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Massachusetts: Vandals behead, sever hands of Virgin Mary statue

Mar 30, 2016 10:39 am By Robert Spencer

There is no telling who did this. It could have had nothing to do with Islam. Or, in light of the curious fact that the head and hands were severed, the perpetrators could have been Muslims acting upon this Qur’an verse: “When your Lord inspired to the angels, ‘I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.'” (Qur’an 8:12) Also, Muslims have committed similar vandalism in many churches worldwide.

Burlington, Massachusetts isn’t all that far from Worcester, where the illustrious Robert McManus is enthroned as Roman Catholic Bishop of Worcester. McManus, in suppressing a planned talk at a Catholic conference on Muslim persecution of Christians, explained that “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.” So he is just the man for this job: he should travel to Burlington forthwith (as long as he doesn’t drive) and jump-start the local “dialogue” with Muslim leaders. If the perpetrators were indeed Muslims beheading and severing hands in accord with Qur’an 8:12, Holy McManus the Wonderworker will soon have them repairing the statue themselves! Such is the unstoppable power of “Muslim-Catholic dialogue”! Just look at all the Christians it has saved from persecution and all the churches it has preserved from destruction? What? It hasn’t saved a single Christian or a single church? Shhhh, you Islamophobe!

Decapitated Mary statue

“Vandals Behead Statues at Church In Massachusetts; No Arrests Made,” by T. Grant Benson, Breaking911, March 29, 2016 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

MASSACHUSETTS, BURLINGTON — Police Chief Michael Kent reports that the Burlington Police Department is investigating the disturbing vandalism of three religious statues at a local Catholic church.

Burlington Police responded Tuesday morning to St. Margaret Parish, located at 111 Winn St. for a report of vandalism. Upon arrival, Detective Thomas Carlson and Detective Albert Gagne noted that three religious statues had been vandalized.

Two statues, which sit at the top of a hill on the property, had their hands severed and multiple sets of rosary beads removed and scattered on the ground. The third statue, located near the rectory and depicting the Virgin Mary, had its head severed and both hands removed.

The detectives are now engaged in an active and ongoing investigation….

If anyone has any information on the vandalism or saw anything suspicious at the church, they are urged to contact the Burlington Police Department at 781-272-1212.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 10:53 am

    Whether Muslims are directly involved or not, we should never lose sight of the fact that Muslims have financed a deliberate campaign to smear and defame Christianity in the news media and on college campuses across the US to such an extent that such wonton disrespect for Christianity has infiltrated our society like the dung trail of invading cockroaches.

  2. brane pilot says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:05 am

    If current Western governments were in power in 1939, Japanese would be spoken from Hawaii to the Mississippi River, and German from the Mississippi River to the East coast.

    • Kees says

      Mar 31, 2016 at 12:10 pm

      And if Hitler had brought Nazism as religion gassing jews would be tolerated as religious freedom

  3. Ginger says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:06 am

    The Muslim migrants did this in Italy.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 31, 2016 at 2:36 am

      Yes, Ginger–that story is here:

      “Italy: Muslims Destroy and Urinate on Virgin Mary Statue”

      http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2015/01/17/italy-muslims-destroy-and-urinate-on-virgin-mary-statue/

  4. Norwegian says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:11 am

    Ok…we know what will be on the news tonight!

    Angry christians all over the world screaming, smashing enbassies, burning cars, smashing windows, burning flags and flooding the web with death-threats…..

    Uhm…wait a minute….

    • Ex-muslim says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 1:52 pm

      @ Norwegian

      I wish that was the case! (hyperbolic statement!)
      Point: Muslims respect only Power and Resolve.

  5. Sal says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:20 am

    How come the main stream media isn’t reporting this? I wonder why?

  6. Lookmann says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:29 am

    Massachusetts, you say ? Is it in Pakistan or iraq Or Turkey ?

    Don’t you know these things are ‘regular’ or ‘normal ‘ there ?

    Not a newsworthy or alarming thing , man.

