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Is There a Muslim “Rape War” in Britain? (Fr. Robert McTeigue, S.J.) 6/26/26 · The Catholic Current

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This is The Catholic Current with Fr. Robert Mittaig.
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I suppose it has always been the case that news, just by definition, if you're covering
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story A, you're not covering story B. If you've got your camera focused on this frame, the
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There has to be selection.
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That's inevitable.
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What concerns me is the principle for selection.
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Let's talk about this, walking through a complex issue together, and I've got to be really
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I'm going to be talking about a dark, painful, scandalous, ugly topic.
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Here's the title, Is There a Muslim Rape War in Britain?
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Over the years, there's been references to grooming gangs, and it was poo-pooed by the
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media and the politicians, and it was all those extremists, right-wing racists, diversity
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is our strength, multiculturalism, et cetera, et cetera.
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There have been a couple of government-sponsored, let's sweep this under the rug, and only very
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recently, just in the past several days, there has been a new report, an honest report, called
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the Rape Gang Inquiry Report, and it's been sponsored by a Member of Parliament, Rupert
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Lowe, and very many others.
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I'm going to, and you know, if you want to, we're going to link to the report and you
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can see for yourself.
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The details are horrifying.
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I wish I could floss my brain and never have these images and thoughts and words in my
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mind ever again, and we're not going to go step-by-step with the victim reports and the
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medical reports.
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It's too much.
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I'm thick-skinned, and I've been to hell and back more times than I can count, and this
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is one of the most difficult things that I have ever read.
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So bottom line up front, since at least the 1970s, over 250,000 British girls were raped
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repeatedly by large gangs with unspeakable violence, and according to the perpetrators
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themselves, these girls were selected because they were white, because they were British,
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and because they were Christian.
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This is the account from the perpetrators themselves.
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This is beyond dispute.
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What's also beyond dispute is that at every turn, whenever responsible individuals, mandated
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reporters, legal, civil, educational, and medical authorities could have intervened
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on behalf of an individual girl or a group of girls, they turned a blind eye.
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They failed.
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When one mother called the police and said, I think the men responsible are Asian men,
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she was told, and here I quote, don't say they're Asian men, that's racist.
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Just be glad that your daughter's being exposed to another culture.
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Keir Starmer, who just resigned as Prime Minister, used to work for Crown Prosecution.
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He had very many cases of rape by Muslim men, gang raping little English white Christian
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girls, and his response was to send 13,000 letters instructing them to stop.
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And that was it.
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That was it.
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In the medical community, if you're a health care provider and you're treating an underage
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girl and she's got evidence of sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy,
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that's prima facie evidence of a crime.
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It has to be reported.
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And it wasn't.
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It wasn't.
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The long-time Muslim mayor of London has said in response to this report and others like
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it, the issue is complex and we don't want to encourage the racists.
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I produced a video on Wednesday as kind of a foreshadowing of this podcast today, and
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I had asked for help.
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I said, you know, can you give me news articles in the West where this report was noticed?
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My friends in England said the BBC has buried it.
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They said, oh, we talked about this stuff years ago, there's no reason to report it.
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Can you get me statements from clergy of any stripe?
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Can you get me statements from feminist scholars?
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Can you get me statements from women's study centers, UN organizations?
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Can you get me statements from migrant advocacy groups?
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No one wants to talk about this.
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Social justice warriors don't want to talk about this.
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Advocates of diversity, equity, and inclusion don't want to talk about this.
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Advocates of female empowerment don't want to talk about this.
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I mentioned that some years ago the UN Women's Conference had a program called He for She
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and inviting men to step up on behalf of gender equity, and actress Emma Watson, who made
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her fortune in the Harry Potter films, said that she lamented that when young girls tried
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to exercise leadership, they were called pushy, and when they tried to speak up on their own
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behalf and exercise agency, they were called bossy.
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And she admitted that she herself had suffered such indignities.
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I haven't heard Emma Watson's statement about this either.
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If you're aware of that, you can contact us at stationofthecross.com slash askfather.
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Send me that information.
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I do know that Mrs. Sarah Mullaly, former nurse, now current occupant of Canterbury
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Cathedral, says she wants to raise money in reparation for victims of slavery.
