Attaque d'une église à Paris

 

 A Coptic church in Paris gets vandalised, "the only church that is illuminated  is the one that on fire".

 http://www.christianophobie.fr/breves/tags-sur-une-eglise-copte-a-paris-deux-photos

About the same in November, another church is attacked, with worshippers,  by an extreme left group, during Sunday mass (no less). This provoked an open letter being written by a Parliamentarian deputy, Jacques Bompard.

 20 novembre 2013

 An open letter to the Interior Minister of France, in relation to an attack on :

"Besides numerous cemeteries and Christian places of worship are targeted by extremist groups on the grounds of hatred of The Other and intolerance. It is not normal that the Christians of France feel cut off from the rest of the national community. They have the feeling not benefiting from the same protection and concern from the authorities as the other religious communities, when their places of worship are attacked or their faith is being blacklisted."


 The deputy continued with this remark directed at the Minister:

"If his interest is confined (just) to synagogues and  mosques or if he will finally plan to take into consideration the prevailing christianophobia which reigns in France. "

Attaque d'une église à Paris : la question du député Bompard

Déposée à l'assemblée :

"M. Jacques Bompard attire l'attention de M. le ministre de l'intérieur sur l'attaque de l'Eglise de Saint Nicolas du Chardonnet le 17 novembre dernier. Celle-ci a été commise pendant une messe dominicale hautement symbolique pour les fidèles et par ailleurs constitutive de l'identité française depuis des milliers d'années. Des projectiles ont été jetés alors que de jeunes enfants se trouvaient dans l'assemblée. Les médias n'ont pas jugé utile de souligner l'évènement mais nombre de catholiques s'attendent à une réaction du ministère qui ne vient pas. Cette agression s'est déroulée dans un climat de christianophobie délétère qui tend nombre de croyants alors que des journalistes et autres personnages publics se sont fendus de déclarations notoirement haineuses sans jamais avoir été inquiétés par la justice. Par ailleurs de nombreux cimetières et lieux de cultes chrétiens sont pris pour cible par des groupes extrémistes sur le motif de la haine de l'Autre et de l'intolérance. Il n'est pas normal que les chrétiens de France se sentent retranchés du reste de la communauté nationale. Ils ont le sentiment de ne pas bénéficier de la même protection et de la même sollicitude des autorités que les autres communautés religieuses quand leurs lieux de culte sont attaqués ou leur foi mise à l'Index. Monsieur Jacques Bompard demande à M. le ministre de l'intérieur si son intérêt est circonscrit aux synagogues et aux mosquées ou s'il compte enfin prendre la mesure de la christianophobie ambiante qui règne en France."

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the uttered word - unbalanced vandalism

Take the example of this recent case of vandalism that took place in Germany.

On the night to Thursday, the Arabic words “Allahu Akbar” were painted on the portals of several churches in the city centre of Augsburg. According to local police, the Cathedral, the Church of St. Maurice and the Protestant Ullrich Church are affected. At the Cathedral both the north and the south portals were painted with white letters. Hard to imagine a mosque would have been affected. Claudia Roth (Member of Parliament for the Green Party) probably would have organized a candlelight vigil in her hometown because of an “Islamophobic attack” and would have called for an alliance against fascism. However, it were churches, and thus, that “little night time graffiti prank” is only worth small footnotes in the newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine (with photos) and the broadcasting centre BR and will soon be forgotten.

 

(Original in german / Translation: Carpe Diem) - PI

Now take a moment to compare this mindless act of ideological intolerance, so carefully labelled as  as a minor affair, a prank, with recent media articles on mosque vandalism.

ABC Australia mosque

US mosque article 

The language used is completely different, it is direct and to the point: 

• AIR-Philadelphia Executive Director Jacob Bender. "The unfortunately growing promotion of Islamophobia in our society can and does lead to such troubling incidents."

• " The attack has been condemned by local political leaders."

Unfortunately, hysteria is often whipped up or charges are levelled of Islamic hate crimes or simply Islamophobia.  When the reverse happens, acts of vandalism inspired by a blinkered and hateful brand of ideology'; when written in Arabic or directed at non-believers, is dismissed by religious and political leaders as simply a non-news event.  Where does this kind of mentality leads us?  Is is this supposed to be the price for "interfaith dialogue" and "multiculturalism"?  

Indeed there is a growing problem of "ignorance is bliss" on the part of local and national authorities, who tend to sweep acts of Islamic inspired acts of aggressiveness under the rug. In many instances, such cases of vandalism, attacks on property and on people gets unreported. Likewise, the  origin of the perpetrators are often camouflaged by the media or police under the cover of " south-east Europeans, Asians or Middle Eastern" individuals".  It is a case of "don't rock the boat". I fear that this plays directly into the hands of those who espouse this hatred of non-believers, firmly entrenching the mentality of " I can do I whatever I want", " I can get away with it", "I've got my rights covered". 