  7. shosh7154 says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:31 am

    catholics behold your god

    • Angemon says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 11:38 am

      That’s muslim nonsense – the quran accused Christians of taking Mary as God, which, as far as I can tell, no Christian ever did.

      • Christianblood says

        Mar 30, 2016 at 1:20 pm

        Those evil muslims who did this definitely hate Christianity and its symbols and want all Christians convert to islam or die but they are also following the example set for them by their anti-Christian, radical secularist Western allies, such as “Piss Christ” who publicly put a figure of Saint Marry and a Crucifix in a jar, filled with urine and called it ‘arts’. I have no doubt that muslims would not have done something like this in the West if they were not encouraged and emboldened by the West’s own deep anti-Christian postmodernist attitudes.

        Read it below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 10:19 am

          “Christianblood” wrote:

          Those evil muslims who did this definitely hate Christianity and its symbols and want all Christians convert to islam or die but they are also following the example set for them by their anti-Christian, radical secularist Western allies, such as “Piss Christ” who publicly put a figure of Saint Marry (sic) and a Crucifix in a jar, filled with urine and called it ‘arts’. I have no doubt that muslims would not have done something like this in the West if they were not encouraged and emboldened by the West’s own deep anti-Christian postmodernist attitudes.
          ………………………..

          What *absolute crap* from “Christianblood”. Muslims regularly target Churches all over the world, not just in the West.

          Here are just one example:

          “Thousand Churches Destroyed in Nigeria”

          http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4986/nigeria-churches-destroyed

          There are, of course, thousands more.

          The idea that they would somehow hold off from desecrating Christian targets in the West were it not for the existence of a couple of obscure, decades-old “art” works is just ludicrous.

          And “Christianblood” does not, of course, believe this himself–this is not about Muslim violence and destruction, but about Western freedoms.

          We may not like things like “Piss Christ” and the dung virgin–*I certainly don’t*–but we have freedom of expression in the free West, something “Christianblood” hates and despises. We can and do criticize such works, but we don’t ban or destroy them. Nor would most of us want to–our freedom of expression is more important to us than its abuse by a couple of idiots like Serrano and Ofili.

          He also likes to imply that this sort of thing is rife in the West–it is not. These two pieces are so notorious because they are so rare–having been created in the 1980s and 1990s respectively.

          “Christianblood’s” implication is that Muslims would not dare desecrate a Church in Russia, because there is no freedom of expression allowing this sort of thing there.

          Sadly, of course, it is *not true* that Muslims are respectful of Christianity there:

          “Russia: seven churches burned in one year in Tatarstan”

          http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Russia:-seven-churches-burned-in-one-year-in-Tatarstan-29713.html

          “Churches burned, attacks foiled and increased pressure on Christians to convert to Islam. In Tatarstan – autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, with a Muslim majority – the extremism alarm is increasing…”

          I just wish he cared about threatened Christians–including these Russian Christians–more than he does castigating the West for her freedoms.

        • Christianblood says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 1:07 pm

          gravenimage

          I totally agree with you. I just said that muslims in the West could not have done something like this in the West if they were not encouraged and emboldened by the West’s own deep anti-Christian postmodernist attitudes. For example, if muslims in Greece or in Russia desecrate a Church there, there will be huge (public) anger and the response would be swift and punishing. In the West, there is NO emotional connection to Christianity and people wouldn’t care and (may be) the politically-correct police, who themselves probably hate Christianity) would investigate. I hope you understand what I mean…

        • Western Canadian says

          Apr 1, 2016 at 6:59 pm

          Rest assured that we do know what you mean… which is why so many posters here, express their very justified contempt for your pathetic worship of Putin, and your pathetic and ignorant hatred of the west, which for all it’s flaws, still ran the soviet union into the ground!!!

