Former deputy mayor of Milan and regional security assessor Riccardo De Corato tied the vandalism to an incident in San Benedetto Po, Mantova, where four 16-year-old Muslims of Moroccan origin, born in Italy, were arrested after destroying a crib. On New Year’s Eve, thugs stoned a manger in San Bernardo park erected by the La Braila association in Lodi, Lombardy. According to police, the image of the Infant Jesus was then removed, beheaded and thrown away in a nearby field. On the evening of Dec. 29, the boys entered the abbey of Polirone and threw the figure of the Infant Jesus against the roof of the church. Later, they returned and ripped it to pieces and hung the heads and torsos of the Holy Family on an iron pole in the town square. ‘It is not difficult to imagine from which worldview such hostility towards a Christian symbol can come,’ De Corato commented….While a number of acts were simply wanton and committed by local youth, sources said that other incidents could be traced to ‘people deeply different in feeling, values, faith and roots,’ and ‘foreigners’ who, although born in Italy, were from Islamic countries and ‘insensitive’ or even hostile ‘to the sense of Christmas.'”
Celebrate diversity!
“Epidemic of ‘Nightmarish’ Crib Vandalism Hits Italy,” by Jules Gomes, Church Militant, January 11, 2020 (thanks to Christopher):
ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – Hundreds of Christmas cribs have been smashed, burned and vandalized across Italy in a binge of violence unparalleled in recent memory.
Statues of the Baby Jesus and the Holy Family have been beheaded, stolen or hanged — in one shocking incident even impale
In the town of Ivrea, near Turin, firefighters were called to extinguish a blaze in the church of San Maurizio on Jan. 4 after a 46-year-old woman with a history of arson set fire to a crib near the altar. The fire destroyed valuable paintings and frescoes, as well as two antique painted tables and the covering of the baptismal font.
The perpetrator confessed to the crime, even though she said she was unable to explain why she did it.
Meanwhile, on the same day and in the same town, another arsonist set fire to a crib in the church of San Salvatore, destroying the altar linen. The two churches are near one other, close to the historic city center.
Edoardo Cerrato, bishop of Ivrea, called for acts of reparation and an investigation, noting that “we have seen beheaded figurines of the Child of Bethlehem and His Most Holy Mother” in other parts of Italy.
“The investigation will perhaps identify the perpetrators and understand the motive behind what, for now, can be seen as desecration of sacred images and churches,” he said….
In the town of Mogliano Venetto, vandals hanged a figurine of the Baby Jesus using an electric cable to encircle his neck while keeping it raised off the ground.
A mother who witnessed the “nightmarish” and “macabre” destruction said the vandals had also scattered several plastic cups among the straw, using the nativity scene as a garbage can….
Locals lamented that this was one of the seven cribs vandalized in the region.
A statue of the Child Jesus, placed in the manger in front of the parish church of San Sebastiano, Arbus, in southern Sardinia, was beheaded by a group of vandals who then brought the severed head to the municipal cemetery….
Former deputy mayor of Milan and regional security assessor Riccardo De Corato tied the vandalism to an incident in San Benedetto Po, Mantova, where four 16-year-old Muslims of Moroccan origin, born in Italy, were arrested after destroying a crib. On New Year’s Eve, thugs stoned a manger in San Bernardo park erected by the La Braila association in Lodi, Lombardy. According to police, the image of the Infant Jesus was then removed, beheaded and thrown away in a nearby field.
On the evening of Dec. 29, the boys entered the abbey of Polirone and threw the figure of the Infant Jesus against the roof of the church. Later, they returned and ripped it to pieces and hung the heads and torsos of the Holy Family on an iron pole in the town square.
“It is not difficult to imagine from which worldview such hostility towards a Christian symbol can come,” De Corato commented….
While a number of acts were simply wanton and committed by local youth, sources said that other incidents could be traced to “people deeply different in feeling, values, faith and roots,” and “foreigners” who, although born in Italy, were from Islamic countries and “insensitive” or even hostile “to the sense of Christmas.”…
“In some ways, this is a repeat of what has been happening in France for some time now with the constant vandalization of churches by Muslim immigrants,” author and publisher Leo Zagami told Church Militant, “but the predominantly leftwing Italian media downplays the attacks as stupid pranks by teenagers.”
“Of course, in Italy, the Muslim community is much smaller, so the problem is more modest, but the large number of attacks during the recent Christmas festivities in Italy is indeed disturbing,” he explained, “and inspired by the lack of integration suffered by most members of the Islamic community, just like in France.”…
In France, more than 3,000 churches, schools, cemeteries and monuments were vandalized, looted or defaced during 2019 — which is on track to becoming a record year for anti-Christian sacrilege on the continent.
