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Posted on May 21, 2010
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Madge vs. Malawi: Madonna is not pleased with a Malawi judge’s decision about the fate of Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza.

The world may not have been waiting for Madonna’s input, but for the record, she vehemently disapproves of a Malawi judge’s decision, issued Thursday, to sentence a young gay couple to 14 years of hard labor after they openly celebrated their engagement late last year.  —KA

New York Daily News:

“I am shocked and saddened by the decision made by the Malawian court, which sent two innocent men to prison,” Madonna said Friday in a statement posted on her web site.

“Malawi took a giant step backward,” the singer continued. “The world is filled with pain and suffering; therefore, we must support out basic human right to love and be loved.”

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By PatrickHenry, May 25, 2010 at 4:00 pm Link to this comment

I bet Madonna wasn’t in a Malawi courtroom when she made the comment.

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By Commune115, May 25, 2010 at 1:32 am Link to this comment

Cosmos, you’re quite insane. So should the indigenous peoples of the Americas also list every abuse against them since 1521 to then justify the mass murder of whites or Spaniards?

You should check out this film, it just came out on DVD and might do you some good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJo7LhSPJaY

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By rollzone, May 24, 2010 at 5:42 pm Link to this comment

hello again. Cosmos, you failed to mention when a Jew
evicted me from his apartment house because he needed
the room for his blood relative: June 16, 1998. i was
getting along and would have preferred being left alone
in place of the hardship it caused me. i do not hold it
against all Jews; only him.  we all know the Jews have
no guilt. they have mere character flaws, nothing to go
neurotic about. you should be happy to note i have not
kept a list.

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By hummingbird, May 24, 2010 at 12:34 pm Link to this comment

Anyone who doesn’t know what the Jewish people have been through over the centuries isn’t qualified to comment on Israel and the Palestinians.  Jewish people just want a safe place to live. Leave us alone, we’ll leave you alone.

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By hummingbird, May 24, 2010 at 12:30 pm Link to this comment

