Editor of Architectural Review: Islamic Minaret Should Replace Notre Dame Spire

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Islamic Minaret Should Replace Notre Dame Spire, Says Architecture Expert

As an apology to Algerian Muslims.

An architecture expert has called for Notre Dame’s fallen spire to be replaced with an Islamic minaret as an apology to Algerian Muslims killed by French police.
By Paul Watson, Summit News, April 25, 2018

Writing in Domus, Tom Wilkinson, history editor of the Architectural Review, argues that the rebuild is an opportunity to communicate a message of political correctness.

“I can’t say I ever thought it the most beautiful cathedral in the world,” writes Wilkinson, before going on to slam Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, the cathedral’s 19th century restorer, accusing him of “utterly unforgettable fantasies of structural engineering”.

He goes on to call for the rebuild to reflect “a more up-to-date form of political truth,” which could include “transforming Notre-Dame into a memorial to the generations of peasants who were exploited to fund it.”

According to Wilkinson, it could also include replacing the church’s perished 200 year old spire with an Islamic minaret.

“What about the approximately 100 Algerians who were killed by the French police while protesting the Algerian War in 1961, many of them thrown into the Seine at the foot of Notre-Dame?” he writes.

“These victims of the state could be memorialised by replacing Viollet-le-Duc’s flèche with – why not? – a graceful minaret.”

A minaret is a tower built next to a mosque that is normally used to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer.

As I document in the video below, while Wilkinson’s proposal is unlikely to be taken seriously, top architects and President Macron himself have called for the rebuild of Notre Dame to reflect the country’s new “diversity”.

The favorite to secure the rebuilding contract, Foster + Partners, has been responsible for some of western architecture’s most hideous eyesores, including the new ‘Tulip’ tower in London, which critics say reminds them of a giant dildo.

Those who prayed for Notre Dame to be rescued from the fires that nearly destroyed it should keep praying because the threat posed by modernist architects may be substantially greater.

 

 

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fred m
fred m
4 years ago

Yes, the political reality of today is: kowtow to the Muslims every chance you get. As for memorialising dead Algerians, what about the ones killed by their compatriates in a 10 year long bloody civil war?

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
4 years ago
Reply to  fred m

how about memorializing the dead white french murdered by muslims in france this decade? it far outnumbers the muslims who, probably, deserved to be shoved in the seine that day

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

may as well take down any statue of Jesus and install a bust of satan while you are at it – wait maybe that’s why drawings of hoHAMhead aka satan are forbidden?

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
4 years ago

they might as well put a big swastika on the roof while they are at it. by the same reasoning as this dufus, the french should show compassion for the poor nazis they killed as well. these french, they are just dying to live under the boot of the next oppressor. the now pointless deaths of the american boys who died to liberate them twice from the germans in the last century is a lesson….stay out of other people’s wars

MAS
MAS
4 years ago

Well that didn’t take long. I’ll wager the French government was already in motion on the make over plans…

J k
J k
4 years ago

Why not just knock it all down and build a mosque for the Muslim overlords? Or ask the Muslims to repair all the
churches they have destroyed in their 1400 years since the pedophile mass murdering son of Satan appeared.

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

Tom Wilkinson should have a minaret shoved up where the sun doesn’t shine.

J k
J k
4 years ago

He already has.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  J k

Perhaps it isn’t deep enough.

bargogx1
bargogx1
4 years ago

I’ve got a better idea, I’m thinking maybe the Architectural Review should replace its history editor.

John Mitchell
John Mitchell
4 years ago

France 2019 comment image

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  John Mitchell

Excellent, John.

Poppey
Poppey
4 years ago

In todays France, one month before the EU Parliament elections, nothing is more uncertain or febrile than public opinion and nothing is more likely to drive the globalist centre into extinction than a rebellion against the existing political order as a consequence of a serious suggestion like this.

Fortunately the spire will not be the first thing considered or built, but if encouraging a good turnout for Le Pen’s National Rally is the aim, these stupid ideas are the best way for NR to get elected when it can then help weaken and destroy the hated EU from within.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

Let’s hope they are successful.
I get tired of liberal labeling such as the “far right” when in reality they are normal sane people.
I guess everyone is an “extremist” that doesn’t agree with the destructive global agenda.

Europe’s far-right touts ‘new European harmony’ in EU vote
AFP•April 25, 2019
https://news.yahoo.com/europes-far-touts-european-harmony-eu-vote-151529451.html

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  Poppey

I hope you are well, Poppey. An excellent commentary; it caused me to pause and replay how the French despotic faux-republic did its utmost to vilify Le Pen, as a woman and more, that she was psychologically unsound. I suspect, it will come down to a civil war; I have a concern, however, of the citizens’ complacency. While watching, not often, Beeb America. I avoid the MSM at home and internationally, more often than not.

