There is no telling who is behind this. Still, is it possible, just possible, that this had something to do with this Qur’an passage? “When your Lord inspired to the angels, I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip.” (8:12) Or this one? “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (47:4)
After all, the people who believe that passage about cutting off heads is holy writ also believe that Christianity is a false religion and that they are commanded to fight unbelievers so that Allah may punish them by the hands of the believers (cf. Qur’an 9:14-15). They are also likely familiar with the Qur’an’s suggestion 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) The ruins of non-Muslim civilizations thus bear witness to the truth of Islam. What ensues from that idea? The creation of more ruins.
Maybe it’s just a coincidence. But large numbers of people who believe these things have entered France in recent years. However, given the political situation and the state of the establishment media there, we will likely never know for sure.
“Six statues decapitated in a church in Poitiers,” translated from “Six statues décapitées dans une église à Poitiers,” by Amaury Bucco, Valuers Actuelles, January 12, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
The vandalism with iron bars of the Saint-Denis basilica, in Seine-Saint-Denis, on January 5, is definitely far from being an isolated act. Valeurs Actuelles has discovered that two churches in Poitiers, in Vienne, located about two kilometers away, were vandalized a few days apart. The first vandalism was the subject of a brief article in the local press on January 5. This is the Saint-Porchaire church, yet located not far from the police station in a pedestrian area frequently monitored, as revealed by the site of the New Republic. According to a witness, two men deliberately threw a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the ground, which broke on the ground, during the weekend of January 1.
Father Genty, vicar general of Poitiers, does not wish to speak on the subject. A local police source told Valeurs Actuelles that one of the two men, aged around 30 and of “European type,” introduced himself to one of the parishioners present as an evangelist, then climbed on the altar to seize the statue and throw it to the ground, before fleeing with his accomplice. “This statue, about one meter high, was in the niche of a side chapel overlooking an altar framed by the statues of Saint Radegonde and Saint Thérèse,” the New Republic states.
The second vandalism was mentioned in a police report, but not in the local press
Coincidentally, it was precisely in the Sainte-Thérèse church, located in the Bel-Air district, less than two kilometers away, in Poitiers, that damage was committed on January 6, without the local press noting anything this time, although the abuses committed were spectacular, to say the least. A police report, dated Saturday, January 8…
Wellington says
How fitting this barbarism occurred in Poitiers. 732 AD and all that—when the West had its head screwed on straight far better than it does now.
The idiotic descent continues. You bet it does.
gravenimage says
Grimly ironic, Wellington.
mortimer says
Not a coincidence … it is revenge by the Muslims.
gravenimage says
Could be–but Muslims have also engaged in this kind of disturbing vandalism in many parts of France.
commonsense says
Yes – very possibly no coincidence. Muslims know their history.
Westman says
It seems the only workable solution is to lock the (guessing Catholic) churches except during scheduled worship, depriving those who would spontaneously visit for comfort with personal and family problems.
Perhaps that was intent – squeeze the churches until they remain closed. This would be an opportune moment for Islamic groups to step up, decry the vandalism, help with restoration, and demonstrate they will not allow an individual’s actions to define them. Will this happen?
mortimer says
More surveillance cameras and a new approach to security. There should also be a professional security service attached to Christian churches which specializes in defending churches and their congregations. Such a security force would be fully trained and licensed to use weapons, as well as accredited to make arrests. They would also work undercover on important religious occasions. The jihadists would never know when they might be arrested by this security force. Such a church defense service should be jointly financed by all Christian churches. As well, members of local congregations should take self-defense courses to know how to stop jihadists who enter churches, and interdict them until the police arrive.
GenEarly says
Export Muslims to Their Countries. Anything else is wishful dreaming.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Who ever it was, it was demonic.
Always good to read your post, Wellington.
Michael Copeland says
Hard line muslims in Afghanistan, namely the Taliban, ordered shop mannequins to be beheaded because they qualified as idols. This seems to be the same rationale.
gravenimage says
Yes–that and that these are also Christian symbols.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
First they came for the statues, but I did nothing for I was not a statue, (petrified, yes, but not a statue).
somehistory says
A good one.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
And, the authorities who know everything and admit nothing, will deny that it that it has anything to do with a *belief.* A *belief* of the perps or of those who might take some delight in the statues.
