Besides removing supposed temptations to idolatry, Islamic jihadists want to destroy the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that the destroyed remnants of ancient non-Muslim civilizations are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth:
Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth. (Qur’an 3:137)
This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya — the society of unbelievers, which is worthless. Obviously this cuts against the idea of tourism of ancient sites and non-Muslim religious installations. V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries. For many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.” Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam, recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool.
“Ramadan in Algeria: Statue of the Virgin Mary vandalized in Oran,” translated from “Algérie : La statue de la vierge Marie vandalisée à Oran,” ObservAlgerie, May 17, 2020 (thanks to E.):
The statue of the Virgin Mary of the Santa Cruz Christian Church in Oran in western Algeria has been the target of vandalism. The statue in the grotto of Our Lady of Santa Cruz was overturned with its stone base, and was damaged. It was an attempted robbery that went wrong, according to what was reported on Saturday, May 16, by the Arabic-language newspaper El Khabar.
According to the same source, the public prosecutor presiding over the court of Oran ordered the placement under arrest warrant of four (4) church guards. According to the first elements of the investigation, they are behind this criminal act.
Indeed, the chapel of Santa Cruz built of stones extracted from the mountain of Murdjadjo where it is perched, was the subject of an attempted theft earlier this month. Four looters allegedly destroyed the statue of the Virgin Mary by attempting to steal it. They even destroyed other holy monuments in their path.
During the investigations, suspicion turned against the four men responsible for guarding the place. The investigators relied on the respondents’ statements. Indeed, the four guards of the place of worship gave totally contradictory versions at the time of the depositions.
Officials in the municipality of Oran said that these individuals, who were supposed to guard the chapel of Santa Cruz, ransacked the place of worship and destroyed the statue of the Virgin Mary by trying to steal it in order to sell it on the black market, as an object of antiquity.
The situation of Christians in Algeria is worrisome
In addition, the Christian community in Algeria has for several years denounced the intimidation to which the faithful are subject. Many Christians have denounced the series of closings of churches around the nation. Several evangelical associations and organizations have called for an end to “the increasing pressure and intimidation from the Algerian government”….
ronit says
Apparently, eating is not allowed during the ”holy month of ramzan”… but they are free to attack the infidels during this time. Still they are the ‘victims’ and we infidels are the ‘islamophobe.’
Templer says
Islam is a santic cult beastltey sex with goats and other animals there is no sin if Alan realises his lust on a animal pedo philed mo was 56 his first wife esa was 6 the cult off santn murder rap forced covershons santic cult
gravenimage says
Muslims are not just “free” to attack Infidels during Ramadan, they are encouraged to do so.
Ramadan itself celebrates the first time Muslims defeated Infidels in Jihad.
Eur says
The mere existence of infidels is Islamophobic. We must die to avoid appearing racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic …
Goofy says
These Muhammadans must be intellectually disadvantaged. Virgin Mary is mentioned and revered more in the Koran than in the Holy Bible. They are not true Muslims and I hope that some true Muslims will react in accordance with the Koran
FYI says
The author of the koran is himself intellectually disadvantaged and Theologically incompetent as he thinks MARY is part of the Christian Trinity.
“And when allah saith:O Jesus son of Mary!Didst thou say unto mankind:take me and my mother for two gods beside allah?”
koran 5:116
When did Jesus ever say He and His mother were to be taken as gods along with allah?Never.
allah’s EPIC misunderstanding of the Trinity:Jesus,Mary and allah.
{Jesus,Mary and Joseph!That’s not it at all.And besides it is NOT 3 separate gods in a polytheism but a monotheism}
Even atheists know Christians are not polytheists and Mary couldn’t possibly be in the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity{It’s Father,Son and Holy Spirit}
allah:the god who misunderstands THEOLOGY.
Note that the Holy Spirit is MISSING in islam:it seems allah{the greatest of all deceivers k3:54} would prefer his muslims not to know about THAT and instead rely on his false wisdom.
