Catholic Porn.

GERMANY - One of Germany's largest publishing companies, Weltbild, has more than 2,500 erotic novels in its online catalogue - interestingly enough, it owned by no one other than the German Catholic Church. Yes, the Vatican owns 100% of Weltbild, which generates profits similar to Amazon.com

German newspaper Die Welt, has published that the Catholic church for over 30 years. Some catholics complained of this and the climax of this opposition resulted in 2008, when a 70-page report on the book sales was sent to the catholic bishops.

Die Welt reports that the situation came to light after a report this month mentioned the erotica distributed by Weltbild, which generates overf €1.7 billion ($2.4 billion) annually and has a 20 percent market share when it comes to selling books. That makes it the second largest online retailer of books behind Amazon.

But the Vatican's profits from pornography does not end there.

The global corporation known as the "Catholic church" also owns a 50 percent stake in publishing company Droemer Knaur, which also produces pornographic books.

http://www.vaticancrimes.us/2011/10/catholic-church-generating-astronomical.html

Child Trafficking in Argentina.

ARGENTINA - The recent discovery of the evil baby trafficking schemes put in place in Spain by catholic nuns and priests who stole more than 300,000 babies from mother-baby homes has proven to be an organized crime scheme employed by the Catholic Church in multiple countries.

The New York Times has just published an alarming article that speaks of the Victoria Montenegro case, which unveils how this innocent woman was stolen as a baby by nation’s top military leaders engaged in a systematic plan to steal babies - and of those involved is no one other than the Catholic Church - exactly how they conducted the scheme in Spain during the Franco era. Once again you see how the Vatican and the State work hand in hand to implement crimes against humanity.

The New York Times article unveils how Jorge Rafael Videla, who led the military during Argentina’s dictatorship, stands accused of leading the effort to take babies from mothers in clandestine detention centers and give them to military or security officials, or even to third parties, on the condition that the new parents hide the true identities. Mr. Videla is one of 11 officials on trial for 35 acts of illegal appropriation of minors. The trial is also revealing the complicity of officials of the Roman Catholic Church. The abduction of an estimated 500 babies was one of the most traumatic chapters of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. There has been frantic effort by mothers and grandmothers to locate their missing children - just like it is happening in Spain.

As expected, the Catholic Priests and bishops in Argentina justified their support of the government on a supposed "national security concerns". After all, they always utilize the name of Christ and motto of so-called "charity work" to disguise their evil. They even defended that the child abductions were a way to ensure they were not “contaminated” by leftist enemies of the military, said Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a Nobel Prize-winning human rights advocate who has investigated dozens of disappearances and testified at the trial last month. They sang the same song in the evil OPERATION PETER PAN of Cuba, where the Catholic Church abducted 14,000 Cuban children to "keep them from the harm of the Castro ruling". Today, we know of the significant profits made from each child sold into adoption, from the income generated for each child placed in orphanages, and the stories of abuse, torture speak for themselves.

But now that more and more victims around the world are speaking out about the organized crime schemes put in place, the world is now learning how the Vatican tentacles have infiltrated the nations, trafficking babies and selling them into an evil adoption scheme around the world.
You can check out the stats by visiting: http://www.jh.to/organizedcrime 

The New York Times also reported that Church officials in Argentina and at the Vatican declined to answer questions about their knowledge of or involvement in the covert adoptions. They have once again attempted their silence game, just like they have done in Ireland regarding the30,000 children abuse in residential schools, just like they did in Canada regarding the 150,000 native children abused in residential schools, and just like they have refused to speak about the300,000 babies stolen in Spain and sold into adoptions. The Catholic Church to-date remains silent about the 30,000 women the nuns tortured in Ireland's Magdalene Laundries. They have refused to speak about the 500,000 children stolen and migrated from Great Britain into Australia. Is this all starting to sound familiar now? Perhaps you were not yet aware that Australia has recently been speaking out about the 500,000 women who were coerced by the nuns into giving up their babies into adoption - but of course they would claim this was the "right thing to do" to repent from so-called "sin" for having a baby out of wedlock - after all, each child sold brought in astronomical profit for the criminal organization known worldwide as the CATHOLIC CHURCH.
http://www.vaticancrimes.us/2011/10/catholic-church-involved-in-baby.html

Germans Leaving Catholic Church In Droves.

Al Salamu 'Alaykum.

Following the child abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church across Germany, a record 180,000 German Catholics are said to have left their church for good in 2010.

50,000 more Catholics cancelled their church membership last year than in 2009 representing an increase of 40 percent, according to published data 24 of Germany's 27 Catholic dioceses as reported by Deutsche Welle.

Germany's largest diocese of Cologne, was hard hit, experiencing the biggest drop in membership ever last year while a number of dioceses in deeply Catholic Bavaria saw up to 70 percent more people leaving the church than the previous year.

Cologne's vicar-general, Dominik Schwaderlapp, described the exodus of members as "their personal form of protest and of expressing their disgust at the scandal."

Last year, the release of 2009 defections reportedly signaled a growing wave of departures even before the scandal fully erupted as several officials at schools run by the church were accused of abusing children.

