[ April 19, 2024 ]
Surrender. Surrender and submission. I held an art exhibit of drawings of Muhammad, and was criticized by numerous people on the Right for offending Muslims. We can’t do things that offend Muslims. Now this church can’t express its faith, for fear of offending Muslims. Full surrender and submission aren’t far off.
“Fearing Attacks, Catholic Church Gets Rid of Statues of Monks Beheaded By Muslims,” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, July 8, 2016:
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A Catholic church in Lyon, France, has sold off statues of monks killed by Muslims, for fear they will provoke attacks.
The statues, which were to be shown at Saint Louis church, honoured monks who were beheaded by Muslims in Algeria during the 1990s. The Algerian consul in the city responded with “fury” to the statues. The church sold the statues to an institute that hosts a private museum of Catholic artifacts to prevent conflict with local Muslims.
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Cardinal Barbarin approved the statues to be placed in the church’s grounds last year. But the more powerful Bishop of Lyon was persuaded by his personal entourage by arguments that the statues may cause Muslims to launch attacks on the works. The Bishop’s aides argued, “Imagine if [someone] unbalanced [were to] to decapitate these statues?”.
They argued that because there is a Salafist mosque very close to the church, such attacks may be likely. As a result of this the Bishop of Lyon decided to sell the statues to a museum.
The church had already delayed the inauguration of the statues to appease the Algerian consulate. They planned for their official launch to happen in the spring of this year. The date was moved to avoid clashing with Algerian Independence Day.
Some in the area feared the statues would provoke Muslims. The Socialist Party mayor of Lyon, Miriam Poot, said she didn’t want the statues and that the church should first have consulted the district council.
French Catholic officials in Algeria were also more than reluctant about the statues being placed at the church. Lyonnais Jean-Paul Vesco, Bishop of Oram, said he worried that they would provoke attacks on them. The Catholic priest feared the message of the statues would be religious war or “embezzlement”….
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22 Comments
7 years ago
Yet these same fools will not criticize muslims who behead people on a regular basis, instead they submit to the insane demands of islam. They are not Catholics they are cowards. Tail between their legs cowards at that. Remove that crucifix, muslims are offended by it.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
The earliest symbol of Christianity was the fish, not the Roman execution device that was used across the corrupt, totalitarian empire.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Yes indeed, I prefer the fish as the symbol of Christianity. The cross is what the lame stream religions use to destroy Christianity with.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Walk in the gutter you jews, you christians, and kiss my boots, my scimitar.
7 years ago
Geez Louise, appease, appease, appease…the vile murdering scum. Yeah, that always works when you’re dealing jihadi bullies. Note that the monks were murdered by Muslims in the 90’s, the 1990’s not the 18 or 17 or 1690’s. Islam the religion of peace is alive and well…in Europe and getting stronger in America. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
7 years ago
A. Einstein have said he dont know with witch weapons the WW III will start but he is sure the 4th WW will be with bow´s and arrows.
May be that´s the new chance for the humans to recover. This daily surrender to evilness in our times is such a humiliation.
But on the other side Christian values – showing your “love”. A “love” that put your neck under the sword of the enemy.
7 years ago
Considering that France is closing Mosques with ties to radical Islam, I find this move surprising. But it’s the Catholic church and not the government.
7 years ago
Reply to
Edie the Egg Lady
It´s church and goverment who betray´s the people all the time.
7 years ago
A good example of how the behavior of people, rather than words, reveals their real understanding of the risks in the community.
7 years ago
Sickening. Give an inch and soon you’ll give a mile.
7 years ago
Reply to
Shelley Begley
I think they’ve already given the mile. Next comes entire countries.
7 years ago
They’ve turned themselves into dhimmis without so much as a raised hand against them. Aren’t ignorance and fear an interesting combination. Talk about surrender or submitting! They’re bowing and scraping has only just begun.
7 years ago
Of course the clergy of the Catholic church had to get rid of the statues of monks beheaded by muslums — they have to make room for new ones.
7 years ago
Yes, that wil be next. Removing crucifixes??
7 years ago
Reply to
joe1429
Maybe that will be true. After all crucifixes have the writing on them : INRI.(Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudeorum)
7 years ago
The Catholic Church was the bulwark against jihadi Islam for hundreds of years, but now they have lost the plot.This pope is a traitor.
7 years ago
Offended? Join the club. I am a Christian, heterosexual, law abiding, patriotic, gun owning veteran and have been slandered by my counterfeit president on every aspect.
7 years ago
Get rid of the Salafist mosques not the statues! Since when is it obligatory for a free people to protect and support those ideas oppose free expression and actively support anti freedom? Remember Liberté, Egalité, Fraterité? It’s OK with you that you’re about to loose ALL OF IT?
7 years ago
The Catholic church, specifically pope putz has acquiesced to the Muslims. Christianity is retreating. A few years from know pope putz will tell them to convert to Islam.
7 years ago
Keep giving in and people will stop going to that church and they will have to close and then everyone loses except the muslims. What is going on is they are putting themselves in the cage and throwing away the key. That’s real christian living there.