{“Say not ‘three’cease!It is better for you” says allah desperately in koran 4:171.”it is better for you”:It is indeed better from allah’s perspective that muslims don’t know about the Holy Spirit{which the Actual God gave to mankind as a gift at the time of Christ to give mankind the Wisdom to know God}because then they might get to know and find the Actual God…and see how wrong the koran,allah’s “perfect” book,really is.
Theologians,Apologetics folk and Bible scholars should consider the HOLY SPIRIT’s absence in islam{the Bible is the work of and shows the PRESENCE of the HS:the koran is NOT the work of and shows the ABSENCE of the HS which is why the koran is so full of errors}see koran 4:171,koran 5:116.The Gospel cannot be corrupted as muslims claim ,as it has the HS whereas the koran is missing the HS:islamic “scholars” don’t get that.
BTW if you are a Bible scholar or theologian you WILL need the assistance of the Holy Spirit otherwise you might miss these things as they are crystal clear through the gifts of the HS.
And Mary of the koran of course is MUSLIM,not Jewish ,like the “Jesus” of the koran is obviously a muslim{and couldn’t possibly be Jewish as they are “the WORST of created beings” koran 98:6 so allah pretends they are muslims}
Holger Jahndel says
In Christianity there is the connection between Greek Philosophy (for example of Philo(n) of Alexandria and Plato(n) and Plotin and Justin the Maertyr and Saint Irenaeus of Lyon and St. Paul the Apostle and the “Literatur of wisdom” in the old Greek Septuaginta-Bible and so on) and Theology from the very beginning and from the roots on. Connected with the LOGIC and Rationality and ETHICS and moral of Greek Philosophy and philosophers, derived from the Logos and Logis-Philosophy and Logos-Theology – also see St. Clement of Clemence of Alexandria and Origenes und Gregor Thaumaturgus and Lactantius and Tertullian und Dionysios Areopagita and Amrbosius and Eusebius and the mystic Johannes Chrysostomus.
In Islamic Quran there is NOT the term LOGOS in the whole QURAN, unlike the Christian bible where this LOGOS term exists – also see the international Schiller-Institut and Judith Reisman and James DeMeo from the USA about it and Klagemauer.TV from Switzerland and the books of Jaya Gopal “The misery of Islam” from India und Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer and the articles of the internatonal Gatestone-Institute and the anthropologist David Graeber and Prof. Margrit Kennedy and the Zeit-Fragen Magazine from Switzerland and so on. So in Christianity there is this rationality. The fanatic Islam und Islamism lacks this rationality and Logic, also see Mohammeds marriage to a 9 or 12 year old girl and his murderings and plunderings und the custom of child marriage and marriage of near relatives in the Islam world. That is why the avarage IQ in the Muslim world is so slow and they are genetically misslead and often have mental diseases and show degeneration and madness.
Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer, BLOG about Islam und Islamists and Islamism and so on
http://www.jihadwatch.org
Also see the articles of the internationale Gatestone-Institute and James DeMeo about it.
mortimer says
Holger, the Arabic word ‘KALIMAT’, referring to the word of Allah, occurs dozens of times in the Koran. Jesus is called ‘The Word’ in the Koran. The Koran uses Christian terms without understanding their established (by the 7th century) meanings. As FYI just put it, ‘Mohammed was theologically incompetent’. Mohammed quoted the ‘Logos’ idea without knowing anything about it. Mohammed tried to con Jews and Christians by using their scriptures even though he hadn’t read them.
Mohammed’s ideas were confused, contradictory … that the Koran is Allah’s eternal word on a golden tablet, but Mohammed did not realize that if the Preserved Tablet is eternal, then, it is a part of Allah to be worshipped … and that would be shirk.
Eur says
They are true Muslims. The first surah of the Koran, the one repeated by hundreds of millions of Muslims daily several times a day, refers to Christians as deviant and Jews as those who deserve the wrath of Allah. And that they have the right to consider Christians and Jews as people of the book … the rest of humanity does not even consider it. Christians and Jews can agree to live as second-hand citizens permanently harassed and humiliated; non-Christians or Jews can only die or convert to Islam. That fascist shit is Islam
gravenimage says
Goofy, Muslim *hate* the idea that Mary is the mother of the Son of God. The idea that Muslims “revere” Mary is not borne out.
