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France: Statue found beheaded inside chapel

Nov 6, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Could the perpetrators have been people who believe that representational art is sinful in itself, and that the veneration of saints is idolatrous, and that “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4)? Possibly. And possibly not. But how many incidents of this kind did France experience before it had a large population of such people?

“Oberhaslach: the chapel of the hermitage Saint-Florent vandalized,” DNA, November 3, 2019:

A statue of Saint Bernadette that was in the chapel of the Hermitage Saint-Florent in Oberhaslach (sector Molsheim) was vandalized on Sunday, said the parish priest.

“I opened the chapel this morning at 9 am and there was nothing. A parishioner, while going to devotions around 3 pm, discovered this decapitated terracotta statue,” explained Father Marc D’Hooge. The statuette may have been used “to try to break the door of the sacristy.”

A fire incident last year

“Last year, we had already had a fire in the toilet of the hermitage,” said the priest, who is inclined to think this was a local act of vandalism. “Wherever I have officiated, I have always made it a point of honor to leave the churches open, I would not want to close them,” he says.

The gendarmes of Schirmeck went to the scene for preliminary investigations; “they advised me to pray about the matter in the hope that someone noticed something,” says the priest.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Nov 6, 2019 at 5:18 pm

    France: Statue found beheaded inside chapel
    ………………..

    And s awful as this destruction of art is, remember that Muslims are also intent on beheading people, especially Christians–as they did in France with the priest whose throat the cut in his church.

    God, I hate Islam.

  2. Wellington says

    Nov 6, 2019 at 5:30 pm

    A metaphor in statue form for the beheading of the West.

  3. Lotus says

    Nov 6, 2019 at 6:13 pm

    Raymond Ibrahim keeps on his site a monthly tally of Islamic attacks and vandalism of Christian places of worship.

    Have a look at the photo for April this year, of a church in South Carolina. Who would have thought to see such a thing down in Dixieland? Even a decade or two ago it would have been unthinkable. But such is Muslim-creep.

    This is the future, if we don’t wake up and stop Muslims spreading throughout Western countries.

    https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2019/07/08/fk-your-pig-god-muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2019/

  4. gerard says

    Nov 7, 2019 at 3:50 am

    The police told the priest to pray about the matter. Were they being sarcastic?

    • Lotus says

      Nov 7, 2019 at 6:02 am

      I suppose they were. Just another way of saying they weren’t going to solve the case and bring the perpetrators to justice.

  5. Linde Barrera says

    Nov 7, 2019 at 9:54 am

    A professor from Harvard University, Dr. Howard Gardner, offered a theory on the human intelligences, stating he had identified 8 of them, but there could be a few more. He claimed that if everyone got a job or started a business in their highest-strongest intelligence, each person would be successful. They are all important and listed here in no particular order: verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, musical, physical, ways with animals and nature, inter-personal, and intra-personal.

    I mention this because Islam negates and condemns the following intelligences:
    -the musical intelligence (music is haram in Islam),
    -the visual-spatial (representational art is considered idolatry),
    -ways with animals and nature (Islam promotes halal slaughter- a cruel way to kill animals and Islam hates dogs), and
    -the inter-personal intelligence (Islam has 1 agenda- to advance the worship of Allah and if you do not agree you do not fit in and must be killed or taken as a slave). So….

    I conclude Islam renders a human being to be half of whom he/she was intended to be by the real Creator of all life on earth, and that Creator could not be “Allah”, because Allah=Satan in my reasoning.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 7, 2019 at 7:13 pm

      True, Linde. And much literature is banned (verbal/linguistic), there is little freedom of speech (also verbal/linguistic), reason is sneered at (logical/mathematical), women are mostly banned from sports, as are men in some cases (physical).

      About all that is left in Islam is Da;wa, waging violent Jihad , and oppressing Infidels. Besides everything else, Islam horribly narrows the lives of its own followers.

  6. No Muzzies Here says

    Nov 7, 2019 at 10:54 am

    Who might have done that? Let me think. Is there a group of people who absolutely loves chopping heads off? By Jove! there is one! It’s the crowd that teaches their children to cut heads!

  7. Kirsch says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 12:15 am

    https://d.tube/#!/v/vladtepesblog/QmNVhEU49gdwMPHrUBGiVddGJdkpd4vdVqpYVRemcPi1tX

    Most explosive speech in French Parliament…French Population Being Replaced, MP Warns in Blistering Speech!

  8. Angemon says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 5:29 am

    The gendarmes of Schirmeck went to the scene for preliminary investigations; “they advised me to pray about the matter in the hope that someone noticed something,” says the priest.

    I wonder what was the gendarme’s name?…

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