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 2, 2016 at 12:22 am

          “Christianblood” wrote:

          gravenimage

          I totally agree with you. I just said that muslims in the West could not have done something like this in the West if they were not encouraged and emboldened by the West’s own deep anti-Christian postmodernist attitudes. For example, if muslims in Greece or in Russia desecrate a Church there, there will be huge (public) anger and the response would be swift and punishing…
          ……………………………

          I’m sorry–this makes no sense. I just linked to an article that notes that Muslims in Russia burned down seven churches there.

          The idea that this could only happen in a place where Western “anti-Christian postmodernist attitudes” supposedly hold sway is clearly not the case.

          And the idea that Muslims cannot target churches in Greece is, sadly, not the case either:

          “Muslims Escalate Attacks on Churches in Crete”

          http://pamelageller.com/2014/04/muslims-escalate-attacks-churches-crete.html/

          There have been a slew of serious attacks on churches there.

          I’m sure Christians there have been distraught–but in neither Russia nor Greece have there been–for good or ill–“swift and punishing” responses.

          More:

          I hope you understand what I mean…
          ……………………………

          I certainly understand that you hate the West more than you hate Jihad, and that you will ignore anything that does not fit into your world-view.

        • Angemon says

          Apr 10, 2016 at 3:58 pm

          Christianblood posted:

          “Those evil muslims who did this definitely hate Christianity and its symbols and want all Christians convert to islam or die but they are also following the example set for them by their anti-Christian, radical secularist Western”

          Stop hitting the bottle, comrade. Muslims were forcing Christians to convert, live as dhimmies or die long before secularism or “The West” existed. We get it: you lost the Cold War and you hate the West. However, making that kind of demonstrably false assertions only harms you (and your countrymen by proxy).

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      shosh7154
      crawl back in your cave troll mole

      • Ex-muslim says

        Mar 30, 2016 at 1:56 pm

        @ Jay Boo

        Christianblood is 100% right! Westerners wrote millions of books and other forms of (Arts) to insult and to discredit and to ridicule Christianity and they even it banned from the public square! Only a fool would deny this reality!

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 10:23 am

          No, he is not correct that this is shy Muslims are targeting Christians in the West. Muslims targeted Christians for centuries, long before “modern art” ever existed.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 10:28 am

          “shy” should be “why”.

        • Mirren10 says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 11:11 am

          You may be an ex-muslim, but you have a lot to learn about freedom of speech and expression.

    • Yankel says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 12:45 pm

      Shosh

      Behold Muhammad – your pig of a prophet.

      • Hope says

        Mar 30, 2016 at 7:45 pm

        Yes, Muhammad. The vile, pedophile, rapist, sex-slaver, murdering “prophet” of all that is evil. Put that in your hookah and smoke it, shosh.

        • خَليفة says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 5:14 am

          And let’s not forget Mohammed was illiterate and had lice. And Allah blessed him with 3 sons who all died in childhood, Allah knows best, and didn’t want Mohammed to have any sins.

        • Fred Boenig says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 9:48 am

          Yes You tell them Hope- I guess you missed the part where there were large numbers of kids molested by the Catholic Priests huh? Well lets hope you study history and find it was part of all religions that involved Males- I think you might actually learn something about people who practice ANY RELIGION- they are still people and they do bad things- So if you want to talk trash about one prophet and their followers- you might start with the Catholic Church which is breaking one of the 10 Commandments by making a Graven Image of a “Virgin” woman- who by tradition was impregnated by a “God” – How old was Mary? 12? At 16 in the Middle East 2000 years ago would be an Old Maid. So I guess a God who would impregnate a young girl has issues too? Historians say According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary could have been betrothed at about 12, however, there is no direct evidence of Mary’s age at betrothal or in pregnancy. The term “betrothal” is an awkward translation of kiddushin; according to the Jewish law those called “betrothed” were actually husband and wife Also pretty much every religion describes a Virgin Birth- Now lets look at other examples of Virgin Births.

          India has a number of messengers who were divinely conceived and two of them bore the name “Chrishna” or “Chrishna the Saviour” (note the similarity with Christ). Now Chrishna was born of a chaste virgin called Devaki, Who on account of her purity was selected to become the mother of God.

