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Muslim Migrants Firebomb Historic Swedish Church-And astonished Christians ask “why?”
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Feb 19, 2021 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 02/19/2021 6:41:55 AM PST by SJackson

Twice over the course of four days, an 800-year-old church in Stockholm was firebombed.  On Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, several Molotov cocktails were hurled at the 12-century Spånga church, located in a Muslim majority area. 

According to the church’s pastor, “the alarm was triggered when a window was smashed and flammable liquid thrown at the front gate and one of the windows. However, the fire was quickly put out by the police, who used a powder extinguisher.”

The same church had been fire-bombed just four days earlier, on Jan. 20, 2021: two explosives were hurled at and smashed through the church windows, and another was hurled at the church gate.   

Moreover, according to one report,

Spånga parish has been subjected to attacks on several previous occasions. In December 2018, an explosive device was detonated in the same parish. No one was convicted for the blast.

Hailing from the 12th century, the Spånga Church is one of the oldest in the Swedish capital. It is located on the outskirts of Tensta and is flanked by Rinkeby, both notorious for their heavy presence of immigrants (about 90 percent of the population)... Both areas are dominated by immigrants from Muslim countries and are formally classified as “particularly vulnerable” (which many consider to be a palatable euphemism for a “no-go zone”) due to failed integration and major problems including unemployment, rampant crime and Islamic extremism.

Attacks against churches have become a familiar sight in Sweden. Last year alone, a number of churches, mostly those in troubled suburban [i.e., heavily Muslim migrant] areas, were subjected to various types of attacks and vandalism, including those in Gottsunda, Uppsala and Rosengård, Malmö.

Actually, attacks on churches have become “a familiar sight” all throughout Western Europe, wherever there is a notable Muslim/migrant presence.  In France, which has one of if not the largest Muslim populations in the Western world, two churches are reportedly attacked every day.

Along with arson attempts, typically—and rather with diabolical intent—altars are desecrated, crucifixes broken, statues mocked and/or beheaded.  In one instance, vandals plundered and used human excrement to draw a cross on the Notre-Dame des Enfants Church in Nimes; consecrated bread was found thrown outside among garbage. One week later, vandals desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur; they mangled the arms of a crucified Christ in a mocking manner and an altar cloth was burned.

The same situation prevails in Germany, which also has an immense Muslim population. In Bavaria and the Alps alone, some 200 churches have been attacked and many crosses broken: “Police are currently dealing with church desecrations again and again,” one November 2017 report noted before adding, “The perpetrators are often youthful rioters with a migration background.”

Moreover, the desecration of churches has for centuries been a Muslim trademark—a sort of “Islam was here.” As copiously documented in Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West, whenever Muslims invaded Christian nations, untold thousands of churches were ritually desecrated and despoiled, their crosses and other Christian symbols systematically broken. Think what ISIS did but on an exponential level—and not for a handful of years but for over a millennium.

Despite all these telltale signs, Christian leaders in Sweden have responded with the usual cluelessness.   “I do not know why anyone would want to do this,” said the church’s pastor, Jerker Alsterlund. 

Perhaps because their religion teaches them to see and treat churches as “dens of iniquity … worse than bars and brothels”? 

Other Christian leaders responded by compounding their cluelessness; they projected their own Christian principles onto those who follow a distinctly different set of principles: “It is a deeply unempathetic person without love and respect who did this,” said MP Anders Österberg, previously vice chairman of Spånga-Kista parish.

Unlike Christianity, which teaches “empathy” and “love and respect” for the “other,” Islam teaches hate and contempt for the non-Muslim, the “infidel,” who is referred to as an animal in the Koran, the Islamic holy book that further commands Muslims to hate and oppose all non-Muslims—“even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin” (Koran 60:4; 58:22).

Even so, “An attack on a religious building is a violation of values deeply rooted in human identity,” said Björn Cedersjö of the Swedish Christian Council.

Once again; failure to step outside oneself and one’s religious (in this case, Christian) principles and appreciate the worldview of another set of principles—those of Allah and his prophet: to Muslims, only mosques are “religious buildings.”  All other temples—Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu—are, as aforementioned, places where the worst forms of evil are propagated.  Why? Because, unlike secular buildings and institutions, non-Muslim places of worship deal with the divine and, in so doing, contradict the teachings of Allah. 

Incidentally, such ignorance and projection is not limited to the leadership class, as one might expect, but infects the laypeople too: ​“Sad! The church of my childhood, where the graves of my parents and many friends lie,” read one tweet treat concerning the firebombings of Spånga Church: “Who or what hates and wants to harm our churches?”

