‘Faithful Catholic Men’ Lauded For Attacking Women’s Rights Protesters

ATTACKS on women by far-right Catholic thugs in Poland, where hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets over the past week to protest the country’s near-ban on all abortions, are reportedly being supported by ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, above.

According to Deutsche Welle, Kaczynski has been especially sharp in his criticism of the protests and called on his supporters to:

Defend Polish churches at any price.

Groups such as All-Polish Youth, Lech Poznan football club hooligans and vigilantes led by Robert Bakiewicz, pictured above right ejecting a woman protester from a church, took his words as a green light to attack the protesters – and they earned high praise from John-Henry Westen, co-founder and editor-in-chief of LifeSiteNews.

In a blog post published on Friday, he thanked God that Poland’s faithful Catholic men, “real men, men who accept fatherhood”, have placed their own bodies between “the leftist onslaught” against the churches and “monuments of their ancestors.”

Instead of confining their protests to the public square, the far-left extremists and their disciples have taken their ‘war’ – their word, not ours – to the nation’s Catholic churches and to monuments commemorating those Poles who died so that their generation could live.

Bakiewicz, who describes himself as “President of the Association of Independence March and head of the National Guard” has now founded another organisation, Straż Narodowa – and yesterday he whined on Facebook that since the creation of his newest outfit, he’s been getting:

Hundreds of wishes of death and threats towards me and my whole family. This is what the ‘tolerance’ of people who are representatives of death civilization looks like in practice. Your threats won’t do anything. I will continue to act for Poland and in defense of Faith.

In a separate report published yesterday (Saturday), LSN interviewed Karolina Pawłowska, above, Director of Ordo Iuris’ Center of International Law, an anti-abortion outfit that, along with the Catholic Church, has been pressing for a further diminishing of women’s rights in Poland.

Pawłowska blamed “foreign interference” in the protests, saying that she wasn’t surprised by the scale of the protests because:

Unfortunately in Poland we already have radical movements that are against the right to life, that are against the family. Unfortunately, these movements are stronger and stronger every year.

They have large financing from foreign countries, from foreign organisations, from the Open Society Foundation, George Soros, and, of course, International Planned Parenthood. The financing involved in creating this [pro-abortion] movement has been huge, and that is why they are becoming larger.

Asked why the country is seeing “the children of the John Paul II generation” in the streets screaming obscenities – “they seem like they’re possessed by demons” – Pawłowska replied:

I think something went wrong with education in Poland, as in many countries, and also something [went] wrong with the condition of families. The family is not as strong as it used to be, and now young people do not have authorities in their parents. Parents are not focused on raising them. Our role [at Ordo Iuris] is to change that situation.

And she lamented the fact that churches and priests are being targeted.

Of course, it is very easy to attack a church. Priests are not aggressive. They protect themselves, but they are not dangerous to these young people.

That’s pretty rich coming from a woman who must surely be aware that the Catholic Church in Poland has has signally failed to get to grip on the problem of paedophilia among priests in its ranks.

A poll published by Notes From Poland shows the majority of Poles, around 70 percent, are opposed to the tightening of abortion restrictions.

Meanwhile, at the weekend, Humanists International launched a social media campaign called #WeStandWithPolishWomen.

Following the example of the Norwegian Humanist Association, Humanists International calls on humanists from all around the world to show their support to women in Poland by sharing photos on social media with the hashtag #WeStandWithPolishWomen – you can download and print the sign from here.

Finally, off-topic, but only slightly: Just in time for Halloween, Netflix began streaming what has been dubbed “Poland’s first-ever slasher movie.”

Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight makes for pretty fun watching, but what took me by surprise is that it manages to shoehorn in references to current social and political issues in the country, and has one teen say “Poland is not a good place to be gay.”

In fact, Poland is rated as the least gay-friendly country in Europe. And for that, as well as many of the country’s other problems, we have the Catholic Church to blame.