Polish Catholic Radio station apologises for Anti-Semitic remarks

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 [DIV class=headline]Polish radio 'sorry for offence' [/DIV]A Polish Roman Catholic radio station has apologised for broadcasting comments widely viewed as anti-Semitic. Radio Maryja, founded by an outspoken priest, was criticised for broadcasting claims that Jews made a business out of Holocaust compensation payments.  The station's Rev Tadeusz Rydzyk said he was sorry if anyone was offended, adding that the views of one columnist were not those of the entire station.  The Vatican expressed deep concern about the accusations of anti-Semitism.  [DIV class=bo] During the broadcast on 27 March, the radio's commentator Stanislaw Michalkiewicz accused Jews of "trying to force our government to pay extortion money disguised as 'compensation payments'" for property lost during and after World War II.  'Propaganda' It prompted condemnation from a Polish media watchdog and Holocaust survivors, who likened it to Nazi propaganda.  The papal representative in Warsaw, Monsignor Jozef Kowalczyk, wrote to Polish bishops urging them to deal with Radio Maryja.  But Rev Rydzyk told his listeners on Wednesday: "We're sorry if anyone felt offended by the words of one of Poland's better-known columnists. No one here wanted to harm or offend anyone.  "Our commentators are responsible for what they say and we can't subject them to censorship or force them to censor themselves, as was done under totalitarianism."



[DIV class=footer]Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/4906040.stm

Published: 2006/04/13 11:00:17 GMT

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[DIV class=footer] [img height=152 alt="Church cross and candle" hspace=0 src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41537000/jpg/_41537308_cross203i.jpg" width=203 border=0]  [DIV class=cap]The radio says its respects all humans, of all races and religions[/DIV][/DIV][/DIV]
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soapbox

recently in germany jewish protests shut down an attempt to commemorate meserschmitt (a german engineer who,among many things, in his career helped develop aircraft that were used by the german forces during the third reich)

  me thinks,that if a post war generation (that being 50 years post war) wants to commemorate a civilian engineer for his contribution to german engineering sciences they should be able without fear from activist jewish groups across germany and europe.

  yes,indeed his aircraft were used in warfare.he was not a nazi however.

  too bad.