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Madonna Offends in Warsaw, Poland by Performing on Uprising Anniversary

Madonna Offends Poland by Performing There on 1944 Warsaw Uprising Anniversary, Irks Catholics Too

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Madonna’s concert tour continues to be rocked by controversy, this time in Warsaw where the pop star met bitter criticism for performing on the solemn day Poland memorializes the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

Her concert began just hours after sirens blared during which citizens stand for a minute of silence to honor the Polish revolt against the Nazis 68 years ago, when an estimated 15,200 Polish insurgents were killed or went missing and an estimated 200,000 civilians were subsequently murdered by the Nazis. More than half a million were deported from Warsaw and some 25% of the city’s buildings were left in rubble. Madonna’s concert began as the nation’s Catholic worshipers held memorial prayer services, according to media reports.

An online petition organized by the “Youth Crusade” gathered 54,000 signatures asking the concert be canceled out of respect for those killed. It read:

“August 1 is a day of remembrance in Poland. We pay our respects to those who survived and those who perished in the uprising. We won’t allow the desecration of our hallowed symbols.”

Haaretz offers more details on the protest the pop star met leading up to the concert:

Promotional posters adorning the city days before the show were sprayed with black paint and symbols of the uprising.

“People who have no love for the motherland are urging our youth to go to watch dances by half-nude women instead of paying their respects to heroic warriors,” said parliament members from the right-wing opposition party Law and Justice ‏(PIS‏).

Meantime, members of the Catholic youth association, under the direction of local priests, held a mass vigil in Warsaw, deriding the Madonna concert as being “in opposition to sacred Christian values,” and as “a profane desecration of the faith of the Polish people. The concert’s goal is to ridicule God and our religion.”

Haaretz reports that concert organizers claim they didn’t know the significance of the date when the concert was booked and said the singer would honor the Warsaw Uprising during the sold-out show.

Madonna screened a two-and-a-half minute World War II-era newsreel about the 1944 uprising in the beginning of her show, AFP reported, quoting the Polish PAP news agency.

According to the BBC, the spokeswoman for tour organizer Live Nation, Ania Pietrzak, told the Press Association: “It is an important moment in Polish history, so we have decided to remind people of that moment.”

Devout Catholics also complained about the content of her show. AFP reports:

The Youth Crusade also slammed the 53-year-old Queen of Pop’s on-stage antics as “attacking the Catholic faith… offending Jesus Christ by burning crosses and wearing a crown of thorns” as well as promoting homosexuality and pornography.

Warsaw Archbishop Henryk Hoser urged residents to pray against what he termed Madonna’s “blasphemous concert”. Poland remains one of Europe’s most devoutly Roman Catholic countries.

This latest controversy comes on the heels of Madonna’s Paris concert during which she showed a video clip containing an image of right-wing politician Marine Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead. The same video image was seen at her earlier Tel Aviv concert. She prompted boos after ending another Paris concert in July – for which tickets had cost some $300 – after just 45 minutes.

Comments (51)

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  • BelindaB
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:56am

    can’t believe people actually pay money to see this old lady try to look 21 again…she should stop touring, she should be an embarrassment to herself…grow up madonna, you are way outdated…

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    • AmericanFightingMan1
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Her intent is to destroy all that is good by mocking and ridiculing so that the young have no reverance.

      She’s done well towards her goals. There is no sanctity for this woman. There is no honor. No virtue. Just rotten flesh and bodily fluids of every type stained into her. She personifies human waste.

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    • JRook
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:45pm

      “The concert’s goal is to ridicule God and our religion.” Which of course is the real concern they have with the concert. Not what day it occurred on. That is just a cheap ploy to garner more support for their cause.

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 1:51pm

      At her age, it’s tough to stay relevant.

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 2:38pm

      She loves her black Jesus. She turned many white women against white men. She will be in hell with Obama’s mommy

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  • AnAmericanToo
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:53am

    Poor (BUT RICH) old…old…old Madonna still thinks she is a young rock star. She is old! and she looks it….she has pushed her pornographic agenda materials as entertainment and stupid people bought it.

    I recall one concert she gave a year or two back where the audience was not impressed with her performance and they didn‘t applaud or didn’t applaud ‘enough’ to stroke her ego. So rather than be gracious and realizing she was failing the audience — she stopped her performance and screamed at the audience for not appreciating her. She is alleged to have screamed something like “I am up here working my [behind] off for you. And you could at least appreciate my effort.” Should have been a hint to retire from show business.

    A faded entertainer who has been replaced by more youthful, hip, and vulgar entertainers like Lady Gaga……move over Madonna….time marches on….

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    • AmericanFightingMan1
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 12:58pm

      Think about all the young girls she has led astray. All the abortions, STD’s, drugs, evil lifestyles embarked upon by these unknowing fans. Sad. Sad. Sad.

      Parents stood by and watched. Silent. Permitting. Failure.

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  • Uidai
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:53am

    Should have drowned her out with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IaKb6DmTw

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  • BelindaB
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:49am

    madonna is just pure smut…she’s disgusting

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  • blOWS
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:40am

    Hillary’s half-sister.

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  • Moe1138
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:26am

    Ah, let’s see, France, Italy and now Poland. All have been offended. This has now become the Madonna “Offensive” tour. I love it when “Holier than thou” liberals fall flat on their faces when trying to make pointed political statements.

    I’m going to assume this will be her last tour? Seeing how well it’s going.

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  • joey g
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:25am

    another old fart trying to stay in the spotlight…what a joke she is…

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    • Thatsenough
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 3:30pm

      You know it’s the end when she starts putting the makeup on with a concrete trowel….sad and pathetic.

