When Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in 1649, he embarked upon one of the worst campaigns of ethno religious cruelty in history.
It is very easy to castigate such figures as being motivated by simplistic malevolence. Epithets such as ‘sociopath’ and ‘psychopath’ might be true of one individual, but they do not explain why some of the places that he attacked have names like ‘Scarlet Street’, because of the high volumes of blood that filled their paths as his soldiers rampaged. How did they become convinced of the necessity of torturing, raping and murdering to many Irish people? How did they lock nuns in convents and set them on fire? How did they set fire to churches with people inside of them? How did they put babies up on spikes?
The simple fact of it, was that they had been told that this is what the Gaelic Catholic Irish had done to Protestants years previous. Cromwell’s men were familiar with tales of similar brutality, by believing them they were radicalised into doing similar to Irish Catholics once they arrived on the shores of Drogheda and Wexford and other places. They had heard stories of Protestant babies being put on spikes in 1641 and of ‘massacres’ of Protestants during the efforts to liberate Catholics of cruel and brutal English Protestant rule. You can see these images today, they still adorn the banners of the anti Catholic Orange Order.
This same psychological trick is being used in Canada.
A Residential Home’s ‘mass grave’, which may very well include the nuns who died there also, has now become ‘a mass grave of murdered children’. Is there evidence that children were murdered there? No. Is there evidence that children were abused there? In a home that was maintained for a century or so with thousands present there at a time, it statistically impossible that some were not. Did the church orchestrate the mass killings of children in a concentration camp style execution? No.
Yet that latter narrative is now taking off.
It is an insult to natives to simplify their struggles as being the fault of the Catholic Church, which did as it always did and tried to help children who had no other assistance. The mortality rates of such poor children, the destitute conditions and the quick spread of disease in confined spaces with shared sanitation, they are all issues apart from whatever institutional abuse may have occurred as they do in any place that houses such large numbers of children.
The Canadian media are now doing what their Anglo Protestant counterparts in Ireland and the United States have also done, blaming the Catholic Chuch for the problems exacerbated by the British Empire. Christopher Columbus gets the blame for the mistreatment of Native Americans, despite the fact that they became a displaced class under the Anglo Protestant United States in the 19th Century, not before. Many Anglo Protestant public figures in Ireland and elsewhere might do such things as call Columbus a ‘murderer’, whilst not even being aware of the Trail of Tears and other such genocidal initiatives. In Ireland, many might not be aware that the Mother and Baby Homes were a Protestant invention, not to mention those who voted for abortion because of the certainty that 800 babies were ‘found dumped in a septic tank’, when no such discovery has ever been made, as a recent official report confirmed.
90% of Canada’s homeless in 2021 are natives, it is implausible to consider that Canadians have suddenly grown enough of a conscience to want the best for them.
What is actually taking place is that Canadian leftists and members of Antifa have hijacked the cause of the natives, in this very specific instance (forgetting that many Residential Schools were run by Protestants too) in order to use it as an excuse to carry out terrorist attacks on Catholic Churches. Boko Haram or ISIS do not convince people to kill Christians out of any simplistic cruelty, they have woven lies into truth over and over again in order to do so. Take for example the European country that has dealt with the highest volume of anti Catholic terrorism in recent years, France. Despite France’s brave opposition to the criminal Iraq War, France has suffered the most from Islamist terror, with Catholics being beheaded at Mass, even a priest having had this done to him. The truth, the war in Iraq killed many Muslims. The lie, that the Catholic Church was somehow involved (it opposed it more than anyone), that France was involved (it opposed it more than anyone) or that Christianity benefited (82% of Iraqi Christians were expelled or killed).
Canada’s terrorists are no less terrorists just because they are from a wealthy country or just because they speak English. They employ the same tactics that others do. It is time for Canadian Catholics to start calling for an end to this terrorism.
They can begin by calling these people what they are, ‘terrorists’.
Ken Moore