Christian buildings are being vandalized, desecrated and burned at an average rate of three per day, according to government statistics.
In Germany, attacks against Christian churches are occurring at an average rate of two per day, according to police records….
medforth says
Fire in catholic church St. Johannes Bosco in Essen, Germany
In the church St. Johannes Bosco in Essen district Bochold there was a fire today Thursday morning. Parts of the nativity scene, which is built up in the chancel, have been damaged by the fire. A volunteer worker who was preparing the church for the service planned for 8.45 a.m. noticed the fire and, with the assistance of another worker, extinguished the fire that had broken out in the rear area of the crib. A fire extinguisher and a watering can were used. The alarmed fire brigade removed the burnt remains to the outside and used a ventilator to expel the fire smoke from the church. The service had to be cancelled because the smell of burning was still noticeable after the ventilation. By opening all existing doors and windows, the remaining smoke is to be drawn off. As the responsible clergyman Father Rathgeber reported in the conversation, the last Holy Mass will be celebrated in the church on June 21 this year.By opening all existing doors and windows, the remaining smoke is to be drawn off. As the responsible clergyman Father Rathgeber reported in the conversation, the last Holy Mass will be celebrated in the church on June 21 this year. Afterwards it will be closed for good in the course of the reorganization of the parishes in the diocese of Essen. The cause of the fire is still unclear, nobody was injured.
More:
https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2020/01/fire-in-catholic-church-st-johannes.html
Michael Pillon says
It is the hideous blasphemy at the black heart of Islam that will ensure that Muslims will remain forever cursed. Poor, illiterate, disease-riddled… and forever destined to beg for mercy from the collective Christian hand.
gravenimage says
Italy: Epidemic of thefts, beheadings, and hangings of statues of Jesus and saints, many by Muslim migrants
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This is hideous, but should not surprise, given the hatred of Islam for both Christianity and of images of human figures. How long before Muslims destroy priceless art?
Rufolino says
The artical states that Moslems “suffer” from lack of integration.
Whose fault is that ? One might ask.
The only people suffering are Christian (and Jewish) Europeans.
Nothing on the horizon is likely to prevent this situation from becoming much worse in the future.
Michael Copeland says
“the lack of integration suffered by most members of the Islamic community”.
Yes, this implies that the lack is someone else’s fault.
Lack of integration is INSTRUCTED by Islam.
Witness Erdogan to Turks in Germany:
“Assimilation is a crime against humanity”, and
“We are merciful to each other, and violent to the kuffar”
William says
Lets ship all Muslims back to where they came from!
gravenimage says
Good points, Rufolino and Michael.
Giacomo Latta says
Western laws protect visible and identifiable minorities. In the West Christianity is not a minority therefore, according to the Left, needs no protection.
MTMLA says
How about the Notre Dame in France? I don’t believe it was an accident.
mortimer says
The greatest Islamic hatred is directed against the Christian doctrine of the INCARNATION. The Koran particularly condemns it and uses the Incarnation as the excuse for attacks against and subjugation of all Christians.
Any statues or pictures conveying the idea of the Incarnation will be despised and attacked by jihadists.
Mohammed also found the teaching about the Holy Spirit got in the way of his death cult. The idea that each believer could be in personal contact with God through his Holy Spirit ruined Mohammed’s dictatorial direct line to Allah and allowed people to think for themselves.
Mohammed wanted people to think only what he said or die.
Rarely says
muslims need no religious reason for hatred, vandalism, etc because, when there is no reason they just invent one. Islam hates Christianity for the exact same reason it hates Hinduism, Judaism, different Islamic sects, etc., etc., & etc. — simply because. It’s hatred for the sake of hatred and is used to inflame and control the masses. Without that hatred the powers that be would loose control.
The religious leaders may feel justified, or even obligated, by their texts but I believe it still comes down to control.
Save Europe says
Respectfully UNTRUE!
Islam targets their Leftist friends first. Then targets practitioners of other non Muslim religions. Then atheists and agnostics. When ALL are gone, they target each other.
Read the following from the U.K. – a vile website ! It has been created by Muslim Pakistanis – they’re claiming to be friends of Ahmadi Muslims…..until a later date!
https://tellmamauk.org/ahmadiyya-muslims-targeted-for-violent-islamophobic-hate-in-east-london/
mortimer says
Rarely, when you make sweeping statements do you have evidence and fact to support them? Or do you just speak out of thin air? All my comments are based on the foundational sources texts and canonical writings of Islam.
When you try to flat-out contradict my conclusions, you reveal you have not read the Islamic source texts, the canonical commentaries of Islam or a single manual of Sharia.
