Posted on 10/03/2019 7:22:06 AM PDT by robowombat
Vermont Islamic Society the latest in rising number of mosques buying churches and converting them
OCT 3, 2019 9:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
“The Vermont Islamic Society is closer to getting its new mosque in South Burlington. It plans to buy the former Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building on Swift Street.”
In June, the president of the society, Nedzad Halilovic, stated that “the purchase is an important step for the future of the Muslim population in Vermont…..many Muslims are coming to Vermont from other places both inside and outside the U.S.”
Purchasing Churches and turning them into mosques is a significantly increasing pattern in the West, especially across Europe.
France has been turning empty churches into mosques in large numbers; the practice was encouraged by France’s top Muslim official, Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris and the president of the French Council of Muslim Faith. Boubakeur suggested “turning empty or abandoned Catholic churches into mosques, saying as many as 5,000 are needed for the country’s Muslim population – the largest in Europe.”
In an exposé about churches being turned into mosques in Europe, a phenomenon that is now being seen more in the U.S., Italian journalist Giulio Meotti writes:
The Middle East is full of churches turned into Islamic sites, like the Umayyad in Damascus, the Ibn Tulun in Cairo and the cathedral of St. Sophia in Instanbul.
In Hevron and on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, the Muslims built their sites on the Jewish ones.
A sad prophecy of the writer Emile Cioran once cast a sinister prophecy on Europe: “The French will not wake up until Notre Dame becomes a mosque”.
This is now a reality. But unlike the Middle East, where non-Muslim sites were razed or violently converted to Islam, in Europe this process is voluntary. The church of Saint-Eloi in the French region of Vierzon will soon become a mosque. The diocese of Bourges has put on sale the church and a Muslim organization, l’Association des Marocains, made the most generous offer to buy the site.
The church of Saint-Eloi is located in an area inhabited by Turks and Moroccans. It’s the “de-Christianization” of Europe, which is naturally followed by its gradual Islamization and increasing anti-Semitism. Of 27.000 inhabitants in the town of Vierzon, only 300 go to church once a week.
In the past decade, French Catholic bishops formally closed more than 60 churches, many of which are destined to become mosques, according to the research conducted by the newspaper La Croix.
According to a recent report of the US Pew Center, Islam is already “the fastest-growing religion in Europe,” where the number of Muslims has tripled over the past 30 years. One third of all European children will be born to Muslim families by 2025.
Demography is the most important symptom of exhaustion: without a cradle, you can't sustain a civilization.
To understand this historic process one has to see the number of churches converted into mosques.
In the Netherlands, more than 250 buildings where Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists have prayed for centuries, have changed owners. Like the Fatih Camii Mosque in Amsterdam, which once was a Catholic church, the Saint Ignatius. Or the church of S. Vincentius, which was put on sale along with the benches, the crucifixes and the chandeliers. Today more than half of the Dutch population is “buitenkerkelijk”, it means free from any religious affiliation, as well as Catholics decreased by 70 percent.
Islam is now considered the “most widely practiced religion” in the Netherlands. The Oude Kerk, the oldest church in Amsterdam, built in 1309, stands solidly in the heart of downtown. Around it is the red-light district with the South American and Eastern European prostitutes knocking on the glass to attract the attention of passersby. The Neuwe Kerk, the church where the Dutch kings were crowned, is a museum. The only "church" in the city that is crowded is that of Scientology, which offers free stress tests.
4,400 church buildings remain in the Netherlands. Each week, two close their doors forever. A synagogue in The Hague was turned into the al Aqsa Mosque.
In Duisburg, Germany, the Catholic church closed six churches. In Marxloh, the only church that survives, that of St. Peter and Paul, will close at the end of 2012. In Germany 400 churches have been closed.
The municpality of Antwerp, Belgium, proposed to transform the empty churches into mosques. Scandinavia lives the same phenomenon. To cite one case, the Swedish churches of St. Olfos is used by the Muslims. The main mosque in Dublin is a former Presbyterian church.
In England, 10.000 churches have been closed since 1960. By 2020, another 4.000 churches will close while there will be, it is predicted, 1.700 new mosques, many of which will arise on former churches.
