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Germany: Statues of saints and crosses destroyed in five churches in Bamberg

May 6, 2018 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This vandalism could have been done by militant atheists, angry ex-Catholics, any number of people. But such people have been in Germany for years, and there has not been significant vandalism of churches. However, Germany has seen a large influx of Muslim migrants in recent years, many of whom believe that it is an insult to Allah to say that Jesus died on the cross (which the Qur’an also denies at 4:157), and that representations of the human form are temptations to idolatry. Could it be possible that Muslim migrants are behind this vandalism? Or would that be “Islamophobic” even to consider?

“Statues of saints and crosses destroyed in Bamberg churches,” translated from “Heiligenfiguren und Kreuze in Bamberger Kirchen zerstört,” Kath.net, May 4, 2018 (thanks to David):

Bamberg (kath.net/pl) Statues of saints and crosses have been destroyed in five Bamberg churches. Affected were Catholic churches and a Protestant church. The spokesman for the Archdiocese of Bamberg, Harry Luck, responded to an inquiry from kath.net: “We are shocked and saddened by the violence in Bamberger churches. We can currently confirm 6 cases of vandalism in 5 churches. Sculptures and saints were overturned, pictures were torn off the walls and a window pane was broken….

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  1. nicu says

    May 6, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    This happened several times in our small town , too , but only when a pigs head was a the door of the Mosque the outcry was big .

    Also sheep were raped and slaughtered — who cares ?

    • Stefan cel Mare says

      May 6, 2018 at 2:16 pm

      Nicule, they know the authority is complicit …they did it and nothing happen…they will do it again and again…and nothing will happen…in the end, all west Europe population will be refugees in east Europe. They are unable to defend what is theirs. East Europe will suffer also because off that. Like didn’t suffered enough until now during history.

    • Stefan cel Mare says

      May 6, 2018 at 2:21 pm

      When the wolves comes sheep must learn to bite or they die.

      • Savvy Kafir says

        May 6, 2018 at 2:32 pm

        What Europe needs is some sheep dogs. Lots of them. With sharp teeth and Alpha male attitude.

        • Stefan cel Mare says

          May 6, 2018 at 2:42 pm

          From where should they appear? All females in Europe feel like alpha males. Males feel like unfinished females.

        • gravenimage says

          May 6, 2018 at 11:11 pm

          There are both men and women in Europe who have woken up to the threat of Islam–I just hope more wake up.

          And no–equality for women doe not make them “alpha males”–just equals. It is mostly Muslims who are terrified of women if they are not systematically oppresssed and brutalized.

        • Ralph says

          May 8, 2018 at 2:18 pm

          God’s Rottweiler is in retirement. The previous pope seems to have had bigger … than the current pope.

    • Malcolm (SouthAfria) says

      May 6, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      When a local mosque was under pressure by the local community : due to there loud speaker system, call to prayer. A pigs head was found at the door of the mosque.

      Accusations were insinuated and the campaign by the local community came to a screeching halt.
      The media had a role in this.

      This is a tactic used by the religion of peace to silence any opposition.

      • Linda says

        May 6, 2018 at 11:04 pm

        It could have been a hoax by Muslims to put the pig’s head at the mosque door, especially if the perpetrator was never found. It’s like when Muslimas say someone tried to pull their hijab off, but the suspect was never found and there were no witnesses to the initial event. Also, there have been incidences in which mosques were set on fire, but the perpetrator was never found or even caught on camera. These incidents were all taqiyya.

        • gravenimage says

          May 6, 2018 at 11:12 pm

          True, Linda.

    • Gea says

      May 7, 2018 at 4:11 pm

      Muslims are a protected speacis in Geramny and EU…only Chxristains and Jews can be mocked and destroyed…

      I had a friend in Bamberg whcih I visited many time, last time in 2006 when I attended Midnight Christmass mass in the Catholic Cathedral…I do not like Germans, who still hate Jews but pretend not to…

      Perahps having Muslim invasion in their midst is a KARMA for what Germans and other Europeans did to the Jews in WWII… Insread of 6 millions of Jews, whom they allowed to slaughter, now they have 60 millionsof Mjuslimswho want sharia and Calipahte in their midst.

      • gravenimage says

        May 7, 2018 at 4:19 pm

        Even if one believed that the invasion of violent Muslims into Germany is karma for the acts of the Nazis seventy years ago, what karma are others in Europe supposed to be paying for? Britain, France, the Netherlands, Sweden–all are suffering the same invasion, but none of these were Nazi nations, and most of them were either victims of the Nazis or else fought them.