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Now she's talking about victims of past slavery, not the slavery that's taking place actively
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in North Africa, and not the sexual slavery taking place in the United Kingdom.
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Now whatever the merits of giving money in reparation for slavery from people who had
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nothing to do with it to people who had nothing to do with it, in her own country, in her
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own city, indeed in every city she's ever lived, there are girls who have been gang-raped
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violently by Muslim men because they were white, because they were British, and because
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they were Christian.
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If we're going to raise money for reparation, let's raise it for a cause where not only
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are the victims and the perpetrators still alive, but also are very often, all too often,
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neighbors.
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So what do you say, Sarah Mullaly?
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What do you say, Church of England?
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You want to rally the people?
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You want to make reparations?
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You want to give out cash payouts?
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Start with these girls.
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Start with these 250,000 girls, and that's a low estimate.
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Not to mention we're only talking about the United Kingdom and not other countries.
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That's another topic for another time.
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So friends, please understand, I am heart-sick.
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I am outraged to say that I'm indignant and revolted is not enough.
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Every relevant institution and nearly every relevant individual failed these girls.
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And when families spoke up, when fathers intervened, they were threatened and often arrested.
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When the girls presented themselves as having been drugged and gang-raped by cultural enrichers,
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or adherents of the religion of peace, the girls were often arrested for drunken and
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disorderly conduct.
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Think about that.
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Think about that.
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Teachers, hospitals, churches, law enforcement, politicians, social justice warriors, feminist
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scholars were silent or worse in a complicit way.
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And as Catholics, we need to talk about it.
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Friends, I've got to give you a very serious and earnest listener advisory.
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We're dealing with a very mature, painful, ugly, dark topic.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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And if you're listening with young ears right now on the radio, you might want to wait and
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pick it up on our podcast platform.
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Here's the topic.
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Is there a Muslim rape war in Britain?
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Recently, a definitive and honest report of what had been called the grooming gang problem
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in the United K was released.
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In summary, for at least 50 years, gangs of mostly Pakistani Muslim men targeted and
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raped repeatedly and violently young girls, and by their own account, and this is beyond
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dispute, raped them because they were white, because they were Christian, and because they
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were British.
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And every relevant institution failed these girls for decades, for decades.
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And I said I wasn't going to go into great detail.
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I'll just give you one tidbit or flavor of the horror.
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I was sitting with my brother-in-law recently, and we talked about how humans can't appreciate
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scale.
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I mean, we understand what $100 mean.
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At a stretch, we could understand $1,000.
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We don't really know what a million or a billion or a trillion dollars are.
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Likewise, we can understand 10 yards, 100 yards.
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We can't understand the length of a light year when light travels at 186,000 miles per
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second, which you also really can't conceive.
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So how do you process, what do you make of, how do you categorize it in your mind and
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heart when a girl says that she was raped hundreds and hundreds of times by hundreds
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and hundreds of men?
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What do you do with that?
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Where do you place that?
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Where do you put that in your mind?
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And then add, she wasn't the only one.
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The other thing we need to add is that anyone who could have intervened and saved her didn't.
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Not only did they turn a blind eye, most of these institutions threatened the girls and
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threatened their families when their families spoke up.
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I talked about this yesterday with a dear, faithful friend.
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He's retired law enforcement at the federal level.
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And I said, hey, bud, you know, you were a rookie, and you were a senior, and you were
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a trainer, and you carried a badge and a gun, and you saw ugly stuff, and you kept the faith,
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et cetera.
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But somewhere in the 1970s, some policeman on the beat, some superior, turned a blind
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eye and did it again and again and again until he retired some 20 years later.
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And along the way, that cop on the beat and his superior became trainers and trained other
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police officers to look away again and again and again until after 20 years, they retired.
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And then a third generation, this is at least a third generation of police trainees who
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have been trained to look the other way.
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Oh, father, you're exaggerating.
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Well, the name Henry Nowick mean anything to you?
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Not very long ago, Henry Nowick, 18-year-old college student, had an encounter with two
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gentlemen who were Sikh.
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They were not indigenous British.
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And the Sikh gentleman perceived that Henry Nowick, who was unarmed, was being racist
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towards him and took out a knife and stabbed him repeatedly.
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And then his brother called the police and said, come quick, there's a racist being racist
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to us.
