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Greece: Muslims set fire to church, paint “Allahu akbar” on wall

Dec 19, 2016 12:53 pm By Robert Spencer

Meanwhile, the Greek government is building a handsome mosque in Athens at taxpayer expense.

“Vandals On the Island of Crete Set Church on Fire, Write ‘Allah is Great,'” by Philip Chrysopoulos, Greek Reporter, December 18, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Vandals on Saturday set fire on a Greek Orthodox church in the Lagolio village of Crete and wrote “Allah is great”, infuriating locals.

According to e-mesara.gr news website, unknown perpetrators set fire to the Church of Archangel Michael in Lagolio, burning holy icons and part of the chancel.

A passerby saw the fire and notified local residents who ran to put out the fire before it spread. The perpetrators had also written “Allah is great” in Arabic on the walls.

The desecration of the church took place between 3 to 5 p.m., according to police sources. Police forces from Heraklion and Tymbaki are investigating the incident.

The Church of Archangel Michael is an important pilgrimage for the region and attracts many believers from surrounding areas to its annual feast.

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  1. Austin Carroll says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    You can imagine how such sacrilege would be met in Russia. Like most European countries, Greece needs a strong nationalist government.

    • jamesmi says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 6:40 pm

      Every that happens to a church, Christians should defile a mosque with lovely stinky pig diarrhoea. I am sick and tired of how these apologies for syphilitic pig bowels get away with murder, rape, arson and who knows what else. Why should we in the host countries tolerate this foul and dangerous behaviour ?

    • Angemon says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 9:18 pm

      In Russia, you can get thrown into jail for preaching the Gospel:

      http://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-russia-refuse-stop-sharing-the-gospel-despite-putins-ban-evangelism-167442/

      http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-leaders-arrested-russia-law-banning-evangelism-outside-churches-goes-into-effect-168852/

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 11:17 am

      The Greeks better remember what Turkey did in their past history… Stop bringing in the snakes, they will only bite you… The Greeks have NO money… How is the hell do they build the savage pigs mosques? Who will pay for the damage to this church?? The Greek government is brain dead… Thank God we have a POUS coming into office, who is willing to get rid of these pigs, and stop letting them run our lives, ruin our fortune, and it is continuing to kill us stupid infidels!! Please GOD make it Jan. 20th!!!

  2. Paul N Silas says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 2:41 pm

    Each day I come to this site to read up on what the MSM will not print/report. More and more I am get the idea that The West is loosing this war.

    • Peggy says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 6:26 pm

      What war? Is there a war?
      Western governments are not even admitting there is a war so they are not even trying to fight it.

  3. Gary says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    “For those who find me find life and receive favor from the LORD.
    But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”

    ISLAM: DEATH

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    On the subject of modern Greece and Islam. This is somewhat of a reminder about ancient Greece and the old wise man Plato. As in the following.
    In classical work of ancient Greek literature, by Plato, entitled THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES it in written that Socrates had said that “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Likewise, in may also be said that “An unexamined religion is not worth believing in.” This is said about all religions. Yet to be specific, in this case, the topic is about the religion of Islam. Furthermore, one man who was as a former a Muslim and had lived in one of the Islamic nations of the Middle East but now he is Christian and an American citizen had explained in a book he wrote that “Driving into depths of the word of reasoned thinking and research in Islamic societies has always been costly. Some Muslim who have done this have even been excluded from their social rights and even sentenced to death.” [1]

