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France: Anti-Christian attacks rise 245 percent

Feb 8, 2017 10:52 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

The whopping 245 percent increase in attacks on Christians represents a genuine and increasing problem; concern over “Islamophobia” has managed to crowd out real human rights issues.

Note the peculiarity of the French interior ministry in diminishing the seriousness of the anti-Christian attacks in boasting about how busy the ministry was, implementing action against “Islamophobia” and anti-Semitism. The government was also quick to note that there was no religious motive for such a drastic spike in anti-Christian attacks.

A key point is that the French interior ministry and leftist media go to great lengths to avoid admitting or addressing any  possible Islamic supremacist role in this persecution against Christians. The government went so far as to deny any religious motivation and stated that out of 949 anti-Christian attacks, “there was a possible ‘satanic motivation’ in 14 cases and an ‘anarchist’ motivation in 25.” What about the other cases?

A CNN report in July revealed:

In urging attacks on churches, ISIS is trying to eliminate what it calls the “grey zone” for Muslims in the West by provoking a far-right backlash. A drumbeat of attacks in France has led to a groundswell of anti-Muslim anger, which is being stoked and exploited by far-right politicians.

The newspaper La Figaro also grasped at straws, stating that “it is expected that attacks on churches would be the most plentiful because they exist in the largest number,” and ignoring the fact that Christians face brutal attacks in Muslim countries such as Egypt and Pakistan, despite not existing in large numbers.

Food for thought: the report below also highlights that “last year in Dülmen, following the arrival of well over a million migrants in Germany, local media said ‘not a day goes by’ without attacks on Christian religious statues.”

“France: Anti-Christian Attacks Rise 245 Percent”, by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, February 7, 2017:

While racist, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic attacks have seen a huge fall since 2008, those on Christian places of worship more than doubled in this period of time, France’s interior ministry reported last week.

Having documented a record number of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim attacks in 2015, Last year in Dülmen, following the arrival of well over a million migrants in Germany, local media said “not a day goes by” without attacks on Christian religious statues.

Subsequently, racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim attacks fell sharply in 2016 with the former seeing a decline of 58.5 per cent and the latter a drop of 57.6 per cent. These attacks are defined as being fires, violence, degradation, and threats — comments, inscriptions, insulting letters.

In this year, attacks on Christian places of worship have increased by 17.4 per cent in 2016 compared to 2015. Racist attacks, meanwhile, dropped by 23.7 per cent (608 versus 797).

The sharp drop in incidents of an Islamophobic or anti-Semitic nature was welcomed by the French government, who credited the figures as the “fruit of the government’s action plan”.

“Thanks to an unprecedented mobilisation of state services, we have already achieved very encouraging results, as evidenced by the figures for 2016. This gives us much satisfaction”, said interior minister Bruno Le Roux…..

Le Figaro reported that acts which target Christians now account for 90 per cent assaults on places of worship.

The newspaper points out that, while it is to be expected that attacks on churches are the most plentiful because they exist in the largest number, cases in which Christian places of worship were defiled saw a huge rise between 2008 and 2016.

The government says the majority of the 949 attacks on churches have “no religious motive”, but that there was a possible “satanic motivation” in 14 cases and an “anarchist” motivation in 25. However, since 2008 assaults on Christian places of worship have risen by 245 per cent.

Last year in Dülmen, following the arrival of well over a million migrants in Germany, local media said “not a day goes by” without attacks on Christian religious statues.

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  1. Lee says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 10:58 am

    This is an absolute disgrace and it’s also the reason the people who protest for the rights of Islam are being blindfolded by their own governments. When are people going to realise the way of life as we know now is in grave danger??