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Police rushed in, men and women, and saw young Henry Nowick on the ground bleeding.
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And he said, help, I'm bleeding.
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And the police officer said, I don't think so, mate, and handcuffed him and left him
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on the ground.
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And Henry Nowick said, I can't breathe.
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And they laughed.
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And eventually, this 18-year-old boy bled out.
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And the police tried to intervene during the court proceedings.
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The prosecution said, you've got to stop this.
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But here was the thing.
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And we see this also in Belfast, where a cultural enricher who is not indigenous Irish tried
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to decapitate a man in Belfast.
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A man nearly bled out, lost one eye, may lose another.
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And when people tried to intervene to save this poor man on the ground, other people
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said, stop, the police are coming.
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The implication was, don't be rough to the man with the knife stabbing the white guy,
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because you'll be arrested for being racist.
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So we have set up a culture, a multi-generational culture, where law enforcement officials are
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so terrified, so horrified at the very prospect of being called, if I may, the R word, that
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they handcuff a bleeding man and let him die, and then laugh at him when he says, I can't
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breathe.
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Think about that.
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Three generations of law enforcement have enforced a culture that causes people to turn
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a blind eye when obviously unspeakable, heinous crimes are being committed against their citizens
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for fear of the R word.
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The same thing, of course, happened in medicine.
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Every health care provider is a mandated reporter.
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If you suspect abuse, you have to report it.
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Friends, this is a very difficult topic.
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Again, listener discretion is advised.
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We're talking about whether there's a Muslim rape war in Britain.
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I'm not going to read to you the cases where the medical doctors saw undeniably obvious
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physical evidence of brutal sexual crime.
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They are obliged to report it by law, and they did nothing.
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Now, I've worked in hospitals.
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I've worked in medical ethics.
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I've worked in emergency rooms.
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I've worked in trauma centers.
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Whenever there's a doctor in that emergent kind of situation, there's a nurse, and there's
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a trainee or an intern of some sort, and those trainees are learning to be complicit in unspeakable
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sexual crime against girls for weeks and months and years and decades and generations.
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And I have to ask, and look, I'm nearly impossible to scandalize, and I've been a sinner as long
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as I can remember, and I've been hearing confessions for almost 30 years.
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I know how sin works.
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I know that to be involved in sin repeatedly, you have to tell yourself lies.
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You have to numb part of your soul, and if the time is sufficiently long and the crimes
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are sufficiently heinous, you have to smother, incapacitate, kill part of your soul.
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So one of the questions I want to ask, and I want to have you think about, and I want
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you to think about this the next time you get ready to negotiate with your sin.
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Those police, those medical officers, those social workers, those educators, those politicians
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who knew, who knew, what did they say to themselves that day that allowed them to walk away?
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What did they say to themselves as they turned out the light and tried to sleep?
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What did they say to themselves the next morning as they got ready for work?
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And what did they say to themselves as they threatened the victims and their families?
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What did they say?
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And the politicians, what story did they tell themselves?
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Did they say, hey, you know, this ethnicity and religion that's involved in the rape gangs,
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they tend to vote as a block.
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That can be really valuable.
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If I turn the other way, will they be grateful?
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Will they vote for me?
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Will they vote for me again?
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Will they stop voting for me if I speak up?
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What did they say to themselves?
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Friends, my point is this.
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Negotiating with sin is always stupid.
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You can't invite the devil into your life and expect him to behave and agree to be a junior partner.
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You can't.
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You can't do that.
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Also going to go out on a limb here.
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A lot of people have suggested to me, and I'm going to pass this on to you,
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something to consider as we come up on the break.
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Is it a really good idea to invite by the millions people who hate you,
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who despise you, who think you're subhuman and find your religion false and grotesque?
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Is it good, people have asked me, to invite those people into your country by the millions
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to give them free things and to turn a blind eye when they act with gruesome violence against the indigenous population?
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Is that a good thing?
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Is that the kind of thing you want to have on your conscience as you go to meet your maker?
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These are the questions that people have asked me, and I will ask you.
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And please, friends, again, as a lifelong sinner and as a confessor of almost 30 years,
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I'm telling you right now, stop negotiating with your sin.
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Friends, it's Friday here at the Catholic Current.
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Let's talk about this.
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We walked through a complex issue together.
