MEDIA: Piers Akerman declares the Pope a fearmongering disbeliever?

Columnist for the tabloid Daily Telegraph Piers Akerman has discovered the dangers of religious stereotyping. In a blog post dated 14 July 2008, Akerman is scathing of Fairfax and the ABC for reporting the allegations of sexual assault by Catholic clergy.

If one was a subscriber solely to the Fairfax newspapers or watched and listened only to the ABC, one could come away with the view that every child who received a Catholic education had been subjected to abuse at the hands of the Catholic clergy ...

While some children undoubtedly suffered miserably - and horribly - it is notable that the ABC chose to prosecute the case of a man who was nearly 30 when he was attacked by a notorious priest some 26 years ago. A man, moreover, who has taken the matter through the civil processes and received court-ordered compensation.

Gee, that's a lovely thought, Piers. People who have had to fight expensive legal battles in the courts for years before receiving some compensation have no right to feel somewhat bitter. Nor should they complain when, on the same day, the Church advises them that it doesn't believe the offending clergyman had sexually abused anyone whilst admitting the opposite to another victim. These people should just snap out of their victimhood. Speaking of which ...

The importance of victimhood is as important to the taxpayer-funded broadcaster and Fairfax as maintaining the Church as the unforgiveable perpetrator ...

The campaign run by these media organisations against the Church in the lead-up to the Papal visit has been reminiscent of the virulent hate sessions organised by the former communist party in the old USSR and its satellite states.

So if you report on the experiences of sexual abuse victims, you become a communist. And victims of that abuse are just wallowing in victimhood.

In recent decades, many Australians have succumbed to the secular cult of victimhood, be they members of the so-called Stolen Generation, or those who have been panicked by fearmongers into embracing the apocalyptic visions of the Jeremiahs of global warming.

Yep, indigenous Australians stolen from their parents are just a bunch of whinging niggers pretending to be victims. And anyone who believes in global warming is just a fearmonger. I guess that includes the Pope. Go back to Rome, you nasty communist leftwing Fairfax/ABC fearmonger!

In clutching at the creed of negativity, they display their spiritual emptiness, their lack faith in anything.

So indigenous Australians stolen from the parents and people who believe in global warming (such as the Pope) are just bitter and twisted and really don't believe in anything.

They cannot be blamed for this however, as the Left-dominated state education systems have vigorously attempted to erase all aspects of spirituality from the school system.

Unfortunately, the politically active teachers’ union acolytes have no substitute to offer those seeking to fill their inner emptiness ...

Yep those nasty Catholic unionists are the cause of all this. Line 'em against the wall and shoot the b*st*rds!

Calls upon the Pope to apologise to past victims of evil clergymen are well and good, and we are assured that they will be delivered (and with promises of future transparency of process) but that surely is not the principal message that Benedict XVI has come this distance to deliver?

No we aren't Piers. The Vatican spokesman has said that there's no guarantee the Pope will apologise.

Akerman's argument seems to be that Fairfax and the ABC have gone overboard with reporting the issue. The result is sectarian prejudice. Akerman should practise what he preaches and stop demonising non-Catholic faiths. But will he follow his own advice? I doubt it. Akerman is a chronic sectarian bigot.

Words © 2008 Irfan Yusuf


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