          Buddha was considered and believed by his followers to have been begotten of God and born of a virgin whose name was Maya. Long before the Christian era, we read of how the divine power called the” Holy Ghost” descended upon virgin Maya. In ancient Chinese version of the story, the holy ghost is called Shing-Shin.

          The Siamese (Taiwan), had a God and saviour who was Virgin Born whom they called Codom. In this very ancient story, the beautiful Virgin had been informed in advance that she was to become the mother of a great messenger of God, and one day while in her usual period of meditation and prayer, she was impregnated by divine sun beams. When the boy was born, he grew up in a remarkable manner, became a protégé of wisdom and performed miracles.

          When the first Jesuit priest visited china, they wrote in their reports at finding a heathen religion of that country, of a story of a redeeming saviour who was born of a Virgin and divinely conceived. The God was said to have been born 3468 B.C (before Christ), his name was Lao-Tsze and was said to have been born of a virgin black in complexion and as beautiful as a Jasper.

          In Egypt, long before the Christian era, and before any of its doctrine was conceived, the Egyptian people had several messengers of God, who were conceived through Immaculate Conception. Horus was known to all of ancient Egypt as having been born of the virgin Isis and his conception and birth was considered one of the three great mysteries or mystical doctrines of the Egyptian religion. To then every incident in connection with the conception and birth of Horus was pictured, sculptured, adored and worshiped as the incidents of the conception and birth of Jesus is among the Christians today. Another Egyptian God called Ra was also conceived by a Virgin.

          I think I should stop here, because if I decide to go on the examples would be too many. But I want to add that even, Plato who was born in Athens in 429 B.C. was believed by the populace to be a divine son of a pure virgin called Perictione.
          It is recorded in the ancient record that the father of Plato who was known as Aris had been admonished in a spiritual dream to hold pure and sacred the person of his wife, until after the divine conception and birth of the child that is to come and that this child would be conceived by divine means.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 31, 2016 at 1:19 pm

          Fred Boenig wrote:

          I think you might actually learn something about people who practice ANY RELIGION- they are still people and they do bad things
          …………………………………

          Are you incapable of grasping that Islam specifically enjoins its followers to engage in violence, and that they pious Muslims do not consider such “bad things” at all?

          This is not true of any other faith.

          And we see its fruits every day with Muslim violence all over the world.

          More:

          So if you want to talk trash about one prophet
          …………………………………

          The “Prophet” of Islam was a war-lord, caravan raider, pedophile, slaver, rapist, and mass murderer–and Muslims are instructed to consider him the perfect man and model.

          No other major religious figure is like this.

          More:

          …you might start with the Catholic Church which is breaking one of the 10 Commandments by making a Graven Image…
          …………………………………

          I could note that Catholics do not actually worship such images, but why bother? Even if you believe Catholics are breaking their own commandments here, this hurts no one else. Would that you could say the same for violent Jihad.

          More:

          of a “Virgin” woman- who by tradition was impregnated by a “God” – How old was Mary? 12? At 16 in the Middle East 2000 years ago would be an Old Maid…
          …………………………………

          Actually, there is nothing in the Gospels denoting Mary’s age–as you yourself note. Would that this were true of figures in Islam. Little Aisha is noted as having been married off to the “Prophet” at the age of six, and raped at nine.

          Moreover, young girls are not being married off in Christian countries at all, let alone on the model of Mary–whereas young girls regularly suffer in Dar-al-Islam being married at primary-school age. When attempts are made to curb this practice, the ones who reject any reforms are Muslim clerics.

          Here is just one such story:

          “Pakistan: Bill banning child marriage fails after it’s deemed un-Islamic”

          http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/pakistan-bill-banning-child-marriage-fails-after-its-deemed-un-islamic

          More:

          Now lets look at other examples of Virgin Births…
          …………………………………

          Why? That is completely irrelevant here–it has nothing to do with violence on the basis of religion at all.

