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Vienna: Muslim vandalizes four churches after listening to Islamic chants

Apr 1, 2014 9:16 am By Robert Spencer

thadeusIbrahim A., a 37-year-old Ghanaian Muslim, is being described as a “madman.” However, he was listening to “religious music” on his iPod before he vandalized the churches. One may imagine, given what he did then, that he wasn’t playing Bach, but rather recitations of the Qur’an — perhaps a passage like this one:

And We had certainly given Abraham his sound judgement before, and We were of him well-Knowing when he said to his father and his people, “What are these statues to which you are devoted?” They said, “We found our fathers worshippers of them.” He said, “You were certainly, you and your fathers, in manifest error.” They said, “Have you come to us with truth, or are you of those who jest?” He said, “[No], rather, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth who created them, and I, to that, am of those who testify. And [I swear] by Allah , I will surely plan against your idols after you have turned and gone away.” So he made them into fragments, except a large one among them, that they might return to it [and question]. (21:51-58)

“Vandal Ibrahim A. rages in four churches of Vienna,” translated from the German story at Politically Inkorrect, March 31 (thanks to Mike):

The statue of St. Jude Thaddaeus in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna was, among other things, pushed from its base by Ibrahim A. on Saturday afternoon as he committed acts of vandalism in four churches, including St. Stephen’s. As the Archdiocese of Vienna declared on Sunday to Austria Presse Agentur, there has never before been damage to houses of worship to this extent. The total damage wreaked cannot initially even be quantified. Affected are the Lazaristenkirche in Vienna-Neubau, the parish church of Breitenfeld in Vienna-Josefstadt, and the parish church Neuottakring in Ottakring, as well as St. Stephen’s Cathedral.

When they arrested the offender at St. Stephen’s, the police knew nothing about the damage to the the other churches and released him, as is usual with a first-time offender. The damage is considerable. “We have never had this massive damage,” said the spokesman for the archdiocese. But the solution is in sight! It was done by “a madman who put himself in the mood prior to the incident by listening on his iPod to religious music,” said European church coward Toni Faber, excusing both Ibrahim and Islam. This Catholic crawler and sycophant will also bow submissively toward Mecca when a Muslim blows up the whole Steffl into the air.

“Cardinal shocked at church vandalism,” from the Vienna Times, April 1:

An attack on four churches in Vienna over the weekend that left a trail of destruction has been described by the Archbishop of Vienna as “so far the worst act of vandalism in my time as Archbishop”.

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn made the comments during a visit to Lazaristenkirche, which was one of the churches that was vandalised on Saturday afternoon. The attack left Lazaristenkirche with all of its statues and side altars largely destroyed as well as statues damaged at St. Stephen’s, the Breitenfeld church in Josefstadt and the Neuottakring church in Ottakring.

“I am shocked by the devastation in the churches,” he said. “I hope that the perpetrator or perpetrators did not know what they were doing.”

The Cardinal also said that he called for people to not be discouraged and the churches will continue to be kept open for all people.

A 37-year-old Ghanaian man was caught in the act of vandalising St. Stephan’s but was released at the time because police did not realise it was one of many attacks that that had been carried out that day. Police have since been unable to find him.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 9:48 am

    When the muezzins infest your neighborhood they will have banned or beheaded all the roosters.
    The fowl call-to-prayer does not want a fair competition.

  2. Charli Main says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 9:54 am

    A good Muslim doing what he has been instructed to do, in the Koran.
    Won´t be long before the Muslims start demanding that minarets are added to Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral so that they don’t feel “offended and discriminated against” by the Kaffirs occupying ” their Muslim country”

  3. Veracious_one says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 10:01 am

    “…a trail of destruction has been described by the Archbishop of Vienna as “so far the worst act of vandalism in my time as Archbishop”.

    he obviously hasn’t been paying attention to world events….

  4. ibn Muslim says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 11:14 am

    > I am shocked by the devastation in the churches,” he said. “I hope that the perpetrator or perpetrators did not know what they were doing.”

