Pope Francis, in Lampedusa today, puts Joseph Muscat, leader of Maltese racists, firmly in his place
Pope Francis made a dramatic and pointed statement by choosing to go to Lampedusa without fanfare as his first official trip outside Rome.
And he didn’t visit the Catholic faithful, but incarcerated African immigrants of various faiths or no faith at all.
He said mass near the infamous ‘boat cemetery’ and his altar was a small boat.
He did it to remind us that we are not the ones with the problem. THEY are. Joseph Muscat is very proud of having had a private audience with him. Perhaps he should listen to him instead, and cease pandering to the lowest of the low in Maltese xenophobia and racism.
“Nessuno piange questi morti”, Pope Francis said, in statements reported by the Italian and international press.
“Chi di noi ha pianto per questo fatto e per fatti come questo? Chi ha pianto per la morte di questi fratelli e sorelle? Chi ha pianto per queste persone che erano sulla barca? Per le giovani mamme che portavano i loro bambini?…Siamo una società che ha dimenticato l’esperienza del piangere”.
My Italian is rubbish, but I think even I can manage to translate that. So here goes.
“Nobody cries for these people who have died. Which one of us has cried because of this, because of these matters? Who has mourned the death of these of our brothers and sisters?
Who has shed tears for these people who were on the boat? For the young mothers carrying their children? We are a society that has forgotten how to feel (cry).”
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Indeed! Your translation was spot on.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23224010
“We are a society that has forgotten how to experience tears”. Such a powerful statement.
And it is NOT because we bear ‘a grief too deep for tears’.
Meantime, ‘What the heck’ Joseph Muscat was also out on a boat – with the boys.
This has become embarrassing:
“Foreign Affairs Minister George Vella said today that Malta was very grateful for Swiss cooperation on irregular migration, particularly as no other EU country had shown similar support.”.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130708/local/malta-grateful-for-swiss-compassion-on-irregular-migration.477134
L-aqwa li bisna ċ-ċurkett…
Lesson No.1 Mr. Prime Minister – now go and negotiate with the EU and not threaten – see if you are capable of doing this.
Are you serious ?
PN have been “negotiating” with the E.U for the past 9 years and look what that got us.
Negotiations are a waste of time which will ultimately lead to nothing, whilst in the mean time Malta receives more and more boatloads of illegal immigrants.
The only effective measure is a push back policy.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-07-08/news/pm-meets-gold-medalist-chetcuti-avoids-questions-2018082817/
You bet.
Quote the Times: ‘ At the Mass, due to take place in a sports field which served as a reception centre for thousands who fled Arab Spring unrest in North Africa in 2011, he is to use a wooden chalice carved out of the wood of a migrant boat by a local carpenter.’
Ah finally, we are getting somewhere….:’But dost thou know what I would tell thee? In the primitive church, the chalices were of wood, the prelates of gold. In these days the church hath chalices of gold and prelates of wood.’ Thus said Savonarola (1452-1498) , hanged and burned by his enemies.
SHAME ON YOU JOSEPH MUSCAT.
GOD CREATED ALL OF US IN HIS IMMAGE.
Despite being an Aloysian, Muscat has forgotten the main message of his Jesuit education: compassion and ethics.
Compassion and ethics from the Jesuits? Surely you jest. Jesuits teach corruption, based on favouritism – besides some even less savoury practices.
Clearly not an old Aloysian. Chip on shoulder maybe?
[Daphne – Believe me when I say that nobody, but nobody, has a chip on his shoulder about not having gone to St Aloysius College. It was never a school for the privileged and certainly never even remotely glamorous, but rather the opposite. In my experience, chips in our generation manifest themselves only around St Edward’s. Younger people don’t bother: there are many different independent schools now, church schools are a really mixed bag, and schools in general have lost their distinct identity. And in any case, I believe Chris and his twin started out at St Aloysius and were moved to St Edward’s. Or was it the other way round? In any case, they went to both.]
