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Video from Indonesia: Muslims attack church with machetes, injure priest and several churchgoers, behead statues

Feb 11, 2018 3:52 am By Robert Spencer

Pope Francis is doubtless on his way to Yogyakarta now, to explain to these Muslims that, as he has written, “authentic Islam and the proper understanding of the Koran reject every form of violence.” They just misunderstand their own religion, you see. If the great imam Francis can explain it to the poor dears, all will be well.

Note the beheaded statue

“Several churchgoers and priest injured in machete attack on Catholic Church in Yogyakarta, Indonesia,” by Adam Harvey, ABC.net.au, February 11, 2018:

A priest and several churchgoers have been injured during a machete attack on a church in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.

A 22-year-old man armed with a sword or machete attacked members of the congregation at St Lidwina Church.

The priest was struck in the back of the head and several others were injured before the man started hacking at a statue of Jesus and Mary.

A patrolling police officer ran into the church and tried to negotiate with the attacker.

Police said the attacker charged at the officer, who shot and injured him.

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  1. Wazza says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 4:00 am

    Sadly the cops disn’t shoot to kill, only wounded in the gut, his Muslim buddies will worship, he may get charged, but then again, they can use the obligatory MENTAL health issue, and send him home after a few weeks counseling. Looks like Indonesian Christians may need some security, With shotguns

    • mortimer says

      Feb 11, 2018 at 4:49 pm

      Pope Francis, APPEASEMENT DOESN’T HELP CATHOLICS to avoid persecution. ARMED GUARDS at the entrance of the church will protect them… just as YOUR armed guards protect and defend YOU at the Vatican.

      • Lydia Church says

        Feb 11, 2018 at 7:54 pm

        muzlimz will be muzlimz….

  2. mikhael says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 4:03 am

    i dont condone violence but the Torah demands that we establish courts of justice according to Torah, which condemns idol worship adultery and homhism.
    we cannot endure vigilante justice inside of the israelite community.
    in the book of rev those that uphold the Torah AND the testimony of Yeshua (jesus) will be saved

    • mortimer says

      Feb 11, 2018 at 4:50 pm

      But mikhael, Islam PERMITS vigilantism and there is NO PUNISHMENT in Sharia law for those who murder BLASPHEMERS and APOSTATES. A Muslim may claim that a kafir is ‘fighting Islam’ verbal and that kafir is as good as dead.

  3. Gjallarhornet says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 4:14 am

    “A patrolling police officer ran into the church and tried to negotiate with the attacker.”

    Seems like a jihadi terrorist gets a lot of slack in that country … A country that is widely held as the most lax and tolerant muslim country. People in the west are to stupid to connect the dots. Whenever there are attacks like this, it is presented in western press as random attacks of violence in countries far way, no contextulalisation or linking between the incidents are ever made.

    • Gjallarhornet says

      Feb 11, 2018 at 4:19 am

      Comment: a westerner – in the west – who went into a mosque, just to hurl insult, nothing more, would be charged with hate crime and every charge to be find, and promptly locked up. A muslim attacker of a church in the least fanatical muslim country – is met with … talk. He is not shot before he attacks the police officer directly.

      Question: GIven all this – who do you think will win this strife?

      • Peter Buckley says

        Feb 11, 2018 at 4:59 am

        Islam is already losing, and will ultimately collapse back to Arabia:

        http://www.meforum.org/3750/islam-second-crisis

        • Gjallarhornet says

          Feb 11, 2018 at 5:05 am

          Thank you for this.

          Let’s hope so. Bernhard Lewis is a figure who commands great respect.

          So, as the saying goes: inshallah. That is prediction will come true.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 9:16 pm

      Sometimes a Muslim using deception will boast that Islam and Democracy are compatible. Take note of Indonesia! he would cry out. Well, I wish, then, that Indonesia would do better in controlling their Muslims.

  4. tgusa says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 4:39 am

    Seems like an eternity ago that George Bush stood in front of the American people and proclaimed that islam was the religion of peace.

    • Francine Anna says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 5:47 pm

      Islam is a “Political System” masquerading as a religion. It is NOT a religion of peace. The world is being invaded by so called refugees who have a high birth rate. Europe is lost due to millions of these Muslims having invaded while the leaders were in a coma. God help us.

  5. StellaSaidSo says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 5:00 am

    This will get worse before it gets better.

    The Saudis have not been pouring billions of dollars into ‘moderate’ Muslim countries in order for them to stay ‘moderate’.

    Australia needs to be alert. There are 200 million Muslims on our doorstep, and they are becoming more devout and dangerous by the day.

  6. MFritz says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 5:48 am

    Shithole country. Final destination has been reached.

  7. Billy Chickens says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 7:54 am

    One always “negotiates” when there is something to gain from the other side and there is no “negotiating” when the other person is stark raving mad. So the policeman did what? Walk over to “negotiate” with the insane Muslim saying if he calmed down and left quietly he wouldn’t be reprimanded?

    In a situation like this, shoot first, then “negotiate”.

  8. utis says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 10:55 am

    Lone wolf. Self-radicalized nutcase. No group involved. Everyone who’s not dead or severely injured, move along. The rest of us are safe; don’t worry. STOP LOOKING!

  9. Suleiman Haq says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 11:01 am

    This is not as per Islamic law. He should have made the church goers recite the Shahada, upon which they would have been deemed to be converted to Islam and hence the Government would then be forced as per Islamic law to ensure they remain Muslims or execute them on charges of apostasy

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Feb 11, 2018 at 11:39 am

      Conversion by use of the sword followed by the threat of death for apostasy. That’s real Islam ….. the “religion of peace.” (Truth in advertising rules do not apply to Islam.)

  10. Kiki says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 11:44 am

    Thank goodness none of the people at the church were killed!

    It’s sad that people have to consider armed guards and extra security just to worship in a church, but self-defense is critical in cases like this.

  11. Garfield says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    The pope is a criminal, I think. If the pope is telling people Islam is not full of violence and hate, he is either lying or ignorant. But how could he be THAT ignorant?

  12. LeftisruiningCanada says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    The demons are getting more bold by the day.

  13. DHazard says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    When was the last time a Christian went into a mosque with a machete? When was the last time ANYBODY who wasn’t a Muslim attacked a mosque? Why does the media treat someone leaving bacon at the door of a mosque worse than a Muslim who kills numerous innocent Church goers? Why aren’t Muslims surprised by this attack? Why do they continue to lie about where their devotion lies? Why, for many people, is the shame of being considered a racist greater than the shame of allowing a Muslim racist to kill people?

  14. Roger says

    Feb 11, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    When is the world going to unite in a push to drive all moslem influence back to wherever they came from and patrol their borders to keep them contained while we still have the numbers and superior armed forces to do so???

  15. infidel says

    Feb 12, 2018 at 12:36 am

    And believe me… this same Indonesian Muslim animal with jump at the chance of the immigrating to the Christian West…

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 12, 2018 at 2:26 am

      Send him to Texas, see how long he lasts pulling this sh*t down there.

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