Police arrested a 51-year-old woman for profaning Poland’s most revered Catholic icon, the Madonna of Częstochowa, by painting an LGBT rainbow halo around her head and that of the baby Jesus.
On Monday, Płock police detained Elżbieta Podleśna over the alleged offence after investigators found several dozen posters of the Virgin Mary with the rainbow-colored halo in the woman’s home. The woman was later released.
Joachim Brudziński, Poland’s interior minister, said on Twitter Monday that a person had been arrested for “carrying out a profanation of the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa.”
“Telling stories about freedom and ‘tolerance’ doesn’t give anyone the right to offend the feelings of believers,” said Brudziński, who has described the posters as “cultural barbarism.”
Offending religious sentiment is a crime under the Polish penal code and authorities are accusing the woman of “profanation” of a revered religious image. The “Black Madonna of Częstochowa” is a Byzantine icon venerated throughout Poland. The icon hangs in the monastery of Jasna Góra, a UN world heritage site and Poland’s most sacred Catholic shrine.
This is not the first time police have dealt with attempted desecration of the sacred image, to which miracles have been attributed.
In 2012, guards overpowered a 58-year-old man who was trying to deface the painting by throwing vials of black paint at it. No damage was done to the image, which was covered by a protective pane of glass.
Tensions have run high in Poland lately over perceived attempts to import Western values regarding gender and sexuality foreign to the nation’s culture and religious tradition.
“We are dealing with a direct attack on the family and children – the sexualization of children, that entire LBGT movement, gender,” said Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS).
“This is imported, but they today actually threaten our identity, our nation, its continuation and therefore the Polish state,” he said.
This disgusting putanna is an gay activist who is backed by the US stat dept and Amnesty Int. She was doing a tour in England a month or so ago complaining about Catholic Poland, now she pulls this stunt.
We have the same laws here in Italia, don’t Blasphemy Our Lady!
Islamists are SICK and twisted. Allah is evil incarnate and resides in Hell. How dare those disgusting animals even utter the name of our Blessed Mother the Virgin Mary? It’s outrageous!
My Note: While the militant side of Islam is waging a bloody war to physically exterminate our Christian brothers and sisters in Egypt – preachers and Mosque leaders are attempting to attack Christian souls with such outrageously horrendous and satanic teachings. May they all burn in hell!
A leading Egyptian cleric irked his Christian compatriots when he said on television that the Islamic figure Muhammad would marry the Virgin Mary in heaven.
Dr Salem Abdel Galil, a theologian at Cairo’s prestigious Al Azhar academy and a former director-general of the Ministry of Religions, said on his television program that “Allah, hallowed be his name, chose Mary of all the women, alongside Asiya, Pharaoh’s wife, Aisha and Khadijea, Prophet Muhammad’s wives, and Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter. There are verses in the Quran that suggest that in heaven Muhammad will marry the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus peace be upon him, as well as Asiya, Pharaoh’s wife and Kultum, the sister of Moses peace be upon him.”
“The Quran said: ‘Allah will give [the Prophet] women preferable to his wives, Muslim, pious, pure women.’” One, he said, referred to Asiya and the other to Mary.
Egypt’s Christian community was enraged by Galil’s remarks. The community’s youth movement issued a statement demanding an apology. The movement’s chairman, Nader Soubhi, said: “We Christians don’t recognize any aspect of the Virgin Mary except her sanctity, her purity and her virginity. The Virgin Mary will never lose any of these.”
In 2010, an Al Azhar cleric caused controversy with a similar ruling, which also raised the church’s ire. Then too, church representatives said they rejected the ruling “which contradicts our religion and holy book. It’s offensive to the Virgin Mary.”
Reverend Abdel Masih Basit said that “the Virgin became pregnant while a virgin, and will forever remain so. And according to Jesus, in heaven you don’t marry but become angels.”
“The Christian faith relies on the belief that a man’s soul turns into a spirit after his death and his body turns into light, and therefore there’s no need for partnership or sexual intercourse,” he said.
The hilarious thing is that this isn’t what a CLERIC said. It comes from the Sunnah, the collection of sacred books of Islam that include the Ahadith, the Sirat, and the Quran. This is mainstream Islamic belief.
Islamists are SICK and twisted. Allah is evil incarnate and resides in Hell. How dare those disgusting animals even utter the name of our Blessed Mother the Virgin Mary. It’s outrageous.
Well first off, according to scripture there are no marriages in the kingdom to come or heaven. Jesus said we will be like the angels which neither marry or give in marriage.
No Muslim can or will ever enter heaven.
I really don’t think Mohammad will get anywhere even close to heaven. Where he will be, it will really be hot down there.
The only place that these Muslim clerics will see Mohammad is when they meet him in hell.
Mary in heaven, Mohammad in hell…that would be a neat trick. On the one hand, the Virgin Mary, a woman of faith and mercy. On the other hand, Mohammad, a man of rape and murder. This is not only blasphemous, it is ludicrous.
Islam, the ideology of the dead. There will be no “marriage” in Heaven. Jesus is the groom, all others that receive Him as Lord and Savior are the bride. Pray that the Spiritually lost ask Jesus to be their Lord and Savior before they die the first death. The second death is a permanent one.
Mr. Mohammad is in Hades from what we know. Because he did not receive Jesus Christ as his savior. And after the resurrection of the dead, he will be judged in front of the Great White Throne and be thrown into the lake of fire and be separated from God forever.
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