The Jesuits teach the national minimum curriculum. Just like everyone else.
@ Chris Ripard. Yes Chris Compassion and Ethics were the basis of my Aloysian education. Traits of which I am proud. The sins of a few will never outdo the good of the many Jesuit educators that have graced St. Aloysius College over many years. I don’t know where you received your education, if at St. Aloysius you should be ashamed of your statement. If you received your education elsewhere then get your facts right.
What a difference!
Here the pope is leading by example. Muscat should follow by retracting his previous statements or change tack, otherwise it’s useless going to Rome kissing the pope’s ring.
If he doesn’t do that then it was all a show for the cameras, and the gullible Maltese, who’ll think that Labour is church-friendly.
“L’anestesia del cuore”.
“Siamo caduti nella globalizzazione dell’indifferenza”.
A short but very forceful homily in Bergoglio’s inimitable style.
Straight from the heart.
“Dio ci giudichera’ a base di come abbiamo trattato i piu’ bisognosi” on Twitter @Pontifex_it
…remember that even evil Norman is part of the movement and has to be pleased..
There are a couple of kind volunteers who set up a Facebook page called ‘Help the children at Hal Far’, which was set up to help people in need, mainly those at Hal Far.
One volunteer today went up with a carload of goods, only to be rudely sent away by the person on duty there, saying that they don’t need anything.
This is very different to what has been going on recently, where the people concerned organised donations of basic necessities such as a fridge, tabletop cookers and fans, and also organised an indoor play area, complete with DVD player, to keep the children out of the scorching sun.
Perhaps Jseph Muscat’s attitude towards immigrants has wormed its way down to his minions.
That’s a violation of basic rights. Hal Far’s an open centre.
That makes it both ways.
Apparently, the authorities-that-be are not too pleased with volunteers doing what they themselves should be doing.
This, for example, is a case in point:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151418668451735&set=oa.641690102525195&type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151418669096735&set=oa.641690102525195&type=1&theater
What human being can deny little children (kept in inhumane conditions in the first place) a shady place to place and some toys to play with? And what human being can deny them basic necessities such as fans in summer, when these people live in suffocating containers?
You are wrong MM, there are no children at Hal Far. Children are never kept at closed detention centres.
The best epithet that Pope Francis said is “the globalisation of indifference” with regards to the deaths that have happened due to drowning of our fellow people from disadvantaged countries.
“Joseph Muscat, leader of Maltese racists” fits quite well.
And seeing the people who usually go about defending his decisions speak in similar terms on this issue is just disgusting.
“Call us harsh, call us heartless, but we are not pushovers,” Muscat said. So it’s alright to aim for a more ‘human’ form of politics by giving waivers to his ministers (that this misses the point of politics is beside the point), but no one dare touch his machismo and heartlessness when it comes to people from beyond our shores.
I do appreciate that a continuing influx of irregular migrants – quite a few being, in fact, economic migrants – may not be in Malta’s best insterests; and that other countries could be doing more to help us in our plight.
However, first and foremost, we’re dealing with human beings here who were desperate enough to escape their home (without planning to return) and risk their lives. We cannot simply push them back and send them to their probable torture and/or death etc en masse.
And for Labour supporters at all levels to remain defiant in the face of our international legal obligations, Christian faith, the example set by Pope Francis and human decency is just outrageous.
Another cause of:
a) to hell with protocol
b) cowardice
c) a lack of manners
d) all of the above?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-07-08/news/pm-meets-gold-medalist-chetcuti-avoids-questions-2018082817/
What most of the government members need is a book about protocol, something on the lines of “A Beginner’s Guide to Protocol and Diplomatic Relations”…but then again, they would probably go for the abridged version, u iva mhux xorta.
But Joseph and his wife, together with their children in ballet shoes, had a photo shoot with the pope. That’s what counts.
It may be a good idea for the PM, his missus and the children take a photo with the immigrants.