    Remember the Golden Calf episode? This Muslim has consecrated the church!

    • Defcon 4 says

      Apr 2, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      What do you call it when muslimes blow up synagogues? Is that also consecration? What do you call it when muslimes blow up 2000 year old statues of Buddha? Is that also consecration? What do you call it when muslimes vandalize Hindu temples? Is that also consecration? Your lies run thin.

    • Eddiethed says

      Apr 2, 2014 at 8:21 pm

      Mohammad is a rapist,child molester an Moslems when they go to Mecca they worship a rock an asteroid that is a pagen religion Islam is not a Religion it is political an all Moslems need to be kicked out of Europe an North America,I spit on all Mosques.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2014 at 8:00 pm

      The vile ibn Muslim wrote:

      This Muslim has consecrated the church!
      ………………………………..

      This vicious thug said the same thing about Muslims desecrating a church in Syria.

      Of course, he is also lying.

      Muslims have also attacked, bombed, and burned down Protestant churches that do not display images—as well, of course, as slaughtering the worshippers.

      The fact is that Muslims dot consider *any* church to be consecrated (not, incidentally, an Islamic term), unless it is turned into a mosque.

      This has, in fact, happened many times, where Muslims have simply violently seized a church and turned it into a mosque.

      Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is perhaps the most famous, but there are hundreds of others.

      Just mow Europe itself is under threat from these barbarians.

      They are no longer at the gates of Vienna, but within them…

  5. fair_dinkum says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    religious music? i thought that was banned..

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2014 at 8:10 pm

      Fair Dinkum wrote:

      religious music? i thought that was banned..
      …………………………….

      Fair Dinkum, this almost certainly refers to “Nasheeds”—somewhat rhythmic, droning chants of the Qur’an.

      This is not music, exactly—but they are, of course, full of the same sort of exhortations to violence and destruction as are any Qur’anic verses. *Ugh*.

  6. Champ ✿ says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Ibrahim A., a 37-year-old Ghanaian Muslim, is being described as a “madman.” However, he was listening to “religious music” on his iPod before he vandalized the churches. One may imagine, given what he did then, that he wasn’t playing Bach, but rather recitations of the Qur’an …

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    A madman? Indeed! Just as his ‘prophet’ before him was a complete madman. In fact, anyone who reads the quran and considers it holy is equally mad. Yeah and islam and company are wholly evil, and nothing good can ever come from evil.

  7. Burt says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 3:59 pm

    ibn Muslim,

    When you talk of the golden calf you are misunderstanding the significance of the certain verses of the Old Testament , aka the Torah which is Jewish scripture. I just know how much good will you have toward the Jewish people. Zero. I know that because your so called prophet taught you to hatred for Jews and that they are to be held in contempt. It’s in your vile, man made book of hate aka the Koran.
    Unfortunately your stupid fake prophet decided to make his own imitation of the bible. He had a very dull mind so it is a very inferior text. He obviously got a bit excited about the most violent episodes of Jewish history. He was very self serving so his made up text is modelled to justify his own particular perversions.

    Jesus Christ is God the Son, The second person of the Holy Trinity. He established the Church to provide all men the means of salvation.
    Iconoclasts like you don’t understand that ever since the incarnation it is just natural and human to depict Christ and the saints in paintings and statues.
    The Son of God even left His image on His shroud so we would be aware of how he appeared while on Earth. In other word He gave His blessing to His followers to have images of him.

    Your co-religionist committed acts of blasphemy against God in The House of God. He was inspired by your demon possessed so called prophet.

    Everyday you have the evidence before you how evil your fake religion is, you read it on this brilliant website. You must feel such a loser to have to see what vile things your co-religionists get up to on a daily basis.