1506 C.E.  Lisbon Mob Attack

1510 C.E.  Berlin Public Torture & Execution

1514 C.E.  Strasbourg Expulsion

1519 C.E.  Regensburg Expulsion

1539 C.E.  Cracow & Portugal Stake Burnings

1540 C.E.  Naples Expulsion

1542 C.E.  Bohemia Expulsion

1550 C.E.  Genoa Expulsion

1551 C.E.  Bavaria Expulsion

1555 C.E.  Pesaro Expulsion

1556 C.E.  Sokhachev (Poland)  Public Torture & Execution

1559 C.E.  Austria Expulsion

1561 C.E.  Prague Expulsion

1567 C.E.  Wurzburg Expulsion

1569 C.E.  Papal States Expulsion

1571 C.E.  Brandenburg Expulsion

1582 C.E.  Netherlands Expulsion

1593 C.E.  Brunswick Expulsion

1597 C.E.  Cremona, Pavia & Lodi Expulsion

1614 C.E.  Frankfort Expulsion

1615 C.E.  Worms Expulsion

1619 C.E.  Kiev Expulsion

1635 C.E.  Vilna Mob Attack

1637 C.E.  Cracow Public Torture & Execution

1647 C.E.  Lisbon Jews Burned Alive

1648 C.E.  Poland 1/3 of Jewry Slaughtered

1649 C.E.  Ukraine Expulsion

1649 C.E.  Hamburg Expulsion

1652 C.E.  Lisbon Stake Burnings

1654 C.E.  Little Russia Expulsion

1656 C.E.  Lithuania Expulsion

1660 C.E.  Seville Jews Burned Alive

1663 C.E Cracow Public Torture &. Execution

1664 C.E.  Lemberg Mob Attack

1669 C.E.  Oran (North Africa)  Expulsion

1670 C.E.  Vienna Expulsion

1671 C.E.  Minsk Mob Attacks

1681 C.E.  Vilna Mob Attacks

1682 C.E.  Cracow Mob Attacks

1687 C.E.  Posen Mob Attacks

1712 C.E.  Sandomir Expulsion

1727 C.E.  Russia Expulsion

1738 C.E.  Wurtemburg Expulsion

1740 C.E.  Liule Russia Expulsion

1744 C.E   Bohemia Expulsion

1744 C.E.  Livonia Expulsion

1745 C.E.  Moravia Expulsion

1753 C.E.  Kovad (Lithuania)  Expulsion

1757 C.E.  Kamenetz Talmud Burning

1761 C.E.  Bordeaux Expulsion

1768 C.E.  Kiev 3,000 Jews Slaughtered

1772 C.E.  Russia Expulsion

1775 C.E.  Warsaw Expulsion

1789 C.E.  Alsace Expulsion

1801 C.E.  Bucharest Mob Attack

1804 C.E.  Russian Villages Expulsion

1808 C.E.  Russian Countryside Expulsion

1815 C.E.  Lubeck & Bremen Expulsion

1820 C.E.  Bremes Expulsion

1843 C.E.  Austria & Prussia Expulsion

1850 C.E.  New York City 500 People, Led by Police, Attacked & Wrecked Jewish Synagogue

1862 C.E.  Area under General Grant’s Jurisdiction in the United States Expulsion

1866 C.E Galatz (Romania)  Expulsion

1871 C.E.  Odena Mob Attack

1887 C.E.  Slovakia Mob Attacks

1897 C.E.  Kantakuzenka (Russia)  Mob Attacks

1898 C.E.  Rennes (France)  Mob Attack

1899 C.E.  Nicholayev Mob Attack

1900 C.E.  Konitz (Prussia)  Mob Attack

1902 C.E.  Poland Widespread Pogroms

1904 C.E.  Manchuria, Kiev & Volhynia Widespread Pogroms

1905 C.E.  Zhitomir (Yolhynia)  Mob Attacks

1919 C.E   Bavaria Expulsion

1915 C.E.  Georgia (U.S.A.)  Leo Frank Lynched

1919 C.E.  Prague Wide Spread Pogroms

1920 C.E.  Munich & Breslau Mob Attacks

1922 C.E.  Boston, MA Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard, calls for Quota Restrictions on Jewish Admission

1926 C.E.  Uzbekistan Pogrom

1928 C.E.  Hungary Widespread Anti-Semitic Riots on University Campuses

1929 C.E.  Lemberg (Poland)  Mob Attacks

1930 C.E.  Berlin Mob Attack

1933 C.E.  Bucharest Mob Attacks

1938-45 C.E.  Europe Holocaust

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By hummingbird, May 24, 2010 at 12:30 pm Link to this comment

1209 C.E.  Beziers Massacre

1212 C.E. Spain Rioting and blood bath against the Jews of Toledo.

1215 C.E.  Rome Lateran Council of Rome decrees that Jews must wear the “badge of shame” in all Christian countries. Jews are denied all public sector employment, and are burdened with extra taxes.

1215 C.E.  Toulouse (France)  Mass Arrests

1218 C.E.  England Jews Forced to Wear Badges

1231 C.E.  Rome Inquisition Established

1236 C.E.  France Forced Conversion/Massacre

1239 C.E.  London Massacre & Property Confiscation

1240 C.E.  Austria Property confiscation. Jews either imprisoned, converted, expelled, or burned.

1240 C.E.  France Talmud Confiscated

1240 C.E.  England Book Burning

1240 C.E.  Spain Forced Conversion

1242 C.E.  Paris Talmud Burned

1244 C.E.  Oxford Mob Attacks

1255 C.E.  England Blood libel in Lincoln results in the burning / torture of many Jews & public hangings.

1261 C.E.  Canterbury Mob Attacks

1262 C.E.  London Mob Attacks

1264 C.E.  London Mob Attacks

1264 C.E.  Germany Council of Vienna declares that all Jews must wear a “pointed dunce cap.” Thousands murdered. 

1267 C.E.  Vienna Jews Forced to Wear Horned Hats

1270 C.E.  Weissenberg, Magdeburg, Arnstadt, Coblenz, Singzig, and Erfurt Jews Burned Alive

1270 C.E.  England The libel of the “counterfeit coins” - all Jewish men, women and children in England imprisoned. Hundreds are hung.

1276 C.E.  Bavaria Expulsion

1278 C.E.  Genoa (Spain)  Mob Attacks

1279 C.E.  Hungary & Poland The Council of Offon denies Jews the right to all civic positions. The Jews of Hungary & Poland are forced to wear the “red badge of shame.”

1283 C.E.  Mayence & Bacharach Mob Attacks

1285 C.E.  Munich Jews Burned Alive

1290 C.E.  England King Edward I issues an edict banishing all Jews from England. Many drowned.

1291 C.E.  France The Jewish refugees from England are promptly expelled from France.

1292 C.E.  Italy Forced conversions & expulsion of the Italian Jewish community. 

1298 C.E.  Germany The libel of the “Desecrated Host” is perpetrated against the Jews of Germany. Approximately 150 Jewish communities undergo forced conversion.

1298 C.E.  Franconia, Bavaria & Austria Reindfel’s Decree is propagated against the Jews of Franconia and Bavarai. Riots against these Jewish communities, as well as those in Austria, result in the massacre of 100,000 Jews over a six-month period.