Please don’t give them any more cynical ideas.
What his Holiness forgot to say was, That nobody obliged them to make this dangerous journey, they did it knowing quite well the risks, some made it some didn’t, that’s how it is in the world we live in
How about the Vatican offering to take their share of these migrants? or at least offering some financial help to our Govt.?
I hope you won’t rush in calling me racist, no I’m not but no one should condone something that is ILLEGAl, and entering any country the way they do is illegal Apart of course from the fact,that the difference in their culture and beliefs can only lead to problems…
Maybe we should put all the home-grown moaners on a leaking boat and tow them to Libya.
I second that.
You know what, I will call you racist because illegal immigrants come also from the north in the form of pretty girls. They too enter our island illegally, they too were obliged by no-one to come here and they too do it knowing the risks. But I don’t hear you complaining about them. So, yes, you are racist.
Did I ever mention Black, yellow Green migrants,? they all fall under the same heading. Illegal Immigrants.
But of course I don’t see any harm if we should cross breed with some of the beautiful things I see on the Sliema front.
The only thing that’s illegal here is your blatant racism. Norman Lowell got fined for it (I’m not sure if he also received a suspended jail sentence too).
The Africans we get here are called IRREGULAR migrants, and they’re fleeing for their lives.
With that kind of reasoning, we’ll stop giving free medicines and free healthcare to persons who smoke, drink, are obese, overdosed with the aim to die but did not succeed, sustained severe injury through carelessness at their place of work. Who told them to do all those things? So why should we care for them?
But, I know what your answer will be. All of the above are unfortunate, white, Maltese people; the others are measly Africans.
Honestly, your comments sometimes are a bit too much.
In fact, stop giving free health care. If you are not capable of holding a well paid job, then tough for you.
Why should I pay with my taxes. Same with children’s allowance. If you cannot afford children, why should I pay for them.
And why should I pay for all those single mothers, and unemployed workers, and minimum wage earners, and students who go to universtity and free medication, and public schools, and operations abroad when they cannot be held in Malta.
The list is endless, frankly speaking I would rather my taxes pay for these poor people than for half the benefits I have mentioned above.
In fact Muscat, why don’t you remove taxes and we all pay our own way and f**k everyone else, I for one will be better off. Who cares about society as long as I get my Armani suit and holidays.
I’m with La Redoute on this one.
Worse than a racist is the racist who denies being one. Screw you, Silvio.
@Mr Loporto
“Apart of course from the fact,that the difference in their culture and beliefs can only lead to problems…”
Your concern on different beliefs is noted, and I’ll assume, quite safely, that you are Roman Catholic. It seems you have either decided to ignore the Pope or are suffering from a bad case of NIMBYism. Heaven forbid we should assist these unfortunate fellow humans.
I’ll choose their culture over your blatant xenophobia, any time.
Mr Loporto, I’ll preempt the obvious comeback – if you are uncomfortable with different cultures and beliefs in Malta, please do us all a favour and leave. You could ask John Dalli BA for an extended holiday in the Bahamas.
@Stefan Vella
I presume that you intended to write “Heaven forbid we would REFUSE TO assist these unfortunate fellow humans”.
May I remind those “Catholics” who are scared of irregular migrants, and would rather do a Joseph than a Francis, that according to the gospel you will be judged on the seven works of mercy and not on how many masses you attended.
Jesus said, “#I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me water” etc. therefore you will enter the kingdom of heaven.
You know all the rest and the negative of this.
[Daphne – Do we need to bring religion into this? Not even the Pope did that. Helping people who need it is the hallmark of CIVILISATION not Christianity.]
“offering some financial help to our Govt’ and do you think this will stop the influx of migrants?
Labour are always thinking about how much money they can get for anything but of course we should just sit back and keep on moaning and not do anything but expect that the world owes us something.
People like you should be insisting that the government negotiates with the EU and be really assertive without threatening with veto.
