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According to a new report published by Greece’s Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, there were 2,339 incidents of church desecrations in the country between 2015 and 2020, when tiny Greece, seen as Europe’s eastern gateway, was flooded with migrants from the Islamic world. As the Greek City Times writes in regards to the report, “There appears to be a correlation between the increase in illegal migration and the incidents of attacks on Greek Orthodox religious churches and religious spaces during the five year period which occurred during the peak of the migration crisis.”
Of the most recent year in the recording period, 2020, there were 385 incidents against Christian churches and buildings, including “vandalism, burglary, theft, sacrilege, necromancy, robbery, placement of explosive devices and other desecrations.”
Over the years, a few of these desecrations made it to English language media.
In April 2021, Muslim migrants entered into and utterly desecrated a small church. Proud of their handiwork, they also videotaped portions of the incident and uploaded it on TikTok (available here). It shows a topless migrant dancing to rap music as he walks towards and inside the church. The next clip shows the aftermath: devastation inside the church, with smashed icons and the altar overthrown.
In 2020, Muslim migrants ransacked and transformed another church into their personal toilet. This public restroom was once the St. Catherine Church in Moria, a small town on the island of Lesvos, which was flooded with migrants who arrived via Turkey. “The smell inside is unbearable,” said a local. “[T]he metropolitan of Mytilene is aware of the situation in the area, nevertheless, he does not wish to deal with it for his own reasons.” The May 2020 report elaborates:
This is only the latest incident … [I]t has become extremely common for Greek Orthodox Churches to be vandalised and attacked by illegal immigrants on Lesvos….
As a deeply religious society, these attacks on churches are shocking to the Greek people and calls to question whether these illegal immigrants seeking a new life in Europe are willing to integrate and conform to the norms and values of their new countries.
These continued attacks have ultimately seen the people of Lesvos, who were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, become increasingly frustrated by the unresolved situation that has restricted and changed their lives as they no longer feel safe on their once near crime-free island.
While there are many such examples from between 2015-2020—in 2016, the Church of All Saints in Kallithea near Athens was set aflame by “Arabic speakers”—historically conscious Greeks see a continuum in the Islamic targeting of their churches. As one report on the desecration of Greek churches explains,
We should remember that Greece spent 400 years under Turkish Islamic rule and that the fight for freedom was bloody. With that in mind it is even more dramatic seeing these images of fighting age migrants desecrating Greek holy places and having no respect for the country they are allegedly seeking refuge in.
While the report likely has the 1453 sack of Constantinople (today Istanbul) in mind—when countless Greek churches, including Hagia Sophia, were desecrated, destroyed, or turned into mosques—that pattern is a century older. In 1354, when the invading Turks first achieved a foothold in Europe, in Gallipoli, which was then Greek, immediately, “Where there were churches he [Suleiman Pasha, an early Ottoman ruler] destroyed them or converted them to mosques,” writes an Ottoman chronicler: “Where there were bells, Suleiman broke them up and cast them into fires. Thus, in place of bells there were now muezzins.” Cleansed of all Christian “filth,” Gallipoli became, as a later Ottoman bey boasted, “the Muslim throat that gulps down every Christian nation—that chokes and destroys the Christians.”[*]
Modern Greece, of course, is ultimately experiencing what all European nations that have large Muslim migrant populations are experiencing. All around Western Europe, churches are under attack. This is especially true of those two Western European nations that hold Europe’s largest Muslim populations—Germany and France.
According to a 2017 report, in the Alps and Bavaria regions of Germany alone, countless crosses on some 200 churches were attacked and broken: “Police are currently dealing with church desecrations again and again… The perpetrators are often youthful rioters with a migration background.”
Following the arrival of a million Muslim migrants to Dülmen, Germany in 2016, a local newspaper noted that “not a day goes by” without attacks on crosses and other Christian symbols outside of churches. Before Christmas, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, where more than a million Muslim migrants reside, some 50 public statues of Jesus and other Christian figures were beheaded and crucifixes broken.
