The Islamic State responds to Pope Francis: “We are making a religious war, and we hate you”

An original translation by Ava Lon

From F Desouche, a very important French website

By Horatius 18/08/2016

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Weapons cache of the Islamic State in West Africa

The Islamic State has publicly responded to statements by Pope Francis that the war waged by the Islamic terrorists is not religious in nature. The article answers the pontiff that their only motivation is religious and approved by Allah in the Qur’an.

Highlights of the latest issue of Dabiq – the official propaganda magazine of the Islamic State – the terrorist group is criticizing especially the naivety of Pope Francis, who’s clinging to the belief that Muslims want peace and peaceful coexistence and that Islamic terror is motivated for economic reasons. In the article “By the Sword” ( “By the Sword”), the authors categorically state: “This is a divinely-sanctioned war between the Muslim nation and the infidel nations.” […]

“Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them”

The article laments that despite the clearly religious nature of their attacks, “many people in the ‘crusaders’ country’ (Western countries)” expressed shock and even disgust because the leadership of the Islamic State ” uses religion to justify violence … Indeed, jihad – the spread of the rule of Allah with the sword – is an obligation that we find in the Qur’an, the word of our Lord, “ says the magazine. “‘Pour the blood of unbelievers'” is a common obligation. The command is very clear: kill the unbelievers, as Allah says, “kill the disbelievers wherever you find them.” “[…]

The fact is that “even if you (the West) stopped bombing us, throwing us in jail, torturing us, to humiliating and driving you us out of our land, we would continue to hate you, because the main raison of our hatred will not disappear as long as you have not embraced Islam. Even if you had to pay the jizyah [tax for infidels] and live under the authority of Islam in humiliation, we would continue to hate you. ” […]

Hamburg: Afghan destroys inside of church

an original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks!

From PI News:

It happened a week ago, but since the police kept the incident under wraps and the church didn’t press charges, we only now find out about it: A 19-year-old Afghan stormed into the church in Hamburg last Friday evening around 7:20pm, during an open community evening; he overturned chairs and benches, threw a rack with Bibles to the ground, which made the glass on the rack shatter, and he threw songbooks to the ground. According to a witness, the worshippers who were present were very afraid and just let him continue. No wonder, he was wearing a flowing Islamic garment, under which an explosives belt could easily have been hidden.

Update: A picture of the attacker and an eyewitness report. And when he was asked why he did it, he yelled: “Because I am Muslim!”

(By Michael Stürzenberger)

The Muslim didn’t speak during his rampage, and he also didn’t have any connection to Salafists, and therefore the department of state security of the land office of criminal investigation in all earnest says that they do not assume an “Islamic” motive. It is inconceivable just how little knowledge there is in these circles about Islam.

Update: Eyewitness Peter H., who took the picture of the Afghan attacker, asked him in front of the church in Hamburg-Eilbek, after the man was done with his rampage, why he did it. The Afghan yelled his answer: “Because I am (a) Muslim!” Peter H. told this to the police on multiple occasions. It is incredibly outrageous that the police ignored this important information and did not make a report about this scandalous incident. It goes to show again and again that the police very obviously take their orders directly from the government to hide and omit as many incidents as possible that have any connection to asylum seekers, so-called “refugees” and Muslims.

The fact alone that he is Muslim shows his Christian-hostile motive: Christians are cursed in the Koran (sura 9, verse 29), they are vilified as “evil creatures” (98:5), one should never take them as friends (5:50), but instead fight them (9:28), until Islam has gained the victory over all other religions (48:27).

The hammer: This Afghan Muslim was known to the police for several incidents of causing bodily harm. He first became a delinquent in Hamburg as a 15-year-old and as a consequence was sentenced to multiple so-called “disciplinary measures” such as “social studies” (whoa!). In the past year he was looked after by a “juvenile court aid”.

Just imagine for once what would happen in this country if 19-year-old Max were to vandalize the inside of a mosque in this way: The chain of lights would go from Flensburg to Garmisch, our spineless politicians would stand in line in front of the mosque to utter their statements of shock and dismay, and the media would outdo themselves with warnings of a new “crusade” of the supposedly aggressive Christendom against such a peaceful Islam.

The crowning: The churches in Hamburg decided to forgo taking increased security measures. This was “a terrible single incident” but the level of threat in Hamburg has “not changed”, says Remmer Koch, speaker of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church district Hamburg-East.