That is the way forward otherwise I will soon be ashamed to say I am Maltese.
Push-backs suffer a major drawback. By denying asylum-seekers the opportunity to seek asylum, you deny entry to vulnerable who can enter the country legally.
I’m not a huge fan of illegal stuff myself, but we shouldn’t send people off to their death especially when we have a duty to protect them. Of course Mr “Let-them-sink” Muscat wouldn’t care.
If you are calling their plight for survival and a chance to live illegal than your law is an ass.
“Nobody obliged them to make this dangerous journey” That is true. What obliged them was a desperate need for safety from fatal persecutions or the need to feed themselves and their families.
The fault does not lie with them, neither does it lie with most of the Catholic population of Malta that is doing much more than its fair share to help out. The fault lies with the bigger nations who could make a much bigger contribution but prefer to sit in hypocritical judgement criticising our modest effort.
How can the Vatican state with its minute size make any valid contribution to absorb migrants? H.H. the Pope is doing something much more practical by setting an example in real compassion and appealing to large states that could easily absorb the influx of refugees with benefit by providing jobs disdained by the locals.
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Black man on a Labour electoral billboard:
“Nivvota Labour. Biex jibghatni lura lejn pajjizi.”
Prime minister, hang your head in shame.
The pope was right, we should help these people because they are in great need.
How about if it was us on the boat trying to cross that sea to find a better place and thn they push us back like Muscat wants to do, what do we say?
So please before you open your mouth to judge, think and say if I was that person instead do I want somebody to help me?
There is no point in comparing Pope Francis with Joseph Muscat. One is a reflection of true evangelical values, which find their focal point in ‘agape’ / ‘caritas’ (Christian Love as that which Jesus preached and lived), while Joseph’s philosophy is too far apart from such values. Joseph solves problems by throwing the buck at someone else. Only shamless people behave in such a cowardly manner. Good people, like Pope Francis, humbly embrace those who are suffering and welcomes them in the name of the Lord.
And it is the very truth, I’m afraid.
Shame on our Prime minister.
I have followed this morning’s event at Lampedusa. I kept chiding myself for those occasions when I looked askance at refugees from Africa/Near East in our midst.
The Pope’s words came from the heart of a man “who is accustomed to grief” and has not lost the power, or the will, to feel – and act – for the unfortunate.
We all have so much to learn from this pope who seems to be revolutionizing the idea of what Christianity means. His encyclical letter Lumen Fidei gives an excellent explanation of his ideas on what faith is all about. Here is the link to it if anyone wishes to read it http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20130629_enciclica-lumen-fidei_en.html
There is a really interesting clip from Hardtalk on the BBC’s website, on the subject of the Golden Dawn and racism within Greek society, the police and how it is a counter-reaction to economic hardship and illegal immigration.
The link is below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-23202684
We’ll soon be seeing those propaganda shots of Joseph Muscat at home, with the family photo with the pope, in focus and strategically placed on his desk…..just by the Mac.
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2013/07/08/pope_on_lampedusa:_%E2%80%9Cthe_globalization_of_indifference%E2%80%9D/en1-708541
Silvio Loporto, F*CK OFF.
As a matter of fact, it always interested me to know the meaning of the expression you use.
Maybe you could help me by explaining it to me.
You sound so well educated and well mannered
I’m sure your mum did all that was possible to bring up such a person. You owe her so much.
I have little chats with refugees while waiting for my bus.
They all tell their story of suffering.
I suggest ONE TV to invite a few every week to explain to us why and how they are in Malta and what are their aspirations.
Oh, but then they’ll talk about their employers and the abuse they face on a daily basis.
Can’t have that now can we?
Only the suffering ones have a heart that emphatise with the those in need. The pope is one of them. Those in the Tower of Babel only knows of good living. No wonder they do not have feelings for immigrants. They only love themselves and their ego.
