The leftists who dominate Europe are not indifferent to decency, virtue, and morality, but rather openly hostile. This has been made explicit at an art exhibit in the European Union Parliament building in Brussels:
The artwork, a series of photographs by lesbian Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson, includes one of a man who is meant to represent Christ wearing a white robe and a halo made out of stars above his head. The man is surrounded by seven men who are wearing leather-based fetish clothing associated with BDSM fetishism.
Ohlson said the photographs are meant to depict Christ supporting homosexual rights.
Homosexuals/transsexuals are the most privileged group in modern society. No one needs to support homosexual rights. That would be like supporting gravity. When libs say “homosexual rights,” what they mean is “homosexual activity.”
Even most moonbats know that Christ came to redeem us from sin, not to encourage us to wallow in it. That’s why they get a thrill of transgression from excretions like Ohlson’s.
The exhibit … kicked off with a reception hosted by Malin Björk, a member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Left Party.
Glorification of sexual depravity and blasphemous desecration of Christianity are two sides of the same coin. It is the coin of the realm among leftists.
Ohlson demonstrates how to get mediocre artwork promoted by the liberal establishment:
The artist has a history of making blasphemous artwork that goes back decades. Starting in 1998, she toured Sweden with an exhibition called Ecce Homo, which contained several blasphemous depictions of Christ that promoted homosexuality, transgenderism, and BDSM fetishism. The exhibit was displayed in numerous churches that are in communion with the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
Thanks to moonbattery, this is what Europe has to offer now, in place of Leonardo da Vinci:
An exhibition at the EU Parliament featuring an LGBT Jesus (in the background) has sparked protests from MEPs who say it is 'blasphemous and disrespectful'. Here is how the artist, Elisabeth Ohlson, responded to the critics. pic.twitter.com/1w7q8hZ0CG
A man aged about 40 was shot by gendarmes this afternoon in the area of the Mornas rest area on the A7 motorway. He had been wanted since last night following a bus accident that occurred on the same motorway, in which 14 passengers were slightly injured.
The man was on the BlaBlaCar bus that was going to Lyon. At the height of Mornas, the man tried to take the bus driver’s wheel, which caused the accident. The gendarmes tracked down the passenger who had caused the accident and had just fled. A search for the person was conducted in the area throughout the night.
On Sunday, two soldiers saw a man jump out of the bushes. The man, armed with an iron bar and a knife, attacked the policemen shouting “Allah Akbar”. Despite the request, the man did not drop his weapons and forced the police to fire in his direction. The man was hit in the stomach and treated in serious condition.
The dictum “follow the science” seems to make good sense until you actually follow it to a conclusion that is opposite to that which the “experts” intend you to reach. We all saw that during the COVID-19 pandemic. Entire cities were shut down. Schools and churches were closed. Enforcement was at times brutal. In contrast, some states remained open, and the result was that, health-wise, they fared no worse than the states that gutted their economies and violated their citizens’ civil rights. We are still waiting for apologies.
Another dictum makes a lot more sense: “follow the money.” While small businesses were starved into ruin, large businesses were allowed to continue operation. Churches were closed — even their parking lot services were forbidden — but casinos operated night and day.
While “Mister Science” led us astray in important policy decisions, there is another area of science that seems a lot less important, but which has subtle implications that have had pernicious effects for a long time. It is called the Standard Model of Cosmology, which encompasses theories of how the universe was formed and how nature operates today. For most of the population, this is Ivy League, ivory tower stuff. It consists of incomprehensible squiggles on blackboards by (according to stereotype) bespectacled, bearded professors “vith” foreign accents. They seem too smart to be wrong, but lately, new discoveries are challenging their authority and, by extension, opening criticism of the social policies that affect our daily lives and the future of our grandchildren.
There is a saying that disputes in academia are savage, not because the subject matter is important, but rather because it is trivial. In that regard, we must ask, how important is the Standard Model of Cosmology? If it collapses, what else will collapse with it?
