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18-01-04, 18:20
Zaterdag 17 Januari 2004
Aartsbisschop beducht voor godsdienstoorlog
Parijs - Het aangekondigde verbod op hoofddoekjes, kruisen, keppels en andere opzichtige religieuze symbolen op openbare scholen in Frankrijk kan leiden tot een ,,godsdienstoorlog'' in het land. Die vrees uit kardinaal Jean- Marie Lustiger, aartsbisschop van Parijs. Lustiger neemt een ,,herleving van een anti-religieuze agressiviteit'' waar. De aangekondigde wet ,,dreigt een nieuwe godsdienstoorlog aan te stichten,'' aldus de kardinaal gisteren voor de Franse radio. ,,Ik hoop dat de politici weten wat ze losmaken.''
Collega-bisschoppen, zei hij, hebben tientallen gevallen gemeld waarbij rk-meisjes zijn lastiggevallen omdat ze een kruis om hadden. Nonnen kregen openlijk kritiek omdat ze in het openbaar hun habijt droegen.
De rk-kerk accepteert de scheiding van kerk en staat en zal zich niet tegen de wet verzetten, zei Lustiger. Hij voorspelt dat moslims talloze rechtszaken zullen aanspannen om hun godsdienstvrijheid te verdedigen. Godsdienstvrijheid geldt volgens de kardinaal ook voor moslims. ,,De vrijheid van de islam is net zo kostbaar als de vrijheid van het katholicisme, het protestantisme of het jodendom,'' zei hij.
Bron: Rotterdams Dagblad 17/01/04
Anti-religious militants target Catholics
Nuns are being harassed in France, says Cardinal
Anti-religious militants in France are using the current political climate to exert increased pressure on Catholics says a French cardinal.
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop of Paris said bishops around the country had reported dozens of cases in which Roman Catholic girls had been harassed for wearing a cross, or nuns criticised for appearing in public in their habits.
"At a university in Paris, a woman wearing a small cross had it torn off by other students," Lustiger said. "A nun who was crossing a street in the dress of her religious order was told by passers-by: 'You shouldn't go out in your habit'.
"I could tell you dozens of other cases the bishops have reported," he added.
Lustiger blames politicians for stirring up old passions by debating a planned ban on the Muslim veil in public schools.
The law, which a wide spectrum of French politicians and voters support as a bulwark against rising Islamist influence among Muslim immigrants, would be "just the beginning of a long crisis", he told France-Inter radio.
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger:
"This law, with all its excesses, risks opening up a war of religions... The politicians should realise what they are stirring up."
Leaders of France's five-million strong Muslim communities have also reported recent cases of harassment, such as banks and municipal offices refusing to serve veiled women, since President Jacques Chirac announced the planned ban last month.
Lustiger said France's strict separation of church and state in 1905 had calmed tensions after the sometimes violent struggle of anti-clerical politicians who curbed the privileges of the once-mighty Catholic Church.
For many French people, that struggle ranks second only to the 1789 revolution as a milestone in the creation of modern Frace - one reason why so many refuse to make concessions now to Islam.
Lustiger stressed France had "religious peace" now but added: "This law, with all its excesses, risks opening up a war of religions... The politicians should realise what they are stirring up."
The cardinal, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants and a teenage convert to Catholicism, said the Church accepted the secular system and would not oppose a law once passed.
But he doubted it would be effective, predicting instead an endless series of trials.
Bron: Al Jazeera 15/01/04
Aartsbisschop beducht voor godsdienstoorlog
Parijs - Het aangekondigde verbod op hoofddoekjes, kruisen, keppels en andere opzichtige religieuze symbolen op openbare scholen in Frankrijk kan leiden tot een ,,godsdienstoorlog'' in het land. Die vrees uit kardinaal Jean- Marie Lustiger, aartsbisschop van Parijs. Lustiger neemt een ,,herleving van een anti-religieuze agressiviteit'' waar. De aangekondigde wet ,,dreigt een nieuwe godsdienstoorlog aan te stichten,'' aldus de kardinaal gisteren voor de Franse radio. ,,Ik hoop dat de politici weten wat ze losmaken.''
Collega-bisschoppen, zei hij, hebben tientallen gevallen gemeld waarbij rk-meisjes zijn lastiggevallen omdat ze een kruis om hadden. Nonnen kregen openlijk kritiek omdat ze in het openbaar hun habijt droegen.
De rk-kerk accepteert de scheiding van kerk en staat en zal zich niet tegen de wet verzetten, zei Lustiger. Hij voorspelt dat moslims talloze rechtszaken zullen aanspannen om hun godsdienstvrijheid te verdedigen. Godsdienstvrijheid geldt volgens de kardinaal ook voor moslims. ,,De vrijheid van de islam is net zo kostbaar als de vrijheid van het katholicisme, het protestantisme of het jodendom,'' zei hij.
Bron: Rotterdams Dagblad 17/01/04
Anti-religious militants target Catholics
Nuns are being harassed in France, says Cardinal
Anti-religious militants in France are using the current political climate to exert increased pressure on Catholics says a French cardinal.
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop of Paris said bishops around the country had reported dozens of cases in which Roman Catholic girls had been harassed for wearing a cross, or nuns criticised for appearing in public in their habits.
"At a university in Paris, a woman wearing a small cross had it torn off by other students," Lustiger said. "A nun who was crossing a street in the dress of her religious order was told by passers-by: 'You shouldn't go out in your habit'.
"I could tell you dozens of other cases the bishops have reported," he added.
Lustiger blames politicians for stirring up old passions by debating a planned ban on the Muslim veil in public schools.
The law, which a wide spectrum of French politicians and voters support as a bulwark against rising Islamist influence among Muslim immigrants, would be "just the beginning of a long crisis", he told France-Inter radio.
Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger:
"This law, with all its excesses, risks opening up a war of religions... The politicians should realise what they are stirring up."
Leaders of France's five-million strong Muslim communities have also reported recent cases of harassment, such as banks and municipal offices refusing to serve veiled women, since President Jacques Chirac announced the planned ban last month.
Lustiger said France's strict separation of church and state in 1905 had calmed tensions after the sometimes violent struggle of anti-clerical politicians who curbed the privileges of the once-mighty Catholic Church.
For many French people, that struggle ranks second only to the 1789 revolution as a milestone in the creation of modern Frace - one reason why so many refuse to make concessions now to Islam.
Lustiger stressed France had "religious peace" now but added: "This law, with all its excesses, risks opening up a war of religions... The politicians should realise what they are stirring up."
The cardinal, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants and a teenage convert to Catholicism, said the Church accepted the secular system and would not oppose a law once passed.
But he doubted it would be effective, predicting instead an endless series of trials.
Bron: Al Jazeera 15/01/04