Jorge González Guadalix, priest of the Archdiocese of Madrid, referred to the activism of the Mayor as “sectarianism”. There is a “will not to respect Catholics and to insult them”. InfoCatolica quoted the priest with the question: “How could stone steles without any religious symbol insult a Muslim. He doesn’t even know their importance. If naked stones already offend, how much more must then churches and chapels ‘insult’? Will they demolish them tomorrow?”…

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/11/spain-municipality-removes-stations-of-the-cross-says-they-show-lack-of-respect-for-muslims

[rangerrebew]

If the goal of the civilized world is to not offend islam (after the threat of global goreing, of course) then the world needs to tear down churches, synagogues, temples, shrines - any religious significant structure because it will come to that eventually anyway.  All artifacts, books, and reference material referring to any religion other than islam needs to go.  The Vatican needs to be destroyed and the Pope beheaded.  All words in any language which refer to other religions need to be stricken.  Let's get on with the decimation now.

[Scottftlc]

The west is dying. Sometimes in large ways, sometimes in the smallest ways imaginable. It is committing suicide in favor of a new dark ages.

[alicewonders]

The west is dying. Sometimes in large ways, sometimes in the smallest ways imaginable. It is committing suicide in favor of a new dark ages.

A New Dark Ages.  That's the way I see it too.  I think when things get too easy for people, they lose the natural instinct to fight.  Just like a rock band, the first pieces of work while struggling are the brilliance, then life gets too fat and easy and the songs become hollow.  The West has lost the will to fight.

[rangerrebew]

  Oops, allahu akbar.

[Scottftlc]

A New Dark Ages.  That's the way I see it too.  I think when things get too easy for people, they lose the natural instinct to fight.  Just like a rock band, the first pieces of work while struggling are the brilliance, then life gets too fat and easy and the songs become hollow.  The West has lost the will to fight.

I like the rock band analogy...to the secularists in the west, the lyrics to "Imagine" are scripture, and they will go their deaths - and to our deaths - believing in their scripture.

[musiclady]

The west is dying. Sometimes in large ways, sometimes in the smallest ways imaginable. It is committing suicide in favor of a new dark ages.

Well said!

[Paladin]

"The Socialist Natalia Nuñez was elected last May 24th as the new Mayor of Cenicientos in Spain."

This really may be an instance of Socialists engaging in their hatred of religion with the Muslim angle thrown in as cover.

[Fishrrman]

alice wrote above:
"A New Dark Ages.  That's the way I see it too.  I think when things get too easy for people, they lose the natural instinct to fight.  Just like a rock band, the first pieces of work while struggling are the brilliance, then life gets too fat and easy and the songs become hollow.  The West has lost the will to fight."

I've been posting as much for years, both here and (previously) at that "other site" we love to hate.

It was 'way back around 2003 or 2004 when I "saw the elephant".

You'll recall that after G.W. Bush's "Operation Iraqi Freedom", a new civilian government was created, along with "free elections" and purple fingers, the news photos of which I'm sure you remember.

Well, what was almost the first act of the new Iraqi legislature?
They installed islam into their constitution as the "national religion" -- the law of the land.

And after the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, Flight 93...
After Afghanistan and the blood and treasure we expended in Iraq...
After we created an environment for [what we thought was going to be] "freedom"...
... what do they go and do, but re-instate islam as supreme.

That's when I realized there was nothing to be "won" there, so long as we refused to see the reality of -what- we were at war with, and so long as our government, along with the other governments of "the Western World", were unable to come to grips with the struggle before them.

Since then, for The West, it's been downhill all the way.

I used to just ask:
Who's winning?

That should be obvious by now.

Hence, the second line I now post along with it:
Who won?