Note that all the statues and icons have their faces destroyed our eyes gouged out. Islamic authorities consider that it is sufficient to destroy the representation of the face in order to ruin the image as a representation of the human form. That’s why the nose of the Sphinx is gone (which Islamic apologists blame on Napoleon’s troops having target practice) and why still-functioning churches in the Balkans have eyeless icons (which Islamic apologists blame on superstitious Christians using the paint of the eyes in potions).
Anyway: shhh! Do not speak of this! “Talk about extreme, militant Islamists and the atrocities that they have perpetrated globally might undercut the positive achievements that we Catholics have attained in our inter-religious dialogue with devout Muslims.” — Robert McManus, Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts, February 8, 2013
“The churches of Yabrud in ruins,” from al-Akhbar, April 1 (thanks to Filip):
Although the gunmen are gone, their sectarian fingerprint on Yabrud remains. All you have to do is visit St. Mary’s Greek Catholic Church to see the destruction. Icons have had their faces scratched out, church pews have been broken, statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ have been smashed, and the church Bibles have been burned.
(Photo: Haitham Moussawi)
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ibn Muslim says
Remember the Golden Calf episode? This Muslims has consecrated the church!
Christians are welcome to come to mosques and destroy all golden, bronze and wooden statues and icons!
Reality Check says
Who cares about your bloody mosques? We are not the animals you are and don’t damage the holy places of others. I wouldn’t even spit at any of your mosques because my spit has more value!
Stephen Poole says
… Jehovah’s Wtnessess don’t revere statues and icons either, ibn Muslim … Yet we don’t go around destroying the ones of those who do … See :
http://www.jw.org/en/
… Just sayin’ … Take care, ibn Muslim … SP OX …
mariam rove says
f…off.m
Stephen Poole says
… Just in case that comment was meant pour moi, M Rove :
… Freedom of speech/religion, or not/association/assembly are all allowed in the free world …
… Freedom of physical action/reaction are all governed by penal codes in that same world …
… Just sayin’ … TC M Rove … SP OX … … And, pardon my French !! … HaHaHaHa !! …
mariam rove says
so sooooooory! This was not meant for you as it was meant for IBn Muslim! Somehow either I made a mistake or the system did, My profound apologies. M
Stephen Poole says
… JW has bin havin’ a problem with comments not posted/comments posted out of order especially since their DDoS … I had to put this OutOfOrder, ’cause their site wouldn’t let me respond to your apology M Rove … I’ll tell them again … TCMFMR … SP OX …
Stephen Poole says
… Oh f**k, M Rove !! … Its me !! … JW works a bit differently than 2 days ago … OX …
Champ ✿ says
Evil perp “ibn muslim” wrote:
Christians are welcome to come to mosques and destroy all golden, bronze and wooden statues and icons!
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This suggestion coming from someone who follows the “Perfect Man” …ibn muslim and muhammad are both evil perps.
Bradamante says
Do you honestly believe that consecration requires violence and violation of others’ cherished beliefs, even when they’ve done no harm to you? I could never worship a god who demanded that I treat other people so shamefully.
ibn Muslim says
> violation of others’ cherished beliefs
They are WRONG beliefs! And idol worship is EVIL!
Angemon says
The dimwitted ibn Muslim posted:
“They are WRONG beliefs!”
What are the RIGHT beliefs? Worshiping an illiterate pedophile mass murderer?
“ And idol worship is EVIL!”
Tell that to the millions of braindead worshipers of an illiterate pedophile mass murderer who dance around and kiss a black stone in Kaaba.
southeuropean says
So,art is evil? You are a fascist and you will be punished for that. Sooner or later,there will be justice.
Stephen Poole says
… Maybe I’m just mixed-up, ibn Muslim … According to what I believe, Xmas trees, presents & lights are all wrong, too … Let’s us get together next Yule and burn down all o’ the homes with these “pagan” symbols in Windsor Ontario Canada … But, bring an army IM ’cause we gonna be busy then !! … SP OX …
big mess says
but if i idolise my shoes it’s none of your bloody business, and if you believe that’s what christians do when depicting revered “saints” you’re so dumb, and if you’re a muslim you worship a pagan STONE (hahaha, a stupid stone, so revealing it’s embarrassing) and if i made you choose between me worshipping you or murdering you, you’d know immediately which is silly, which is EVIL. Yet that’s what muslims do every day, EVIL. because Islam is STUPID EVIL.
ibn Muslim says
You have no arguments. You just say stay idol worship is OK. Are you not afraid of hell fire for spreading wrong beliefs?