Even the larger church districts were prompted to retain the “openness” of the Christian church. “A house of God is a location that stands for peace and brotherhood; any kind of violence does not fit this stance,” says Karl-Heinrich Melzer, deputy bishop in Sprengel Hamburg and Lübeck.

Well, Herr Bishop, that is so nice for the Christendom, but you are obviously overlooking the fact that violence in Islam is inherently a part of their “religion”. With your pacifism and your refusal to take a fighting stance, you and your sheep are doomed to go down. You obviously do not know with whom you are dealing. Just a single look at the 57 Islamic countries with their massive persecution of Christians and mass killings should open your naïvely blinded ‘Gutmenschen’ eyes. It is also a threat to stupidity to read the most dangerous book in the world. It is known as the Koran.

These pious church people will probably only slowly wake up from their comatose state of suppression once one of them gets his head cut off like in France. State security itself doesn’t see any “concrete evidence for a specific threat for churches and church interiors”, as the Hamburg Abendblatt reported (http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article207962465/Randale-in-Eilbeker-Kirche-Junger-Afghane-war-betrunken.html).

The simple presence of thousands of Muslims in Hamburg, among them many ‘refugees” from fundamentalist-oriented Islamic countries, in which Christians are fair game, should indeed speak for an acute threat. But Germany is slumbering in a naïve Gutmenschen twilight sleep until the Islamic apocalypse really starts. Everything that has happened up until now is merely a lame intro for that which still is ahead of us.

North African Muslim attacks 17th century Crucifix

The history on the Church can be read here.

The edifice is popular as the seat of the cult of Saint Lucy of Syracuse, whose remains are housed inside.
[…]The church is object of pilgrimages and wide devotion for the presence of the relics of Saint Lucy, which were carried here in 1861 when the nearby church dedicated to her was demolished. In 1955 Angelo Roncalli, future Pope John XXIII and then Patriarch of Venice, had a silver mask put on the saint’s face to protect it from dust.
The saint’s body was stolen on July 7, 1981, but was restored in December of the same year without any ransom.

The Crucifix can be seen at 26 seconds here:

Video of the damage and description of attack in Italian:

Article in Italian here. Partial machine translation reads:

A young man of North African origin likely entered the church of St. Jeremiah and has heavily damaged the religious artifact. It was stopped by the caretaker and some faithful.

“It’s wrong. It’s all wrong,” he kept repeating the young Muslims that this morning has created havoc in the church of St. Jeremiah , in Cannaregio, Venice (the same one that houses the relics of Saint Lucia).

The man had been reported outside the church a little ‘revved up: Then, entering the place of worship, began to freak out. In a video spread online, the guardian tells what happened, shocked: “He tried to cross the main altar of the church. He said that ‘something was wrong'”.

More video here.

H/T M

FOUR Orthodox Churches burn all on Orthodox Easter

Three Orthodox Churches torched in three cities on Orthodox Easter

New York:

Today, this fire was “deemed suspicious”

Fire officials say a raging fire that has damaged the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Midtown Manhattan has been deemed suspicious for now, though the investigation is continuing.

The fire started at about 7 p.m. Sunday, just hours after its Orthodox worshippers celebrated Easter, and sent plumes of smoke billowing into the city’s skyline.

“We had a very heavy volume of fire on arrival, which is always a concern,” said Deputy Assistant Fire Chief Mike Gala at the scene. “We deemed the fire suspicious.”

The blaze was largely extinguished three hours later, but firefighters had to beat back small pockets of flames. The fire gutted the building and destroyed the church’s roof and stained glass.

Australia:

Authorities in Melbourne and Sydney investigating Orthodox church fires

Australia’s second oldest Greek Orthodox church has been saved, but a Macedonian Orthodox church was gutted

Firefighters survey the scene of a fire at the Annunciation of Our Lady Greek Orthodox Church in Melbourne.
 Firefighters survey the scene of a fire at the Annunciation of Our Lady Greek Orthodox Church in Melbourne. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP

Authorities in Melbourne and Sydney are investigating fires in two Orthodox churches.

Australia’s second oldest Greek Orthodox church has been saved after a fire broke out in Melbourne, a day after Orthodox Easter celebrations. The cause of the fire at the 115-year-old Holy Church of Annunciation of Our Lady in East Melbourne on Monday afternoon is still under investigation.

