Blasphemy’s our national sport! Police charged 10,000 in the last five years

Police statistics show 9,961 persons were charged with blasphemy or ‘offensive language’ in a public place over the last five years... an average of 5.5 daily.

24 October 2010, 12:00am
by Franica Pulis

1 min read

There was once a joke that national flags in heaven waved from one side to the other according to which country had the greatest number of people blaspheming at any time, but that Malta’s flag was nowhere to be seen. God was using it as a fan in his office.

Every day in Malta police charge 5 people with blasphemy. Since 2005, in just over 9,000 cases the charge of blasphemy were accompanied by other major charges, such as breach of public order or resisting a police officer.

Even more interesting is the topography of these charges: 5,000 alone were from the southern localities of Bormla, Isla, Birgu and Kalkara, Zabbar and Xghajra, and Marsaskala.

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Alfred Galea •

So, 10,000 cases of blasphemy and only 10 cases of racism in the past ten years. We may be evil, bad and sinners but we're not racists. Thank God for that.

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Sure , because it is in the maltese minds (God God God) =(Alla Alla Alla) from childhood (muzew and school) every day Doctrine (Obsessed with the word God- So it's not thier our fault-