Rob Crawford says
“idol worship is EVIL!”
So you won’t mind my Koranic toilet paper, then.
(I tried using it for tinder, but the smell of brimstone never went away.)
Rob Crawford says
Why do YOU spread evil beliefs?
Bradamante says
Christians don’t worship idols. But Muslims do violently attack people who have done nothing to them.
Islamisdeath says
You idiot the statues are not idols. I am protestant so we do not have statuary in our churches but I know Catholics do not worship the statuary. An idol is a statue that is believed to contain the spirit of a diety. Catholics do not think the statuary contains the spirit of dieties.
You may not worship idols but you do worship a satanically posessed man. After all you believe the koran was written by god yet Mo acted in direct contradiction of the koran numerous times. You believe if mo did it its ok even though god, your fake god, stated in the koran not to do a certain thing. Therefore you elevate mo over god.
Islam is satanic period!
Bezelel says
Anything you think is evil, then make sure you don’t do it yourself and leave everyone else alone.
http://thegodguy.wordpress.com/
Chris q says
I’ll just take a piss on the Qur’an thanks
Rob Crawford says
The true holy of holies in a mosque is the arsenal.
Jerry says
It is about time that Christians demolish the Idolatory Shrine called the Kaaba.
mr chips says
Cue worldwide outrage, rioting, claims of offence, claims of racism, claims of being marginalised, burning of buildings, death threats, murders…..oh wait, it’s only when the religion of peace is attacked that these things happen.
richado says
If so talk about something from the Bible such as the golden calf episode , then you must accept from Genesis that God made man- both male and female-in His image and likeness. So when Muslims murder non-Muslims you desecrate God’s work. And all you are doing is some meaningless cherry picking. The golden calf episode has nothing to do with Christian iconography and art.Do you actually know anything about the history and theology of icons? In Islam, God given reason is not used and this is nothing short of desecration.
By desecrating these icons you desecrate the images these icons represent i. e God’s images. Because of the Incarnation – which I assume you Muslims accept, since you say you accept the Bible- then Christ and His saints can be represented as icons point to the divine reality. Christians venerate icons, they do not worship them as some fallen Hebrews did in Exodus when they worshiped a statue of a creature. The golden calf represented the worship of gold, and it pointed to something evil. By the way, something that Mohammad promised to his followers – gold and booty- otherwise they wouldn’t have followed him. Similar.
If one has a photograph of a loved one, then one looks at it with affection, it is an affection directed at a real person. If one tears it up out of rage, that rage is being directed at the real person- and who knows one may actually do something to that person. The same when one murders a person- made in the image and likeness of God. Thus, the destruction of those icons cannot be separated from the constant murder and persecution of Christians. In Islam, Muslims do not believe human beings are made in the image and likeness of God. But this is the historical basis of all human rights- something which came out of Christendom. And obviously, Muslims do not believe in the Incarnation- the basis of iconography- which btw had yet not occurred in times of Exodus. Muslims only have caricature of Jesus- their perversion of the true Son of God.
But then all this is probably meaningless to you. One doesn’t have to accept iconographic theology but, at least, an educated and reasonable person should try to understand what orthodox Christians believe and why. Why are you afraid to learn? Christophobia?
gravenimage says
The appalling ibn Muslim wrote:
This Muslims (sic) has consecrated the church!
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What *utter crap*. These destructive Mohammedans had no interest in “consecrating” the church.
Moreover, Muslims consider *everything* about a church profane—not just icons and images.
Muslims have attacked and destroyed churches that contain no images whatsoever.
And more than that: they have slaughtered the worshippers, as well.
Art and statuary = Haram. Bloody butchery = perfectly Halal!
God, I hate Islam.
mariam rove says
Only animals are capable of such a destruction. Islamic and jihadist animals and they are no shortages of them. M
Charli Main says
Coming to the churches and cathedrals in your town soon, as the Muslim invaders tighten their grip on Europe, Canada, USA and elsewhere.
Destroying Churches and Hindu temples and replacing them with Mosques is one of the overriding objective of the Muslims.