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I want to give a very loud and clear listener discretion advisory.
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We're talking about a mature, brutally painful subject.
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So listener discretion is advised.
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And if you're listening with young ears, you might want to wait and get our podcast at another time.
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Here's the topic.
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Is there a Muslim rape war in Britain?
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The short answer is yes.
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The short answer is yes.
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Yes, there is.
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Yes, there is.
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A most recent report came out from Parliament about it.
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Really one of the first honest reports.
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And it is beyond appalling and horrifying.
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Since at least the 1970s, nearly every institution in Britain has been turning a blind eye to the horrifying fact
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that over 250,000 British girls were gang-raped primarily by Pakistani Muslims.
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And by the account of the assailants, it was done because the girls were white and Christian and British.
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And nearly every institution turned a blind eye for decades.
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It was baked into the culture.
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Policemen came up being mentored by their seniors who told them to say and do nothing except to harass and threaten and arrest those who were victimized or complained.
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Medical health care providers were turned to keep silent about cases that the law obliged them to report.
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Social workers, educational institutions, churches, they were all in on it.
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Because nobody wanted to be called racist.
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Of course, Islam is a religion, not a race, but that's another topic for another time.
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So, how did we get here?
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That's the question I keep asking.
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And my goodness, there's plenty of blame to go around.
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And, you know, when do we start the clock?
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But why is it okay for us to get misty-eyed about defending the rights of indigenous persons unless the indigenous persons are European?
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Why is that?
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Why is it okay that we can talk about the gorgeous mosaic of diversity unless the contribution is Christian?
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Why is that?
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Well, I'm going to give you my short, my very short answer to that because I want to talk about other things.
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Critical theory is a school of thought derived from Marxism that teaches people to say there's only two groups of people in the world, the oppressor and the oppressed.
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And the oppressors are all white and Christian and mostly men and, of course, heterosexual.
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And everybody else is the victim on this account and it's time to victimize the oppressors because reasons.
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And certainly in Britain that's been baked into the culture and the schools for years and years and years.
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This is beyond dispute.
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You know, we've got to decolonize the curriculum and there are institutions who proudly admitted that they were no longer going to be too male, too pale, and too stale.
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And my goodness, for decades now we've been talking about the DWEMs.
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You know, we have to stop reading the dead white European males.
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And we've led people to believe that it's okay to victimize white Christians, especially if they're male, especially if they're heterosexual.
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And everybody else gets a free pass.
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Looking at a recent essay from The Federalist that says authorities in Britain are trying to criminalize Christian street preaching.
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Now remember, if you go to London, you go to Hyde Park, they have Speaker's Corner and you can just stand up and speak your piece unless you're preaching Christ.
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Then you can't.
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Because the theory is that someone, someone, somewhere could conceivably find it offensive.
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Last year, 12,000 people in the UK were arrested for using mean words on social media.
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Now someone gave me a datum, I have to track it down, that, you know, the darkest time of the Soviet Union, at least in my lifetime, was when Leonid Brezhnev was premier.
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And the KGB arrested fewer people during his reign than the British have arrested people last year for mean tweets.
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Think about that.
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Think about that.
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There's a grandmother who's been repeatedly arrested for praying silently outside of an abortion clinic.
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Had her hands in her pockets, didn't have a sign, didn't have a microphone.
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But they knew, they knew she was committing thought crime.
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And they arrested her.
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And this idea of looking at everyone through the lens of oppressor and oppressed and it's okay to beat up on the oppressor, again, which is a Marxist construction,
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and for all the people concerned about being divisive and threatening, you know, community cohesion and sensibility,
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giving people license to hate a group, can we agree that's not unifying?
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It's certainly not Christian.
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And yet there is a lot of money to be made vilifying the putative historical villains,
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and not mentioning inconvenient facts like, for example, every culture everywhere has practiced slavery.
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The Europeans didn't run into Africa and grab people with nets and put them on boats.
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They bought Africans from other Africans.
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You know who else bought Africans from other Africans?
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By much, much, much greater numbers than the New World slave trade.
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But why are there no descendants of the Arabic slave trade in, you know, the Arabian lands?
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Well, because they brutally castrated the slaves, and whoever survived did the work.
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Our children are not being taught that.