I couldn’t help but notice the nutters were out in full force in London. Every nation has a nutter base but, correct me if I am wrong, the UK’s nutter movement is boundless by comparison.
Take care, Poppey, stay safe and healthy.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Sure make the Cathedral something to be ashamed of to be “inclusive”.
Perhaps they can use this as a call to prayer in Paris.
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Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago

One need not be a psychic to predict this ‘Islamic Minaret’ replacing the spire. Rosinante44 mentions a swastika on the roof which is more than apropos. France, the great collaborationists, has not evolved, it dwells in numbness of past historical laurels. A nation where Nazis and collaborators killed copious allies bent on world supremacy. Today, France’s new ally, Islam befits the same narrative as Nazism; one must not dismiss the irony.

France as with the Nazis has capitulated once again to despotism, Islam, which emulates it is a theocracy but is another autocratic entity ruling by tyranny, fear, hatred, and nihilistic tenets.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Now that’s a thought. A swastika on top of a Cathedral could be a unifier for Muslims.
Muslims think the world of Hitler.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I recall an uncle who was in D-Day saying, if you are in a foxhole with a Frenchman while under attack by the Nazis, shoot ’em. Petain and his Nazi equivalent were not an anomaly. Indeed, there were brave, courageous French fighters but not the copious numbers one may read in history books.
Jews were free-game and it was not only to appease the Nazis; antisemitism was rife. Some things never change, as I see it.

Sgtsnuffy
Sgtsnuffy
4 years ago

I’M TELLING YA FOLKS, NOTRE DAME AIN’T GONNA GET REBUILT. THEY ARE GONNA FINISH THE JOB AND TEAR IT DOWN AND BUILD A GRAND MOSQUE OVER THE RUINS. WITHIN 5 YEARS THERE WILL BE A MOSQUE BUILT ON SIGHT OF NOTRE DAME. PERIOD.

Cassandra
Cassandra
4 years ago

It’s always interesting when gays call for their own executions

Poptoy1949
Poptoy1949
4 years ago

Anathema !!!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

I looked at your picture and my guess is you’re a queer and fatherless MORON.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

France must remember how it once saved Europe in the Battle of Tours (admittedly a very long time ago)! It cannot allow itself to be destroyed like this!

Tm.
Tm.
4 years ago

I find this to be so much over the top, to be so insane, that I could not read past the first few sentences.
I can’t at this moment, subject myself to more nonsense, that shall leave me upset. People are thinking oddly, and I do not understand why, and I shall not hear it.
I cannot believe that man said that. I really cannot.
Do as you wish over there and accept what comes. You’re not the same anyway.
Good day.

Maranatha
Maranatha
4 years ago

You bet they will do it.
Che Francisco is ready to give his blessing..
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Badger
Badger
4 years ago

Appalling. This is why I hate modern architecture and modern architects. Their inhumanity. I remember the modernism of the sixties being thrust down my throat when I was a student at a school of architecture in London.

For far too long I thought it was something was wrong with me and not the architects. I lived for a while close to a famous estate, the Brandon in Kennington in south London and I thought it would be awful to live in those high rises but our teachers would praise them to the sky.(no pun intended) The same with an Ernő Goldfinger monstrosity at the Elephant and Castle. What set me far beyond the Pale and forever was my dislike of Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles by that old vandal Corbusier. That was the template for the destruction of the East End, far worse than what the Luftwaffe achieved. And those sterile glass blocks by Mies van der Rohe. Google them to see what I mean.

I packed it in at Intermediate and put my drafting skills other tasks and am very glad I did.

p.s. I did like Corbusier’s Notre Dame du Haut and anything by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Naram-Sin
Naram-Sin
4 years ago

And while we’re at it, let’s just dynamite the whole thing because churches are offensive to Muslims.

Roland
Roland
4 years ago

In answer: NO FUCKING WAY!!!!

Roland
Roland
4 years ago

When are the muzzies going to apologize to the Armenians? Millions were slaughtered. All they do is deny and obfuscate.

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago

Ok so how about the country where the psycho islamists came from that murdered 130 plus people at the Balacan replacing an islamic minuret with a Christian Cross – As a ” tribute ” of course –

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
4 years ago

Oh, I thought that that so called architect wanted to have a memorial minaret for the ‘only’ 270 million people, mostly Muslims (fortunately), murdered by the Muslims since the invention of Islam by mass murderer Mohammed about 1400 years ago.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

Immediately to be tried corrupt, treacherous, criminal European governments – such as the Macron government, Merkel and others – urgent cleaning of Europe from the plague and carriers of infection!!

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