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:16am

    The Hollywood Hypocrite Lefties such as Madonna care not for the deaths of the Polish people or anyone else. They only care that their man of the hour, the Serial Liar Obama, gets re-elected.

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  • socialism is poverty
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:13am

    Uhhh, YEAH, of course she is, its MADONNA. Anyone who doesn’t understand how she is must have been living under a rock for 30 years.

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  • FREEDOMoverFEAR
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:08am

    15,000 polish soldiers died as well as 200,000 citizens. I bet those citizens wish they were armed as well as the soldiers. Oh wait citizens only need deer rifles to hunt, assault rifles are for soldiers only….stupid O‘rielly let’s put James Holmes and Orielly in the same room with one knife and see what happens

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  • horsefeathers99
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 11:07am

    It is an embarrassment for this country for her to bring that filth and spread it to the world, when she is in a position where she could do good instead of evil. Like our prez, she is too in love with herself.
    “Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous” Mt 13:49

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  • pandora
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:54am

    Madonna is a pinhead. She’s always been a pinhead. Self centered, now self righteous.

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  • Constantine Ivanov
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:48am

    I’d like to know if Madonna understands what a crap she is spreading or she contributes to the culture decay unconsciously?

    By the way, in the YouTube clip she sympathetically says to the audience something about tough economy. Sure… that’s why her tickets are still slightly lower than the Sun.

    Poor youth. Androgens and estrogens boiling in their brainless skulls don’t give them a chance to distinguish between real art and crappy counterfeit.

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  • tommyg524
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:40am

    highest paid sl u t out there aye.

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  • scuba13
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:34am

    What is that nasty old porn star doing in Poland?

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  • SammyStutsfruckle
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:20am

    I’m gonna laugh my butt off when angry concert goers flip her limo with her sad azz in it.

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  • IMASinner
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:00am

    This is crap! Poland did not hate Madonna. She even did a WWII Video Tribute before the CONCERT. Sad misleading Journalists. Whatever it takes to get the check eh? Very sad
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOt1DfjwVcY

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  • poorrichard09
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:52am

    Madonna has jumped the shark.

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    • CK1911
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:19am

      She jumped the shark about 20 years ago. And that’s probably not all she did with the shark, either.

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:22am

    I thought she was done trying to shock us all. Seems passe’ and desperate all at once.

    Silversmith

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  • IMASinner
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:19am

    This is ********! Poland did not hate Madonna. She even did a WWII Video Tribute before the CONCERT. WOW @ these journalists.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOt1DfjwVcY

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  • barber2
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:33am

    Madonna needs ATTENTION. She sort of represents the new Left : obnoxious , annoying, narcissistic, and anarchistic. Not sure what traditional value she can smash next. Maybe she just needs a new agent. Not one who is still IN therapy. Madonna is one of those Obama “FORWARD ” gals . Breaking old traditions and values. Even her name, Madonna, is so ” 99% ” Like the Obama Big Lie Democrats ! ( You go, girl. But I would NOT recommend the Middle East )

     
    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:23am

      Poland I’m nobody except a citizen of what hopefully remains the
      United States.
      But that being said I want to apologize for the idiots that are showing
      up in your country and heaping disrespect on you
      First it was the press now an other piece of dunge.
      Honest they do not represent a majority of Americans.
      Again I apologize

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 9:40am

      Madonna is a student of Kabbalah..Jewish mysticism..so you might say that she has been proselytized Jewish..The sect of Jews that adheres strictly to the Torah is very small..I think that there is a band of Jews in Ethiopia that are very Jewish in being very observant to the Torah…the first five books of the old testament..Kabballah as I understand is the work of Jewish sages..

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    • tzion
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:18am

      @Ashes
      If you’re referring to the Karaites, they are widely considered a radical fringe group and have been seen as such since their inception over 1000 years ago. They are a breakaway sect and are Bible literalists. For example, they would likely consider a cheeseburger made of Kosher meat and cheese to be Kosher so long as the cheese wasn‘t made from milk taken from the cow’s mother because the Torah says “Don‘t cook a cow in its mother’s milk”. To say they practice “proper” or “original” Judaism is like saying Puritans practiced the original Christianity.

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    • tzion
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 10:28am

      @Ashes
      Also, studying Jewish mysticism does not make one Jewish just as reading Matthew doesn’t make one Christian. The fact that you would even suggest such a thing is ridiculous. A Jewish convert is someone who has accepted the obligation of Jewish Law upon themselves which Madonna has refused to do. Few Jews, if any, would ever count Madonna as as being Jewish by any stretch of the imagination.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:58pm

      @TZION thank you for that information Tzion

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  • reality based lifeform
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:58am

    Yes she is an idiot but now she is being out played by Lady Gaga for most outrageous behavior so she has to ramp up her antics . Perhaps Madonna should take it up another notch and perform in the middle east during a religious holiday ? That would show Gaga

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  • FEMALL
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:20am

    What do Madonna and O have in common? O-ver.

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    • SCREW-WINDOWS
      Posted on August 2, 2012 at 8:13am

      Their both haters O hates America and Madonna hates her smelly little hometown Bay City Michigan
      unpatriotic.

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:18am

    They are all haters, racist haters! And I love it! She is nothing but a dumb bunny that thinks people who were under the communists thumb, either soviets or nazis, will put up with the nonsense they force down our throats.
    (What is the difference between National Socialism, and Communism, really? They are all about control of the masses, you and me. Other than that it is B/S!)

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on August 2, 2012 at 7:14am

    WTH is wrong with this idiot?? Does she have dementia??

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