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They're not taught that the British Empire spent a great deal of money to pay for the release of all their slave holdings
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in all of their empire, and then went to war and spent blood and treasure stopping the slave trade.
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They don't get any credit for that at all, and that doesn't come up during discussions of reparations.
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Now, most people ordinarily wouldn't turn down an opportunity to get free money,
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and the smarter of them will cash in on it by offering to distribute the free money once they take their cut.
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And I want to suggest again, as we talk about this difficult topic again, friends,
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listen to discretion as advised. The topic is, is there a Muslim rape war?
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If we're talking about reparations, I think it's much more urgent to pay reparations to people who are alive right now,
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who have been undeniably brutally victimized, oftentimes locked in cages,
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and that we start by collecting the reparations from the people who perpetrated the crimes.
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You know, let's have the rapists pay their fair share. We often talk about tax the rich. Tax the rapist.
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Let's have the billionaires pay their fair share. Let's have the rapist pay their fair share.
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And if you find that objectionable, write me please to stationofthecross.com slash askfather.
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And I want to talk about the churches, and I want to talk about clergy, and I have to be careful.
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Because some folks will say, hey, Father, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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I mean, how many 50 million, 60 million abortions in the United States were certainly soaked in innocent blood here in the United States?
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And that is absolutely true. And this is where we have to make reparations to the sacred heart and the immaculate heart.
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We'll talk about that another time.
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And I know Sarah Mulally, who fancies herself the Archbishop of Canterbury, wants to collect money for reparations for slavery.
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But I want to see her raise money for reparations for these rape victims. I want to see her do it.
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I'm going to rant here. I know that even British politicians and clergy and law enforcement took the knee to honor George Floyd.
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I'm not aware of any of them having taken a knee to honor the murdered Henry Nowak.
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But hey, guys, what do you say? Let's do it. Publicly take a knee to honor the living victims of this heinous rape war. Do that.
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Be photographed doing that. Post it on your social media and send it to me at thestationofthecross.com slash askfather. I'll be waiting.
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Now, it's also undeniable that many politicians knew. They knew. They knew. And they did nothing for reasons that were sufficient for them.
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I got to ask about clergy. I gotta. Especially if you've been in a parish.
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Was there no one in your congregation ever who was raped by these gangs?
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I gotta ask bishops. You go to a lot of meetings. You go to a lot of cocktail parties. You read a lot of reports.
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You're buddies with clergy of other religions. You're buddies with headmasters of schools.
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You've got schools in your diocese. Do you never, ever, ever hear any reports of these brutal rapes? Not even once? Really?
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Not even as a rumor? Not as a discreet whisper?
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So, I have to believe that some clergy in Britain somewhere at some time knew or at least suspected.
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And I gotta ask, what did you do? What did you say?
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Look, we're all sinners. I myself have to work out my salvation in fear and trembling, as the St. Paul said.
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But for my brother clergy, can we start talking about it now?
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Can we start preaching about it now?
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Can we start talking about making reparations now?
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If we're guilty of culpable silence, let's repent.
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And let's demonstrate a firm purpose of amendment by never letting this happen again.
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By refusing to be culpably silent ever again.
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And let's not let this issue be swept under the rug.
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And you know what? Let's cast a wider net. Let's put out into the deep.
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Let's ask, surely this wasn't restricted to the United Kingdom.
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Let's look at Canada and France and Germany and maybe even the United States.
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Think on these things today. Take them to prayer and talk about them with those you love.
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Here we are, Week in Readiness, you and me reviewing the headlines of the week
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in light of the upcoming Sunday Scripture, so we all prayed up for Sunday Mass.
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And I tried to have a good news story, at least one, to push back against my Irish melancholy.
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And I've decided, given the horrifying topic that we just finished,
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about whether there is a Muslim rape war in Britain,
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I thought we'd start with the good news up front.
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Back in November of last year, I visited the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles,
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a very, very wonderful, lively, growing, faithful, traditional Orthodox community, Orthodox small-o.
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And they're renowned for their music, so whatever music platform you listen to music,
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you definitely want to go to the Benedictine Sisters of Mary.
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And they also make beautiful vestments.
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I mean, to die for vestments that you're free to touch, it should be in museums.
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And they are clearly labors of love.
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And one of the things I really love about faithful, consecrated women
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is they love our Lord so much that they want to worship Him.