It seems that nothing will collapse, except perhaps the careers of some scientists, along with their funding. Beyond that, there is one possible big change, which is that the paradigm of physicalism will give way to the paradigm of Intentional Design and creation of physical reality.
That is not trivial. Social policy and cultural values are heavily influenced by the notion that we are just physical phenomena with no spiritual component. How long can we survive as a society when we treat moral principles as if they were malleable, transactional, and artificial? Is the fetus just a clump of tissue? Are there only two genders? Is pedophilia a civil right?
When “man is the measure of all things,” there is no room for divine authority. As Bishop Fulton J. Sheen said, “moral truth is vindicated by the ruin that follows when it has been repudiated.”
Are we witnessing that ruin?
On the brighter side, imagine the social consequence that would follow if scientists were to declare that science has no idea of how the universe began. What if they were to say, “Nature could not have come about by natural means, because until nature existed, there were no natural means”?
Science demands that any theory must be the simplest one that fits all the facts. Divine creation does just that. No better theory has been demonstrated.
I doubt that there would be any overnight rush to fill the churches and synagogues, but perhaps at least policy-makers would be less inclined to legislate forced compliance with woke ideology and more inclined to conform to the idea that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (John Adams).
A 17-year-old youth was arrested after attacking his family with a stabbing weapon in Besançon (Doubs) on Thursday. He was initially taken into police custody but was eventually admitted to a psychiatric ward, Actu17 learned, confirming a report in the newspaper L’Est Républicain.
It was around 7.30 pm when the incident took place in the family’s flat. A youth suddenly attacked his 15-year-old brother, who suffered several knife wounds, especially in the chest. He also attacked his 13-year-old sister and his mother when she tried to subdue him, according to a source close to the case. The latter suffered injuries to her head, face and one arm.
The attacker fled while the three victims were treated by the emergency services and taken to hospital, but their lives were not in danger. The teenager fled to a mosque where he was disarmed. Some worshippers then alerted the police and the suspect was arrested at around 9.30pm. “He was speaking incoherent words and had fled barefoot,” the same source said. The victims said that the violent attack had taken place without any reason.
The departmental police have been tasked with the investigation. An expert report is to clarify whether the youth can be held responsible for his deeds in court. He can be taken into police custody again as soon as the doctors are of the opinion that his state of health is compatible with this detention. Actu17
A local influential person has been accused of assaulting members of a Hindu family in the district’s Khaliajuri sub-district. The victim Hindu family claimed that the attack was carried out to evict them from their homes and to occupy their land illegally, popular bilingual news website of Bangladesh, Bdnews24.com has reported.
According to the report, the Hindu family complained to the police that the attack took place on Monday night. Injured Subhash Barman, Subendra Barman, Sumitra Rani Barman, Brishti Rani Barman and Reena Rani Barman have been admitted to the sub-district health complex. Sub-Inspector (SI) of Khaliajuri Police Station, Akikur Islam said that a complaint was filed on behalf of the family on Tuesday evening.
The Hindu family alleged that only a few Hindu families live in the village. Local strongman Habibur Rahman and his son Mohammad Rokunuzzan want to evict the Hindu families and take possession of their land illegally. Accused land shark father-son duo had been harassing the members of the Barman family for quite some time. It is mentioned in the complaint that the duo often threw stones at the victim’s house at night in order to frighten them.
The family members told the news website that on Monday night around 8 o’clock when the accused were pelting stones on their house, the victims protested against it. Then accused Rokunuzzaman with his accomplices attacked the Hindu family with sharp weapons. As a result, 5 members of the Hindu family were injured. Locals rescued and admitted them to hospital. Medical Officer Surojit Roy told the news website that the injured are being treated and are currently out of danger.
Local Union Council Chairman Abul Kalam Azad claimed that after receiving the news of the attack, he went to the hospital at night and inquired about their (victims) proper treatment. The attack is being ‘investigated’, the chairman added.