          Certainly, “Chrishna”–actually, “Krishna”–has no etemological link with “Christ” at all–but that is neither here nor there. Most readers here, Christian and otherwise, are familiar with the myths of virgin births in other cultures–but that is entirely off-topic.

          Our concern is the Jihad threat.

          More:

          The Siamese (Taiwan)…
          …………………………………

          Actually, no. Siam is Thailand, not Taiwan. Your scholarship is incredibly slip-shod.

          Given the mushrooming threat of Jihad–from 9/11 to 7/7 to the Boston Bombings to Paris to San Bernardino and Brussels–all 28,000+ cases–why aren’t *you* concerned with Jihad terrorism, rather than spending your time ham-fistedly trying to twit any Christians here?

        • Western Canadian says

          Apr 1, 2016 at 6:31 pm

          Is there anything more dangerous or pathetic, than the pseudo scholarship of hard left loons and probably atheists like this one?? You are an embarrassment to educated and decent atheists, everywhere.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 31, 2016 at 2:57 am

      What an ass.

  8. Angemon says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:37 am

    I’m going to go on a limb and say that this was not the work of the religious right…

  9. w says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:42 am

    Is the FBI investigating it as a “hate crime,” or is that level of concern only reserved for bacon on mosque door handles?

    • Hope says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 7:55 pm

      I see that the “Islamic Center” of Burlington. Massachusetts was vandalized last year and CAIR tried to have that prosecuted as a hate crime. The article doesn’t say what the outcome of the case was. But I’m sure no one from the Vatican will swoop in to demand the same charges in this case. The church, like the MSM and the government will quietly sweep the whole thing under the Persain rug.

  10. Jerry says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 11:46 am

    This despicable act is so in line with islam. Everything about that ugly religion screams hatred for the beliefs of others. The question for me when confronted with this distasteful meanness is not whether muslims did it. No, it’s why do we allow muslims to propagate teachings that condone it. It is feeble and hypocritical of us to get angry over a statue but excuse the murder and persecution of innocents. Islam doesn’t only hurt statues and antiquities. It’s killing innocent Americans and people abroad. All this killing for a stone age god that ain’t worth spit. So no, it’s not that important to me if a muslim did this. What’s important to me is that the muslim faith condones and praises this same kind of hate against human beings. Statues we can replace. Those killed for allah are gone forever.

  11. mortimer says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:02 pm

    First the heads and hands of statues…next, the heads and hands of live Christians.

    Are you paying attention, Bishop McManus? Robert Spencer was right. You were wrong.

    Bishop McManus, can you admit it? If Christians die in jihads in your diocese, will you admit you were wrong THEN? Or never.

    Why has the dialogue failed? How will it fail next? Can you afford to take the chance?

  12. Fred Boenig says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:13 pm

    Or young Catholic Boys tired of being molested by the Priests? Seems a stretch to blame Muslim kids since we are talking Massachusetts after all- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3296766/His-jokes-risqu-deck-cards-pictured-nude-women-man-molested-parish-priest-boy-tells-exposed-Church-pedophilia-scandal-inspired-film-Spotlight.html

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      I seriously doubt that an abuse victim would target a Virgin Mary statue.
      The movie about that topic won (was given) an Oscar by liberal Hollywood.
      Why can’t we make such a movie about the filth of Islam?
      The abundance of story material is endless.

    • Western Canadian says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 6:38 pm

      Since public school teachers are guilty of more attacks on young boys than priests…. Your comments are rather pathetic, and not in the least even vaguely devastating… But, since you are here as a hate filled bigot, nothing more can be expected of you… Oh, and ‘young Catholic Boys’, does point out the fact that the attacks were committed by homosexuals… which you are not allowed to say, so be careful, you may be in trouble with the PC police… Oh, wait, you are one! Which means that if the RC church had moved to block homosexuals from attacking young Catholic Boys, you would have screamed your hatred at them, for daring to do so.

  13. mortimer says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    Does dialogue change Islamic supremacist doctrines ? Al Walaa wal Baraa is the doctrine of Islamic apartheid. Will that change because of dialogue? Muslims curse Christians 17 times a day in their prayers. Will that change because of dialogue? No. No.