So during the 5-year long Labour electoral campaign, the Prime Minister of Malta quotes from St. Francis of Assisi (the man who inspired the Pope and whose name the Pope adopted):
“Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.”
And then, when he is faced with hatred, injury, doubt, despair, darkness and sadness, he threatens the EU with the veto and those who are hated, injured, doubtful, desperate, in darkness and sad, with “pushback.”
Its funny how some try to portray the illegal immigrants as victims. They are not!
Most are economic migrants with a fake story about their “past” to gain sympathy.
They destroy their documents (along with police records) before making their journey.
Nobody forced them to risk their lives. They made their choice. If you play with fire you risk getting burned.
How can you call a woman, 8 or 9 months pregnant risking her live and that of her unborn child a victim ? I call her selfish!
It has been proven many times that though not always that their dangerous journey does not start from Libya but it actually starts when they are offloaded from much bigger boats into their small boats much closer to Europe.
They know the risks. If somebody had to walk a tight rope between two sky scrapers and fall down and die I would say that they had it coming. The same for the immigrants.
Another untruth is that Libya is unsafe. If that were so we wouldn’t have our government telling us that it is safe to travel there. It is also known that the immigrants make the money they use for their journey to Europe whilst WORKING in Libya.
Rather than a push back, our government should send them packing and tell them to go wherever they want but NOT Malta. We are already seeing certain areas turning into little Brixtons.
We need to be tough on ALL illegal immigration and i’m not just talking about the ones that come from Africa and the Middle East but also Eastern Europeans, Asians etc.
The selfishness of some people is incredible. They live a sheltered life, surrounded by all sorts of luxuries (yes, sir, your house, food, clothing, cars, mobiles, yearly vacation are all luxuries), and then deny others their peace of mind. Their lives even.
Is it possible that you’re so insulated that you’ve never heard of the wars, the poverty and the sheer cruelty that these people experience in their countries? Would you deny them a better life on the basis that they’re not your usual spending, European tourist?
Who gave you the right to decide that you should live cosily in Malta, while they battle out their lives in their countries?
I’m certain that they would like to live in their own countries too, with their own families. We should strive for peace and equality in their countries and help out with uprisal against corrupt governments, such as we saw in Syria, Egypt, Ivory Coast etc. But until we get there, these people deserve as comfy a life as mine and yours.
@ Natalie
These are all excuses. Africa is a massive continent and a great part of it is not at war. There are also quite a few African countries which are not poor either.
In the end of the day if anything their former colonial masters like the Dutch and the French should be helping them.
To be very democratic may I suggest that the government holds a referendum and asks the voting Maltese public if they agree with a push back policy or not.
Another ignorant fool who thinks an instrument of democracy can be used to break laws and violate human rights.
It’s undemocratic to hold referenda about minorities.
And I think that your statements are full of excuses why we should ignore the bloodbath happening under our noses.
@Chris Mifsud.
The harshest enemies of the African common man weren’t the Dutch, French and other European colonisers but their own native chiefs and cheap politicians who came after the end of colonialism and who plunged most (not all) of an Africa rich in natural resources into disastrous ethnic conflicts and open warfare with extreme poverty for the common people while the plundering few leaders grew obscenely rich and tyrannical. The irregular immigrants are not fleeing from the French or the Dutch; they are fleeing away from their own home-grown despots towards a Europe that for them is a safe haven, a refuge and an opportunity.
That is the truth and not “all excuses”.
Like I said, Africa is a massive continent and not all of it is at war or poor. So yes these are all excuses and nothing can be said that would convince me otherwise.
Look at the local news this morning. Another 100 have come to Malta. Drastic stituations call for drastic measures and the sooner we have a push back policy the better.
If they need help, if there are sick and injured bring them in, keep them for a couple of days, give them food and water and some fuel and send them away.
