Raymond Ibrahim, Gatestone Institute, 11/23
A map, published by Christianophobie.fr, which marks with a red pin every spot where a church in France was attacked between just 2017-2018, looks like a war zone. Virtually the entire map of France is covered in red. Even Snopes, which presents itself as the final arbiter on what is real or fake news, admitted the accuracy of the map, while trying to minimize its findings…
- One wonders if [Snopes] would be so casual if a Christian vandalized a mosque, or broke into a mosque while screaming Christian slogans?
Christian churches are under attack throughout Western Europe, with very recent examples from Austria, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
No Western nation, however, seems to experience as many attacks on its churches as France, once known as the “Eldest Daughter of the Church.”
Investigative journalist Amy Mek tweeted on July 1, 2023:
“Attacks on Churches are the norm in France; two Churches a day are vandalized — they are being burned, demolished, and abandoned, and their adherents are being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. Priests are under constant threat. At what point will France’s open border politicians be held responsible?”
That last question inadvertently identifies the culprits — namely, migrants from the Muslim world, where attacks on churches are not abnormal.
In July 2023, for instance, Muslims attacked and desecrated several churches in France, by breaking the doors and windows of one church and spray-paintinganti-Jesus and pro-Muhammad graffiti on its walls. The men also torched at least two historic churches — a 16th century church in Drosnay, and the 12th centurySaint-Georges De La Haye-Descartes church — after general riots prompted by the June 27 police shooting of Nahel Merzouk, a Muslim criminal.
Not only did French authorities pretend that these two heritage churches simply “caught fire” — “probably due to a storm” — but they insisted that it was the police killing that prompted otherwise peaceful Muslims to riot at all.
If this was the case, what does one make of the fact that Muslims have been attacking churches in France for decades? Below is a recent sampling of attacks that occurred before the June 27 shooting of Merzouk:
June 26: Saint-Lazare church, which stands near another church that was heavily vandalized by Muslims on July 5, was desecrated and robbed.
June 20: A “gang of college students” stormed into the Saint Roch Church in Nice, mockingly doused themselves with holy water, and began shouting “Allahu akbar,” which, the report notes, is “regularly heard during Islamist attacks.” The first deputy mayor of Nice, Anthony Borré, responded in a letter to his apparently indifferent higher ups, urging them to take such matters seriously:
“Since October 29, 2020 and the Islamist attack on the Notre-Dame Basilica in our city [when another “Allahu akbar” yelling Muslim slaughtered two French women—one by beheading—and a man inside a church], you are not unaware of how traumatic it can be for our fellow citizens to hear such remarks within a church and the painful memories that they can revive. Faced with these attempts to destabilize society and with the attacks on our secular Republic, we must provide a strong and collective response.”
June 23: Three Muslims, aged between 12 and 13, barged into Saint Joseph Church in Nice, during an afternoon mass, and also began shouting “Allahu akbar.” Nice, it bears remembering, is also where another Muslim murdered 84 people in 2016.
June 12: After breaking into church property, a gang of Muslims — described only as a “group of young people” — savagely beat Fr. Joseph Eid of Notre-Dame-du-Liban parish and called him a “dirty Christian.” While fleeing intervening passersby, they spewed other “anti-Christian insults.”
Muslims also thrashed the 80-year-old Catholic priest of Saint Vincent de Paul in Saint-Étienne. After knocking Fr. Francis Palle to the ground, they continued beating and kicking the octogenarian, until he fell unconscious (last reported he was in critical condition). Although this attack occurred on June 30, three days after the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, the diocese said that it had nothing to do with the riots, but was, rather, standard fare.
June 3, The Church of Mailhac was heavily vandalized.
May 28: Several “unidentified” people broke into and vandalized the Saint-Laurent church in Cugnaux, which has a large Muslim presence: they defaced a crucifix, overturned candles onto the ground, and damaged icons — before setting the church aflame. A passerby, however, quickly intervened, including by calling the fire department which arrived swiftly and put out the flames. In response, Albert Sanchez, the mayor of Cugnaux, called for more “dialogue and understanding between the different religious and cultural communities of our city,” since “diversity is our strength and our pride.”
May 4: “Long live Islam,” as well as Arabic writing, were found spray-painted on the walls of a church in Lieusaint in Seine-et-Marne. The report adds that “This is not the first time this church has been vandalized… Several statues had been damaged and knocked over.”
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It should have been abundantly clear, even before the influx of Moslem immigrants began, that Moslems would never live at peace with western democratized peoples when their religion calls for subjugating them all for their Allah, whether by hook or by crook.
Democracy for Moslems simply means removing all who are not Moslems and replacing them with Moslems who obey Islamic laws. That’s by hook.
By crook means unhesitatingly resorting to violence, which means by the sword.
That’s understood without saying, so who insisted on using them to invade us? And why?
Jihad is by the sword and they’re all prepared to carry it out.