Posted on 09/25/2016 1:31:37 PM PDT by marshmallow
An Italian television news anchor has ignited a firestorm of criticism by wearing a crucifix around her neck while reporting the news, drawing the ire of “Muslims, atheists and many viewers,” according to reports.
Marina Nalesso, a well-known news anchor on the State-owned Tg1 television news show, wore a crucifix around her neck several times last week while on the air, a choice that Silvio Viale, a leftist politician and vocal atheist, has described as “arrogance.”
“TG is a public, secular news show, not a Vatican news show,” he said.
On her FanPage, Nalesso defended her actions saying that she wears the crucifix “out of devotion and to offer witness,” though she can say nothing further because “we RAI journalists are not permitted to grant interviews without the authorization of management.”
This is not the 44-year-old TV anchor’s first offense. She has also been criticized for wearing small medals around her neck bearing the face of Jesus or the Virgin Mary.
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I hate militant atheists. I know some atheist and NONE of them have any problems with Christians or Christian holidays.
Honestly, I’m glad to hear it’s not just happening here in America. The world has truly gone crazy.
Ya don't say
if she was Moslim and wearing a headdress would she be thought of as arrogant?
Italy is less tolerant of Christians than, say, Japan...
the travesty of wearing a crucifix. /s
what about the veil and the burkha and other religious icons being worn?
Oddly enough, it is only the cross of Christ crucified that stirs up angst and cries of bias.
This is one of the reasons why atheists / liberal secularists ally with Muslims - to have an ally in the attacks on Christianity while being able to say “I don’t hate all religion, see, this monotheist agrees with me”.
This shouldn't seem odd. When I hear stories like this it only confirms my Faith in Christ and His Catholic Church.
They fear the cross’s power...and I’m an Old Testament believer.
So watch a different newscast.
Christopher Hitchen’s book title “God Is Not Great” was a play on rejecting their monotonous war cry Allahu Akbar (`God is great’), and a polemic largely against the murderous religious bigotry that is Islam.
Although not an atheist myself, in all fairness you are mistaken, at least in regards to Hitchens, to say that he was an ally with mozlims. In fact he risked his life by sheltering fatwah target Salman Rushdie (who offended Islamacists everywhere with his book `The Satanic Verses’) in his home.
In fairness to your position, at the same time he attacked all religious bigotry, wherever he found it.
How about the travesty of a proven liar and fraud posting on a Forum filled with veterans and patriots.
Or did that somehow escape your duplicitous mind?
hondact200 = Stolen Valor
The Muslim men in Turkey used to lounge around on the
streets fingering those Islamic “prayer beads” years ago.
I suppose they still do that. (Their women stayed home and
did most of the work.)
THEY don’t like MY religion? Tough toody! I don’t care much
for theirs since they picked up on their centuries old
killing sprees IN MY COUNTRY!
We’re armed and we’re NOT riding Shetland ponies. We join
with Sobieski’s WINGED HORSES BRIGADE!!
Hitchens is notable as one of the major atheists who did NOT defend Islam as readily as most liberals do. Ayan Hirsi Ali, Pat Condell, Sargon of Akkad are on that list as well.
That six year old or so girl in Idaho got raped by Muslim refugee boys, and local officials blamed the father for not being involved, stonewalled giving the mother the raped child’s medical records, let the assailant boys go back home under their mother’s supervision and wouldn’t help the victim’s family move out of the public housing where they were only a few doors down from the attackers.
So yes, it is here.
Not a crucifix. She appears to be wearing a rosary with a cross at the end, and a miraculous medal on the shorter cord.
This distinction is important because media erroneously use the 2 words, cross and crucifix, indiscriminately. A cross can be a generic symbol for many religions and even just a fashion statement. A crucifix (as well as rosary and medal) is much less commonly worn and distinctly Catholic.
A crucifix is not just 2 intersecting bars, it includes the Corpus of our Lord (Latin = body). It’s interesting this lady wears a rosary with a cross, as the rosary usually has a crucifix, but that would really be “making a statement.”
I saw that too (and was going to say something similar), but given there is a statement in the article that says she has worn medals before, etc, I took the picture to be an old one. I don’t think it represents the current “crucifix” story.
“offense” ?
Haters and the religion of hate gotta hate it’s what they do.
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