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Switzerland: Pastor Renounces PI

The story almost brings a Middle Ages court of Inquisition to mind. Swiss pastor Dr. Christine Dietrich wrote for years for PI – examples of her writing include such subjects as the right of Israel to existence, one of her main concerns. And against the misogyny of Islam, its affinity for violence, its legitimization of murder as well as its totalitarian claim to power. But all of that is no longer allowed these days. Political Correctness appears also to have fully seized the Swiss Evangelical Church in its stranglehold. Christine Dietrich must henceforth keep her distance from PI because they are a “blog of hate and agitation.” Note: The one who writes about the hate and incitement of a totalitarian ideology is himself an agitator.

(By Michael Stürzenberger)

Various Swiss newspapers are reporting about the end of the ecclesiastical “investigation.” 20-Minuten Online, for example, adorned the story with the headline “Pastor To Keep Distance From Agitation Blog.” The synodal council, after ongoing investigations gave the decree: Hands away from PI. Even though her articles there most obviously produced nothing that could be objectionable:

The investigation resulted in no proof of islamophobic statements or writings by the pastor from Siselen-Finsterhennen, the synodal council recorded. No “hate sermons” were recognized, and the agitant expressions for which she was charged did not come from her.

But yet, she is supposed to stay away from PI, since “degrading and agitating articles” can be read there. At the end of the Inquisition, she bravely promised the following according to 20-Minuten Online (whether she had already been put on the rack wasn’t mentioned):

She stood positively in favor of dialog with an enlightened Islam.

The fable of the legendary “enlightened” Islam – also readily called “Euro-”islam – exists only as long as Muslims are in the minority. Anyone who has even a beginning in dealing with this ideology knows that. When positions of power are finally achieved, then the complete program of the Quran is employed. Anything else would mean blasphemy and apostasy. It is a tragedy that such a knowledgeable, well-read and likeable critic of Islam could be rendered invalid. That’s life in 2012.

“Whose bread I eat, his song I sing,” is how things are. What is left to do when someone is threatened with their existence? As for Islam, we have already long lived under lack of any democratic conditions. These unbearable measures of censorship and reeducation are all precursors of coming religious dictatorship, the full force of which our children and grandchildren will suffer.

The fact that 20-Minuten Online likes at times to fashion its own truths together can be recognized even from the article’s photo series where several factual errors can be seen right away. Fine that Christian Jung and Marco Pino are no longer with the FREEDOM party, but more than likely it still hasn’t been talked about much around Switzerland. But the fact that I was kicked out of the CSU for “islamophobia,” is something new to me. I always thought I had declared my departure in writing on May 25, 2011, so that I could candidate on June 4th for a post on the Bavarian regional FREEDOM committee. But perhaps somebody in the 20-Minuten Online editorial office knew better. And without asking at the branch office of the Munich CSU, as journalists who are interested in objective reporting should actually do.

Der Bund in Bern also reports about the subject: “Seeland Pastor Keeps Hand Away From Agitation Blog“:

The synodal council concludes in their investigation that the controversial Seeland pastor has improved her ways.

“Improved.” Isn’t that nicely formulated. The main thing is that the pastor no longer write anything negative about Islam. Hardly worth talking about is the fact that annually 160,000 Christians are murdered in islamic countries, and around 100 million are being persecuted or discriminated against. It is much more important that a pastor “improve” her ways.

If every critic of Islam had such rigid employers as Christine Dietrich, then we could just hand over the keys to the local imams in a couple of decades. And the Swiss church rulers would be able to turn their churches into mosques and their towers into minarets. My compassion in such a case would be held in serious check because the butchers themselves are paying courtship to only the stupidest of calves.

Posted by byzanz on PI / Translation: Anders Denken

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4 comments:

#1 KatharinaSri (28. Jan 2012 17:09)
This is why we’re in urgent need of legal aid in Europe/West to fight against Socialist-Islamic led Inquisition, that is bringing back Europe into the evil old Dark Age days of the Spanish Inquisition! Dr. Dietrich should fight legally as based on her right to freedom of speech, especially in her just intention to speak against evilness of Islam, under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and that freedom of religion is not absolute such as under Article 9
(2) Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

