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Radio Maryja is, according to anti-clerical and neo-communist elements, a controversial conservative Catholic radio station in Poland founded December 8, 1991. Its director is Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Radio Maryja supported the victorious Law and Justice party and Lech Kaczynski during the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland (Sep/Oct 2005).

Finances and ownership

The radio station is owned by the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (Warsaw Province), and is financed through donations from its audience. However, Mayja is not the official radio channel of the church.

Audience

The radio is listened by approx. 1,2 million people daily, althoug the station claims that it is listened to by well over 10% of adults in Poland[1].

Accusations of it being a hate radio

Radio Maryja represents a viewpoint that isn't represented by any other media in Poland. It concentrates chiefly on social problems, as well as the strong influences of the post-communist elements in the country. It is also opposed to homosexuality in the form of a fundamentalism. These points do not fit into the lines of the mainly liberal and post-communist media, who have started attacking the radio, generally by means of falsitude and manipulations, as the recent TVN program, "Rydzyk,s Empire", shows, where it was proven that material was fabricated and used for propaganda purposes.

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-'''Radio Maryja''' is a controversial conservative [[Catholic]] radio station in [[Poland]] founded [[December 8]], [[1991]]. Its director is Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Radio Maryja supported the victorious [[Law and Justice|Law and Justice party]] and [[Lech Kaczynski]] during the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland (Sep/Oct [[2005]]).
+'''Radio Maryja''' is, according to anti-clerical and neo-communist elements, a controversial conservative [[Catholic]] radio station in [[Poland]] founded [[December 8]], [[1991]]. Its director is Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Radio Maryja supported the victorious [[Law and Justice|Law and Justice party]] and [[Lech Kaczynski]] during the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland (Sep/Oct [[2005]]).
 ==Finances and ownership==
-The radio station is owned by the [[Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer]] (Warsaw Province), and is financed through donations from its audience. Radio Maryja is, according to a Polish law giving special rights to the Catholic Church, not bounded by any accountancy rules, so Radio Maryja does not have to prove the sources of financing for the radio channel (as well as their other media outlets). However, Mayja is not the official radio channel of the church. The official radio channel of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in Poland is Radio Jozef, and the church has banned Maryja from the use of  their offices. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2289567.stm]
+The radio station is owned by the [[Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer]] (Warsaw Province), and is financed through donations from its audience. However, Mayja is not the official radio channel of the church.
 ==Audience==
-The radio is listened by approx. 1,2 million people daily, although, as the survey on European Hate Radios has written, the station claims that it is listened to by well over 10% of adults in Poland[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2289567.stm]. Its audience peaked in 1998, when the radio had 2 million listeners according to independent mareket researchers{{fact}}.
+The radio is listened by approx. 1,2 million people daily, althoug the station claims that it is listened to by well over 10% of adults in Poland[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2289567.stm].
+==Accusations of it being a hate radio==
-==Hate Radio==
+Radio Maryja represents a viewpoint that isn't represented by any other media in Poland. It concentrates chiefly on social problems, as well as the strong influences of the post-communist elements in the country. It is also opposed to homosexuality in the form of a fundamentalism. These points do not fit into the lines of the mainly liberal and post-communist media, who have started attacking the radio, generally by means of falsitude and manipulations, as the recent [[TVN]] program, "Rydzyk,s Empire", shows, where it was proven that material was fabricated and used for [[propaganda]] purposes.
-A recent survey on European "hate radios" prepared by Radio Netherlands indicated Radio Maryja is controversial. According to this survey, one of Radio Maryja programmes is "Unfinished Conversations", which is, according to magazine 'Polityka', "dominated by intolerance and authoritarianism. It puts absolute blame on privatisation, all reforms, the market economy, the Jews and liberals." {{fact}}
-*'''Antisemitism'''. Critics [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/poland.htm] say that the radio station cross the line into [[xenophobia]] and [[anti-Semitism]]. Many fragments of such radio broadcasts are presented in comic websites, that heve recenty emerged, such as the website [http://www.ojciec-dyrektor.de Emigranci]. The examples stored there show that Radio Maryja listeners were for example informed that the Jewish people fled from Poland with Jewish Gold [http://www.emigranci.net/mp/01.mp3 listen], that Jewish People cause that the quantity of Polish children to diminish [http://www.emigranci.net/mp/dzieci.mp3 listen].
-*'''Conspiracy theories'''. It is often repeated that the masonry rules the world and that the [[Jew]]s will conquer the world [http://www.emigranci.net/mp/bijzyda.mp3 listen]. It was once said that the Jews rule the country and their government should be removed with violence and Radio Maryja should take the power [http://www.kunstsachverstaendige-von-baranow.de/manifestacja.mp3 listen]. Jewish People working in [[World Trade Center]] were accused of betrayal and conspiracy (that they knew everything before). Even the words of German chancellor G. Schroeder about Poland were falsified.
-*'''Rejection of Holocaust'''. In January 2000 Ryszard Bender, a historician from Lublin Catholic University announced on the waves of Radio Maryja, that Auschwitz was not a place of mass extermination, but a place of hard work{{fact}}. Bender openly rejected the Holocaust, by saying that Jews have only worked in Auschwitz. This statement renewed a long-lasting debatte about Radio Maryja in Polish media.
 ==External links==
 *[http://www.radiomaryja.pl/english.htm Official website]
-* [http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/media/dossiers/hateradioeur.html Radio Netherlands feature on controversial European radio stations including Radio Maryja]
+* [http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/media/dossiers/hateradioeur.html Radio Netherlands feature on "controversial" European radio stations including Radio Maryja]
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