Comments on: So it’s all right to mix politics with religion when the religion is Islam

By: pale blue my foot!

pale blue my foot! — Sun, 12 May 2013 18:39:53 +0000

Can someone please remind me who the chubby balding chap in the picture is? Seems vaguely familiar

By: Joseph (Not Muscat)

Joseph (Not Muscat) — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:32:23 +0000

Why aren’t newpapers, tv and radio stations not asking Franco Debono about anything and everything the government does, as they used to do before the government changed?

Has he become irrelevant?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:43:15 +0000

Is the Islam School funded by Libya today? It has been two years since the overthrow of Gaddafi, and I am sure Libya has the resorces now to fund its overseas schools – if it wanted to.

Or is Libya today not willing to fund a school which according to various news bits, seems to be run by pro – Gaddafi sympathisers. Or is it not run by pro Gaddafi sympathisers?

By: Ghoxrin Punt

Ghoxrin Punt — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:36:05 +0000

In reply to Gahan. In that case Daphne, the Government should return all the land given to them under the Church/State agreement back to the Church.

By: Gahan

Gahan — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:24:24 +0000

In reply to Gahan.

Church schools are not exactly free, as you rightly pointed out property was ‘bartered’ in exchange of ‘free’ education.

More details here:

http://maltadiocese.org/files/2009/09/agreement-on-church-schools.pdf

My point is that the Church donated land to the Malta government, which in return agreed to shoulder the expenses for the salaries of the teaching staff, so that the Church could continue to carry with its mission.

I can’t see anything of the sort in this €400,000 donation.Why should the taxpayer pay that money to a school which is not helping in the integration of the Muslims in Malta?

If this Muslim school is ‘bailed out’ by the Maltese government , the latter should get part of the ownership of the school, for which the school should pay an annual rent of 5% of the €400,000 donation.

That would be fair with the Church which has all those expensive buildings at our disposal free of charge, and to the private schools which never got and should not get this sort of bail out money.

This is not religion I’m writing about. This is fairness with the taxpayer and other schools who would rightly ask for ‘more’ on a student per capita calculation of about €2,700 per student.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20070826/education/maria-al-batool-school-goes-secondary.6969

This is a recent Reuters report on the shady World Islamic Call Society which used to contribute 60% for the school finances:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-libya-missionary-idUSBRE82S07T20120329http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-libya-missionary-idUSBRE82S07T20120329

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:59:01 +0000

In reply to Gahan. Well said Gahan! And so is Imam Said I would say and that is the reason why they backed Joseph. They must have appreciated the fact that he sat on the fence whilst Malta, under the PN government, was helping the revolution in many ways.

By: Tinu

Tinu — Fri, 10 May 2013 10:00:04 +0000

In reply to Gahan. Imam Farrugia Borg was a Gaddafi supporter. Is it that the main reason that, according to Labour, who were always pro Gaddafi, he is qualified to occupy any top official post in their govt?

By: kev

kev — Fri, 10 May 2013 09:05:21 +0000

Had you been paying attention to the minutiae of EU politics you’d have realised that Joseph is acting very much in the spirit of the Union.

No links. Remove the shutters and do your own frigging research.

By: Min Jaf

Min Jaf — Fri, 10 May 2013 06:39:35 +0000

Joseph Muscat. Unity personified. In one fell swoop, driving a wedge between PL and PN voters, between Muslims and the rest of the Maltese, between Catholics and Muslims, between the Imam and the Muslim community.

Anyone remember the obnoxious little green man in the Asterisk books?

By: Paddling Duck

Paddling Duck — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:15:41 +0000

My partial reservation to your post here is the fact that Josephmuscat.com managed to sneak in and push people into the Church’s Environment commission to support their tnaqqis tal-kontijiet tad-dawn u l-ilma bil-power stejxin tahdem bil-gass. He stil uses, and will continue using, the Catholic Church for his own purposes nonetheless.