Posted on 06/29/2020 7:12:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Polish community in the Dutch town of Breda is in shock after Black Lives Matter activists vandalized a beloved shrine to the famous Our Lady of Częstochowa Icon, defacing the icon itself and spray painting “BLM” underneath it.
Ironically, the self-styled racial justice activists targeted a beloved icon that is popularly and affectionately known as the “Black Madonna,” in a shrine erected in 1954 specifically in honor of the city’s 1944 liberation from German nazis at the hands of the Polish 1st Armored Division under General Stanisław Maczek, who was awarded honorary Dutch citizenship after the war.
Mayor Paul Depla said the incident was “particularly sad for the Polish community, for which the monument is of great value,” reports the Dutch newspaper BN DeStem.
“This is never justifiable,” he said.
A protest for racial justice was held in Breda last week, though organizers say they do not know who is responsible for the vandalism.
“This hurts the Polish community and that is not the intention [of the demonstration]. People are now open to dialogue, but with these kinds of actions you lose sympathy,” spokesman Patrick van Lunteren commented.
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The BLM group probably doesn’t know where Poland is, or what World War II was...
Why anyone would think BLM has a problem with their Nazi guiders is beyond me.
Antifa and BlackLiesMatter consistently use the Brownshirt tactics of the 1930s/1940s. I am not at all surprised that they would be offended at the losses by their ideological (socialist) brothers.
They want to erase all history, just like the Cultural Revolution in China or the Taliban in Afghanistan or ISIS in Syria.
Don't worry, Frannie-poo will get right on this and blame the victims.
This is at least the third time BLM has attacked Christian images or worshippers recently, in multiple countries.
Iirc the black Madonna is so named because of smoke from candles darkening it over the years.
Was this the original icon, or a copy of it? Since it is outdoors, I assume it’s a copy.
These feral thugs need to be mercilessly crushed.
You have to wonder if the Catholic church is supporting the BLM movement in the USA because they are naive, stupid, ignorant or all of the above?
These ferals everywhere should be treated like the radid animals they are, and removed by any means possible.
Western Europe is godless anyway. No big deal for them
Further proof that all they want is to tear down Western Civilization.
They don’t care where it is or what it is as long as they get rid of it.
Marxism / anarchy is the same in Poland as it is in the US
BLM and assorted hangers on are the brown shirts. Only a matter of time before they physically attack jews and synagogues out of solidarity with paleostinians. And envy. Those ecil capitalist jews.
evil even
I bet the thug with the spray can did not know that Kosciuszko’s will stipulated that his money was to buy slaves their freedom. It actually ended up starting a school specificly for the education of blacks.
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