Estrela-Report: feminist mob desecrates church in Bologna

By J.C. von Krempach, J.D. | December 21, 2013

Hate speech encourages hate crime. A few days after Edite Estrela’s aggressive and inappropriate reaction to the European Parliament’s vote that defeated her pro-abortion and anti-conscientious-objection motion, a mob of feminist storm-troopers, dressed up in the style of the Russian punk band “Pussy Riot”, forced their way into St. Petronius’ Basilica in the heart of the Italian city of Bologna, where they shouted out their frustration and anger at the defeat.

It is a strange coincidence that this should happen on the same day on which the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee (i.e. the Committee on Civil Liberties) adopted yet another controversial draft, the so-called “Lunacek-Report”, which among other things calls for the rigorous persecution of so-called “hate-crimes”. Or maybe it is not a coincidence: after all, the only “hate-crimes” that, according to the Lunacek-Report, deserve persecution are those directed against “LGBTI persons”. Hate speech and violence that affect other social groups seem to be, if at all, considerably lessworthy of attention…

According to available statistics, the most frequent victims of group-biased hate speech violence in the EU are the Catholic Church and its faithful. With this I do not refer to “normal” cases of theft or vandalism, but to incidents in which anti-Christian hatred is the primary motivation.

In many cases, the perpetrators of such crimes are self-styled women’s rights or gay rights activists. For them, such incidents are an easy way to gain public attention. The risk of criminal prosecution, let alone meaningful sanctions, appears to be very small. Besides the incident in Bologna, recent cases in the EU include the assault of gay rights activists against the Archbishop of Brussels and the desecration of a Church in Rome. In Latin America, similar incidents were recently reported from Santiago de Chile and from the Argentinian cities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, San Juan del Cuyo and Posadas.

Neither Edite Estrela nor Ulrike Lunacek (the drafter of the controversial report that bears her name) have so far commented on these hate-crimes committed by pro-abortion groups and LGBT-rights activists. But their silence is telling.

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