        • Peggy says

          May 8, 2018 at 8:06 pm

          Not Karma but they are betrayed and victims all over again.
          Germany was the aggressor in WW2. They tried to impose their will on Europe and got squashed for it but now they dominate Europe economically and have imposed their will by other means.
          EU is a body supposed to represent all countries in it but we all know that some are more valuable and influential than others and dictate.
          Even now they are bullying Poland, Hungary and Slovakia to force them to open their borders and be invaded. This is not German people I am talking about but the regime.
          Unfortunately karma is hitting the average German on the street and not the very people it should.
          I would say it’s karma badly missing it’s mark.

  2. Keys says

    May 6, 2018 at 2:09 pm

    Thank God the perps didn’t put bacon on the church door handles, though !

    Sounds like a planned, co-ordinated attack.
    The churches need alarms, video cams, and church dogs at points of entry.

    • mortimer says

      May 6, 2018 at 2:21 pm

      Yes, Keys, responsible church leaders should IMMEDIATELY begin revising security in all churches, especially larger churches and have an armed person (former police or security with handgun permit) sitting near the entrance at all services.

      • Linda says

        May 6, 2018 at 11:07 pm

        Whoever thought even just short years ago, that we would be considering armed guards at the entry ways of churches?

        • gravenimage says

          May 6, 2018 at 11:13 pm

          Yes–this is only necesary because of the invasion of ravening Muslims into Europe.

        • WESTPAC Spy says

          May 8, 2018 at 4:43 am

          Gee, if only there were a better, more comprehensive solution. Like putting armed guards at your borders, so you (we) don’t have to end up guarding every single target inside the borders.

          But that will never work; it’s just crazy talk, isn’t it?

        • Linda says

          May 8, 2018 at 6:09 am

          That’s the globalist elite without borders for you. They don’t believe in nationalism and won’t protect their own people.

        • Peggy says

          May 8, 2018 at 7:56 pm

          I am guessing anyone not Muslim from the Balkans who have experienced Islam and are still experiencing it.
          Nobody would’ve listened to them and would have called them bigots.

          Biggest problem we have is that history is not taught in schools, well not in Australian schools anyway. There is very little Australian history taught so world history is too much to hope for. Without history people are clueless and don’t know what they are dealing with so it’s easy to manipulate them.
          When people from certain countries talk about their history we don’t want to listen and tell them not to bring their problems here.
          Brigitte Gabriel tried to warn our PM about the dangers of Lebanese Muslims and even he simply didn’t want to know and he should know.

        • Linda says

          May 8, 2018 at 9:31 pm

          Peggy, you’re right. If anyone had said something about the Muslim problem years ago, we could have thought the person was a bigot just because we hadn’t experienced the problem ourselves at that point. I’m in Canada and I don’t think they teach history here all that much either, so the younger generation and sometimes the older generation, too, don’t have a clue.

      • epistemology says

        May 7, 2018 at 4:07 am

        Tell that the Germans they think Islam is the religion of peace. I wonder what else has to happen in the country for people to wake up.

        • Gea says

          May 7, 2018 at 4:12 pm

          Many EX-Muslims had warned Westerners that Islam is WORSE than Nazism, but the old Communist Angela Merkel likes it ;-)!

      • Peggy says

        May 8, 2018 at 7:59 pm

        What about smaller churches? They might not be able to afford it.
        Permanent solution is to get rid of the traitors we have in government.
        French revolution springs to mind.

        • gravenimage says

          May 8, 2018 at 8:24 pm

          Voting in some better leaders is a better idea.

          I don’t think many of us want to follow the model of the bloody French Revolution.

  3. mortimer says

    May 6, 2018 at 2:19 pm

    Those fascist, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST grooming gangs from the ADVENTIST BROTHERHOOD did it.

    (sarc/off)

    • Strangerinastrangeland says

      May 6, 2018 at 3:01 pm

      That’sounds exactly what I think.

  4. Halal Bacon says

    May 6, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    I think it is time these muslim invaders get shoved up the arses of the libtards

    • Rarely says

      May 6, 2018 at 3:24 pm

      Now THERE’S a solution.

    • Berengaria says

      May 6, 2018 at 3:26 pm

      The LIBS have surely made a pact with their Muslim Allies, even the LGBTQ, in America, remains Silent on the atrocities of Islam.
      We, in the West, are seeing Our Government deluged with Muslim Candidates, who openly flaunt their Ideology.
      Is it Government Approved Genocide?

    • Robeaver says

      May 6, 2018 at 6:58 pm

      And what has trumptard done?

      • gravenimage says

        May 6, 2018 at 11:15 pm

        So Trump is a ‘tard if he is not able to prevent attacks on Churches in Europe? How does that work?

      • Ranger01 says

        May 7, 2018 at 6:40 pm

        You are on the eve of dhminitude and you concern yourself with Trump?
        Prepare to bow to your new masters.