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And if you're clergy fathers and you've never had Mass or get to know those sisters,
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you really need to do that.
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It'll do something for your relationship with our Lord.
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Well, I mentioned on the air once or twice that I had very greatly admired the vestments that they made.
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And long story short, a listener said,
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Hey, Father, let me help you with that.
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And as I record this, the vestments have arrived.
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I have blessed them.
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They're carefully put on hangers by people who know about such things.
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And they're Marian vestments because I don't have a Marian set.
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And we're going to be using it on this Saturday on the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
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So thank you to the generous listener, and thank you for the Benedictine sisters.
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And I'm glad to share some good news in this particular broadcast because it's been rough.
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So looking at the Scriptures, and I'm going to relate it to the news,
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if you're following the Novus Ordo calendar or the Pauline rite,
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we're looking at the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Lectionary 97.
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And what jumps out for me is the last few lines from Matthew 10.
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And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink,
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because the little one is a disciple, amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.
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So the idea of giving a cup of water to a little one who is a Christian
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kind of lands differently when you realize hundreds of thousands of little ones
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were in mortal danger and being brutalized,
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and nearly everyone who could have helped turned the other way for decades,
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for a lifetime in some cases. It lands differently.
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That having been said, let's look over to France,
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and in particular the town of Nimes, a lovely part of southern France,
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about 148,000 people, and they've been having a heat wave this summer,
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where the average temperature has been between 104 and 111 degrees,
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and it was brutally hard for the kids in school.
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So get this, the parents had a fundraiser and raised money to install air conditioners.
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Okay, but the mayor, Vincent Bouget, who is a member of the Parti Communiste Francais,
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said, hey, you take those things out, because it sets a precedent,
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and not everybody has them, you know.
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Well, you know what? Other parents can raise money like these parents did.
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But no, that's not an option.
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So it reminds me of something that Winston Churchill had said.
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He said, socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance,
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and the gospel of envy.
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And that's where I think that little town in France is right now.
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Let's swing over to Brazil.
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Two parents just got sent to prison, not only for the crime of homeschooling,
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but for refusing to use the government's mandated gender education curriculum.
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And they're in prison right now.
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So, what's the moral of the story?
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Those who really do advocate for children, to protect their health,
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to protect their innocence, get in trouble by the powers that be,
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get in trouble by the people who claim to know better than us.
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What's the moral of the story for us?
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If we can't figure out that we need to protect children, we're in trouble.
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And I know that in recent decades,
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members of the church have not always been on the side of the angels with this.
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Please, dear God, as an institution, I hope we've learned our lesson.
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I really hope so.
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But, you know, we're told that we're haters
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if we don't want drag queens to do drag shows in front of children.
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I keep pointing out that they never volunteer to go to, I don't know,
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prisons or old age homes or military academies.
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They want to go where there are young children.
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Friends, I think we need to figure this out.
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We really need to figure this out.
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And one of the reasons why I'm convinced it's going to take divine intervention
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is because we've become comfortable with people murdering their own children.
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There was a married couple, well-known social media influencers,
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who announced, hey, she's pregnant,
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and the child has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
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So they announced that they were going to murder their own child
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because the child wasn't up to snuff.
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And they were shocked, shocked, I tell you, that there was some pushback.
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You know, in Iceland, there were almost no children being born with Down syndrome,
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not because they found some preventive measure.
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They were just really, really comfortable with murdering those children in the room.
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It's like ending poverty by killing poor people.
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I have to double-check the statistics,
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but I've heard from a number of sources now for the past several years
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the leading cause of death in the world, in the world,
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is not famine, it's not cancer, it's not war, it's abortion.
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The woman who claims to be the Archbishop of Canterbury
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voted to decriminalize late-term abortions because she says it's complex.
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No, it's not. It's even easier because it's really obviously a baby then.
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But if we can countenance the murder of children,
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what shall we say to the Christ of God when we meet him face-to-face
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and we hear that he said,
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whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink,
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because the little one is a disciple, amen, I say to you,
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he will surely not lose his reward.
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Friends, we need a very major moral overhaul.
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It is absolutely undeniable,
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and I call upon my brother clergy to cry this from the rooftops
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and especially from the pulpits.
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May God's holy name be praised now and forever.
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