@Chris Mifsud
You seem to be arguing that this refugee emigration should be confined within the African continent itself because it is big enough – undisguised racism at its worst and which would have rendered impossible the useful mass emigration of Maltese to Australia, Canada and the USA.
Refugees need asylum preferably near to their country of origin but above all in a safer place with better prospects, without being restricted to their continent on the ridiculous pretext that it is not all of it poor and that its constituent nations are not all simultaneously at war with each other.
Silvio Loporto, you make me puke.
http://voxnews.info/2013/07/08/ragazza-stuprata-da-clandestini-scrive-al-papa-perche-vai-a-lampedusa/
[Daphne – Lorna, when I was young and living in Sliema, at a time when many Maltese men were extremely deprived and primitive, I could barely step outside without being accosted, sometimes so persistently and so frighteningly, by men who came from all over the island precisely for the purpose of accosting Sliema girls and tourists, that I developed a way of ringing the nearest door-bell as though I knew the people who lived there and fully expected them to open. Maltese men playing with themselves in full view of others on the beach were an extremely common sight, so common that they became a joke. Yes, it’s hard to believe that this was reality, and that we took it for granted, but it was. Walking alone on the Sliema front after dark was a bad idea because you were bound to be followed – by a Maltese. I never thought to write to the Pope about it, or to use this to make the irrational argument that all Maltese men are perverts and potential rapists who think nothing of grabbing at women as they walk past. Lots of my friends had the same experience – and that taught us that a pervert is a pervert in any nationality.]
Daphne I am more or less your age and live close to Sliema, actually in the University area called Tal-qroqq. An area known traditionally as a decent neighborhood where one could bring one’s children up safely.
This area has degenerated into an islamic quarter, with women wrapped from head to toe and Moslem run mini-markets where we purchase our food supplies. Crime has shot up exponentially and we do not only fear walking at night but sometimes even during the day.
[Daphne – Oh rubbish, Lorna. Since when do ‘Muslims’ make a neighbourhood unsafe for children? Criminal people do that, and by that token there are areas inhabited by the wrong sort of Maltese people where it is patently unsafe to leave children out on the streets. You assumption that Maltese = safe and African = dangerous is just preposterous. If you are really my contemporary then you are old enough to remember that Valletta in the 1960s and 1970s was a place where prostitutes were murdered, men got slashed in brawls, and at least one woman beheaded her own eight-year-old son after treating him like an animal and household slave. You live in a world of your own really. One of my earliest memories – I grew up beneath the Preluna hotel, hardly a slum – is of waking up to the sound of the most enormous brawl in the street outside, tyres screeching, shouting, and a woman flinging herself at our front door and screaming for help while a couple of men beat her up. She was a prostitute, I found out years later, and the men were taxi drivers, her pimps. All Maltese. The drug dealers of our growing up years were Maltese. No doubt they are still, and there are far more of them. So were the thieves and scoundrels, the rapists and the child abusers. So do please grow up and stop looking at life through such a simplistic lens.]
If we continue to bury our head in the sand and persist in feeling compassionate, we will be overrun and this is by no means racist.
[Daphne – Lorna, why in heaven’s name would I bother about being ‘overrun’ by African people when this country has been overrun by Maltese people who stand about at Labour mass meetings and scream ‘Joseph’? We are now living according to their decisions, and how great is that?]
Few Maltese ever complain about the multitude of Asians (mostly of Chinese nationality) that live close to the University entrance as these people integrate and do not insult our culture by wearing desert rags and covering their women from head to toe making the entire area look like Addis Ababa.
Islam is an unwanted religion everywhere and it is their presence that fans frustration as well as the inability of Governments to act!
[Daphne – I don’t mind seeing women covered from head to toe if it is their choice. I do, however, very much mind seeing the parade of appallingly dressed Maltese people in any area which attracts huge crowds. How are five or six women covered from head to toe any less attractive than a throng at the trade fair or the Valletta Waterfront on a Saturday night? And have you ever been to Armier beach on a Sunday? What you are talking about here is not ugly versus beautiful or safe versus dangerous, but the comfort of the familiar, however ugly and dangerous, versus the fear of the unfamiliar.]