Press spokesman for the German Catholic Bishops' Conference, Matthias Kopp, said the church suffered a human loss for every single person who left. "The German bishops won't ignore that, they want to win back lost credibility," he added.

The bishops have reportedly offered compensation of up to $6,900 to the sexual abuse victims. Some of the sexual abuse cases occurred in the 1950s, but many of them took place in the 1970s and 1980s.

 

http://digitaljournal.com/article/309733

Muslims Saved Jews From Nazis.

Al Salamu 'Alaykum.

An audience in Wales will be told tonight of one of the most extraordinary acts of humanitarianism seen anywhere in wartime Europe – the rescue of 2,000 Jews from Nazi persecution by a group of Albanian Muslims. 

Martin Shipton reports:

AN extraordinary and largely forgotten piece of history will be commemorated tonight when two Welsh communities come together to hear about a group of Muslims who rescued Jews from Nazi persecution.

American photographer Norman Gershman will be at Cardiff University to talk about his investigation into how the lives of 2,000 Jews were saved by Muslims in Albania in 1942 and 1943.

The event, hosted jointly by the Muslim Council of Wales and the university’s Jewish Society, is being seen as an historic occasion aimed at creating greater understanding between adherents of the two faiths in Wales.

Gershman’s book Besa is named after the Albanian honour code which obliges individuals to protect anyone in danger, regardless of all religious and political affiliations.

He said: “When I first learned of the WWII rescue of Jews in Muslim Albania and Kosovo my reaction was visceral. Muslims who saved Jews?

“I must record this forgotten event with my camera and tell the story through the various family histories I was to meet.

“As a Jew and a Sufi, my spiritual connection with the beauty of Islam and Judaism is seamless.

“The old adage of a picture is worth a thousand words is manifested in our photographic project.

“For over six years I have been travelling to Muslim Albania and Kosovo documenting and doing portraits of Muslim families that saved Jews in World War Two.

“Although Besa is a traditional Albanian code of honour, many Muslim families have incorporated Besa into their religious beliefs and often were inspired by their faith in saving Jews from the Nazis.

“The rescue of Jews in Albania was a unique experience in Holocaust history, as Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler were welcomed not as refugees but as guests.

“I always made it a point to thank those Muslim families I photographed for the saving of Jews during those harrowing times.”

One of the survivors, Dr Scarlett Epstein, spoke at an event in the House of Lords on Monday. She said: “I owe my survival to Albania and the generosity of its Muslim people.

“No country was prepared to offer my family and I asylum from the horrors of the Holocaust, except Albania.

“The Muslim Albanians welcomed us warmly which came as an extraordinary relief after having experienced the excesses of Nazi persecution.”

The reason the story has only emerged recently is because Albania was cocooned for 50 years by a xenophobic dictatorship that permitted its citizens no contact with the outside world.

Remona Aly, campaigns director of the Exploring Islam Foundation, which is helping promote Gershman’s book, said: “We want to show how Islam promotes diversity and co-existence and has no tolerance of anti-Semitism. The message of this project is more vital now than ever before.

“Tensions in the Middle East need to be separated from the common shared theological heritage and values of the two faiths, and history of peace and solidarity between Islam and Judaism. Denying the Holocaust undermines the principles of Islam and through this campaign we hope to voice our solidarity with the aims and objectives of Holocaust Memorial Day.”

Gershman’s book documents the stories of many Muslim Albanians who looked after Jews.

Albanians gave them clothes and Muslim names, and rather than hiding them in the attic treated them as part of the family.

One of the Albanians photographed by Gershman, Rifat Hoxha, said: “I was born after the war. My father only told me of his rescue of a Jewish family shortly before he died, when I was 17.

“In 1944, under the German occupation, my parents sheltered the family of Nesim Hallagyem, his wife Sara and their son Aron.

“They were refugees from Bulgaria who stayed with my parents for six months.

“There were times of great danger when Germans went from house to house seeking Jews.

“Towards the end of the occupation my father escorted Nesim and his family to the port city of Durres, where they embarked as refugees hopeful of gaining access to Palestine.

“Just before leaving, Nesim entrusted to my father three beautifully bound books in Hebrew to keep for him until he could retrieve them.

“After the war my father did receive a letter from Nesim saying he and his family were safely in Palestine.

“This was during the Communist period in Albania when any correspondence from abroad was considered a crime subject to arrest.

“My father was prohibited from answering the letter and that was the last time there was any communication.”

Saleem Kidwai, secretary of the Muslim Council of Wales, said: “This is a very important piece of history that shows how people will selflessly help others out of pure humanity.”

Danielle Morashti, joint president of the Jewish Society at Cardiff University, said: “Until contacted by the Muslim Council of Wales, I had no idea this happened.

“It deserves to be much better known.”

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/01/26/photographer-reveals-how-muslims-saved-jews-from-the-nazis-91466-28054413/

'Alaykum Salam.

Israel Intercepts Aid Vessels.

By IANS,

Jerusalem : Israeli Navy personnel boarded two vessels which were enroute to the Gaza Strip and led them to southern Israel's Ashdod port, the Israeli military said in a statement Friday.