Now please could more people stand for the OTHERS!  Why are we allowing an extreme minority to dictate the terms in the name of the rest, (the majority)?

Remember what starts off by minor acts of vandalism, when done in the name of hate and ideology, can grow into something bigger and nastier in nature.  We don't have to go far into the history archive to see this. 

Let's move away from Europe, aka the West and see what is happening in other parts of the world.   Syria - destruction of churches, Nigeria, Tanzania, Egypt... the same is happening, all done in the name of "Allah".  If no one in Europe cares a hoot about a simple church, where's the outcry on the mayhem, death and destruction of centuries old places of worships and the worshippers themselves.  There is a deafening silence on this.  The only event that triggered an international outcry was the explosive demolition of the Bayam Buddhas by the Taliban in Afghanistan.  Personally I think it was more of a whimper and a squeak.

Vandalism and destruction of places of worships isn't limited to non-Islamic places.   The Wahabi / Salafi mindset, promoted at great length by the Wahabi "hq" called Saudi Arabia is lending itself to the promotion of a greater number acts of destruction of "non-conforming buildings"  across the globe, notably Sufi shrines in Libya, Tunisia, Kashmir, Mali and recently in Syria. Why? To quote from an BBC article: "Hardline Salafists regard the shrines as idolatrous." The destruction in Libya was sufficiently serious enough for HRW to issue a press release,  where Eric Goldstein from HRW stated the following: “Inaction and impunity can only encourage further attacks.” These words are apt given the inaction and the impunity that is occurring across Europe and the West to a growing trend of not just acts of vandalism but of violence too.  It is a systematic trend that is growing month by month and the ripples will be felt more widely and more frequently.

No discussion but aggression

Normalization

Meanwhile in Kosovo

Today there are a dozen Serb families out of a total of 200 households in Belo Polje near Pec as many as before the 1999 conflict in the province. Tanjug.

Belo Polje today is the scene of an unexplained death (of a Serb).. That is until you read between the lines..

His son Petar stated to the radio that he does not know if his father was killed or died when he fell into the canal, adding that he intended to return to Belo Polje for good and that he did not have good relations with his Albanian neighbors.

Serb Stefan Cerovic, 71, was a returnee to Kosovo.  

Freedom in Kosovo

Freedom of speech is paper thin in Kosovo, as this recent attack in March shows:

On 27 March 2013, Kosovan human rights defender Ms Nazlie Bala was attacked upon entering her apartment building and severely beaten.

She has also received death threat. Motive: unknown and perpetrators: unknown. Your usual fare then of indifference and subterfuge and denial of human rights. It becomes more understandable if you know more about the previous career paths of a number of the Pristina government leaders: 1. Mafia thug 2. Ruthless (terrorist) rebel leader in KLA. 3. General (absolved by the international community of war crimes)

Serbia to normalise ties with Kosovo

 News from the Balkans.....

So Serbia has signed an agreement with Pristina on the future of the Serbs in Kosovo.  The EU is pleased with the situation, however on the ground, things are not so rosy....... In this topsy-turvy world of ours.

The global media network (AKA GMN) lavished praise on the agreement but as usual failed miserably to explain why this document was created in the first place.  The common perception is why can't they just shake hands and hug it each other or that the Serbians are sore losers ( so lets just ignore any of their points of view). Not one media outlet gave the reasons as why the Serbs feel threatened. It is all swept under the carpet of "ethnic tensions".

There are still serious issues  about attacks against anyone perceived to be a Serb,  attacks against Serbian Orthodox religious sites.   There are still " ethnic tensions" in the region.  The "agreement" will do nothing to address the real underlying problems, not even  the UN and KFOR have dealt with these issues in a serious and concerted manner.  These issues aren't even succintly acknowledged in the document.  So in effect there are no concrete garantees for any of the ethnic minorities living in Kosovo, no Serb, Croat, no Roma, no Gorani...

To quote the often remarked expression of this decade: criminal enterprise.  There is a failure to act in  the interests of all concerned in the region, by the US,  UN, the EU and by NATO.   There is a criminal enterprise quietly actively engaging in massively whitewashing the corrupt Albanian authorities of any sins since the violent take over in 1999, helped largely by the over hysterical media reports at the time. The "humanitarian intervention"- actually facilitated the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo of most of its non-Albanian population. Neither  any of these entities actually trying in way   to prevent ongoing tensions.   