Just random vandalism by some “youth” with “mental issues.”
WPM says
If the person who vandalized these statues is caught ,he will be branded mental ill in need of help if he is a Moslem. Nothing to see here MSM and local law enforcement move on to next story! If he is white non-Moslem he will go to jail.
Doomer says
Talking about France,lately ZINEB EL RHAZOUI,Moroccan atheist, who used to work in Charlie-Hebdo, and has written “Destroy Islamic Fascism” (2016),
who has spoken out against the idea of “anti-Muslim racism”,saying Muslims are Not a Race. And she also has said Islam and Islamism are the same thing.
But she has just come out saying she will vote for Macron instead of Zemmour. It is absurd. She is betraying France.
History shows us other examples of contradictions ( betrayals):
a) The Industrial Revolution first began in the UK around 1760. And ADAM SMITH,the father of modern capitalism, wrote his “The Wealth of Nations” in 1776.
b) The UK adopted the Free Trade Policy from 1846-1931, but even before, was FORCING other nations to adopt Free Trade ,like CHINA.
c) There was a TRADE IMBALANCE, China was Not Interested in buying the UKs products. But the UK was buying a lot of tea,porcelain and silk.
d) So the UK went to war with China to force it to open its ports to OPIUM imports ( grown in INDIA, then under British rule), two wars in fact, 1839-1842 and 1859-1860.
e) Today,there is MEDICATION for opium addiction. Then,Nothing.
And Today,there is NO medication to stop CRACK addiction. Opium was the Crack of the 19th century.
Not sure how accurate, but it is written that in the 1790s about 120,000 were opium addicts in China, Then by 1839 it was 10 million, then by 1870,it was 100 million ( 33% of the total population of 300 million in China).
It was only in 1917 that China finally able to stop the opium trade at its ports, having to take in opium from the UK’s opium plantations in India.
It is a clear example of SAVAGE capitalism. That lasted from 1760-early 1900s ( some 150 years )
gravenimage says
Doomer, the Opium Wars had little to do with free trade, where one can trade *or not*. If it is forced, it is not free trade. And not sure what any of this has to do with the story above..
Doomer says
a) It was to highlight the contradiction of Zineb El Rhazoui: she is against Islam, an ardent atheist,
BUT
has never much spoken against what Zemmour says over and over and over and over again: that the first step is to STOP the ILLEGAL entry of
500,000 Muslims into France each year. In the four years of Macron, 2 MILLION have settled in France.
b) There is Nothing to show Macron will do Anything to stop it all. And yet,El Rhazoui tells HER followers to vote for Macron, not for Zemmour.
For her: such a thing is racism, evil.
REDPILL: Take into account what somebody Does,Not what somebody Says.
c) It is parallel to the UK example: from 1830-1850 and before hundreds of slave ships were intercepted by the Royal Navy,the slaves freed. I have no doubt the captains and sailors were sincere.
But the CYNICAL interpretation (and I think it is accurate) is that the UK GOVERNMENT was not doing it for humanitarian reasons but for economic reasons.
Slavery was abolished in the UK colonies in 1833: to stop the slave trade would diminish or eliminate Competition ( sugar production) from countries that imported slaves.
The fact that the same UK governments that from 1830-1850 captured 400 slave ships bound for Brazil, were the SAME that approved forcing opium to be sold in China
shows the reason was economical,not humanitarian.
REDPILL: Take into account what somebody Does,Not what somebody Says.
Doomer says
It is even worse, because Zineb El Rhazoui lives in France,and has said she wants the best for France,
cares about France,its future,
yet wants Macron to win again, the same who has done nothing to stop the illegal invasion.
REDPILL: Take into account what somebody Does,Not what somebody Says.
gravenimage says
Actually, she is mostly being castigated by those who believe that Macron has done *too much* to oppose Jihad terror:
https://www-lefigaro-fr.translate.goog/elections/presidentielles/presidentielle-zineb-el-rhazoui-affiche-son-soutien-a-emmanuel-macron-choix-du-coeur-et-de-la-raison-20220116?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
gravenimage says
France: Six statues decapitated in a church
………………
The *might* have been unrelated vandalism, but was almost certainly Jihad.