    • A Harris USA says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 11:15 am

      Lee, the left wing Muslim loving so called Pope is only making attacks on Christians more exceptable !! It will continue, and get more violent.. The only hope is if France reclaims it’s national identity and throws these savage pigs OUT of the land !! If they continue to listen to the stupid pope, and their left wing global idiots the future is sealed…… IN DOOM!!!! They thought the Nazi regime was hell, wait until the fools who let this go on get their head cut off!! All we can do is keep fighting, and not bow down to the Muslim guilt trip that the left throws our way… Screw them, fight the Muslims, throw them out, and DO NOT let them in. Once the snake is in it will nest, and breed!!

    • Peter says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 11:17 am

      Ah, but that is not all. Meanwhile, in Paris, the French court again stopped one of the Muslim Albanian terrorists (well know and documented killer) to be extradited to Serbia and courts there.

      https://www.rt.com/news/373471-kosovo-haradinaj-france-released/

      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38603193

    • Tom Micheals says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      this article missed out Nigeria, where ethnic cleaning against Christians is taking place now http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/02/who-will-protect-nigerias-northern-christians/

    • Tom Micheals says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 4:00 pm

      90,000 Christians killed for their faith last year
      http://www.christianpost.com/news/90000-christians-killed-in-2016-1-every-6-minutes-study-172464/

  2. DFD says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 10:59 am

    I keep on wondering where the civil wars / clashes/ unrests will start.

    Alphabetically:
    France
    Germany
    Sweden

    And the bet is on ….. any ideas?

    • miriamrove says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 11:19 am

      I think if any where in Europe, it would be Italy. M

      • john spielman says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 1:16 pm

        and to think that the democRATS in the USA esp Minnesota and Washington state are trying to thwart Trump’s temporary ban of refugees/ visitors
        from islamist terror areas because ” there are no incidents of terror attacks from muslim refugees from these areas”! How many dead in Europe from Islamic refugees into Europe in past 2 years!!!

        • DFD says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 1:31 pm

          Hundreds. These are the ones the MSM **had** report upon.

      • Islam the religion of killers says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 4:31 pm

        I agree, as soon as the freco’s are destroyed the itallians will wake up and action will happen.,,

        From the people not the govt

    • look around says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 5:33 am

      france first

  3. Mac-101 says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 11:04 am

    So when will the Algerian Massacres come to France? How many French women and children were slaughtered in Algeria around 1962? DO the French have no memories?

    • DFD says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 11:47 am

      Yeah, yeah, the guilty conscience trick.

      Americans and them thar Injuns… Brits and Ireland, India and some places on the dark contin—oh dear… Belgian Congo…. Germans and Jews/Gypsies… Italians and Ethopia… French and – oh you said that already… Spanish and — nearly all of South America… Portugese, Brazil and all over the place… Vikings against all Europeans; like the Russians and Germans for a time.

      All Nazis, Racists, Imperialist, Ethnicists (Hey! I coined a new one!!) and, and…. And how about we give a damn?!?!?

      I DO! (By now)
      ===========

      • nicu says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 12:28 pm

        Thank you DFD — but stupid Germans WE are the only one who still have to feel guilty cos we get reminded of it EVERY day .

        Attack on Christians — nothing to do with I slam of course !

        Mac 101 : so poor – you are talking of things that happened long , long time ago — but Muslims commit genocide and atrocities THESE DAYS !

        • Mac-101 says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 12:45 pm

          Nicu, I’m talking about the massacre of French, mostly white women and children by the Islamist after the French gave them their freedom and was evacuating the country. If I recall several, if not Numerous Monasteries and Nunneries were defiled also!
          .
          1962 or there abouts is NOT that long ago. I’m sure thousands of Frechmen have relatives that were slaughtered in that turn over.

        • DFD says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 1:40 pm

          Sorry Mac, that didn’t came over clearly, communication failure. I am sure Nicu agrees.

          OK, all the best 🙂

        • Mac-101 says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 1:48 pm

          No sweat Bro. Atrocities of the recent PAST are good indicators of the future of Western Civilization if we DO NOT git our heads out of our rear. Goin a little further back we got the Armenian genocide which is the forerunner of Hitler’s Ultimate Solution. An event most Americans do not know nor care about!

