France: Jihad on the Church’s Eldest Daughter 11/30/2023 by Raymond Ibrahim

Gatestone Institute : Christian churches are under attack all throughout Western Europe, with recent examples from Austria, Germany, Italy, and Sweden.

No Western nation, however, seems to experience as many attacks on its churches as France, once known as the “Eldest Daughter of the Church.”

As investigative journalist Amy Mek tweeted on July 1, 2023:

Attacks on Churches are the norm in France; two Churches a day are vandalized — they are being burned, demolished, and abandoned, and their adherents are being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. Priests are under constant threat. At what point will France’s open border politicians be held responsible?

That last question inadvertently identifies the culprits—namely, migrants from the Muslim world, where attacks on churches are common.

In July, 2023, for example, Muslims attacked and desecrated several churches in France, including by breaking the doors and windows of one church and spray-painting pro-Muhammad, anti-Jesus graffiti on its walls.  They also torched at least two historic churches—a sixteenth century church in Drosnay, and the twelfth century Saint-Georges De La Haye-Descartes church—following general riots prompted by the June 27 police shooting of Nahel Merzouk, a Muslim lawbreaker.

Twelfth century Saint-Georges De La Haye-Descartes Church

Not only did French authorities pretend that these two heritage churches simply “caught fire”—including “probably due to a storm”—but they insisted that it was the police killing that prompted otherwise peaceful Muslims to riot at all.

If this was the case, what does one make of the fact that Muslims have been attacking churches in France for decades?  Below is a sampling of attacks that occurred before the June 27 shooting of Merzouk:

June 26: Saint-Lazare church, which stands near another church that was heavily vandalized by Muslims on July 5, was desecrated and robbed.

June 20: A “gang of college students” barged into the Saint Roch Church in Nice, mockingly doused themselves with holy water, and began shouting “Allahu akbar,” which the report correctly notes is “regularly heard during Islamist attacks.”  In a letter to his apparently indifferent higher ups, the first deputy mayor of Nice, Anthony Borré, responded by urging them to take such matters seriously:

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