Throughout Europe, but especially in France and Germany, churches — their buildings, their contents — have become the targets of thieves, vandals, and arsonists. Everyone knows who is responsible for these attacks which have increased pari passu with the increase in Muslim migrants, but officials refuse to identify the culprits by religion and status – Muslim economic migrants – lest they be accused of “racism” and “Islamophobia.”
Robert Spencer wrote briefly here about one of the most recent attacks on Christianity – for that is what these attacks are – and additional information can be found here: “Hamburg city church laments Jesus with a cut throat,” translated from “Hamburger Stadtkirche beklagt Jesus mit durchschnittener Kehle,” Journalisten Watch, June 2, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):
Unknown persons have cut up and scratched centuries-old paintings in Hamburg’s main churches of St. Peter and St. James in the city center. Striking: Jesus’ throat was slit with a knife, slaughtered, so to speak…
Presumably, the perpetrators this time are not the doomsday lunatics of the climate-glue terrorists, since the paintings were not soiled with tomato sauce, but brutally slashed open with a pointed object, probably a knife. Previously unknown between May 26th and 31st. In the Hamburg main churches of St. Peter and St. James in the city center, centuries-old paintings were cut up and scratched.
Those who have been slashing religious paintings inside churches are filled with a deep hatred of Christianity, Christian art, and Christians. The history of the past 1400 years – ever since Islam made its appearance in western Arabia – provides ample evidence that the people who have an abiding hatred of Christians are Muslims, who regard Christians, like other Infidels, as “the most vile of created beings.” In an act of unparalleled folly, the Christians and secularists of Europe today have allowed tens of millions of Muslims to settle in their midst, where they have become a terrific financial burden on the countries they live in. They may claim to be asylum seekers, but in reality they are economic migrants who came to Europe to enjoy the largesse that its generous welfare states provide. These include free or greatly subsidized housing, free medical care, free education, family allowances (that increase with each additional child), unemployment benefits (without needing to have a record of employment), and more. These Muslims are not grateful for such support; they pocket it as their due. Some even describe it as a kind of proleptic “jizyah” to be paid by Infidels to Muslims as a kind of protection money — protection against Muslim attacks.
Seven paintings were damaged in St. Peter’s Church alone. These include the famous work “Christ as a Man of Sorrows” by Master Francke, created around 1435, a copy of which hangs in the church. According to Bild, the priceless original has been in the Hamburger Kunsthalle since 1924. The painting “The Nativity” by Gottfried Libalt (1649) is different. A deep scratch runs across the neck of the baby Jesus.
The damage will probably run into the tens of thousands. Sexton Martin Meier estimates the restoration costs at 50,000 to 80,000 euros. Meier is deeply shocked and laments: “We help everyone here, we have social projects. Such acts endanger our work, we must then close our church. I am deeply angry and frightened.” Obviously the churchman has now realized how close the impact has come. Because: Church desecrations have been increasing in the best Germany we’ve ever had for years. Saints are spat on, crosses desecrated, people urinate in holy water fonts. As in Nordhausen in Thuringia. There, a 25-year-old Afghan “refugee” smashed into a crucifix that had been rescued from the rubble after the bombing of Nordhausen in World War II. Just one case out of thousands to which the churches with an affinity to Islam [i.e. performing outreach to their “Muslim brothers”] remain silent.
To judge by Sexton Martin Meier’s comments about “social projects” that will now have to close, his church is of the left-wing variety, defenders of Muslim immigration and of Islam, that has been providing social services to Muslim migrants, whose vandalism — the destruction of paintings — may now force the church to halt its open-door policy of welcoming everyone..
The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci first brought to the world’s attention the practice of Muslims in Florence to urinate on the famous “Doors of Paradise,” as Ghiberti’s massive doors to the Baptistery are called, and to defecate inside churches. Urinating into baptismal fonts has been great fun for Muslims intent on showing their contempt for the Christians of Europe. They have also broken crucifixes in many churches, ripping them off walls and smashing them on the floors. That is the vandalism. There is also theft, by Muslims, of silver cups, candlesticks, ciboria, and monstrances, and of richly brocaded alter cloths.
