While the reason for this sharp rise, and its source, is generally ignored or obfuscated, here’s a clue as to what group is responsible for this:
Christians in Europe are not simply experiencing social discrimination, prejudice, or restrictions on freedom. Christians, including clergy, have been attacked or killed for their faith. As in previous years we have continued to see threats and attacks against Christian converts from Islam.
In Islam, the penalty for apostasy is death.
Western countries are increasingly resembling the countries from which their masses of migrants have come. The same hatred, Islamic supremacism, intolerance and violent persecution that was once seen largely in Africa and the Middle East has found a new home in countries that were once characterized by freedom and the rule of law.
Jews are facing the same plight from the same source, with a surge in violent Islamic antisemitism in Europe.
“Report: Anti-Christian Attacks in Europe Rose 285 Percent Since 2008,” by Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, July 22, 2020:
ROME — The number of officially recorded anti-Christian incidents in Europe has risen by 285 percent between 2008 and 2019, according to Ellen Fantini, director of the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDACE).
Speaking with the Catholic News Agency (CNA), Fantini said that the trend of increasing attacks is particularly noteworthy in France, such as the recent arson attack on the Nantes Cathedral, but is evident elsewhere as well.
Citing data provided to the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), anti-Christian crimes in the UK doubled from 2017 to 2018, Fantini said. “We know they are rising in Spain, Germany, and Sweden, as well.”
In its 2019 report, OIDACE chronicled the increase in Christian persecution throughout Europe, pointing to “a rise in the number of churches, Christian symbols, and cemeteries across Europe being vandalized, desecrated, and burned, compared to previous years.”
Moreover, the report states, across Europe, “Christians have been fired, sued, and even arrested for exercising their freedom of expression or conscience.”
“As we have noted in the past, Christians in Europe are not simply experiencing social discrimination, prejudice, or restrictions on freedom. Christians, including clergy, have been attacked or killed for their faith. As in previous years we have continued to see threats and attacks against Christian converts from Islam,” the report stated.
The 64-page report offered summary descriptions of more than 325 cases of intolerance and discrimination against Christians in Europe for the year 2018.
The report also cites the official annual crime statistics for 2018 provided by the French Interior Ministry, which included 1063 “anti-Christian acts” and showed that in the ten-year period from 2008 to 2018, there was an increase of some 250 percent in attacks on Christian sites.
Christian sites in Europe suffered a record number of attacks in the year 2019, with some 3,000 Christian churches, schools, cemeteries, and monuments vandalized, looted, or defaced.
Another report compiling the anti-Christian acts perpetrated during 2019 revealed a range of profanation including arson, defecation, desecration, looting, mockery, Satanism, theft, urination, and vandalism.
The greatest number of acts of violence against Christian sites occurred in France, where churches, schools, cemeteries, and monuments “are being vandalized, desecrated, and burned at an average rate of three per day,” according to reports.
According to Wednesday’s CNA report, the French Interior Ministry registered 996 anti-Christian acts in 2019 — an average of nearly three per day — while noting that the true figure may be higher, since officials do not count fires of undetermined cause at churches across the country.
Last month, arsonists set fire to the Saint-Pierre cathedral in Rennes but were thwarted by firefighters who arrived in time to put out the blaze before serious damage was done. The 15th-century Nantes cathedral was not so fortunate, suffering substantial damage….
Tony Naim says
I did not think there were any more Christians left living in Europe. Secular nationalists yes, but Christians, that must be a joke! Mosques are getting more and more crowded by the hour, but Churches? This is a thing from the past, either ruined of abandoned ! What a shame.
Look at what Erdogan did, stole one of the most wonderful pieces of Christian art in the history of mankind, dedicated to Christ, and the lonely Greeks are left to deal with it on their own. Christians in Europe! Where? What a shame!