Millions of people in Britain and around the world tuned in to witness the ancient traditions performed at the Coronation of King Charles III, yet rather than celebrating the pageantry of the day, prominent leftists in the UK focussed on something else: that the Royal Family is apparently too “white”.
In times past, the monarchy in Britain has served as a central point for which people of diverse political persuasions could come together around and bond as fellow countrymen. However, leftists in the UK have increasingly tried to tarnish the institution, which brought ideals of liberty and was central in stamping out slavery in the Western world, as nothing more than a racist relic of the nation’s colonial past.
Some on Saturday apparently could not hold back their vitriol for the Royal Family… or perhaps they couldn’t resist using the large stage the Coronation provided to spread their leftist and anti-white rhetoric.
For example, appearing on ITV, Brigerton actress Adjoa Andoh commented on King Charles and his family waving to thousands of supporters from the balcony of Buckingham Palace: “We have gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly white balcony… I am very struck by that.”
Andoh, who was afforded the opportunity to become a successful actress on both sides of the Atlantic and who happens to be married to a white man, author Howard Cunnell, went on to say: “I am also looking at those younger generations and thinking: ‘What are the nuances that they will inhabit when they grow?’”
Actress Adjoa Andoh was given a BBC platform to speak of a "terribly white balcony". Can you imagine them giving someone a platform to speak of a "terribly black" family or a "terribly black" TV show? Why is it ok to dismiss a white family for being white?pic.twitter.com/OnjZ0thh6j
Andoh was far from, alone, with the likes of This Is Why I Resist author and frequent critic of the Royal Family — other than fellow woke leftist Meghan Markle — Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu said: “The ideology of White Supremacy is literally, metaphorically & symbolically the bread & butter of British Monarchy & superbly exemplified on Buckingham Palace balcony while the multicultural/multiethnic/multi race ‘isms’ stay below where they belong.”
Dr Shola, who is often propped up by legacy media outlets to criticise the colonial history of the UK, went on to describe supporters of the monarchy as having a “peasant mentality”
“A spectacle of STOLEN wealth. You BEG for crumbs while Charles reigns in TRADITION that put you in a chokehold,” she wrote.
What a beautiful photograph of white male privilege and entitlement. Sums up who rules our country. pic.twitter.com/2vXAiNcMJR
Ironically, even some white leftists got in on the act of criticising the King for his skin colour, with Dr Charlotte Proudman responding to a picture of Charles being crowned in Westminster Abbey: “What a beautiful photograph of white male privilege and entitlement. Sums up who rules our country.”
Reclaim Party leader and GB News host Laurence Fox responded: “Perhaps you should quit your job and give it to one of those poor stupid black people who have little chance of succeeding without your white benevolence.
“Hey Siri. Define racism.”
Dr Proudman, who serves as the Director of the woke campaign group Right2Equality, claimed that Fox’s response somehow indicated that he — rather than her — thinks that black people are “poor and stupid. Everything that’s wrong with white male privilege is right here.”
Fox shot back: “I think that skin colour is incidental. You think it’s crucial. Stop treating black people like they can only succeed with your benevolence. They are as smart and smarter in many cases than you are. Imagining yourself to be more privileged is the very definition of racism.”
The English major of a decade or two ago or today is very different. Within a fairly short span of time the traditional way of studying and analyzing texts has mostly been sidelined at universities in favor of identity politics readings. Look at the UCLA English courses and you’ll see a once respected department where half the courses are about race, sexuality, and assorted wokeness ‘lenses’ filtering out the actual books.
This has become commonplace and it’s anathema to anyone who actually loves words and books.
In The End of Literature, I wrote that, “This is the sort of thing that matters if you believe that books are a state of communion, rather than a holographic palimpsest that can be infinitely reinvented as generations of literary theory has taught. If a grad student’s interpretation of Frankenstein has as much validity as what Mary Shelley actually meant, then why not go a step further and rewrite not just movie adaptations, but the book itself? Or argue that Shakespeare was really a black woman? Literary theory has devalued the author and the endless efforts to find new things to say about old works gave way to wokeness by applying leftist lenses that updated them in line with the new politics.”