Islamic hatred of Christian values is not limited to Germany, but is just as vehemently concealed in other European countries that are “enriched” by Muslims. For example, the arson in the cathedral of Nantes, which briefly sparked a debate about a silent Kulturkampf and revealed the extent to which attacks on Christian symbols were spreading in Central Europe. Churches, chapels, cemeteries, even crosses on mountain peaks are attacked by Muslims.
And now comes the symbolic slitting of the throat of the baby Jesus, depicted in a venerable painting hung in a Hamburg church. It’s just the latest example of a long list of such outrages, with statues of Mary beheaded inside churches and in Christian cemeteries, crucifixes smashed to smithereens, baptismal fonts left stinking of urine. The thefts of silver candlesticks, thuribles, ciboria, and monstrances by Muslims is now a constant worry for the Christian clergy, and has led some churches, that always kept their doors open to the public, to keep them locked save at times of worship. What could be more telling a display of hatred for Christianity than slitting the throat of a painted baby Jesus? How long will it take Europe’s feel-good Christians to fully comprehend the threat and join others in demanding an end to Muslim immigration?
Awake says
The globalist elite have controlled the narrative and the governments and all channels of communication and levers of power, and now effectively prevent Christians from organizing to fight back and repel the Muslim invasions into western countries.
Keith O says
I have always wondered why any paintings of Jesus, Mary or any of the other biblical figures, always show a European, sometimes with blonde hair and blue eyes instead of the standard middle Eastern Red Sea pedestrian.
Can anyone enlighten me on this? I mean, if the bible is truthful, then all the paintings should show Jews!
somehistory says
Not having an actual person sitting for the painter, the artist paints from his own imagination.
I paint portraits of people using photos so the subject doesn’t actually sit for me and I can take my time. If I had to paint someone I had never seen, and was not given a good description, I would have to paint what I have in my own mind.
This is what happens with paintings of Jesus and other Bible figures. I have seen some depicting Jesus with dark hair and not quite light skin. It all depends on the artist.
As the Bible says Jesus is the Son of God, and therefore, without sin (He never missed the mark of perfect obedience), some see this as blue-eyed and blond. Others see it as He was, with the Jewish coloring.
No one knows what He really looked like as a human, just as we don’t know how He looks as He is now.
gravenimage says
Keith, all cultures have painted Jesus and other holy figures as members of their own societies. Just look up Christian Ethiopian art–all of the figures are sub-Saharan Africans.
For much of European history, most artists had little idea of what people from the Middle East looked like. Similarly, you can find images of the Holy Land, and they look like Italian or Dutch gardens, because these were the models.
Keith O says
Thanks GI & Somehistory, Given that I have the artistic abilities of a house brick it had always been a bit of a mystery to me. The closest I have come to artistry was painting camouflage on my face.
This concept also adds a bit of a WTF factor to mudslimes becoming enraged by depictions of someone who was raping little girls long before the advent of cameras.
somehistory says
Keith I was thinking about your question after I wrote my comment and realized that I should have mentioned that it’s kind of like what good writers do.
A good writer writes what he knows. If he lives in Texas, and knows that State, he would be able to make a book of fiction sound real to the reader; writing about some state to which he has never been wouldn’t be as easy.
So the artist depicts Jesus as being like people he has seen because that is what he “knows.” That is what I meant by his imagination.
John Smith says
Islam is the antichrist religion, and muslims are servants of satan. So to slit the throat of baby Jesus is sending a powerful message to all Christians.
This is exactly what they intend to do to all of us.
islam is the most evil vile filthy stinking satanic death cult the world has ever known, and every muslim is part of it.
Uma says
+1
gravenimage says
Slitting the Throat of Baby Jesus
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Such sick stuff–the imagery here is cutting the throat *of a baby*.
This is a “threefer”–symbolically harming an Infidel baby, attacking Christianity, and targeting figurative art.
And this is only apt tp get worse as time goes on and more Muslims flooding into the West.
Here’s the full painting:
https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/281284
Nagy Lajos says
In the EU Parliament elections, people should vote for people who take European values seriously. People’s eyes should be opened. If there is no serious opposition, we will be in a minority.
OLD GUY says
Where is the media outrage as when a Quran,an is burned?
somehistory says
The :media outrage” doesn’t exist in this case. Society at large…including the media…has abandoned babies, hates Christianity and is all in favor of tearing down what was built by generations before.