Posted on 07/28/2016 12:19:37 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The meaning behind Islamic terrorists invading a church, murdering a priest and giving a sermon in Arabic afterwards.
For centuries, France has always proudly borne the title “Eldest Daughter of the Church.” But two days ago, the Roman Catholic Church’s beloved child was barbarically violated and desecrated in a manner probably unseen since Clovis I was baptised in Reims on Christmas Day in 496 C.E.
Striking at France’s religious heart and traditional roots, two Islamic terrorists invaded the sixteenth-century St. Etienne church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, a town of about 30,000 near Rouen in Normandy, Tuesday morning after 9:00 a.m during mass. Eighty-four year-old priest Jacques Hamel was presiding over the ceremony with several nuns in attendance when the two entered the church by a back entrance armed with knives and “fake explosive belts.”
With reported yells of “Allahu Akbar,” present at all such horrifying Islamic undertakings, the two terrorists forced Father Jacques to his knees and proceeded to slit his throat before the terrified onlookers attending morning mass.
One nun, Sister Danielle, reported the “shocking details” of Father Jacque’s murder.
“They forced him to his knees. He wanted to defend himself. And that’s when the tragedy happened,” she said. “They recorded themselves doing it. They did a sort of sermon around the altar in Arabic. It is a horror.”
More shockingly, Sister Danielle said the terrorists told her: “You Christians, you kill us.”
One nun, however, managed to slip away and notify authorities.
“I left when they began to attack Father Jacques,” she said. “I do not even know if they realised that I was leaving.”
The Islamic murderers used two nuns “as human shields” for about an hour inside the church, during which time security forces had surrounded the building. When they exited the holy place, both terrorists were shot and killed. An elderly parishioner was also critically injured, but the circumstances concerning this person’s wounding are unclear. Three other hostages were reported unharmed.
The Islamic State (IS) was quick to claim responsibility for the attack, calling the two murderers its “soldiers.”
And as unsurprising as the Islamic State’s claiming ownership of such barbarism is the fact that at least one of the Islamic killers, identified as Adele Kamiche, 19, was well known to authorities. Described as a “known terrorist threat,” he had twice tried to join the Islamic State. Reaching Turkey in the second attempt, he was caught and deported. After his return to France, Kamiche received a 30-month jail term for trying to join IS but served less than 12 months before receiving parole in March of this year.
The conditions of Kamiche’s release stipulated that he had to live with his parents, wear an ankle bracelet that tracked his movements and was allowed out unsupervised only between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 a.m. when the bracelet was deactivated, according to Paris prosecutor, Francois Molins. (Well, the authorities who released him can at least be happy he wasn’t violating his parole conditions when he butchered Father Jacques). A prosecutor had appealed Kamiche’s release order but, tragically as it turned out, was unsuccessful.
Security authorities were also remiss in not having predicted the attack on Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. The church’s name had appeared on a hit list of buildings security authorities seized from a “suspected Islamist extremist” in April last year.
But the fact that the 32-year-old Algerian extremist found with the list, Sid Ahmed Ghlam, was about to stage church attacks himself when arrested should also have served as a wake-up call to intelligence services. Ghlam’s plans, however, were thwarted when he murdered a French woman when hijacking her car to carry out a church attack, accidentally shooting himself in the leg in the process.
“Documents found at his flat and in a search of his computer and telephone suggested Ghlam was in contact with a French speaker in in Syria who had ordered him to carry out attacks on churches,” reported one newspaper.
And yet, there were no guards presented yesterday in front of St. Etienne.
As usual, French president Francois Hollande rushed to the latest Islamic murder scene, leaving one to wonder when he has time to run the country, the terrorist attacks coming so fast and furious nowadays. French television viewers are probably no longer impressed seeing on their screens every few weeks, and sometimes every few days, the same politicians’ faces at such bloody carnage, repeating the same words, since nothing new appears to occur to them.
But what is worse, Hollande does not mean what he says. In St. Etienne-du-Rouvray, after the usual call for unity, the French president said France is at war and that war “will be a long one.” And he will fight it “using all means necessary.”
If that is the case, then one must ask, for example, why several hundred French Muslims of the more than one thousand who have fought with IS have been allowed to return to France where some have been involved in terrorist attacks. As well, French security services have “carded” about 10,500 French Muslims as “security threats,” and yet they are still allowed to walk around free. At least one of the terrorists involved in the Paris attack last November was “carded.” So it should not surprise if the two involved in the St. Etienne outrage were also classified thus.
If Hollande were serious about winning the war against IS, he would have French soldiers on the ground in Syria, backed by French warplanes in the air, attacking IS strongholds. He also would be doing whatever it takes to defend France, including barring the borders to anyone representing a threat to the country’s security and deporting others already within.
But the French should not hold their breath that such desperately needed actions will be taken. Hollande’s Socialist Party relies on the growing Muslim to stay in power, so he does not want to do anything that would offend this vote-rich group. He indicated how important he views this community in a speech he gave to residents of an immigrant ghetto before the 2012 election.
“Here is the new France, the one which is emerging, the one which is beginning, the one of the future,” he said. “You the inhabitants, Islamic or not, of the housing projects, you are the future of France, you are the rising generation, the one which will save this country from ruin…”
Well, at least Hollande was half right. Adele Kamiche was from a housing project in St. Etienne-du-Rouvray and does represent France’s future. But he and his cohorts are not going to save the country from ruin but rather lead to it.