When English courses go woke, do you stick around or do you go do something else? We have our answer.
From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University fell from nine hundred and fifty-three to five hundred and seventy-eight. Records indicate that the number of graduated language and literature majors decreased by roughly half, as did the number of history majors.
That’s the same period when wokeness took over traditional learning and universities rushed to revamp their offerings around identity politics.
The university’s tenure-track English faculty is seventy-one strong—including eleven Shakespeare scholars, most of them of color.
The most prominent Shakespeare figure at ASU is Ayanna Thompson, the Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, responsible for anti-intellectual identity politics garbage like ‘Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America’, the editor of ‘The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race’ and ‘Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance.’
She “was appointed to the board of trustees of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in 2020 she became a Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at The Public Theater in New York” and “she served as the President of the Shakespeare Association of America.”
If you actually care about Shakespeare, do you stick around for this sort of thing, knowing you’ll be expected to churn out an analysis of Hamlet as being about racism? Or do you go elsewhere or do something else?
For the decline at A.S.U. is not anomalous. According to Robert Townsend, the co-director of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators project, which collects data uniformly but not always identically to internal enrollment figures, from 2012 to 2020 the number of graduated humanities majors at Ohio State’s main campus fell by forty-six per cent. Tufts lost nearly fifty per cent of its humanities majors, and Boston University lost forty-two. Notre Dame ended up with half as many as it started with, while suny Albany lost almost three-quarters. Vassar and Bates—standard-bearing liberal-arts colleges—saw their numbers of humanities majors fall by nearly half. In 2018, the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point briefly considered eliminating thirteen majors, including English, history, and philosophy, for want of pupils.
During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. Humanities enrollment in the United States has declined over all by seventeen per cent, Townsend found. What’s going on? The trend mirrors a global one; four-fifths of countries in the Organization for Economic Coöperation reported falling humanities enrollments in the past decade. But that brings little comfort to American scholars, who have begun to wonder what it might mean to graduate a college generation with less education in the human past than any that has come before.
When your education consists of repeating back woke pieties and discovering race and sexuality in classic works, or, worse still, studying Audre Lorde and Amiri Baraka, there’s no education anyway.
Nobody becomes an English major because they enjoy the lucrative prospects of being an adjunct. They love words, ideas and stories. And there’s not a whole lot of that in the woke university system which has come to consist of Soviet exercises in explaining how literature upholds party dogma.
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma addresses a rally in poll bound Karnataka (source: Hindustan Times)
Himanta Biswa Sarma, the chief minister of Assam, has advocated for the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in Karnataka. Addressing an election rally at Ujire in Belthangady district in poll-bound Karnataka on Saturday the BJP leader emphasised the significance of the Uniform Civil Code, calling it the only solution to end the practice of Muslim men marrying multiple women.
“Muslim women and daughters are made to marry over four times. We have to bring Uniform Civil Code. Muslim daughters should be made doctors, and engineers, not child-producing machines,” said the Assam CM.
#WATCH We also have to make Uniform Civil Code. Muslim women & daughters are made to marry over 4 times. We have to bring Uniform Civil Code. Muslim daughters should be made doctors, and engineers, not child-producing machines: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in Karnataka… pic.twitter.com/LiJxoQQo6L
The Assam CM took a jibe at the Congress party for its poll manifesto wherein it promised to ban Bajrang Dal if voted to power and went on to equate the Hindu outfit to the banned Islamist terrorist organisation PFI. “Does Bajrang Dal do any bomb blasts? No. How will you ban Bajrang Dal? What is your friendship with the PFI that you are acting like their spokesperson?” he asked.
