Burning the wrong cars?

It is ironic that the victims of the recent cowardly acts of arson are the Jesuits rather than columnists, opinion-formers or cartoonists of scant faith.

Why are these perpetrators targeting the Jesuits rather than the property of our prolific columnists? After all, these columnists are as publicly in favour of illegal immigrants as the Jesuits themselves. I doubt if there has ever been a single columnist who expressed ideas these criminals would find congenial. Why then are only the Jesuits suffering these attacks?

Could it be because these delinquents clearly recognise that the sterling work carried out by the Jesuits is far more detrimental to the cause of racism than any sermon from our vociferous columnists?

However, there could be another reason stemming from a perhaps unsuspected bond between the criminals and our columnists. Both parties are, at heart, fundamentally anti-clerical and anti-Catholic. Only their mode of expression differs. With the Catholic Church firmly in their reticule, the columnists and cartoonists resort to the pen, the arsonists to their incendiary devices. Despite their lip-service to the cause of humanity, the ceaseless attacks of most of the local media on the Catholic Church undermine the only institution which has made any significant contribution to the welfare of the illegal immigrants among us.