The visual proof of Islam´s superiority over other peoples and their religions.
gravenimage says
It’s already started, Charlie:
“Vienna: Muslim vandalizes four churches after listening to Islamic chants”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/vienna-muslim-vandalizes-four-churches-after-listening-to-islamic-chants
Chabuco says
Bu… bu… but r̶u̶s̶s̶o̶p̶h̶o̶b̶i̶a̶ islamophobia!
Reality Check says
I worked as a tourist guide in some Christian churches for several years after university graduation and these photos make my heart bleed. There was one particular church where the eyes of the painted saints were gouged out. Nobody could explain why but your article has finally answered my question – that church stood during the 500-year Muslim rule in my country and the breathtakingly beautiful murals must have been damaged by the Turks.
CornHolio says
Keep in mind that Allahu Akbar does not simply mean “God is great”. It actually means, “My God is greatER.”
Allah is captain of the cheerleading squad, angry at every pretty new recruit, and ready to scratch their eyes out.
Jerry says
Just a strange coincidence that akhbar means a mouse in Hebrew.
nabi sange says
Oh, I see. Allah is a mouse.
Will Doohan says
You sure that’s not ‘Louse’?
voegelinian says
Or more precisely, Allah is a henotheistic chieftain War God who has not only promised his followers that he will eternally torture the followers of all other gods, but also commands his followers to pitch in and actively fight and kill the followers of all other gods.
Theomachy (a war among the gods) is a common term in the study of comparative religions and religious history. It has for the most part an antiquated concept no longer relevant to today’s religions — with one giant exception: Islam, which in our time continues to promote a theomachy which is a vividly relevant concept in their religious culture and holy texts. What also distinguishes Islam is the massive translation of what should be a strictly otherworldly theological concept (a war among the gods not involving humans and usually in ancient mythology believed to have happened long ago in the mists of time often even before the creation of mankind), into a massively human project: in Islam, the theomachy is clearly a real and ongoing battle and the Mesopotamian War God Allah wants his human followers to wage this war on the front lines of Creation, so to speak.
Jerry says
Why do Muslims precede their call to prayers “Bsmill Allah Rahmani Rahim” when, in fact, their concept of Allah is of a God which is neither “Rahmani” nor “Rahim”?
dumbledoresarmy says
Two possibilities.
One is that they’re applying the Big Lie principle. Sort of like in Orwell’s 1984 – “Freedom is Slavery” “Ignorance is Strength”.
The other is that it is a “warding off” gesture: like the Greeks calling the Furies the “Eumenides”, or like the ancient Irish calling the terrifying Sidh “the Good People”.
Bradamante says
That is one of the most thoughtful and interesting comments I’ve seen in a long time. So is your other one below.
gravenimage says
Dumbledore’s Army wrote:
The other is that it is a “warding off” gesture: like the Greeks calling the Furies the “Eumenides”, or like the ancient Irish calling the terrifying Sidh “the Good People”.
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Yes, DDA—I’ve mentioned this phenomenon several times before.
It is notable that in most instances verses which describe Allah as “the merciful and compassionate” are often followed by passages where Allah is at his most savage.
dumbledoresarmy says
It’s difficult to put into words what I see when I see those statues with heads cut off or faces smashed, and those icons with the eyes gouged out.
Because what I see is diabolical rage and hate and sadistic lust for power enacted upon unresisting objects. The mohammedans have done to the statues and the icons what they would also like to do (and often *have* done) to **living people**: to Christians, Jews, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Buddhists. Not only kill, but *smash to bits*, mutilate; obsessive overkill. This is *exactly* the same kind of thing as mohammedan mutilation of the dead bodies of those whom they have previously murdered in Jihad; it is no different from the obscene torturing to death of Kriss Donald, Ilan Halimi, Gavriel and Rivkah Holzberger.
Islam literally defaces, not only statues or pictures but *people*. It blinds, or removes, or covers, the eyes, the windows of the soul. All over the world it is represented by the strutting, gun-toting masked thug and the faceless (under niqab or burqa) woman. It might be visualised as a horde of headless bodies: every man reduced to a walking phallus, every woman reduced to a pudendum (sans clitoris, into the bargain) on legs.