“In Assam, I am teaching a lesson to sympathisers of PFI and closing madrasas. But in Rajasthan, Cong is running Chief Minister Madrasa Scheme,” the Assam CM further said.
ಅಸ್ಸಾಂನಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು ಪಿಎಫ್ಐ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಎಂತಹ ಪಾಠವನ್ನು ಕಲಿಸಿದ್ದೇನೆಂದರೆ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ಇನ್ಯಾವತ್ತೂ ಅವರು ಸ್ಲೀಪರ್ ಸೆಲ್ಗಳನ್ನು ರಚಿಸುವ ಧೈರ್ಯವನ್ನು ಮಾಡುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.
In Assam, I am teaching a lesson to sympathisers of PFI & closing madrasas. But in Rajasthan, Cong is running Chief Minister Madrasa Scheme. pic.twitter.com/3iT9GMyPZ0
It may be recalled that on Tuesday, 2nd May 2023, the chief minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma slammed the Congress party for its biased poll manifesto, calling it a Muslim fundamentalist party.
Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Our Home Minister has banned PFI (Popular Front of India). Congress is saying that it will ban the Bajrang Dal. Congress is saying that it will restart the Muslim reservations. Congress has also talked about cancelling the anti-conversion bill. Today’s manifesto by Congress is a complete Muslim fundamentalist manifesto. I believe that even if Jinnah had been alive, he would never make such a manifesto. Today the Congress has fallen lower than Jinnah. In Karnataka, Congress is talking totally against the Indian spirit. Congress has become a Muslim fundamentalist party.”
Meanwhile, aiming fresh barbs at Congress for practising appeasement politics in the state ahead of the Assembly elections, today, he referred to Karnataka Congress leaders DK Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah as ‘family members’ of the Mughal tyrant Tipu Sultan. “Tipu Sultan slaughtered thousands of Kodavas yet DK Shivkumar behaves like Tipu’s family member and calls him a freedom fighter,” Biswa Sarma said.
ಟಿಪ್ಪು ಸುಲ್ತಾನ್ ಸಾವಿರಾರು ಕೊಡವರನ್ನು ಕೊಂದರೂ ಸಹ ಸಿದ್ದರಾಮಯ್ಯನವರು ಅವನನ್ನು ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ ಹೋರಾಟಗಾರ ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
“I come from Assam, and Mughals attacked us 17 times. But they could not defeat us. We remain undefeated. Today, I bow to this holy land because the Kodagu people defeated Tipu Sultan numerous times,” he added.
“If Siddaramaiah wants to celebrate Tipu Sultan Jayanti, he should do so in Pakistan,” the CM added. “80,000 people gave their lives. And today, Siddaramaiah declares that Tipu Sultan Jayanti will be observed. If you want to celebrate Tipu Sultan Jayanti, go to Pakistan or Bangladesh. But you have no right to do so in India,” he added.
“If Congress comes to power, Karnataka will gradually become a PFI valley,” the Assam Cm further said.
Notably, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma was in Karnataka to campaign for BJP as the state goes into polls on May 10.
Earlier in the day, PM Modi also embarked on a mega roadshow in Bengaluru. Modi’s ‘Namma Karnataka’ roadshow will be held in two parts on Saturday and Sunday as part of the BJP’s campaigning for the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka. Several videos and pictures of the grand roadshow have emerged on social media.
As the convoy passed, supporters showered flowers and chanted slogans such as “Modi, Modi,” “Bajrangbali ki Jai,” “Vande Mataram,” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai.”
BJP leaders estimate that nearly 10 lakh people had gathered to catch a glimpse of Modi.
Before the election campaigning ends on May 8, PM Modi would have held 22 rallies throughout the state.
After today’s roadshow, PM Modi addressed two public meetings, one in Badami at 3 pm and another in Haveri at 5 pm.
On 29th March, the election commission of India announced the schedule for the Karnataka elections. The polls for the 224-seat assembly are slated to take place on 10 May and the counting will take place on 13th May.