  5. somehistory says

    May 6, 2018 at 3:40 pm

    How many churches are in that area, town? If there are more than five, they likely aren’t done, And since the buildings weren’t razed, they will likely return to finish.

  6. Rarely says

    May 6, 2018 at 3:45 pm

    These “little” bits of nose tweaking by various factions in the “Asian” immigrant community appear to be encouraging them to greater and greater heights. Sooner or later they will go too far and there will be hell to pay. In France and England as well.

    • Linda says

      May 6, 2018 at 11:11 pm

      I’d say the Bataclan was too far.

      • gravenimage says

        May 6, 2018 at 11:40 pm

        Agreed–Bataclan and all of the other horrors of Jihad in Europe.

      • mummymovie says

        May 8, 2018 at 1:32 am

        Bataclan cemented my views on islam for good.

  7. Indiana Tom says

    May 6, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    Could it be possible that Muslim migrants are behind this vandalism? No, obviously Amish.

  8. Rolf Wittwer says

    May 6, 2018 at 5:31 pm

    Why everybody is talking about “vandalism” – it is not!
    This is Terrorism.

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2018 at 4:20 pm

      True.

  9. Save Europe says

    May 6, 2018 at 7:48 pm

    I’m an agnostic, and I would sincerely NEVER desecrate the burial site of anyone. However, I do know which ‘ideology’ does that kind of deeply sick thing.

  10. Peggy says

    May 6, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    This is what they are capable of and will do unless stopped.
    Western governments clearly support this evil and will allow the same to happen in our countries too.
    They have shown whose side they are on.

    Folks, coming to your town unless stopped. Don’t think that just because this happened thousands of miles away it can’t happen anywhere else.

  11. Linda says

    May 6, 2018 at 11:20 pm

    “Mo liked cats.” That is more a legend than a fact from what I have read. Muslims don’t seem too partial to any animals, but if it were the truth and Mohammed did like cats, DON’T BLAME THE CATS.

  12. gravenimage says

    May 6, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    Linda is right, Jay Boo. The story about Muhammed and his cat cannot be traced back any further than the “Cat Catalog”, published in the US in 1977. This does not appear to be a Muslim story at all.

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2018 at 4:23 pm

      Thank you, Jay Boo. Unhinged Muslim hatred of dogs is notorious.

  13. gravenimage says

    May 6, 2018 at 11:46 pm

    Jay Boo, this last is a canard. Please see above.

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2018 at 4:41 pm

      OK, Jay Boo. Sorry.

  14. gravenimage says

    May 6, 2018 at 11:48 pm

    Germany: Statues of saints and crosses destroyed in five churches in Bamberg
    ……………….

    There is apt to be much, much more of this, with more and more Muslims flooding into Europe.

  15. MisterDave says

    May 7, 2018 at 8:01 am

    I’d be prepared to bet real money that it wasn’t militant atheists. It’s Abrahamism, constantly at war with itself, spreading conflict turmoil and misery around the globe for almost as long as it’s existed.

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2018 at 4:55 pm

      What a load of claptrap. Firstly, it is a canard that Islam is an Abrahimic faith, just because the “Prophet” plagerized some of the stories of the Torah and Gospel.

      And this would imply that Jews and Christians regularly attack and desecrate Mosques in the name of their faith, but this simply is not the case.

      More false moral equivalency.

    • Peggy says

      May 8, 2018 at 12:31 am

      I advise you to get off crack.

  16. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 7, 2018 at 9:34 am

    When I read this, two phrases come to mind.

    1/ Booby Traps.

    2/ Sting Ops.

    It should not be beyond the wit of the local police to devise some way by which a temptingly-Infidel statue – or set of statues – can be ‘rigged’ so that mohammedans attempting vandalism – or for that matter, *anyone* attempting vandalism – might experience an unpleasant surprise of some kind, shortly followed by arrest and prosecution.

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2018 at 4:56 pm

      Agreed, DDA.

    • Peggy says

      May 8, 2018 at 12:30 am

      What a wonderful thought.
      If only we could.

  17. Garfield says

    May 7, 2018 at 3:00 pm

    So we let supremacist Islamist death cult members invade, house and feed them…..and this is what they do. And if you object you get called a racist.

    where is there going to be left to go when these hoards take over?

    And when they take over what will they do? Preserve our museums and schools? No they will burn all the oil painting of nude white women and teach sharia hate till the world becomes like the Islamic hell holes they came from. Muslims don’t create anything, they just usurp pillage and destroy. NO ONE NEEDS THEM.

  18. Salome says

    May 7, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    Protestant iconoclasts strike again.

    • gravenimage says

      May 7, 2018 at 5:21 pm

      Ha ha

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