    If dialogue doesn’t stop the jihad, what is its value?

    Why not make Christians more aware of discriminatory Islamic doctrines instead? Christians urgently need to learn the following core doctrines of political Islam: 1) misogyny 2) the kafir doctrine 3) supremacism 4) Islam’s apartheid doctrine: al Walaa wal Baraa 5) the vigilantism doctrine 6) the revenge doctrine 7) theocratic fascism 8) the hejira-jihad doctrine 9) world conquest 10) unreformability.

  14. vicki says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/03/26/virgin-mary-statue-vandalized-norwood-parish/vmr28TDx0zNXbM6oWNiIVM/story.html

    It that Arabic on the base of the statue?

    • Keys says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 1:10 pm

      Yes. According to JW article “Massachusetts: Another Virgin Mary statue defaced, “Allah” painted in Arabic on its base”

    • Ashley says

      Mar 30, 2016 at 1:24 pm

      It certainly appears to be Arabic to my untrained eye…

      Personally, I find these attacks targeting statues of Mary hostile, intimidating, and threatening. I don’t believe they were merely distasteful pranks…

  15. Keys says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:49 pm

    The way the head is neatly placed in front of the body of the statue suggests a Muslim beheading to me, although that alone is not conclsive. Seems vandals with nonreligious motivation would not have placed the head as it is.

  16. ICH says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 12:59 pm

    How many people were killed over this?

    Should Obama make a speech ?

  17. Jay Boo says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 1:33 pm

    NPR and Huff PO no reaction

    A Muslim sets a room in a mosque on fire and or Murders his wife and it is immediately labeled as an I – Phobe crime.

  18. Cecilia Ellis says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    At any moment, the U. S. Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, will dispatch a team of FBI investigators to Burlington to determine if this defacing of a religious symbol is a hate crime . . . President Obama will interrupt his schedule to remind U. S. citizens of the
    many contributions made by American Catholics, long a part of our nation’s fabric . . . The Burlington Islamic community will initiate a Catholic Outreach Program in order to hear the concerns of Catholics . . . Last, but not least, the UCCB (United States Conference of Catholics Bishops) will denounce this graffiti as Catholophobia.

    (Unadulterated sarcasm)

  19. mrmittens says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 7:16 pm

    http://www.universalhub.com/2016/another-virgin-mary-statue-beheaded#comments?nocache=1

    • Fred Boenig says

      Mar 31, 2016 at 9:57 am

      So if they find out it was just a bunch of kids doing what they do in EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA- vandalism-in Graveyards- will you all be posting an apology to the Muslim people you are accusing without evidence? Of course not and that to me seems even worse than knocking the head off some cement statue – who represents a Magical Person who had Mythical Sex with an Imaginary God? You see these are real people practicing a religion in a country that was (some believe) was created to give free expression of one’s faith without fear of persecution. Oh but clearly that is a Myth too huh?

      • Keys says

        Mar 31, 2016 at 10:28 am

        @Fred B
        Did you see the later post with the word Allah spay painted at the base of the statue in Arabic? EVERY TOWN IN AMERICA has “a bunch of kids” who are able to spray paint Allah in Arabic and lay severed statue heads neatly at the base of the body ?

        Have you read the Koran and the Sunna? Do you know the history of jihad? Have you been paying attention to what is going on in the world? Do you think Islam is a religion like all other religions?

        Why would you think it unreasonable to think muslims may have done this? Are the Catholics in the Boston area rioting, killing muslims, and burning mosques? Are you going to issue anyone an apology ?

        You post is disrespectful and bitter. Why don’t you draw a picture of Mohammad, and submit it to the Washington Post and New York Times with your name, city, and state? I know why and so do you.

      • Western Canadian says

        Apr 1, 2016 at 7:58 pm

        Actually, this is NOT something that kids do in every town in America…. It is usually a crime of bigotry, committed by hate filled losers….. Hey, Fweddy!! how many graves have you vandalized…. even an approximation would be interesting!!