CogitoErgoSum says
Christianity is the religion of the underdog, the poor, the downtrodden, the helpless. I guess the Christians in Europe did such a good a job at getting rid of that type of person in their own countries that they had to invite some people from outside their countries who fit that description to come live among them in order to make the Europeans feel better about themselves. Trouble is the ones they invited believe that the underdog, the poor, the downtrodden and the helpless should only be Christians – who are not supposed to feel good about themselves. So, the solution to that problem is to get rid of the Christians.
curious george says
Tony Naim says
I did not think there were any more Christians left living in Europe. Secular nationalists yes, but Christians, that must be a joke!
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The European Union seems to be hostile to Christianity and it appears that the situation is only going to get worse.
Europe’s War on Christianity
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/europes-war-on-christianity
abad says
The EU is a Liberal organization and being Liberal, is going to be hostile to Christianity. Ditto to the Liberal leaders in the USA. They hate Christianity but sing the praises of Islam 24/7/365.
gravenimage says
Europe is about 69% Christian. Atheists and Agnostics make up about 26% of the population there. Muslims are around 2%.
curious says
@gravenimage, Pew reported that Muslims had already grown to 5% of Europe’s population in 2016, and were projected to continue growing even without migration, which has continued anyway.
https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/
Considering the birth rate (2x higher than non-Muslims) and ongoing immigration (both legal and illegal), I estimate 10% of the Europe’s population are now Muslim.
Muslims are on average younger, so the % will increase as the elderly non-Muslim Europeans die off and are replaced by Muslims. Replacement is part of the Saudi agenda to hijack NATO, fueled by Nixon’s formerly secret Petrodollar deals, enabled by ‘well oiled’ NATO media and politicians, and covered by Petrodollar hypnosis.
Seriously, “grooming”? Look up that word in any dictionary prior to the BBC obfuscation, e.g. here:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/grooming
Misreporting Islamic gang rape by Pakistani Muslims as “grooming” by “Asian men” provided deliberate camouflage, and was only one example of the NATO Petrodollar hypnosis campaign designed to prevent outrage and to conceal the effects of Muslim immigration. BBC staff speak and write in the English language for a living, and yet they chose deliberately to obfuscate these Islamic crimes. Even George Orwell would have felt shock at such a grotesque and shameless spectacle.
gravenimage says
The numbers may indeed be worse than those I cited, but Tony’s idea that there are no Christians surviving in Europe is premature at best.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Unfortunately, the Pew Research Center statistics put the European muslim population, even in 2016, at 4.9%. And the demographics/projections moving forward are very ominous.
If one looks at just Western Europe, the numbers are *much* higher.
https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/
gravenimage says
This is grimly true. I was giving numbers for Europe as a whole.
SKA says
Many of the 69% are only nominal Christians who were born and baptized in Christian families but who otherwise do not engage in Christian worship or Bible study or voluntarily support Christian churches out of their finances. The actual percentage of believing Christians is probably at the most 10%.
gravenimage says
I do not intend to be the religious police.
curious says
The Pope remains in Europe, and exhorts Europeans to do more to support Muslim immigration and the spread of Islam, even in the midst of Covid-19:
“We have to learn to share in order to grow together, leaving no one behind.”
http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/migration/documents/papa-francesco_20200513_world-migrants-day-2020.html
Of course, he has Swiss guards and high walls to protect him from the Islamic predations that he invites upon ordinary non-Muslims, who have no such protections.
Rufolino says
If you are not European and don’t live in Europe, how come you are making such a comprehensive condemnation of Christians in Europe ?
Don’t tar all Christians with the brush with which the Pope can be tarred, for ignoring the Moslem theft of Hagia Sophia. Many Christians, unlike the Pope, are wounded and grieving.
Walter Sieruk says
This photograph of this Muslim man ,with his raised fist ,striking a Christian in this awful “war of ideas ” between the Christian West and the Islamic East is again a blatant reminder of the wisdom spoken by the hero in the 1979 movie of the title. TIME AFTER TIME in which the hero said “The first man to raise his fist is the man who has run out of ideas.”