Lorna, I clearly remember walking down Dingli Street in Sliema one summer evening in the mid 80s, only to be accosted by a Maltese man telling me ‘ghaw trid taghra xi haga?’ as he brings his member out.
[Daphne – Oh, he was a permanent fixture for years. He actually lived in Dingli Street. We all knew about him. Turned out he was the reason our mothers, when they took us to the swings near the tower, would warn us not to go anywhere near the lavatory building on the edge of the playground. Back then, that was how you dealt with flashers. I’m still surprised nowadays when I read about men who flash children and girls being prosecuted and ending up in jail. Nobody even considered going to the police in those days. They would have laughed. “U imbilli!”]
Unfortunately for him, I was blind as a bat, and was still too vain to acknowledge that I needed specs. He was therefore greeted with my very innocent ‘naghra x’hiex?’
I also clearly remember being accosted by a number of Maltese workmen on the Sliema front on an early summer afternoon and being grateful for the fact that I could protect myself with my tennis racquet.
To be fair I also do remember encounters with a couple of Libyans also, but if you are Daphne’s age as you say you are, you will surely remember that they were legal immigrants.
Joseph and Michelle Muscat are hypocrites!
@ Lorna Saliba
The two men who accosted me at the beach last Saturday were not black nor from Africa, but fat white Maltese men who appeared to have nothing better to do than harass a woman trying to relax by herself and pass perverted comments towards her.
It got so bad at one point that I simply had to pack up my things and leave.
I – and many other women, I’m sure – undergo constant harassment from Maltese men everyday: catcalls on the street, wolf whistling and hooting their horns from cars, creeps walking up to you whilst sunbathing “Aw hi, ghandek boyfriend?”
It’s like they can’t see a woman walking along the street and minding her own business without losing their minds over it.
I’m sure things were much worse in Daphne’s time, but I can’t stand it when I hear fellow women talk about Africans as though they are a monolith of sexual deviants, when there are so many Maltese perverts around. And who don’t even pay the proper penalties for their crimes, either.
Tutto il mondo e’ paese!
As they say”” Ït’s the sugar that attracts the flies””
Have you ever tried wearing decently and behaving in a lady like manner?
I can assure you men are only doing what you say ( cat calls hooting horns etc) to those girls who are making it obvious that it is exactly what they are expecting.
Take my advice, behave like a Lady and you will see what I mean .
And just keep in mind that to-days youths only hunt where the pasture is good,they don.t waste time where they don’t expect good results.
There are so many fish in the sea so why waste time.
@ lorna saliba.
I too live in the vicinity and to date we have a Muslim supermarket, fully stocked unlike the dirty, place it used to be with most food items expired.
We also have an Asian food shop and an Indian food shop. So why is the Muslim shop different? Because the women there cover their head?
Did u ever bother speaking to them? Would you believe that the one with her head covered is Maltese and a sweet, polite gentle lady?
The other one who dresses in western clothes is the one who is not Maltese.
The men are polite and well spoken and the place is clean and open all hours even on Sunday, which in itself is really great.
I have a bone to pick with the young Europeans who grace our neighbourhood. Partying loudly, cigarette butts on our cars, vomit on the pavement.
Just today two girls were walking down the street in their bikinis – oh but that’s ok, because they are not wrapped up from head to toe and so they are not dangerous.
The pope’s words are fine but where do we stop as a small island? Suppose tens of thousands of migrants land tomorrow, should we observe their “human rights”? It is also important to note that there seems to be a strong majority in Malta against increasing financial expenditure on irregular or illegal immigrants. Democracy is a two-way street and sometimes liberals have to accept they are on the losing side. You cannot claim that democracy is fine as long as the majority is liberal, otherwise you just become a different brand of dictators.