Please quote a source text that says Allah hates the kufaar ‘for no reason’.
Cj says
Read the Koran again. You missed it.
Spiro says
Well what’s going to happen if criminals are caught jail time , deportations, or just warned and set free
Will the leftists so called leaders just make excuses for them. after All their culture is different
What’s it called when no action is taken to defend you culture or your country
I hope Europe wakes up soon before it’s to late.
Lydia Church says
All done by armies of the devil.
He couldn’t touch the real thing, so he has his soldiers attack the symbols thereof.
(Aside from what was allowed of course, but I digress.)
Speaking of Italy, I mentioned this some time ago but I came across a video of a Christian in Rome who said that when his fellow Christians go around and cast out demons in the area, the demons say that ‘their prince is enthroned in Rome.’ I will let the reader connect the dots. The video may be floating around still.
Jaydam says
Can you just imagine the worldwide uproar from Muslims if a symbol of Muhammed or other Islamic symbols was vandalised by non Muslims,…? More and more frequent acts of vandalism against Churches, and Christian symbols reveals the total hypocrisy of the believers and followers of the “Religion of Peace” One can only hope their days in Europe and westernised nations around the world will be over very soon. But then their friends on “The Left” will no doubt embolden them to become far more brazen in attacking anything that is not Islamic.
Rufolino says
In 50 years time, how much public sculpture, religious or otherwise, will remain undecapitated, and undamaged ?
Its public sculpture is one of the glories of Europe, but its days are numbered by Islamic vandalism.
Lovers of art and sculpture will be periodically outraged, but the majority will prefer silence to accusations of “islamophobia”, “racism”, and “bigotry”.
gravenimage says
Yes–terrifying to think of. Just consider all the treasures in Italy alone.
esther says
I support —–based on my elementary education in physics and a life-long
crush on Sir Isaac Newton, —EQUAL (equitable) AND OPPOSITE
REACTION
gravenimage says
We don’t have to act like Muslims to defend against Jihad. Start with cutting off more Muslims immigration, then start deportions, beginning with the worst Jihadists.
Jon Sobieski says
These hate speech laws make it impossible to speak the truth. Europe needs to get rid o these hate speech laws but that doesn’t look likely to me. Revolution by electing brave leaders is the only hope.
mortimer says
Reply to Sobieski: the Koran will be challenged as ‘hate speech’ under the same laws.
gravenimage says
Sadly I doubt it, Mortimer. This has not happened so far. Having freedom of speech is better, in any case.
No Muzzies Here says
Italy, you had your chance with Matteo Salvini. But your higher-up politicians, undoubtedly with the prompting of the pope, had Salvini kicked out of office. You’ll be suffering the consequences for many years to come.
FYI says
Attacking cribs?
Perhaps if muslims bothered to read their own koran..here is an astonishing tale of a crib.
koran 19 v 22-30{MARYAM]
An infant is born {v 22}and is put in a crib by mother Maryam{muslim dawa insist this is Jesus:they often use koran 19:30 on their booths to lure in and fool Christians}
People come to visit this newborn infant.
Let the koran’s fairytale explain what happened next…
29.Then she{mother Maryam}pointed to him.They said:How can we talk to one who is in a crib,a little boy?
{Now remember,this is a newborn infant in a crib..and the visitors wonder how they can communicate with this newborn infant:after all,infants cannot speak,right?}
30.He spake{YES,THAT’S RIGHT: THE NEWBORN INFANT SPEAKS LIKE AN ADULT!}
“Lo! I am the slave of allah and he hath given me the Scripture and appointed me a prophet”
Isn’t that some scientific miracle for the infidels to explain away eh?
The scientific miracle of allah’s TALKING NEWBORN INFANT..and note that all this takes place in a crib and baby “Jesus” tells us he has the Scripture{!} and knows he is a prophet.
CL North says
Antifa, feminists, LGTB activists & young militant Muslims have joined forces to destroy Judeo-Christian institutions & cultural symbols.
The irony is once an area becomes predominantly Muslim, gays will be thrown off roof tops and women subjugated to head & body coverings and everyone to Sharia law. Millennials & “progressives” buy into the Taqiyya deception of Muslims when the reality is the Islamic crocodile will eat them last after first devouring the Jews, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, etc.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15366/europe-anti-christian-attacks
Elizabeth says
There are those that say: In Revelation, it shows that the Churches are finished and there is no future for them. Would all this criminality have anything to do with it?
gravenimage says
What–are you saying that Muslims acting like thugs is some sort of sign from God that we should let them destroy our churches?
I think this has more to do with Infidels being clueless about what a danger Islam presents.