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Greek Orthodox Church on Lesvos Island Destroyed by Vandals
Greek Reporter ^ | 03-03-2020 | Tasos Kokkinidis

Posted on 03/04/2020 8:49:37 AM PST by NRx


The small church of Hagios Georgios (Saint George) near the village of Moria on Lesvos was vandalized by unknown assailants on Monday.

Some local people are blaming a group of migrants who live at the nearby camp for the act. They claim that when police prevented a march by hundreds of migrants demanding to be transferred to Athens, a group of around twenty of them went to the church and took their revenge by destroying the nave and the altar.

Images also show that the assailants destroyed icons and furniture. Hagios Georgios has been vandalized several times in the recent past, local residents say. There have been no arrests for the latest attack.

The situation on Lesvos remains tense as groups of migrants, angry with the appalling living conditions in the overcrowded Moria camp, are clashing with police almost on a daily basis,.

The Moria refugee camp was originally intended to hold 3,000 individuals. As recently as last June there were 5,000 people there, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the only major international NGO that has a presence at the camp.

In the last six months Moria has grown to be a shanty town of 19,000, with 40 percent of of its population under 18.

Approximately 13,000 of those people are living in a filthy unofficial camp comprising tarpaulin tents and makeshift huts made of pallets, in an olive grove surrounding the main site.

There is no electricity, not enough water and rivers of mud and rubbish run through the tents.


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1 posted on 03/04/2020 8:49:37 AM PST by NRx
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To: NRx

Ok, so it says in the article that it was migrants who destroyed the nave and the altar. Muzzards. Not vandals.

Those bearded savages are not very grateful! They’re getting anything they want free, but their savage reptilian brains cannot resist the subhuman urge to destroy anything that is not of their insane savage superstition.


2 posted on 03/04/2020 8:53:05 AM PST by I want the USA back (We have sunk to a depth where restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men:Orwell)
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To: NRx

THAT ought to create more good will with the locals.


3 posted on 03/04/2020 8:53:53 AM PST by AU72
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To: NRx

Guess they should have stayed home.


4 posted on 03/04/2020 8:54:08 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: NRx

BTW since when did they start calling Lesbos Lesvos?


5 posted on 03/04/2020 8:55:28 AM PST by AU72
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To: I want the USA back

Yeah anybody who didn’t know what vandals meant is either very naive or a Democrat or a European leftist. Well naive actually applies to the other two.

it’s the kind of naivity that can cost one their life. And that’s okay. What gets me mad is that the way these vote can cost my family their lives.


6 posted on 03/04/2020 8:56:37 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't but w finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: I want the USA back

Kill the Muslim savages!


7 posted on 03/04/2020 8:59:29 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: AU72

Good question. Maybe it was about the same time as Bombay became Mumbai? And Peking became Beijing? And Congo became Zaire and then Congo again?

I’ve noticed these name changes seem to happen with no explanation, and it’s just a case of the news media people referring to a place by a different name, with no explanation of who decided to make the change.


8 posted on 03/04/2020 9:00:59 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: NRx

Where are the migrants from, where are they going, and why aren’t they there yet? Better yet, why don’t they just go home? It can’t be any worse than what they’re experiencing now.


9 posted on 03/04/2020 9:01:56 AM PST by Disambiguator ("Progressives" want government in action. Conservatives want government inaction.)
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To: AU72

That’s what it sounds like in Greek.


10 posted on 03/04/2020 9:03:52 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: NRx

Greek Orthodox Church on Lesvos Island Destroyed by Muslims; looks like all the other hundreds of churches they are destroyed ever since they came into existence.


11 posted on 03/04/2020 9:09:49 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NRx

The island has been flooded with muslim ‘refugees’ which need to be killed.


12 posted on 03/04/2020 9:13:20 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: NRx

i have visited churches looking like this (minus icons, long taken) on north Cyprus. With vulgar graffiti. The tourists don’t see them, but I did. You don’t forget


13 posted on 03/04/2020 9:41:35 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: NRx

Bring in the army. March them down to the beach AT GUNPOINT and force them onto rubber rafts and send them back from whence they came. Have some warships standing by to make sure they do not return. If they try, blow them out of the water.

No more problem.


14 posted on 03/04/2020 9:47:29 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: NRx

Supporter of Francis One World Abu Dhabi Movement Rabat Cardinal Lopez Romero quoted” The stage of dialogue, which consisted of tolerance, is over.” Now, the “dialogue of friendship, hospitality, mutual knowledge, respect and openness to each other and collaboration to build a better world has begun.”

Followers of Islam will be laughably using those words as they chop the heads off of those who refuse to convert and destroy their places of worship.


15 posted on 03/04/2020 9:49:47 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: NRx

Greece, like almost all countries in the West, is not a truly civilized country. If it was, it would apprehend those terrorists, give them their day in court, and then summarily hang the bast*rds in front of that church. And it would do so within hours of their apprehension.


16 posted on 03/04/2020 12:46:23 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: SpaceBar

The island has been flooded with muslim ‘refugees’ which need to be killed.
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Well and truly said, and every word of it!


17 posted on 03/04/2020 12:48:48 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (To save America the Left MUST be aggressively attacked on every front.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

they don’t have sovereignty now, vassal of germany and european commission


18 posted on 03/04/2020 1:39:24 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Good question. Maybe it was about the same time as Bombay became Mumbai? And Peking became Beijing? And Congo became Zaire and then Congo again?

Bombay to Mumbai isn't much of a change...mostly pronunciation. Same with Peking to Beijing.

But Congo to Zaire to Congo again was civil war and devastation.

We has a priest from the Congo...imagine, a Roman Catholic priest from there. Also, he is several shades darker that the standard African American color.

19 posted on 03/04/2020 2:28:52 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: NRx; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Mohammadan terrorists doing their thang.


20 posted on 03/04/2020 3:37:47 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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