This photo shows that its the follower of Islam who is “the man who has run out of ideas.”
Westman says
My concern is democratic governments, the weakest kind due to needing a popular vote, are unable to rise to the opposition of anything short of a national war of survival. We see this clearly whether it’s the persecution of Christians or destructive riots in the US and EU. It is easier to persecute the victims who respond and less costly at the ballot box than dealing with the predators.
I’m certain, at some future time, that it will be the citizens who will kick government out of the way and force reforms and a return to stability. The predators have run out of dialogue and gone on to the destruction of society. Eventually the currently law-abiding will run out of patience with both predators and government.
Lauren Hermann says
Brilliant, Westman. Totally agree!
SAFI says
Over the last few days there have been widespread violent attacks against Armenians and armenian embassies in Russia, Germany and beyond by Azeris (and some Turks) I think maybe jihadwatch should take interest
https://twitter.com/ZartonkMedia/status/1286441469331427328
https://zartonkmedia.com/2020/07/24/moscow-authorities-arrest-more-than-50-azerbaijanis-for-attacking-armenians/
gravenimage says
I had not heard this, SAFI. Thank you for those links.
mortimer says
Azerbaijan is fighting with Armenia over the border. They want to reunite an enclave of their tribe in Armenia. It’s tribalism enflamed by Islamic supremacism and hatred of kafirs.
curious says
An Armenian school in San Francisco was also vandalized, evidently by Turks/Azerbaijanis:
https://abc7news.com/kzv-armenian-school-armenia-vandalism-san-francisco/6333950/
Armenians were genuine refugees and many have contributed to the republic, but we fail to give any genuine refugees safe haven when we import the Muslims persecuting them.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Mortimer and curious.
And I had not heard about this attack in San Francisco, even though I live here.
Walter Sieruk says
This picture shows how strongly some Muslim man hate Christians. One reason for this is that in the mosques and madrasas the Muslim clerics, as the imams who speak many awful and unproven terrible things against Christians and Christian doctrine.
So much so the many Muslims get all worked up against Christians and Christian teachings and some those Muslims commit violent actions against Christians. Such false religious teachers, as those Muslim clerics, who speak to people unfounded and invalid evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines have been described in the Bible. For the Bible informs the reader in Second Peter 2:12. “They speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.” [N.K.J.V.]
It also should be make clear that in this specific above Bible verse, as well as in John 3:16. The word “Perish” does not mean loss of being but loss of well-being. As in going to ruin by ending up in languishing in torment in a terrible place of suffering that the Bible calls hell. Luke 16:19-31.
Daniel Triplett says
Muslims will surpass Christians Worldwide in numbers by 2050, rapidly increasing the gap beyond that. The non-Muslim white race in particular is heading toward extinction, with much more dying each day than are born.
James Lincoln says
To your point, Daniel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rZwnJ1cE1s
jewdog says
If the Europeans had honestly learned from the Israeli experience, they could have avoided most of this. They would have realized that Zionist investment starting in the late nineteenth century attracted hundreds of thousands of Muslims immigrants who eventually turned on them violently, and that similar economic opportunities were attracting large scale Muslim immigration to Europe, so similar trouble would eventually result. Instead, they deluded themselves into thinking that while the evil Zionists instigated the violence, things would turn out differently for them, the enlightened ones. And they are still deluding themselves.
gravenimage says
Attacks on Christians in Europe rise 285% since 2008, converts from Islam particularly targeted
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This is horrifying, but does not surprise.
mortimer says
Salafism is the source of this danger and Salafism comes from Saudi Arabia and is exported by its government. KSA is building its own mosques in Europe and sending its own preachers trained in KSA as well. They teach Muslims in Europe to hate the dirty kufaar ‘for the sake of Allah’.
How do you show your canonical, Islamic hate for kafirs? You beat them up. Or stab or rape or rob them.