As for France, an average of two churches are reportedly attacked there every single day. In one instance in 2019, Vandals plundered and used human excrement to draw a cross on the Notre-Dame des Enfants Church in Nimes (smearing fecal matter on churches is not an uncommon Muslim tactic). Although the identities of those targeting churches is often left out of reports—as when “unknown vandals” desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at a cathedral and mangled the arms of a crucified Christ in a mocking manner—on occasion they appear.
Thus, in 2014, an enraged Muslim man physically twisted a massive bronze cross with his bare hands while committing major acts of vandalism in two churches. He also overturned and broke two altars, destroyed Christian statues, tore down a tabernacle, smashed in a sacristy door, and broke some stained-glass windows. Similarly, in 2015, Christian crosses and gravestones in a church cemetery were damaged and desecrated by a Muslim man. After being apprehended, he was described as follows: “The man repeats Muslim prayers over and over, he drools and cannot be communicated with: his condition has been declared incompatible with preliminary detention.” He was hospitalized as “mentally unbalanced.”
Be that as it may; the new report by Greece’s Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs makes one thing perfectly clear: Greece has become the latest exemplar of “Islam’s Rule of Numbers”—a rule which posits that, the more Muslims grow in numbers, the more phenomena intrinsic to Islam grows with them, in this case, the desecration of Christian churches. In Nigeria alone, for example, Muslims have torched or destroyed some 20,000 churches over the last decade).
[*] Doukas, Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottomans, 1975, 144–145; Bostom, Andrew, The Legacy of Jihad, 2005, 63.
Most of these people are not migrants. They are trained terrorists send into Greece and Europe to attack from within and destroy western civilisation. It is islam’s Trojan Horse. If they leave their countries for a better life, why do they bring their miserable habits with them! I wonder when the west will wake up, if ever, and thow these people out.
To Danos: Ditto. All these supposedly ” mentally unbalanced” individuals should be sent back where they came from by the cowards in our governments and I frankly don’t care if they have no papers to show where they came from. It is not difficult to find out.
… funny how the ‘secular’ Left has no problem importing Muslims to commit the hate-based violence their own soy-boys are too cowardly to commit …
… that’s because their ‘god’ was a liar and murderer from the beginning.
… they just don’t want to admit it.
*** God bless the Christian martyrs … and protect Raymond and his family.
Further to my comment in Gatestone:
Thank you Mr. Ibrahim for being a true champion of the faith – I pray for your safety.
Powers that be worldwide, the MSM or whatever their new name is, and people in general, have become wise in their own eyes. They worship the creature instead of the Creator. They have no wisdom, which is a gift from God.
We are reaping the consequences of their arrogant foolishness by opening our nation’s doors to unvetted fake Muslims whose only mandate from Allah is to destroy Christianity and all Westerners.
By inviting them in (contrary to what we are told in 2 John 1v 7-10) , Churchill was right in saying about Hitler, “appeasement is like feeding the crocodile hoping he will eat you last!”.
Every Muslim who does not accept the values of our cultures need to be rounded up, together with those who invited them in, and sent back from whence they came, before this man-eating crocodile devours us all.
Mr. Ibrahim;
The world cannot thank you enough for all you do to show the world of this evil. Thank you. I wish you peace and health.
What do Muslims, Russians and ChiComs have in common?
They have NOTHING good for the future of the world.
The fundamental is the behaviour of western society that has altered since the arrival of motion picture, television in particular, and widespread Pornography.
Desecration of churches occurs on a regular basis in France, where there are more mosques than churches in Southern France.
However western society is not sufficiently critical largely because it has lost its sense of the sacred, and as a consequence respect for sacred spaces.
Quite of a bit of a reaction occurs in Australia if aboriginal spaces are not respected.
where’s Sobieski when you need him?
There are few greater sins than violating a church. These people are the children of Satan and ought to be immediately expelled whenever they behave abominably like this.
no loss. just roman catholic whore houses