RUSSIA: Fire rages at Russia’s revered Valaam monastery

A reader sent in a very likely explanation:

Lecture 5: The Serbian Revolution and the Serbian State

When fighting resumed at Easter in 1815, Milos became supreme leader of the new revolt. He advocated a policy of restraint: captured Ottoman soldiers were not killed and civilians were released. His announced goal was not independence but an end to abusive misrule. Wider European events now helped the Serb cause. The final defeat of Napoleon in 1815 raised Turkish fears that Russia might again intervene in Turkey. To avoid this the sultan agreed to make Serbia autonomous. The specific terms of the settlement addressed many of the original complaints of 1804:

1) taxes were precisely defined and would be collected by Serb officials without Turkish involvement;

2) all janissaries were excluded and the Turkish garrison or administrators were confined to a few fortress towns;

3) Serbian merchants gained the right to travel freely and conduct business anywhere in the Ottoman Empire;

4) there was an amnesty and Serbs kept their arms;

 

 

State Prosecutor determined to act against Heidi Mund

An original translation of what may be a very important news story by SIMONXML with much thanks!

From this German news source

The State prosecutor has become active against Heidi Mund – the accusation is incitement

Against Heidi Mund who became famous as a radical Christian, the State prosecutor has decided to take action for incitement. She was reported to have committed these acts with her “Prayer proposals” on the Day of German Unity.

Since Heidi Mund shifted her political agitation from the street to the Internet, barely a day goes by without a message to her followers. The former front woman of the “Freien Bürger” (free citizens) and “Pegida Rhein Main” has set up another mailing list – “Save Europe” – which has explicitly set itself the goal of saving Germany from Islam.

On the Day of German Unity, Mund had called for a human chain around Germany “as a spiritual wall”, … and with the “authority of God” to resist the “forces of darkness”.

“Praying hand in hand for our country” calls the radical Christian her appeal for an act of resistance, which took place on 3 and 4 October with moderate involvement – and on 4 October a private complaint followed against Heidi Mund. Her “suggestions for prayer” met the requirements for incitement states the complaint.

In it she calls to prayer and calls amongst other things for:

“We pray FOR the genuine refugees that they get renewed hope for their lives that our LORD comforts them … against the mass immigration of 90% of young Muslim men who should build up their own home countries and not rape our girls and women here; that with the Word of God – the Bible – they be sent back to their home countries where they belong. … Against the diseases and epidemics the immigrants have brought with them … . We ask God … the Angel that He places on the borders of Germany and the other European countries.”

As the press office of the Criminal Investigation Department explained upon request, the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office has taken up the matter for legal analysis. However it will not make any details known at this time.

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Heidi is most famous for her Martin Luther like disruption of a muslim prayer service in a German Cathedral as part of the ‘interfaith’ islamic conquest programs occurring all around the world. CBN has a good video on that event and her motives and the history of the cathedral here. 

Pamela Geller has a good post on this

 

Berlin Germany: Muslims Beating on Christians

An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks

From this German news site

H/T Wrath of Khan

”I am muslim. What are you?” After asking this question, muslims beat on Christians at Berlin Mitte on the second day of Christmas, on Potsdam Platz.

At least five injured men are the result of a fight on early Sunday evening in Berlin-Tiergarten. The police are still investigating, But what they know so far is that five men, after leaving the Club “Adagio” at 17:20 on the Marlene-Dietrich-Plaza, were accosted by a man and asked about their religion. The police report said that the unknown man said, “I am muslim! What are you?” The question resulted in a verbal shouting match. Suddenly more people arrived on the scene and together with the unknown muslim they started beating on the men aged 20, 24, and 25.

A 19-year-old man who tried to calm the men down, was injured in the face. Right before the police arrived, the perpetrators fled the scene. The injured young men did not wish for medical treatment on the spot and said they were going to go to the clinic themselves. According to police, the young men that were attacked come from Serbia and Montenegro and are Orthodox Christians. The office for political crimes within the police has taken over the investigation. The “Adagio” held a “Balkan Party” on December 25th.

 

 

Christian Refugee: “Germany is like Iran”

An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks

From this German news site

inside of Priest Martens’ Trinity church in Berlin-Steglitz, a refuge for many Christian refugees, picture taken by Gottfried Martens.

Christian refugees are harassed and threatened in asylum camps. Many of them are therefore very disappointed of Germany, one man tried to kill himself. A Berlin priest wants to help, but the authorities walls up.