“Sad,” indeed.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: clueless; religionofpeace; sweden
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1 posted on 02/19/2021 6:41:55 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Why?

Why do dogs lick their....


2 posted on 02/19/2021 6:42:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

It's just what they do.

3 posted on 02/19/2021 6:43:14 AM PST by SJackson (If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
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To: SJackson

Gee, I wonder why?.......................


4 posted on 02/19/2021 6:43:29 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: dfwgator

Police baffled.....................


5 posted on 02/19/2021 6:44:00 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: SJackson

Cultural suicide is not painless.


6 posted on 02/19/2021 6:44:49 AM PST by allendale
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To: SJackson

Ship them all back to the sand pits in the Middle East


7 posted on 02/19/2021 6:47:40 AM PST by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: SJackson

The religion of peace found the church’s audacity to exist there for 800 years was unacceptable.


8 posted on 02/19/2021 6:51:28 AM PST by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Shut the deuce up!!! I'll do the fighting!!!)
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To: All

Here we see the brilliance of using critical thinking to riit out the Islamic infestation.


France to focus on “Islamo-leftism That is ‘Corrupting Society’

Frédérique Vidal, the minister of higher education, said in Parliament that the state-run National Center for Scientific Research would oversee an investigation into the “totality of research underway in our country.....and would focus on “Islamo-leftism.’’ Mr. Macron’s leading ministers accuse left-leaning intellectuals of justifying Islamism and even terrorism.

“Islamo-leftism corrupts all of society. Universities are not impervious’’ Ms. Vidal said. Referring to scholars of race and gender, Ms. Vidal accused them of “always looking at everything through the prism of their will to divide, to fracture, to pinpoint the enemy.’’


9 posted on 02/19/2021 6:52:27 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: SJackson

As people drift away from God, they become defenseless before enemies they can’t even identify.


10 posted on 02/19/2021 6:53:02 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: SJackson
The same church had been fire-bombed just four days earlier, on Jan. 20, 2021:

Aha! The true culprits are Trump supporters rioting about Biden's being sworn in. And they came back four days later to finish the job!

11 posted on 02/19/2021 6:55:07 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: dfwgator

... for same reason 30 jihadist terrorist students were blown to allah while participating in bomb making course in their local muslim garrison (I.e. mosque).

Stupid never understands. Never.


12 posted on 02/19/2021 6:56:29 AM PST by TonyChris (Didn't vote for Amazon in last election)
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To: SJackson

If you’re asking “Why?”, then you’re really stuck on stupid.


13 posted on 02/19/2021 6:57:13 AM PST by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: SJackson

At some point countries, including our own, need to say the refugee experiment has failed and erect refugee camps in their own countries and move them all back.


14 posted on 02/19/2021 6:57:31 AM PST by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: SJackson

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel” was a perfect exposition of the interplay of self-loathing and backward cultural and tribal narcissism of the Muslim mind - particularly that of North Africans and especially the East African sort.

She also speaks about post-modern European leftists who also attacked her

After reading that, every time something like this occurs, it makes perfect sense.


15 posted on 02/19/2021 7:01:26 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Of course.


16 posted on 02/19/2021 7:02:09 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: dfwgator

You ask why? There are 68 passages in the koran teaching the muslim to lie, cheat, steal and even kill the Infidel. Muslims are taught this from age 4 through age 10 and can recite the koran forward and backward but cannot add 2 plus 2. They are radicalized at a very young age and will never change.


17 posted on 02/19/2021 7:02:36 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: SJackson

Like the tale of the Scorpion and the Frog.

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting, but the scorpion argues that if it did that, they would both drown. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. The frog lets the scorpion climb on its back and then begins to swim. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I couldn’t help it. It’s in my nature.”

This is the Middle East.


18 posted on 02/19/2021 7:08:11 AM PST by alloysteel (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
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To: PGR88

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book “Infidel” exposes the self-loathing and backward cultural and tribal narcissism of the Muslim mind.......

A must-read.


19 posted on 02/19/2021 7:08:35 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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German “humanitarian” learns truths about Muslims.......to her infinite regret.

https://arbeitsgruppefluchtundmenschenrechte.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/interview-with-rebecca-sommer-english/

She enumerates all the negatives we’ve observed for years.

Too bad she got woked the hard way....thru horrendous personal experiences.
BTW, she mentions Somali refugees as the worst of the worst.


20 posted on 02/19/2021 7:09:21 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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