Thanks to Frau Merkel and the EU fools who opened their borders to this Death Cult without fully understanding the hatred of Europeans that is the minds of the cultists.
gravenimage says
Not all Jihad is Salafism, nor is the source of all Jihad Saudi Arabia, although they are big sponsors. As you know, all Islam preaches Jihad terror.
Antiislamicman says
The evil cult of Islam destroying and killing anyone or anything it comes into contact with.
Eventually there will be a fight back against this racist evil barbaric false religion.
In the meantime the authorities sit like frightened sheep and do noting.
It’s going to be WW11 all over again, however this time the enemy is living among us, not hard to spot.
Islam is the enemy of all mankind. Only together will we be able to rid ourselves of this barbarian sick cult.
Islam is death, slavery, racism and pur hate. Islam is from the devil himself.
No longer can decent human beings sit back and let this satanic cult of evil grow. Be gone Satan
FYI says
muslims love to label others.
The Murtads{Apostates},the Mushrikun{guilty of Shirk}the Kufaar(‘infidels’)
[Arabic terms :usually used in a derogatory way]
It is time we had our OWN infidel term to denote these demonic islamic thugs who have invaded our societies aided by the Globalist puppet masters{UN etc},the duplicitous Leftists{RED-GREEN AXIS] and the treasonous political leaders of Europe who stand by while their citizens are murdered and raped by islamic thugs.
The muttafaqqirs
{Not Arabic, more like the faux Arabic gibberish of many of those who convert to islam(=’Arabish’),but close enough in sound to confuse these vicious islamic thugs}
We the Kufaar must let these islamic muttafaqqirs triumph.
To hell with muslim muttafaqqirs.
Marttheman says
It is wise to pick your fight early on whilst the demographics are still in your favour. The longer you wait the more outnumbered you become. Look at the Copts in Egypt. They are now only ten percent of the Egyptian population but they don’t stand a chance in fighting their oppressors. Ones you have metastasis set in it is too late.
gravenimage says
True.
secserv says
Islam is just like the gangs where new members have to shoot or kill someone to be accepted as members.
OLD GUY says
Marttheman is right, the problem is the open border policies that are allowing the migration invasion of the islamic/muslims into our Western and European countries. Muslims are not going to become part of our societies they are going to destroy it and enslave or kill us.
dumbledoresarmy says
The hijra has been slowed down a bit as regards Australia and New Zealand, at least, for now… The Kiwis pulled up the drawbridge and slammed shut the gates and closed their border, period, to EVERYBODY except persons with Kiwi citizenship who happened to be outside when the borders closed. In keeping the covid-19 plague out, the Kiwis are ALSO, for the moment at least, keeping out the hijra! Same thing in Australia; as far as I can tell, we’re not accepting anybody who isn’t already a citizen, at the moment. Which again has slowed the hijra down to the merest trickle.
By acting to keep out a physical plague we have incidentally slowed down the influx of carriers of a “mind-plague”. Unless and until a vaccine is developed for covid-19, I do not see Australia or NZ hurrying to let in thousands and thousands of unscreened or barely-screened people from world hotspots… we’ve had a salutary fright in Victoria at the moment (and one may note, by the by, that the poorly-trained and corrupt private ‘security guards” who picked up the bug from infected travellers in quarantine and carried it back out into the community, were almost certainly Mohammedans…). Since immigration in general has come to a crashing halt: so has the hijra!
An astute Jewish writer, in the 1950s, A. Carlebach, called Islam “the worst of all plagues”. It might be worth using discussion of measures such as quarantine, isolation and BORDER CLOSURES – which all manner of countries found themselves suddenly able and willing to deploy in order to keep out a new and dangerous physical disease – to argue that the same measures would be a perfectly rational response to the very high risks of economic damage, injury to persons and property, and .. sudden acts of mass murder, plotted or achieved… associated with the presence of a Muslim colony. Best not to *have* a Muslim colony in your midst. Just as it’s best to not have covid-19 running rampant. Close the borders and keep BOTH problems out…
gravenimage says
+1