Elia Ali Reza fled to Germany, because when he converted to Christianity in his home country, he was threatened with death. Arriving in Germany, he had to flee again – from one refugee camp in Brandenburg, for fear of muslim co-residents. “I came to Germany because it is a Christian country”, he said on Wednesday evening at STERN TV. “But after my experiences in the asylum camp I feel like I am back in Iran.” All non muslims are reviled, berated and ‘impure’ in Iran, he says.

Joshua Paul from Pakistan has similar experiences. He had to flee, because as a son to a Christian pastor in his muslim country, he faced violence and death threats. The 24-year old lives in a refugee home in Hennigsdorf and he does not feel safe among all the muslim residents. He says, muslims per say are not the problem, there are some peaceful ones. “But those, that are here, they are very discriminating”, he laments. He says he thought that Germany was a Christian country, that helps Christians and that all people would be treated equally.

The Berlin Priest Gottfried Martens knows that these stories are not single incidents. He offers Christian refugees to sleep in his church, when they can’t stay at their respective refugee camps anymore. “In many camps they live after the shariah, and when you refuse to adjust to that, you will have problems”, he explains. Martens has tried multiple times to get help from the camp organization for the Christian refugees – with very little success. Journalists from STERN TV did ask at the Henningsdorf Refugee camp leaders, if they know of violence against Christian refugees. The short answer: “After consulting with camp management, social workers and the responsible department for the accommodations of asylum seekers in the County of Oberhavel there is no knowledge of such incidents within the community camps.”

“More conservative muslims than I can believe.”

In the STERN TV Studio conversation, moderator Steffen Hallaschka asked Martens, if muslims came to Germany whose cultural and moral concepts “aren’t compatible with ours” and if that’s why they do not want to adapt “this impression is one that has grown stronger in me, and it’s a lot stronger than I initially wanted to believe”, Martens says. “I had thought that at the beginning of this refugee wave, that a lot of the refugees were those that suffered under radical islam in their home countries, and that they would appreciate the fact that it’s different here.” But the percentage of “very conservative” muslims is extremely high among asylum seekers, a lot higher than he estimated. In comparison to previous years, the picture has changed drastically in refugee camps. To add insult to injury, Afghan or Iranian Christians have to wait three to four years until they can get recognition in Germany as citizens. Continue Reading →

 Refugees canot sleep for fear of Islamic State members among them

At the Reception Center in Giessen lives a young Syrian Christian man by the name of Bashar Baroma. He is afraid and he can’t sleep at night anymore. He worries that there are supporters of the Islamic State (IS) amongst the many refugees in camp.

He reports that they repeat loudly certain verses of the Koran, which awaken terrible memories in his mind. They are verses and words that IS fighters chant, before they cut the heads off their victims.

“I can’t remain here, with the IS and everything, I am a Christian and I am afraid.”

The two faces of Obama. Obligation Vs. Passion

Watching Obama’s Easter thing this morning reminded me of an excellent and generally useful Front Page article by Daniel Greenfield, AKA Sultan Knish.

It dealt with how one tends to approach a thing one is passionate about differently than one might approach a thing that we may be obliged to do.

So I did a little video comparing a number of things Obama said about islam Vs. things he has said when speaking about Christianity. Now while I did try and preserve the context of each speech, I likely didn’t. But that is not the issue. It isn’t about the content or the context of each segment. It is about his general attitude towards the people, religion, and culture of each.

News items and videos of attack on churches in Pakistan

BBC: Deadly blast hit Pakistan churches in Lahore

Two bomb blasts have killed at least 10 people near two churches in a Christian neighbourhood of the Pakistani city of Lahore, local officials say.

At least 50 people were reportedly hurt in the explosions at the Catholic church and Christ Church in the city’s Youhanabad area.

Violent protests erupted after the blasts, with large crowds already in the area to attend Sunday mass.

Trust.org

LAHORE, Pakistan, March 15 (Reuters) – Bombs outside two churches in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed 10 people and wounded more than 55 during Sunday services, rescue workers said, and witnesses said quick action by a security guard prevented many more deaths.

A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility.

The blasts went off minutes apart in a majority Christian suburb of the eastern city. Police said it seemed they targeted two churches, one Catholic and one Protestant, that are very close to each other.

LAHORE Christian Community Blocks Ferozepur Road After Bomb Blast in Church In Lahore 15 March 2015

Video news report

More:

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction claimed responsibility for the attack.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1169713

Sourced by M. with thanks.