    • Fred Boenig says

      Mar 31, 2016 at 10:04 am

      Kinda like putting Bacon or a Pigs head on a Mosques door huh? Idiots all of them-Religious Zealots no matter what religion are the real danger in the world.

      • Keys says

        Mar 31, 2016 at 10:35 am

        Why are you so bitter, Fred? Why do you see only one side of religious people?

        Don’t you see the good many religious people have done? Hospitals, schools, orphanages, food distribution, etc?

      • Western Canadian says

        Apr 1, 2016 at 7:29 pm

        And the most dangerous religion over the last few centuries, has of course been atheism, as practiced by ignorant and hate filled bigots like you, Fred!! over 100,000,000 million murdered, by people just like you!!

        • Western Canadian says

          Apr 1, 2016 at 7:35 pm

          ‘million’ is redundant, as are fweddy’s hate filled comments.

  20. OP says

    Mar 30, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    When a Muslim does something horrific it’s a prank. When someone pulls a prank like bacon on doors it’s a hate crime. Wake up America before we become Europe.

  21. billybob says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 6:25 am

    Another outrageous atrocious attack on Catholic idol by an iconoclast! Down with the iconoclasts! People of the nation – unite! We must legislate against them. Iconoclasts must not be permitted to attack cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, or destroy images or idols set up for religious veneration. They must be punished severely.

  22. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 9:11 am

    here’s my two cents.

    step 1/ clean and repair statue, good as new

    step 2/ BOOBY-TRAP statue [do this very carefully, secretly and quietly so that nobody except one or two persons in the parish know about it].

    step 3/ sit back and wait for a vandalising mohammedan – they may well, emboldened by previous success, return to repeat their effects – to fall into your trap.

    it should not be beyond the wit of modern tech-savvy folks to set up the statue so that it is perfectly safe for ordinary parishioners laying wreaths and placing candles, BUT… try physically damaging the statue and you will be – very suddenly – treated to an unpleasant surprise of some sort, along with having your photograph taken and video recorded for the benefit of the police who will investigate your act of vandalism.

    in addition the priest and church should invest in about three or four big black welltrained no-nonsense dogs to patrol the property. from the point of view of the personal safety of the priest and congregation – especially anyone who uses the premises after dark, e.g. choir coming to practise – i think this would be a very good idea. if it was indeed a mohammedan – as seems very likely – who damaged these statues by cutting off hands and head, then he, or they [could be more than one] is quite likely to also consider doing the same to living human beings.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Apr 1, 2016 at 1:21 am

      Further thought: if the churches targeted by this spree of vandalism are not already ringing the Angelus, they should. Three times a day, remind everyone of the Christian doctrine of the Divine Incarnation.

      And after the midday Angelus they could ring ANOTHER peal – the so-called ‘Turkish Bell’ [in essence, a summons to pray for the defeat of Jihad and for the relief of those targeted by Jihad] that was first instituted by one Pope Calixtus around the time of the fall of Constantinople.

      those subjected to the DHIMMA [my damn autocorrect won’t let me type the word DHIMMI it corrects it constantly to ‘chime’] were not allowed to ring church bells. So to loudly ring church bells, four times a day, would be a very good riposte to an act of mohammedan vandalism of church property; it is an act of defiance and reaffirmation of Christian faith.

  23. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 31, 2016 at 12:48 pm

    Respect for private property is the hallmark and foundation of civilization. Shame on those vandals..

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 2, 2016 at 12:23 am

      Very true, Walter.

      • Fred Boenig says

        Apr 2, 2016 at 4:50 am

        Sure Walter- but whose funding the Hate for Muslims? http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/12/what-president-obama-didnt-address-whos-funding-the-hate-campaign-against-muslims/

  24. Mirren10 says

    Apr 2, 2016 at 7:38 am

    ” … but whose funding the Hate for Muslims?”

    Hmmm, lets see …

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/TROP.jpg

    Does that give you a clue, Freddy Krueger ?

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