Chistopher Watson says
It is unfortunate that these people keep building their Mosques in such dangerous places. It is a pity that they are built where they may be assaulted by wind, storm, fire, earthquakes and hurricanes. So far, they have been very lucky. Their luck cannot last forever.
gravenimage says
What?
Holger Jahndel says
Also see the articles of the international Gatestone-Institute about this and the book “the misery of Islam” by Jaya Gopal. Also see James DeMeo from the USA and the anthropologist David Graeber from Occupy.
Holger Jahndel says
In Christianity there is the connection between Greek Philosophy (for example of Philo(n) of Alexandria and Plato(n) and Plotin and Justin the Maertyr and Saint Irenaeus of Lyon and St. Paul the Apostle and the “Literatur of wisdom” in the old Greek Septuaginta-Bible and so on) and Theology from the very beginning and from the roots on. Connected with the LOGIC and Rationality and ETHICS and moral of Greek Philosophy and philosophers, derived from the Logos and Logis-Philosophy and Logos-Theology – also see St. Clement of Clemence of Alexandria and Origenes und Gregor Thaumaturgus and Lactantius and Tertullian und Dionysios Areopagita and Ambrosius and Eusebius and the mystic Johannes Chrysostomus.
In Islamic Quran there is NOT the term LOGOS in the whole QURAN, unlike the Christian bible where this LOGOS term exists – also see the international Schiller-Institut and Judith Reisman and James DeMeo from the USA about it and Klagemauer.TV from Switzerland and the books of Jaya Gopal “The misery of Islam” from India und Jihad Watch by Robert Spencer and the articles of the internatonal Gatestone-Institute and the anthropologist David Graeber and Prof. Margrit Kennedy and the Zeit-Fragen Magazine from Switzerland and so on. So in Christianity there is this rationality. The fanatic Islam und Islamism lacks this rationality and Logic, also see Mohammeds marriage to a 9 or 12 year old girl and his murderings and plunderings und the custom of child marriage and marriage of near relatives in the Islam world. That is why the avarage IQ in the Muslim world is so slow and they are genetically misslead and often have mental diseases and show degeneration and madness.
Lydia Church says
Hi Robert,
I’m popping in today for a peek (from my spiritual sabbatical, which is going very well)!
I read the article dated yesterday on that other site and that is exactly what is going on.
Censorship is encroaching, and it is accelerating concerning the current situation and any true revelations of the nature of what is going on, regarding the real agendas behind the scenes. I see this going on across the board with google and social media and this issue. Surveillance is being consolidated and increasing vastly. I fear that soon any such platforms will disappear and many will curtail and self censor in order to remain. It’s just one part of the whole global situation underway, and their structures and devices to implement it. I have said it often enough before, Revelation 13 and the one world government, religion, and economy under the antichrist. It is prophesied in the Bible so we can’t dance around it.
The premise is the environment, saving the planet, pollution, etc. This all goes back to the encyclical about the earth, 2030 sustainable development goals, pachamama, and on it goes. It’s not a coincidence. It is interesting to watch what he does. He put a statue of Moloch in front of the Coliseum in Rome around the time they passed all those abortion/infanticide laws and cities celebrated them. (The Bible talks about people who sacrificed their babies to a god named Moloch.) Then all the pachamama drama and now the whole world shuts down carbon emissions in the name of a virus where the numbers have been inflated. Coincidence? On May 14 he called for all the religions to come together to pray about the virus. (Uniting as a one world religion.) He also claimed that the virus was nature’s revenge for pollution. The economy crashes, but hey, not to fear, economy francesco is here! (I shared about that earlier). It’s all falling into place. The lamps are going out all over the world. Spiritual preparation is key.
God bless you and I’ll pop in from time to time.
Jocelyn says
This might seem fantastical but it would incredibly satisfying if any of the Virgin Mary statues than been damaged by Muslims, suddenly came to life and knocked said Muslims unconscious.