        • Agha Ali Arkhan says

          Feb 8, 2017 at 10:48 pm

          Nicu: History shows hat the Red Bolsheviks murdered more people than did Hitler, and were better at it. Now, who were influential in putting the Reds on that murderous path? Hmm. Marx, Lenin and Trotsky come to mind. Also the Red Bolsheviks won the war against the Nazis. Perhaps that’s why we mostly hear about the German atrocities. Try not to be too, too hard on the German people.

  4. marina says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 11:51 am

    Mohammed aka ;the most exalted man of the mohammedans was not so illustrious as claimed by the Moslems. He committed every single criminal activity known to man. The hordes of barbarians that were let in Europe are only Mo’s followers. What better behavior can be expected from them?

  5. Troybeam says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    When all the Muslim supporters begin to be attacked by those they supported they’ll ask why and Islam will answer : you let us in and therefore we will conquer you.

  6. Angemon says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    Subsequently, racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Muslim attacks fell sharply in 2016 with the former seeing a decline of 58.5 per cent and the latter a drop of 57.6 per cent. These attacks are defined as being fires, violence, degradation, and threats — comments, inscriptions, insulting letters.

    Oh, an insulting letter counts as an “attack”? Then this 245% increase is just the microscopic tip of the iceberg, seeing how muslims recite the first sura of the quran during each of their 5 mandatory prayers, a sura which portrays Christians as “having gone astray” and Jews as “having angered allah”. 5 times the number of muslims in France will surely equal millions of “attacks” on Jews and Christians per day.

  7. TheOldOligarch says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    I guess we’ll see in a couple of moths whether or not the French have had enough of this. If not, then I’m sure the Muslims will be more than happy to supply as much of it as they want until the French have had their fill.

  8. Islam the religion of killers says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 4:39 pm

    The government says the majority of the 949 attacks on churches have “no religious motive”, but that there was a possible “satanic motivation” in 14 cases and an “anarchist” motivation in 25. However, since 2008 assaults on Christian places of worship have risen by 245 per cent.

    Govt dickheads ……. mabey this is what they ment to say ????

    The government says the majority of the 949 attacks on supermarkets have “no food motive”, but that there was a possible “homeless people” in 14 cases and a “people starving” motivation in 25. However, since 2008 assaults on “Bakeries”… places of French worship have risen by 245 per cent.

  9. cheryl s. says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    If the delusional government bureaucrats don’t get their heads screwed on right and do it soon, beautiful Europe will look like Syria, Beirut, Yemen, Somalia and the fair haired, fair eyed refined, Europeans will look like the inbreds you see all over third world muslim countries. The, once thriving, tourist industry will soon be non existent and the government, the E.U, the Globalists will be fully to blame.

    • bernie says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:07 am

      Cheryl: Even if there were many dark-haired, brown-, yellow- or black-skinned Christians, Hindus, Jews and Buddhists coming into Europe as immigrants, it wouldn’t be so bad compared to huge numbers of Muslims who don’t respect the European culture(s) and who have no intention of assimilating.

  10. Paul says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 7:29 pm

    Are the lunatics turning their attention from Jews to Christians because so many Jews have left France and security around Jewish institutions has increased? I don’t think the drop in anti-semitic attacks has to do with a change in preferences by the jihadists.

  11. mark says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 11:11 am

    Muhamad, satans totally evil direct opposite of Jesus Christ

  12. Joe says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    All organized religions are based on man-made “gods” used for power and control over others. They strip humans of sovereign spiritual expression of thanks for the miracle of sentience to be replaced with rule books of fear from made up evils like satan, hell, demons, sin, etc.

    The Christians had the crusades, inquisiton, witch burning, etc. and karma is coming back to bite them. The Islamic “religion” is a political cult based on world domination anf founded by a murdering pedophile who married a 9 year old girl. So whose god myth shows more love??

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