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Italy: Muslim sets fire to church Nativity scene

Jan 5, 2017 12:39 pm By Robert Spencer

Why did he want to destroy Christian symbols? Because “they have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary” (Qur’an 5:17): as far as this Muslim is concerned, the statues are idolatrous in themselves, and are celebrating false and idolatrous beliefs. But as far as Italian authorities are concerned, it is because he was suffering from a “visible psycho-physical crisis.” It’s all just part of the global outbreak of mental illness.

“Muslim migrant who wanted to destroy Christian symbols sets fire to church Nativity scene,” by Joey Millar, Express, January 3, 2017:

A MUSLIM migrant who ‘wanted to destroy Christian symbols’ has been arrested for setting fire to a church Nativity scene.

The homeless man was caught in the act by the church’s priest, who notified authorities.

They rushed to the scene and fought to restrain the man, who was suffering from a “visible psycho-physical crisis”.

According to local reports, the 25-year-old Gambian told police he was a Muslim and wanted to destroy Christian symbols.

As well as setting fire to the scene, he destroyed a statue of Mary.

The authorities eventually got the man under control and brought him to jail. He has been accused of damage to private property, arson and resisting arrest.

The man, who holds a legal residency permit, has been living in Italy for two years.

At the time of the incident, which took place in the parish of Madonna del Rosario in Foggia, southern Italy, he was living rough….

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  1. Angemon says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    They rushed to the scene and fought to restrain the man, who was suffering from a “visible psycho-physical crisis”.

    Yes – an acute case of “mohammedanism”…

    • Phil Copson says

      Jan 5, 2017 at 1:32 pm

      No, being in Italy, surely he had “It-lam” ?

      (In Denmark, it would have been because he’s a “MohammeDane”….)

      • PRCS says

        Jan 5, 2017 at 8:32 pm

        Funny.

    • jayell says

      Jan 5, 2017 at 2:02 pm

      They certainly seem to suffer from crises and emergencies which they seem to be unable to cope with in a normal adult or civilised fashion. This character, like all the other lunatics, had no excuse not to know he was not on Islamic home ground and needed to keep his ideas to himself purely as a matter of self-awareness and respect and consideration for others. Just like that other preposterous joker in Austria who wrecked a young boy’s life because of a ‘sexual emergency’ (????). And all the other preposterous Islamic jokers who have been killing, maiming and wrecking lives around the rest Europe
      What’s wrong with them? Or does Islam send them round the bend?

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Jan 5, 2017 at 2:42 pm

        He was having an Allahgasm.

        High on Islam.

        I wonder what mosque he’s been hanging around, and what’s preached there?

        He holds “a legal residency permit”. He comes from the Gambia, which is overwhelmingly Muslim.

        The Italians – after subjecting him to the maximum punishment set down on the books for vandalism and arson – should cancel that residency permit and send him straight back to Gambia. After first taking down all identifying particulars – mug shot, retina scan, voiceprint, fingerprints, footprints and DNA sample – so that if he should ever try to return, he can be readily identified. And all those particulars should be shared with every *other* Infidel country’s gatekeepers, so they will know to keep him out, if he turns up on the doorstep, or to arrest him and give him the boot as soon as detected, if so be he manages to sneak over the border and only gets picked up later on.

        • kellann says

          Jan 5, 2017 at 5:17 pm

          He would only come back to Europe…and say that MAMA Merkel INVITED him.

        • PRCS says

          Jan 5, 2017 at 8:33 pm

          I had forgotten that term.

          Thank you.

        • Mary says

          Jan 7, 2017 at 7:55 am

          One can only hope.

    • Alexius Comnenus says

      Jan 5, 2017 at 8:51 pm

      This is what Italy deserves. This is what the Pope proclaims by wishing the feet of muslims. That muslim was not sick -he knew what he was doing . It is act of hatred. Nothing more nothing less.

      • Anne Smith says

        Jan 6, 2017 at 5:15 am

        Well the Pope may deserve to be set on fire but it isn’t really fair to say the Italians deserve it. They have been in the front line of the immigrant wave thanks to Cameron and Sarkozy stupidly interfering in Libya.

        The EU has been of little help to them, let us hope they also vote to leave when they can.

        • Michael Copeland says

          Jan 6, 2017 at 3:44 pm

          Thank also Federica Mogherini of EU, who insisted on “Search and Rescue”, that is, Assisting People-Traffickers.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    LIFESTYLE JIHAD! Sharia law forbids public displays of any religion but Islam.

    Islam is frankly at war with Christianity, its chief rival. What better way to destroy Christianity than to murder its followers and destroy its halls of worship?

    THIS IS A JIHAD TO THE DEATH OF ALL CHRISTIANS! Over 30,000 Christians were killed by Muslims in the last 12 months.

    WAKE UP, CHRISTIANS! WAKE UP, BISHOPS! WAKE UP, POPE!

    • Alexius Comnenus says

      Jan 5, 2017 at 8:52 pm

      Islam is at war with the christians and the whole world since 632. The world must put an end to this spiritual abomination.

    • R. Louis Engelbrecht says

      Jan 6, 2017 at 3:12 am

      the Islam migrants did not come to visit but to conquer It is very obvious that Islam is pushing to isamise Europe and the West

  3. Champ says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 3:14 pm

    “Why did he want to destroy Christian symbols?”

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

    “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” — 1 Corinthians 1:18

  4. Yesenia says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 4:32 pm

    Jac I was thinking the exact same thing….. They are so unsure of their faith they have to try and mess with ours…. makes us stronger!!

  5. abad says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    Even though I am no longer a Roman Catholic I still appreciate the creche during the Christmas season.

    But Muslims – well, Islam is a mental illness.

  6. Sara says

    Jan 5, 2017 at 7:57 pm

    I don’t believe they can destroy Christianity by destroying Christian icons and art. They can’t destroy it by burning bibles either. Christianity lives in the souls of the faithful. We must bring this kind of destruction under control, however, before they start torturing Christians in the same way as they do in some parts of the Middle East, right here in Europe. Also I am a huge fan of elaborate religious art, whatever religion it belongs to. Iconic art was created with love and faith. I would never dream of destroying a beautiful ancient mosque, even though I hate all the principles of Islam.

    Jihadists are like Nazis. The Jews were never accused of “Naziphobia” just for hating the Nazis’ right-wing ideology. We should not be accused of “Islamophobia” for feeling angry about what militant Islamic Jihadists are doing. They hate all other religions. They even hate those who are not the same type of Muslim as themselves. They deserve right-wing hard liners like Trump to come right back at them with strong measures to subdue them. Forgiveness will not stop the steamroller of their brand of holy war.

  7. Bob says

    Jan 6, 2017 at 6:01 am

    And leaving a bacon sandwich near a mosque door is rewarded by screams of islamophobia and a longish prison sentence. The West isn’t waiting for the followers of the camel jockey to behead ’em – they’re cutting their own throats!

  8. Crusades Were Right! says

    Jan 6, 2017 at 7:29 am

    “visible psycho-physical crisis”

    To me, this describes what Europe is suffering thanks to Mohammedan immigration.

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