Have no fear! Piano Guy is on his way!!!
Posted on 07/26/2016 2:22:09 AM PDT by djsunzi
Police have shot two men who took a priest and several others hostage at knifepoint at a church in north-western France.
The men cut the priest's throat before being "neutralised," police said.
Le Figaro newspaper reported that the priest died after his throat was cut.
The men’s motives are still unknown. Elite police units rushed to the church in the Normandy town of Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray after the men seized a number of people including a priest and two nuns.
It remains unclear whether the hostage takers were killed in the police action.
A police source told AFP that one of the hostages has been killed.
Up to six people were being held by the assailants in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, according to police sources.
A priest is understood to be among the hostages, as well as two nuns and a worshipper.
Their motives are unknown and police have arrived at the scene, according to news website Normandie Actu.
The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, is travelling to the church.
The hostages included the priest, two nuns and two worshippers.
Police have sealed off the church, while ambulances are on the scene.
More to follow.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Some of us have been expecting this to start and have been carrying in church every Sunday since September of 2001.
Whenever there is a debate about increasing concealed or open carry rights, one of the first objections of the anti-2A types is that people will bring their guns to church.
I believe the words you are looking for are "Surly Misfit"
Warning - contains graphic, foul, anti-islamic language
That would include Islam.
I was just wondering if “slit his throat” would turn out to be a toned down avoidance of “beheaded”. That didn’t take long.
Trump is right. We need to crush thse barbarians.
You have a point there. No Nation, or group of people in history has been known to co-exist in peace with muslims or whatever name they called themselves at the time. They, throughout history, have been known by various names at different times. One cannot, no matter how much one desires it, or how hard one works at it, make a pet out of a rattlesnake.
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. -Revolation 20:4
Have no fear! Piano Guy is on his way!!!
More from Daily Mail excerpt:
Priest had throat cut while another hostage is fighting for life after knifemen burst into Normandy church at 9am
Reports that one of the attackers shouted ‘Daesh’ before launching the attach at Gambetta Church near Rouen
Vatican has condemned the ‘barbaric’ killing of the 86-year-old priest and an anti-terror investigation is underway
French President Francois Hollande said the men both ‘claimed to be from’ ISIS as they carried out the attack
By Peter Allen In France and Julian Robinson for MailOnline
An 86-year-old priest has been ‘beheaded’ by two ISIS knifemen who cut his throat after bursting into a French church and taking nuns and worshippers hostage before being shot dead by police.
Five people including the priest, two nuns and two parishioners were held by assailants who raided the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy at 9am.
The clergyman, named as Jacques Hamel, is believed to have been beheaded during the attack while another hostage is ‘hovering between life and death’ in hospital.
The two attackers have been ‘neutralised’ by elite marksmen in a dramatic police operation while the building is being searched for possible explosives. French president Francois Hollande said the men ‘claimed to be from’ ISIS.
There were reports the attackers shouted ‘Daesh’ – an alternative name for ISIS often used by the French government – as they ran into the church. At least one of the men was dressed in Islamic clothing, according to French media reports, and an anti-terrorist unit has already taken up the investigation.
It comes as it emerged that the place of worship was one of a number of Catholic churches on a terrorist ‘hit list’ found on a suspected ISIS extremist last April.
Sounds as if the French government is STILL allowing their women to show skin in public.
Can’t see how this stops, until the French decide to adapt.
If only they had spent a few Francs to buy and post a “No Knife Zone” sign the priest would be alive today.
At 8:09am EST just heard the news on 680 WCBM Balto MD
and now see your message @ 8:11am EST
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And yet again Europeans will dance through hoops playing this off without seeing reality for what it is.
Waiting on Hollande to call another kumbaya meeting of “religious leaders” to “PRAY” together and avoid “hate”.....
We are not sure who did thi....
and, it’s muslims.
The thing is, we’ve tried two approaches now. We tried eight years of nation building and democratizing. Then we swung the other way and tried eight years of appeasement. It just seems like unless we want these attacks to drag on forever, we’re going to have to get serious and crush ISIS decisively. Crush and humiliate them for all the world to see. Punish them for what they’ve done and who they are. Break their will and make it so no one would want to join them. As far as I can tell, something like this is what Trump proposed in his convention speech. It’s the old school approach but it has a proven track record. It’s getting to the point where this is looking like the most sensible thing to do. What’s coming are high casualty attacks on malls and concerts unless we do something to get to the root.
The French should just surrender. That has worked in the past for them.
Beheaded by radical Islamic terrorists. The facts are in.
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