    Your inverted pride which must be sick at knowing you hail from a bunch of savages who just make the world a much worse place. Nevertheless purely for partisan reasons you ignore what your brain must be telling you and lie to yourself and us that there is anything good about your evil creed.
    You all deserve to go to hell for not facing facts. It is obvious Islam is from the devil.
    Yor pal in Venice committed blasphemy, but thats not surprising, Islam itself is nothing but blasphemy.

  8. SKevin says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 9:46 pm

    Ibn~ The Goddess Hathor, She of the Calf, will live long after your testosterone-crazed distortion of the universe is dust.

  9. Dennis Trisker says

    Apr 3, 2014 at 3:27 am

    In a perverse way such acts might wake up the dormant West to their relationship with Islam. For some reason the west remains in ignorance ….and denial .

  10. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    Vienna: Muslim vandalizes four churches after listening to Islamic chants
    ………………..

    The most insane thing is that they *let this pious vandal go*. Now of course he has disappeared, to destroy (or worse) again.

    Isn’t desecrating a church considered a crime by itself? The dhimmi authorities are acting as though they only would have taken the crime seriously had they know that that he had damaged multiple churches. Suicidal madness.

    St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna is the main Catholic Cathedral, which dates to before the 14th century.

    During the Siege of Vienna in 1529 and again during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, it served as the main observation and command post for the defence of the walled city—in other words, this church was *instrumental in the defense of the city from the Muslim hordes*.

    http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQY3cCrfBOmmWB6hb78h2C4J45-wRUc_u457kJhcs6ATfVjNGfuUURsw

    More:

    As the Archdiocese of Vienna declared on Sunday to Austria Presse Agentur, there has never before been damage to houses of worship to this extent. The total damage wreaked cannot initially even be quantified.
    ………………..

    And now he’s free to do more damage…

    Here’s the Lazaristenkirche in Vienna-Neubau:

    http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTod5BDfxmmr9P7e3nd9sgTADJhj-43irpC6uxOjT9tvWurxooRq_L2Z85-

    The parish church of Breitenfeld in Vienna-Josefstadt:

    http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSR0gf2xpOVv6AuAVhDCMJGSvDxA1LK-xZKPinjeS6ah4ukkZYWI9o-_3F3

    and the parish church Neuottakring in Ottakring:

    http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR4JzG62ZUIBw7nwUeGIQVILGTSzcDV8k_So30O_erNyfBoBf4lZ8iuyz5O

    These are all ancient churches, and are all part of our common heritage. Islam wants to destroy it all.

    And this is only the start. What church, what synagogue, what memorial, what museum will be safe from Muslims?

  11. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 7, 2014 at 4:09 am

    wiki entry on St Stephens Cathedral

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen's_Cathedral,_Vienna

    I came across some more details here:

    http://eponymousflower.blogspot.nl/2014/04/ibrahim-a-ghanian-asylum-seeker-as.html

    Note this paragraph:

    “In a press release from the Police Headquarters in Vienna from 30March 2014 they describe damage to property in St. Stephen’s Cathedral:

    “On 29.03.2014 at 17:15 hours an unidentified man threw a statue of the saint in the church of St. Stephen from its marble base. A moment later the man wanted to leave the church. **Many passers-by forced the 37-year-old Ibrahim A. to the ground in front of the cathedral shop and held him until the police arrived** {my emphasis – dda}. The accused described religious reasons as his motive. He was arrested.”

    Let’s just repeat that bit, shall we? – “Many passers-by forced the 37-year-old Ibrahim A. to the ground in front of the cathedral shop and held him until the police arrived”.

    Citizens’ arrest. Germany ain’t dead yet.

    By the by: St Jude Thaddeus, whose statue in the St Stephen Cathedral was attacked and knocked over, is the Patron Saint of “Desperate Causes”; the “Saint for the Hopeless and Despairing” and “Patron Saint of the Impossible”. Hence the title of one of Rumer Godden’s novels – “A Candle For Saint Jude”.

    Sounds like he’s the right Saint for European (and other) Catholic jihadwatchers today, especially when they’re feeling particularly discouraged.

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