1306 C.E.  France Expulsion

1308 C.E.  Strasbourg Jews Burned Alive

1320 C.E.  Toulouse & Perpigon 120 Communities Massacred & Talmud Burned

1321 C.E.  Teruel Public Executions

1328 C.E.  Estella 5,000 Jews Slaughtered

1348 C.E.  France & Spain Jews Burned Alive

1348 C.E.  Switzerland Expulsion

1349 C.E.  Worms, Strasbourg, Oppenheim, Mayence, Erfurt, Bavaria & Swabia Jews Burned Alive

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1349 C.E.  Hungary Expulsion

1354 C.E.  Castile (Spain)  12,000 Jews Slaughtered

1368 C.E.  Toledo 8,000 Jews Slaughtered

1370 C.E.  Majorca., Penignon & Barcelona Mob Attack

1377 C.E.  Huesca (Spain)  Jews Burned Alive

1380 C.E.  Paris Mob Attack

1384 C.E.  Nordlingen Mass Murder

1388 C.E.  Strasbourg Expulsion

1389 C.E.  Prague Mass Slaughter & Book Burning

1391 C.E.  Castille, Toledo, Madrid, Seville, Cordova, Cuenca & Barcelona Forced Conversions & Mass Murder

1394 C.E.  Germany Expulsion

1394 C.E.  France Expulsion

1399 C.E.  Posen (Poland)  Jews Burned Alive

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By hummingbird, May 24, 2010 at 12:28 pm Link to this comment

DATE PLACE EVENT


250 C.E.  Canhage Expulsion

224 C.E.  Italy Forced Conversion
 
325 C.E.  Jerusalem Expulsion

351 C.E   Persia Book Burning

357 C.E.  Italy Property Confiscation

379 C.E.  Milan Synagogue Burning

415 C.E.  Alexandria Expulsion
 
418 C.E.  Minorca Forced Conversion

469 C.E.  Ipahan Holocaust

489 C.E.  Antioch Synagogue Burning

506 C.E.  Daphne Synagogue Burning
 
519 C.E.  Ravenna Synagogue Burning

554 C.E.  Diocese of Clement (France)  Expulsion
 
561 C.E.  Diocese of Uzes (France) Expulsion

582 C.E   Merovingia Forced Conversion
 
612 C.E.  Visigoth Spain Expulsion

628 C.E.  Byzantium Forced Conversion

629 C.E.  Merovingia Forced Conversion

633 C.E.  Toledo Forced Conversion

638 C.E.  Toledo Stake Burnings

642 C.E.  Visigothic Empire Expulsion

653 C.E.  Toledo Expulsion

681 C.E.  Spain Forced Conversion

693 C.E.  Toledo Jews Enslaved
 
722 C.E.  Byzantium Judaism Outlawed

855 C.E.  Italy Expulsion

876 C.E.  Sens Expulsion

897 C.E.  Narbonne Land Confiscation

945 C.E.  Venice Ban on Sea Travel

1009 C.E.  Orleans Massacre

1012 C.E.  Rouen, Limoges & Rome Massacre

1012 C.E.  Mayence Expulsion

1021 C.E.  Rome Jews Burned Alive

1063 C.E.  Spain Massacre

1095 C.E.  Lorraine Massacre

1096 C.E.  Northern France & Germany 1/3 of Jewish Population Massacred

1096 C.E.  Hungary Massacre

1096 C.E.  Ralisbon Massacre

1099 C.E.  Jerusalem Jews Burned Alive

1100 C.E.  Kiev Pogrom

1140 C.E.  Germany Massacres

1146 C.E.  Rhine Valley Massacre

1147 C.E.  Wurzburg Massacre

1147 C.E.  Belitz (Germany)  Jews Burned Alive

1147 C.E.  Carenton, Ramenu & Sully (France)  Massacres

1171 C.E.  Blois Stake Burnings

1181 C.E.  France Expulsion

1181 C.E.  England Property Confiscation

1188 C.E.  London & York Mob Attacks

1190 C.E.  Norfolk Jews Burned Alive

1191 C.E.  Bray (France)  Jews Burned Alive

1195 C.E.  France Property Confiscation

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By rollzone, May 23, 2010 at 6:54 pm Link to this comment

hello. this old lady is an authority on immorality. she has made millions exploiting it, and we should listen; then quietly walk away. there will be no grace for her golden years. she is tormented by materialism.

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By brhorton, May 22, 2010 at 11:40 am Link to this comment

Maybe Madonna should put a bounty on the Judges head and have him assassinated,
If the CIA can put out assassination orders on Americans, I don’t know why Americans
can do the same.

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By Commune115, May 22, 2010 at 2:15 am Link to this comment

These celebrities really thinkt the world takes them seriously as social commentators. Madonna slams Malawi (and what happened in Malawi is awful)but her conscious apparently isn’t tickled when she visits and glorifies Israel without ever bothering to mention Palestinians or the occupation.

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