What Hollande and the socialists are actually hoping for is that the French people will get used to terror attacks, much like they have become desensitised to honour murders and polygamy. The French government knows it has lost control of the situation and is at a loss what to do about it.
French socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls admitted as much in a speech to high school students last year. In a disgraceful message of surrender and hopelessness rather than of hope, he told the young people that his government was powerless to stop Islamic terrorist attacks.
“French youth has to get used to living with the threats of attacks for a long period of time,” Valls said, apparently not recognising the enormity of what he was saying. “Your generation, your age class must accustom itself to living with this danger for years.”
Valls also admitted defeat in his speech in Nice after the recent terrorist attack there, using almost the same words. He said France must “learn to live with terrorism.”
The only French leader who appears not to have surrendered is Marine Le Pen, head of France’s populist National Front Party. After yesterday’s murder of Father Jacques, Le Pen first took the politicians who “have ruled France the last 30 years” to task, stating their responsibility for France’s present security situation is “immense” and “to see them chattering is revolting.”
But more importantly, showing the never-surrender spirit of the French resistance fighters who opposed the German occupation of France during World War Two, Le Pen has proposed a plan of action. Recognising the seriousness of the threat facing her country, the National Party leader stated in a tweet she is going to rejoin France’s military reserves and “invites all young patriots to do the same.” Weapons training for as many as possible for the ‘new resistance’, she recognises, is probably the only thing now that can save France and her people.
“They are killing our children, assassinating our police officers and cutting the throats of our priests. Wake up!” she stated. “In the West like in the East, Christians must stand up in order to resist Islamism.”
For France’s sake, I hope her people are listening.
This author needs to freshen up with some studies of the French revolution. Not to mention more recent events such as the 1871 Paris revolt, where a group of priests were literally torn to pieces by a Paris mob.
France left the church years ago. Hence the nuns were the only ones at Mass.
And the cheese-eating surrender monkeys are born again.
Here’s your first stand-up lady!
She said on Sunday: “Either we kill Islamism or it will kill us again and again. You are with us and against Islamism, or you are against us and for Islamism… Those who choose the status quo become complicit with our enemies.”
Her comments today herald yet another ramping up of her party’s action against Islamism and the threat faced by ordinary French people.
She said: “Faced with the threat that weighs on the France, I decided to join the military reserve. I invite all the young patriots to do the same,” followed by: “In the West as in the East, Christians must stand up to resist Islam!”
just like our own left with negroes and Latinos and orientals and homosexuals and ugly women....grievances blocks to keep them in power.......the Left in the West is collaborating and whoring itself out to the third world invasion in order to import votes and retain power......they need to be hanged one day as the traitors they are and start with the media
Islam is a war plan. End of story.
what a bunch of hogwash.
Why this propaganda that France/Germany/Austria/Sweden, et al, would be 'ruined' without a population explosion? What is so wrong with a static population? does it not preserve resources and limit government? wasn't that the whole point 20 years ago?
with the resource problems in Europe now (water/electricity/heating oil), how is massive immigration's demand on resources going to help save the country from ruin?
How many leaders in Europe are being blackmailed and for what, that they would sacrifice their nation's youth to the marketplace of Carthage?
Japan may have resource and economic issue now as a its population temporarily ages and declines. But in a few decades Japan will be fine, and still be Japan.
This will stop when the politicians are threatened with the guillotine
Spot on. That’s exactly what needs to happen throughout the West.
I am in Krakow for world youth day. A few hours after the news of Fr. Jacques murder, we all were heading to the opening ceremony. Four or five of the French groups joined together on the main route and sang Les marseillais. Over two hundred young French voices singing proudly and with the fist pumps. An English priest did remind those around us that the anthem was sung during the revolution while priests and nuns were being killed. Drat! A moment worthy of Casablanca tempered by facts. In any event, these kids showed spirit.
“just like our own left with negroes and Latinos and orientals and homosexuals and ugly women....grievances blocks to keep them in power.......the Left in the West is collaborating and whoring itself out to the third world invasion in order to import votes and retain power......they need to be hanged one day as the traitors they are and start with the media “
...and that Left includes the GOPe, the other half of the treason lobby.
“But in a few decades Japan will be fine, and still be Japan. “
Compare that to California, which I’ve seen cease to be America in my time here.
A great quote by the lady, which encapsulates the Euro attitude toward this invasion:
“Those who said there is no problem now say there is no solution.” — Marion Marechal Le Pen
Yes, all while playing the "we need immigrants to do jobs Americans won't do in order to prevent our economy from collapsing" card. Establishment pols in both Europe and America have repeated that line often enough that apparently most people now buy it. That and the "we need more immigrants to solve our low birthrate problem" card.
It wasn't that long ago that progs were expressing fake concern about overpopulation and consequently "draining Gaia's resources." They shamelessly did a 180 and now LOW birthrate and its alleged disastrous effect on the economy is the BS they peddle.
Their goal: power retention through vote whoring in order to increase both the size and number of voting plantations completely dependent on gov't for their survival, the elimination of national borders, and the destruction of the last line of defense protecting our constitution and culture -- white working-class "bitter clingers."
And yes Pelham, the GOPe is now unapologetically on the side of those who would destroy us. Their mask off.
look at this one- The Angela Merkel Fiasco!!!
Merkel is futty nuckin’!!
France Sacrifices Priest on the Altar of “Tolerance” (David Wood)
https://youtu.be/nzwJPHnezLE
“The Partisan”
When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.
I have changed my name so often,
I’ve lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.
An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.
There were three of us this morning
I’m the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we’ll come from the shadows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34cVkL6zCE
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