    [1] ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD by Daniel Shayesteh page 70.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    This about article about Islam and modern Greece does bring to mind the wisdom of the ancient Greek philosopher , Plato. In the following essay.
    The Greek philosopher Plato is one of the contributors to Western Civilization. He may shed some light into the subject of those people who are shackled in the chains and darkness of Islamic thought. In Plato’s REPUBLIC he gave an allegory of a cave where “the condition of men living in a sort of cavernous chamber…Here they have been from childhood, chained by leg and also by the neck, so that they cannot move and see only what is in front of them.” This can fit into what the Imams do in the mosques and how they brainwash the young people in the madrassa’s by always programming Islamic doctrine into their victims and not exposing them to other worldviews. Furthermore, even in Islamic tradition when Muslims have their newborn child the father whispers words of the Quran into the infants ear so that that Quran verses are the first thing the newborn person hears. This programming process takes place all their lives. These are some of the chains that keep them bound in a mosque [cave]. The chains do not let them reach out for dialectic reasoning and let them examine the evidence both for as well as against, or even question whether Muhammad was a true prophet of God or not, and if the Quran is a hoax or not. As the chains and darkness of the cave blinds and holds the prisoners back from reality, so Islamic propaganda holds back the cognition to reason with the question if Islam is true or not. They are forbidden from even thinking to question Islam. Furthermore, if a Muslim by some miracle wakes up to the truth about Islam, it would be like the man in Plato’s cave allegory who was released from his chains and taken outside to the real world. At first direct light would be painful and disorienting, it would take some time for him to understand what the truth is all about, he even might cling to the shadows and still for a time believe some of the illusions to be real. But he would finally come to know “what he had formerly seen was meaningless illusion.” And that was “what passed for wisdom in his former dwelling place.”And that the other cave prisoners also needed to see the light [the truth] for he “was sorry for them.” and he would re-enter the cave just to rescue them. Nevertheless, the cave prisoners wouldn’t understand and “if they could lay hand on the man who was trying to set them free.” And if they could “they would kill him.” Likewise, when someone escapes from the shackles of Islam, those still in the darkness of this religion would not understand and if possible kill him for leaving Islam, and even more so if he were to try to enlighten them about the truth about Islam. For these people in Islam are chained to an empty imitation of truth and godliness.

  6. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    For centuries the Greek people were under Mohammedan (Turkish/Ottoman) rule. The Balkan Greeks (most of them, anyway) got out from under it in the 19th and early 20th centuries; the Greeks of Asia Minor weren’t so lucky – they either perished with Armenian and Assyrian Christians in the genocides during the First World War (and the period after it) or were kicked out of their ancient homeland.

    It seems that Greeks have a short memory.

  7. ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 5:18 pm

    walter sieruk,that man who convert from islam to mithraist christianity must be a stupid of the century.he moved backward,from light to darkness ,if at all the story is true.what has he seen in filthy mithraist christianity inspired by the devil.any way when satan was cursed by allah, he vowed to take largest percentage of mankind to hellfire.he who dies as mithraist christian(not true follower of prophet isa) will definitely go to hell. if at all those who set fire on the church are muslims ,they are wrong.prophet muhammad explicitly stated that places of worship shall not be tampered with even in the course of jihad war as he even allowed christians from najran who visited him to worship in his mosque at madina.it is only allah who will determine their fate on the day of judgement, not for human being to punish them for their deviation from the truth.the objective of jihad is not destruction,but to subdue combatants who carry arms against muslims,not worshipers or their places of worship.

    • peanut says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 7:45 pm

      false-prophet muhammad (piss be upon him) raped and murdered children.

      that is all anyone needs to know about the fraud in order to understand islam.

      • Champ says

        Dec 19, 2016 at 8:05 pm

        Hear, hear, Peanut!

      • Proud Non-Muslim says

        Dec 20, 2016 at 10:55 am

        Hey, peanut. You could say about the evil so-called prophet, Muhammad, like this. Poopoo be upon him. This is what I want to say. Poopoo be upon him. There is no peace in Islam and this is the real truth.

    • bernie says

      Dec 20, 2016 at 12:55 pm

      Too bad that groups like pagan Daesh and al-Qaeda don’t agree. They wish to enforce Diarrhea Law in all it’s most awful extremeness on the entire planet, and desecrate every single non-Muslim place of worship.

  8. Proud Non-Muslim says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 10:53 am

    Greece is controlled by ultra-left wing politicians. No wonder why Greece has gone deep in the black hole.

  9. Eternal Vigilance says

    Dec 20, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    It is almost as if EU leadership is sleep walking towards an imposed Islamic state! They have taken “political correctness” to new extremes. Poke an EU leader in the eye with a stick and they will say “thank you” if you are a Muslim!

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