Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected to newly mandatory school sessions in some parts of the country.
In a heartwarming example of interfaith solidarity, ultraconservative Catholics and ultraconservative Muslims have put their differences aside to join forces in burning down some schools for teaching about consent and the existence of LGBT people.
The article only mentions Islam
doesn’t change the fact that the church is notoriously unaccepting towards personal freedom to exist whenever their God created someone non-binary. 😶🌫️
Do Roman Catholics ever go as far as to burn down schools, though?
They have gone as far as assassinating doctors and bombing abortion clinics so I wouldn’t put it beyond them
Tbf that’s probably less so because “we disagree with you” like this case and probably moreso “we believe we are genuinely saving lives”
Terrorists often think they’re the good guys and doing it for a higher cause.
Cool
Ah yes, nuclear weapons and machine guns are the same.
Would be nice if the article included any information about said sex ed program.
It is a normal sex ed program that exists since half a century as the article points out. Having to justifiy teaching children about sex, risk of stds and consent must not be justified against vile lies of extremists.
Can’t find an English article but you could find a translator of your choice for https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/09/15/geen-pornopromotie-of-genderindoctrinatie-hoe-lessenpakket-evra/ as they go decently in depth I to it.
It’s basically a tool to answer questions of children at different ages. Going from what makes boys different from girls, that consent is important, that violence in relationships is not normal or ok, that they should watch out with sending naked pictures of themselves and also that if they do get a naked picture from a partner it’s not ok to send it to others, or that what you see in porno is not at all representative for actual sex. Etc, etc.
That sounds like a great program. Thanks for looking into that for me.
Basically, when mommy and daddy love each other very much,
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Friday that he will seek the help of government experts on extremism in the wake of a series of school arsons.
De Croo spoke just hours after a sixth school in the French-speaking Wallonia region was torched this week.
The program is a required four hours of training for students aged 11 to 12 and 15 to 16, intended to help them develop their relational and sexual lives.
De Croo said that sexual education has been provided in Belgium for half a century and warned that the country will not take steps backwards.
“I would like to call on everyone to calm down and try once again to cut through the lies circulating about the Evras system,” the education minister in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Caroline Desir, said Friday.
Local media quoting the prosecutor’s office in the city of Charleroi said the investigation has not established a link between the six arsons so far.
The original article contains 544 words, the summary contains 164 words. Saved 70%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Danger! High Voltage!
Oh well, let us just wonder as to what group might be responsible.
Several Islamic groups have also condemned the program in a joint statement, fearing it will favor “hypersexualization” of children.
Ah well.
Surprise!
Why do they use the word “also” in the quote you cherry picked? Who does the “also” refer to?
It refers to conservative catholic movements.
I wonder why, when the article clearly shows that this is an interfaith movement toward intolerance and violence, the comment OP chose only to highlight Islamic involvement
I don’t fucking know, ask AP, they published the article.
We both already know the answer. It’s the people whose bigotry you chose to ignore when you were singing out muslims for being bigots.
No, we don’t both know the answer. That’s just you making assumptions, I’m guessing, based on your political views. I’m not ignoring anything I quoted the article, simple as.
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Also points a number of other fingers…
What does this even mean?
Anyway, this is the energy you need to embrace if you care about a secular society. And fuck it all if I ever submit to religious fanatical cooks.
religious fanatical cooks
My chef is Catholic but he’s pretty relaxed about it, does that count?
Is he a fanatic?
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It’s your English lacking, I don’t understand what you mean even, explain.
Point other fingers at what? It’s like you tried to write a complete sentence and failed…
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What in the everloving fuck are you talking about? I’m asking you to explain what you meant, when you said to
also point a number of other fingers
It’s not even an idiom. It just sounds like you just misquoted the actual idiom ‘pointing fingers at’
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What kind of sex education causes arson? The hands on kind.
Given that the radical religious groups and right wing extremists want to return the education and society to medieval times i find this joke completely out of place.
Acsually, modern society is more puritan than early-mid medieval
This varied wildly by time and place, just like today.
One that gets students very, very hot I assume?