Especially against the continuous violence especially towards women/girls and Jews and Christians, as inherent in the koran as promoted since the foundation of Islam where the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner (especially sexual slavery of Jewish children) and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, created the Devil’s cult, Islam, to defy civilized laws and tradition in Christianity and Judaism, especially the Ten Commandments! And as a Christian, we taught in the bible to speak against evil as in Rom 12:9 Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good and in Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Further, our shared Judeo-Christian God also teaches us to fight battles against PREDATORY evil such as the right to self-defence as in Exodus 17: 8-16. And further, fundamentally, the Ten Commandments as in Exodus 20:2-17, is what makes up the foundation of progressive, civilized and modern Judeo-Christian civilization and Western laws until today.
#2 KatharinaSri (28. Jan 2012 17:11)
CORRECTION: This is why we’re in urgent need of legal aid in Europe/West to fight against Socialist-Islamic led Inquisition, that is bringing back Europe into the evil old Dark Age days of the Spanish Inquisition! Dr. Dietrich should fight legally as based on her right to freedom of speech, especially in her just intention to speak against evilness of Islam, under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and that freedom of religion is not absolute such as under Article 9
(2) Freedom to manifest one’s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.

Especially against the continuous violence particularly towards women/girls and Jews and Christians, as inherent in the koran as promoted since the foundation of Islam where the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner (especially sexual slavery of Jewish children) and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, created the Devil’s cult, Islam, to defy civilized laws and tradition in Christianity and Judaism, especially the Ten Commandments! And as a Christian, we are taught in the bible to speak against evil as in Rom 12:9 Love must be completely sincere. Hate what is evil, hold on to what is good and in Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Further, our shared Judeo-Christian God also teaches us to fight battles against PREDATORY evil such as the right to self-defence as in Exodus 17: 8-16. And further, fundamentally, the Ten Commandments as in Exodus 20:2-17, is what makes up the foundation of progressive, civilized and modern Judeo-Christian civilization and Western laws until today.
#3 DP11 (29. Jan 2012 01:29)
Dr. Christine Dietrich needs to start a referendum on the issue of Islam in CH.

No Swiss authority can prohibit a Swiss person’s right to take his/her view to the people.
#4 freethink (29. Jan 2012 02:06)
Dr. Dietrich was theologically correct in her support of Israel, and the “church” which is supposed to preach the Word of God (ergo, the Bible) has failed to support her in doing her job as delineated in Scripture.

Funny how you can follow the guidelines and directives of the organization for which you work, but when the right problem arises, you can lose your job, or — as is the case with Dr. Dietrich — you will be (shall I dare say this?) politically pressured into a paradigm which befits more the moods of others that work for said organization. This is a common denominator among state-run churches and other state-run organizations. Ergo, this issue has become political and has escaped spiritual realm of the truth as presented in the Bible.

Let’s note Genesis 12, where it says:

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

And Genesis 22:17-18:

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Now, this is a prophecy from around 3600 years ago. “In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.” I fail to see where Islam is a blessing to all the earth, for wherever I see Islam in action, there is murder, oppression of women, deceit, etc.

Psalm 122:6:

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

I personally think that Dr. Dietrich will still be blessed — in spite of the Church’s lack of properly interpreting the Scripture it purports to represent. That may come not necessarily in this life, but when God has promised something, He will carry through with it. As in the following verses, her faith is being tried, so if she stays faithful, God will bless that.

Jeremiah 29:13:

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

This is something that Islam does not offer, that is unless you become a warrior and die for doing so.

Also, she is theologically correct in writing against the violence of Islam. Psalm 11:5:

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

And, as you mentioned, Ephesians 5:11:

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

I like how “reprove” rendered in modern versions as “expose.” According to Strong’s it has the meaning of ‘reprove,’ ‘rebuke’ or ‘expose.’

Now, as the Islamists are about missionizing their so-called gospel, why doesn’t the Church allow the missionizing of its gospel? Especially when an individual like Dr. Dietrich is simply following the Church’s foundational rulebook? Jesus Christ said in John 10:10:

I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Which can be well contrasted with Sura 47:4:

When you meet the infidels, then off with the head, until you have wreaked a massacre among them; then tie the bonds. After this, do not demand grace or ransom until the war takes its burden from you. It is that way. And if Allah had willed, he could have done the extermination himself, but he wanted to test one of you through the others. And those who have fallen in the way of Allah – he will never nullify it.

Of course Jesus Christ Himself said this in Matthew 7:20-23:

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Thus, there are those even in the ecclesiastical upper echelon who will give an account to God in Heaven for their misleading of the sheep they are supposed to be shepherding.