Clifford Fodor says
How could accuse someone from the religion of peace of decapacitating statues? What are you? Some kind of Islamophobe?
Doomer says
Hello Gravenimagen:
The link says you provided:”The journalist and essayist, former member of the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo , believes that the President of the Republic “embodies the ability to move” on the issue of the fight against Islamism.
Journalist and essayist Zineb El Rhazoui announced on Twitter on Saturday evening her support for Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election. “I have decided to FULLY COMMIT to President Emmanuel Macron.
It is the CHOICE of the HEART and of REASON. France needs it””
a) It is more than what I stated about Macron doing nothing to stop illegal immigration. He has outlawed hydroxychloquine as a treatment against Covid, and
even though the vaccine is useless,
admitted by the CEO of Pfizer a few days ago, that 2 DOSES of it have “limited,if any” protection against Omicron, Macron continues to impose the vaccine pass, and sanctions against those 15% of French who
are 100% non-vaccinated. Does Zineb care?
b) PROF DIDIER RAOULT ,who pioneered in the use of hydroxycholoroquine in his Marseille clinic, a world expert in the field of microbiology, said a few days ago:
” “Est-ce que la vaccination sert à quelque chose ? La réponse est non” ( Is the vaccination good for anything ? The answer is NO.”
He had decided to try hydroxychloroquine BECAUSE Marseille has a LARGE elderly population, he couldn’t just do NOTHING and see them die. And it worked.
c) Zineb said:”It is the CHOICE of the HEART and of REASON. France needs it””
Really, a choice of Reason?
Doomer says
I have to agree that you were right when you said the UK forcing China to open it ports to opium is not Free Trade.
The historical record of modern capitalism in the UK in the first 150 years puts in doubt aspects of the accuracy of Adam Smith’s ideas. Essentially he is right,but there are details.
a) The British government became a real fanatic of Smith’s ideas, BUT when it was to tis BENEFIT. Smith argued AGAINST slavery because he said it was Not Good Economically. So the UK government say it was in its ECONOMIC interest to oppose the slave trade and slavery.
b) The UK government became the Incarnation of HOMO ECONOMICUS.
Which is to behave in exact accordance with rational self-interest,maximizing utility and profit
( and thus Approved of Savage Capitalism: like working its children,men and women 12 hrs/day and 6 days/week for Subsistence Wages for Decades) Getting the Best PROFIT for the LEAST Money.
c) However,the UK government was cynical, since it was Only in 1846 that the UK adopted Free Trade. Before, its industry was PROTECTED by tariffs.
The SAME products, from Other Nations, to enter the UK, had to pay taxes.
Why? Because it knew Cheaper Products would Destroy its budding industry. Only when the UK had the technological advantage,could it adopt the Free Trade doctrine of Adam Smith.
d) Take the case of INDIA, before the British conquest, it had a thriving textile and crafts industry. However the UK conquest had as a consequence the entry of cheaper products, which is good.
The bad part is it destroyed India’s artisans, making them POOR, and India became just a provider of Cheap Raw Materials to the UK, and opium-producer,to send to China.
The lesson is Free Trade works but only if a country has a MINIMUM of a strong economic structure that can resist the consequences. Not just Free Trade for Free Trade.
gravenimage says
Doomer, I am *not* saying that Macron has done enough to defend France against Jihad–just that some consider even this too much.
And free trade only works if it is actually free trade–coercion is not free trade. But I think that the UK ending slavery was a *good* thing–both morally *and* ultimately economically. Slave societies are rarely successful beyond a point. The antibellum slave south was never as economically successful as the northeast and midwest.
tim gallagher says
THis thing where Muslims seem so fixated on beheading people, and even statues it seems, I guess because the scumbag Muhammad did some such evil act, seems like some kind of a fetish or perversion. I suppose it is all about humiliating the victim, but it is sickening. islam creates sick monsters and this thing where they always seem to want to behead people is grotesque and disgusting. Such a bunch of barbaric primitives.