"The boarding was carried out in line with directives from the Israeli government and after all attempts to prevent the vessels from reaching the Gaza Strip were made, but to no avail," said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement, reported Xinhua.

After the boats failed to heed calls to turn around or dock in Egypt or Israel, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz ordered naval forces to board the ships. Nobody was injured during the boarding of the ships, a military source said.

The boats were carrying aid supplies and 27 international pro-Palestinian activists.

http://twocircles.net/2011nov04/israeli_navy_intercepts_gazabound_aid_vessels.html

Cradle Robbers.

Babies were stolen from people in Spain and sold to better-connected families for decades (h/t Tim F. at Balloon Juice):

After months of requests from the BBC, the Spanish government finally put forward Angel Nunez from the justice ministry to talk to me about Spain's stolen children.
Asked if babies were stolen, Mr Nunez replied: "Without a doubt".
"How many?" I asked.
"I don't dare to come up with figures," he answered carefully. "But from the volume of official investigations I dare to say there were many."
Lawyers believe that up to 300,000 babies were taken.
The practice of removing children from parents deemed "undesirable" and placing them with "approved" families, began in the 1930s under the dictator General Francisco Franco.
At that time, the motivation may have been ideological. But years later, it seemed to change - babies began to be taken from parents considered morally - or economically - deficient. It became a money-spinner, too.
The scandal is closely linked to the Catholic Church, which under Franco assumed a prominent role in Spain's social services including hospitals, schools and children's homes.
Nuns and priests compiled waiting lists of would-be adoptive parents, while doctors were said to have lied to mothers about the fate of their children.

It is bad enough that the Church was so closely entwined with Franco in Spain, but this is pretty horrific. I hadn't heard anything about this, but it is another black eye on the Church.  Somehow, this seems like a moral perversion which approaches abortion in an end-justifies-means way.  In the same way that abortion is defended as preventing a childhood of suffering for unwanted babies, doctors, nuns and priests determined that children should be taken from some mothers and given (or sold) to "better," or more accurately, wealthier parents, to be raised.  Clearly, any human-run organization has flaws, but to me, the problems with the Church seem so much greater because of the secrecy and great effort with which they have been hidden.  Continually burying obviously immoral actions committed by members of the organization to prevent damage to the organization makes the damage that much worse.  This is one more destructive story to further marginalize the Church in the developed world.

Taken from: http://afarmerinohio.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-bad-news-for-catholic-church.html

'Alaykum Salam.

Death To Israel.

Kent State professor yells 'Death to Israel' at Israeli diplomat

Professor Julio Pino asks Ishmael Khaldi, the first Bedouin to serve in Israel's foreign service, 'how can the Israeli government justify providing aid with blood money from deaths of Palestinian children?'

By Natasha Mozgovaya

A Kent State professor stormed out of a lecture given by an Israeli diplomat on Tuesday evening, shouting "Death to Israel" after an exchange with the diplomat, the Kent State University news website reported.


Ishmael Khaldi, the first Bedouin to serve in Israel's foreign service, spoke at Bowman Hall at Kent University on Tuesday, opening the floor to questions after he finished his speech, the report said.


The first question was from history Professor Julio Pino, who reportedly asked Kahilidi how he and the Israeli government could justify providing aid to countries like Turkey with blood money that came from the deaths of Palestinian children and babies.


Israel has recently provided Turkey with aid and assistance in dealing with the earthquake that has claimed the lives of over 400 people and injured over 1,000.


Khaldi, taken aback, reportedly told Pino that his question was "not respectful".

Pino reportedly retorted that the diplomat was not being respectful to him, after which he accused the Israeli government of killing people.


“I do respect you, but you are wrong,” Khaldi reportedly said. “It’s a lie.”


Pino then stormed out of the auditorium, yelling, "Death to Israel". Someone from the audience yelled back at the history professor, "Shame on you."


This is not the first time Pino has stirred up controversy with his extremist views, the report said. In 2002, he wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Kent Stater, in which he praised a suicide bomber, and in 2007 Drudge Report featured a story that claimed he contributed to a blog called "Global War", which refers to itself as a "jihadist news service".


The president of Kent State University, Lester A. Lefton, slammed Pino for his behavior, saying the way Khaldi was treated was "reprehensible" and "an embarrassment to our university".


Lefton said that although it may have been Pino's right to state his views, his words were deplorable, and his behavior deeply troubling.


"We value critical thinking at this university, and encourage students to engage with ideas that they find difficult or make them uncomfortable. We hope that our faculty will always model how best to combine passion for one’s position with respect for those with whom we disagree," Lefton said in a statement.


"Calling for the destruction of the state from which our guest comes (as do some of our students, faculty and community members) is a grotesque failure to model these values," he added.


When asked to comment, Pino told Haaretz, "What I spoke was for the sake of the children of Palestine, and no other reason. The only politics I have are, 'There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His Messenger.' Peace be upon you."

'Alaykum Salam.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/kent-state-professor-yells-death-to-israel-at-israeli-diplomat-1.392544