Terrorism is TERRORISM.  But there are double standards, because as you can see below are some events in April 2013, and yet it's not terrorism.  Clearly I'm not reading from the same script.  

Terror attacks are designed to shock, terrorize, install fear into ordinary people. It is the seeming arbitrariness of the violence inflicted that distinguishes  terror attacks. 

Here is some of the latest news from Kosovo - 

1. Physical and verbals attacks on Slavic speakers.   

27 April 2013.

Two boys, aged 15/ 16 were attacked  & stabbed by a group of Albanians in Bosniak Mahala as they were riding their bikes, one was a Serb and the other a Gorani.  The response by the police

"Deputy Regional Director of the Kosovo Police Service Ergin Medic told Tanjug that the motives for the attack are still unknown and that the attackers have not been identified yet."

2. Freedom of Speech
 
16th April

An attack with automatic weapons on the building and studio of the radio station Kolasin in Zubin Potok in Kosovo, which occurred on 16 April 2013 in the morning hours. No motive and barely any investigation either.

3. The safe return of Serb and other non-Albanian people to their destroyed dwellings, as a result of ethnic cleaning in the 90's and 2000's, particularly in March 2004.

The reality is....... 16 April 2013 Istok - Grenade attack on a Serb house. "The attack upset the Serb returnees because this is the first such incident in Istok since they returned to the town in 2006. Only nine Serbs live in Istok now." in Serbia news.

The uttered word - victims

A great deal is mentioned in the Media  about victims and victimization of  Muslims at the hands of the the West,  largely due to political agendas, rather religious agendas.


The 20th century flip side is:

Middle- East /Turkey

1900- 1920
Massacre of Armenian civilians from 1900 onwards.  Spaghanak
1903 pogroms / massacre of 170Baha'i s in Persia
1904 7500 Armenians killed in Sassun.
1908 30000 Armenians killed in Adana.

1909 : pogroms - Kermanshah (Iran) 1909 another 30000 Armenians killed in Cilicia  & more in Adana, along with Americans. 1912 massacre of Christians in Thrace ( followed by expulsions in 1914). 1914 killing of Nestorians in Iraq  (12000 in august) and massacre of Greeks in Foca. 1915 massacre of Armenians throughout Anatolia and beyond. 12000 Armenians soldiers alone were killed in June. 1915 another 250000 Assyrians killed in Iraq. 800 in Salamas. 1918 150 Assyrians murdered including the patriarch. Another 700 killed in Khoi. 1920 massacre of Armenians in Cilicia 1965 pogrom in Aden 1969 execution of Jews in Baghdad  1975 4 killed in Lebanon  1921 - 1950 1921 massacre of Greeks in Samsun. 1922 Christian massacre in Smyrne.  1932 massacre of Assyrians in Iraq 1933 massacre of Nestorians in Iraq. 1933 massacre of Chaldeans in Iraq. (1000) 1937 massacre of Christians in Syria 1941 170 Jews killed in Baghdad  1944 3 Bahais killed in Sharrud 1947130 dead in pogroms in Libya 1947 100 dead in pogroms in Aden 1949 pogroms in Syria   1950 - 1980 1957 7 Baha'is killed in yazd 1958 pogrom in Aden 1961 pogrom in Turkey  1976 massacre of Christians in Lebanon  (over 600) 1977 347 Christians massacred in Lebanon  1978 massacre of Alevis at Marash Turkey 1979 200 Baha'is executed in Iran 1980 7 Baha'is executed in YZad The Caucasus /Central Asia 1918 15000 Armenians killed in Baku 1927 killing of Muslim women for taking off veils (300) in Turkmenistan. North Africa  1934/ 1935 pogroms in Constantine, Algeria 1945 pogroms in Libya 1948 pogroms in Libya , morocco 1948 killing of Jews by Egyptian Muslim brotherhood 1952 anti Jewish and anti Christian pogroms in Suez 1967 pogroms in Tunisia and Libya The Balkans 1941 Christian massacre at Koritska Jama, Bosnia (Handzar and Kama SS Divisions)1941- 1944 massacre of Christian orthodox in Bosnia by Handzar and Kama SS Divisions 1941- 1944 killing of Bosnian Jews, ( 12,000) 1941- 1944  Kosovo Jewish deportation to concentration camps by SS “Skanderbeg". Over 600 Jews perish. July 1994 Over 400 Serbs killed by SS “Skanderbeg" Elsewhere 1964 massacre of Chinese in Indonesia ( 200 -600000)  1971 over 100000 massacred in East Pakistan ( Bangladesh) 1975 200000 Christian killed in the invasion of East Timor 1976 over 30 killed in Philippines