The psycho (or trained-to-be-psycho) bullies and thugs and camp followers of the Ummah cut off their own heads and remove their own eyes – I speak metaphorically – and then proceed to cut off heads and gouge out eyes.
Islam: the cult of mutilation, beheading, defacement. They cut off their own heads – leaving their brains in the bin beside the entrance to the mosque – and then proceed to ecstatically cut off the heads of others.
Bradamante says
Your comment is wonderfully perceptive, and makes me think about the extreme efforts of denial that the “useful idiots” have to engage in in order to pretend that Islam is the same as all other religions. The evidence of pathology is proudly displayed, again and again.
Whereas Western Civilization has championed the dignity of the human spirit and the rights of the individual, Islam stands for the rageful mutilation and destruction of the human being. The contrast could hardly be more stark.
gravenimage says
Dumbledore’s Army wrote:
It’s difficult to put into words what I see when I see those statues with heads cut off or faces smashed, and those icons with the eyes gouged out.
Because what I see is diabolical rage and hate and sadistic lust for power enacted upon unresisting objects. The mohammedans have done to the statues and the icons what they would also like to do (and often *have* done) to **living people**: to Christians, Jews, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Buddhists. ..
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I couldn’t agree more. As horrified as I am to see the destruction of these statues and icons as religious images, as art, and as historical artifacts, what *most* disturbs me is that what destructive Mohammedans have done to these statues they would and have done to the living people who worship at these churches.
God, I hate Islam.
Mawloud Ould Daddah says
MAY ASSAD PREVAIL,AMEN,AMEN
Wellington says
All iconoclasm stems from an inability to allow for, to tolerate, differences. It hides behind theological purity often times but it is ultimately a stupid and repressive approach to art (a fine example, it could be argued, where art does indeed trump religion).
The Byzantine Emperor, Leo III (and his son, Constantine V), were iconoclasts and look at the result—–almost no Byzantine art existent before the late 8th century. How is that a good thing? What sensible God would think this a good thing? (N.B., Allah is not a sensible God.) In defense of Leo, however, I would note that he did stop the Muslim bastards at the Battle of Constantinople in 717, the very year of his accession to the throne. Oh well, lose one, win one. (Many historians over generations have opined that Leo primarily went into looney iconoclastic mode so as to nullify Islam’s iconoclasm. Even if so, I would argue this still doesn’t exculpate Leo here. After all, wrong is wrong and stupid is stupid, regardless of the motive. But I digress.)
In any case, any iconoclastic tendencies in Christianity disappeared long ago (though John Calvin is culpable here too——are you reading this, Kepha?). By contrast (no surprise here), Islam is as retrogressive as ever. That’s because Islam never learns. Never. One of many reasons to despise it. And there are, after all, so many reasons to do so. So many. Sometimes it seems a countless number.
enwhitenment says
One man’s art is another man’s idol.
Just like the pet dog that sulks away if it thinks it is in trouble.
Or the child or adult who is punished more by their conscience than they would have received for their wrongdoing.
The conscience guilt is what drives the lack of confidence in islamists.
Which is why their are all ways on the defensive & believe all are against them.
It is this guilt of following a belief that they know may not be true to God that drives their hatred for themselves & all others.
By disfiguring art they show that they themselves cannot escape idolatry
Believing that if the eyes cannot see & the nose cannot smell then their identity may not be revealed & their sins will go unpunished.
The fire they feel inside is just a taste of what they are to become.
Salah says
Egyptian Muslims…respecting the Qur’an!!!
Video
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/01/egyptian-muslims-tear-up-quran.html
duh_swami says
Destroying a church and its trappings, is sunnah. Didn’t Mahound destroy all the stone idols in Kaaba except the Allah rock? He destroyed all those stone idols but kissed the black rock. There is no evidence it kissed him back.
Eddiethed says
Muhammad was a Pedophile and a Murder,Thief an just a filthy man his soul is rotten in Hell that is where all Moslems end up,Islam is Filth,take a frigen bath.
EyesWideOpen says
And these are the people we want to win in Syria?!
This just goes to show that this “Religion of Peace” is made up of criminals, rapists, bloodthirsty killers and cannibals (remember the Syrian rebel who ate the heart of a slain soldier) and we should not accommodate them in the Western World anymore. Send them all back to the desert then nuke the entire region excluding Israel.