After the “God is dead” of Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe is going to adopt the Koranic “there is no God but Allah". To mention just some churches turned into mosques, there is the Central Mosque of Brent, the St. Marks Cathedral which is now called New Peckam Mosque and the former Wesleyan Methodist Church. The mosque of Disbury in Manchester was a Methodist church, and a Catholic church in Sydney, Nova Scotia, will become a mosque. In Clitheroe, Lancashire, the municipal authorities have granted permission to turn an Anglican church into a mosque.
After the “God is dead” of Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe is going to adopt the Koranic “there is no God but Allah”. And the old Gregorian chants will be substituted by the muezzin.
Europe's tragedy is embodied by the sterile blocks of concrete and glass of the European Union in Bruxelles. Symbols of the moral emptiness within. Meanwhile the top seven baby boys’ names in Brussels are Mohammed, Adam, Rayan, Ayoub, Mehdi, Amine and Hamza.
A couple of years ago I visited Rotterdam, the Dutch industrial polmon. Everywhere are casbah-cafes, travel agencies offering flights to Rabat and Casablanca, and posters expressing solidarity with Hamas. Most of the population are immigrants, and the city has the tallest and most imposing mosque in Europe.
The most striking thing when one arrives in the city by train are the fascinating mosques framed by the green, luxuriant, wooded, watery countryside. Rotterdam has the tallest minarets in Europe. The city was buzzing when the newspapers published a letter by Bouchra Ismaili, a Rotterdam city councilman: "Listen up, crazy freaks, we're here to stay. You're the foreigners here, with Allah on my side I'm not afraid of anything. Take my advice: convert to Islam, and you will find peace".
A French friend showed me one of Rotterdam's main square, where there is a mosque with Arabic writing outside. "That used to be a church".
Is Islam the destiny for the world's most affluent, relaxed and pacified societies which opted for self-liquidation? And will this decadent, semi-Islamicized Frankestein named "Europe" declare war on Israel?
If so Israel will win.
Happened to a beautiful old church in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.
Somebody bought the building directly across the street and turned it into a bacon restaurant. A glowing neon pig now peers into the mosque 24/7. LOL!
And all because atheism is so hip and cool!
I love that. What is the name of this place? I live in AZ, but if they have a website I will spread the word.
Nature hates a vacuum. God hates a spiritual vacuum. Vermont is the least religious state in America. Easy target for the Muslims.
Vermont has always been home to some pretty liberal thoughts when it comes to religion. As long as the Muslims don’t rock the boat in the rural areas, the people up there don’t care.
You should see the communes you find on the back roads and in the middle of nowhere up there. Someone buying a church and turning it into a mosque is nothing compared to the weirdos in the woods.
“...many Muslims are coming to Vermont from other places both inside and outside the U.S.”
Sounds like Vermont will “win” the race against Michigan to become the first majority muslim state in the US.
In 2017, we filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, and its Mayor, Michael C. Taylor, alleging violations of federal and state law. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of seven residents of the City who oppose the construction of a mosque in their largely Chaldean Christian neighborhood.It was evident then as it is now that the American Islamic Community Center (AICC) wanted to “plant the flag” in this Chaldean Christian community by building a huge mosque. This is largely a community of Christians who fled Iraq because they or family members were subjected to violence and abuse from ISIS.
In February 2017, the City decided not to defend against the specious claims of discrimination made by AICC and the Obama Department of Justice in their lawsuits filed against the City, but instead to capitulate and enter into a Consent Judgment that granted AICC permission to build the mosque even though doing so violated local and state zoning regulations.
The decision to enter into the Consent Judgment was made during a City Council meeting held in February 2017. During this public meeting, the Mayor enforced a content- and viewpoint-based speech restriction that prohibited private citizens, including our clients, from making any comments that the Mayor deemed critical of Islam, in direct violation of the First Amendment!
The district court ruled in favor of the City, and in an opinion fraught with egregious errors, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed on August 14, 2019.
As a result, on August 23, 2019, we filed a Petition for Rehearing En Banc, asking the entire Sixth Circuit to take up this case.
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Having lived in the Detroit area I know how situations are handled.
One fine day the offending structure mysteriously burns to the ground, and none of the neighbors know NUTHIN!
Thank you!
Obama moved thousands of Somalis to Rutland VT, taken over a once nice town.
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