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12 French churches attacked before Notre Dame inferno
'I don't know if a worker accident or a radical Muslim set the fire'


Only hours after the first flames that eventually would consume Notre Dame’s roof and spire flickered, the questions about the cause began.

“Detectives investigating the catastrophic blaze are today interviewing specialist restorers who were carrying out works on the cathedral spire when the inferno broke out,” reported DailyMail.com.

“French police are understood to have launched a criminal inquiry after a ‘stray flame’ cause fire to engulf the landmark last night, with heroic firefighters battling for eight hours to bring the blaze under control.”

With the recent desecration of a dozen Catholic churches in France in just one week, investigators will not rule out the possibility of arson.

Talk-radio host Dennis Prager wrote in a column: “I don’t know if a worker accident or a radical Muslim set fire to Notre Dame Cathedral (as they have scores of other churches around Europe). In terms of what the fire represented, it doesn’t much matter. What matters is the omen: Europe is burning, just as Notre Dame was.”

Prager said the “symbolism of the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the most renowned building in Western civilization, the iconic symbol of Western Christendom, is hard to miss.”

“It is as if God Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning – and with it, Western civilization.”

Islam critic Pamela Geller posted a report under the headline: “Notre Dame Cathedral inferno ‘intentionally set.'”

She cited Time columnist Christopher J. Hale writing: “A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in #NotreDame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set.”

TIME columnist Christopher J. Hale @chrisjollyhale tweeted, “A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in #NotreDame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set.” and then he deleted the tweet after a few minutes. || #NotreDameFire #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/gPH04JCzSk

— Matthew Thomas McDonald (@Real_Matty_Mac) April 15, 2019

Geller noted France has been hit with a string of fires at Catholic churches, some of which occurred alongside desecration of sacred objects and acts of vandalism.

“While the fire at Notre Dame appears to be an accident connected to renovations of the church,” she wrote, “the image of the famous spire engulfed in flames is a hard hit on the historically deeply Catholic France, as well as Catholics all over who have seen their religion reeling from devastating scandals, cover-ups and attacks.”

She said that while Notre Dame is “undoubtedly the most well-known landmark to be affected, Paris’ second largest church, Saint-Sulpice, briefly burst into flames on March 17, the fire damage doors and stained glass windows on the building’s exterior.”

Police later said the incident was not an accident.

Twitter users commenting on Hale’s tweet pointed out a deliberate attack was possible.

Hugh Easton wrote: “The area of roof where the fire appears to have taken hold was covered with scaffolding. That would have allowed an arsonist to climb up there and set the fire. Normally the roof would be completely inaccessible.”

And Mirjam152 added, “Just dress up as a construction worker.”

Breitbart reported the attacks on a dozen Catholic churches in France over the period of one week in March.

The attacks culminated with a fire set at Saint-Sulpice shortly after Mass. Other vandalism occurred at the church of Notre-Dame des Enfants in Nimes, the church of Notre-Dame in Dijon, and in Lavaur.

“In the peripheries of Paris, in the department of Yvelines, several churches have suffered profanations of varying importance, in Maisons-Laffitte and in Houilles,” the report said. “Although commentators have been reluctant to attach a particular religious or cultural origin to the profanations, they all share an evident anti-Christian character.”

In 2018, the Ministry of the Interior recorded 541 anti-Semitic acts, 100 anti-Muslim acts and 1063 anti-Christian acts.

Prager noted Europe’s foundational Christian culture has eroded since World War I.

“Meanwhile, Europeans brought a non-European ideology into Europe, an ideology that, for more than a thousand years, sought to replace Christianity as the world’s dominant religion. The Europeans, believing in nothing distinctly Christian or Western and believing in the moral and intellectual nonsense known as ‘m**************m’ – a doctrine that asserts that all cultures are morally equivalent – saw nothing problematic in bringing millions of Muslims into Europe. They had no idea that most of these people actually wanted to replace Christianity with their religion. They had no idea because, in their ignorance and arrogance, they assumed that because they were secular multiculturalists, everybody else was, too – or would be, once they lived in Europe,” he wrote.

“They were wrong, of course. And as a result, the two dominant forces in Europe – secular leftism and Islamism – sought the end of Christianity and the West. (The left believes that protecting Western civilization is equivalent to protecting w***e s*******y.)”

The Daily Mail reported “ISIS fanatics are heartlessly reveling in the inferno at Notre Dame Cathedral just days before Easter, calling it ‘retribution and punishment.”


“A poster of the blazing cathedral appeared online accompanied by the words, ‘Have a good day,’ and was created by the ISIS affiliated Al-Muntasir group according to the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium.”

Social-media users with Muslim names celebrated the catastrophic fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral.



Jihad Watch Director Robert Spencer pointed out many Muslims “believe that the ruins and destruction of non-Muslim structures testifies to the t***h of Islam.”

The Quran, wrote Spencer, “suggests that the destroyed remnants of ancient non-Muslim civilizations are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his t***h.




The Guardian reported in 2016 a cell of radicalized French women guided by ISIS commanders in Syria was blamed for a failed terrorist attack near the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Geller’s report noted that in June 2017, “a jihadi attacked a police officer with a hammer at the Notre Dame cathedral. Farid Ikken injured the officer with the hammer, and was found to be in possession of butcher knives.”

In the mean time, the Daily Mail reported, authorities are focusing on the Notre Dame as an “involuntary destruction caused by fire.”

“The focus of prosecutors is currently on contractors … which had been working on scaffolding erected … as part of the restoration project when the blaze broke out.”

Remy Heitz, Paris’ public prosecutor, said he is favoring “the theory of an accident.”

Liberty Tree

If is was a Muslim terror attack would they have the courage to announce and condemn it?

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Probably not.

Liberty Tree

I agree.

bahmer

Amen and Amen but with the Muslim population exploding in Europe I would more than likely point to a Muslim as the culprit in starting this fire.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

All of the Muslims I know are horrified at this..

They pray it was not a Muslim who started it...

Maybe we should not be too quick to judge...

Big dog

In order to prevent mass r**ts and murder, the French will probably declare it an accident regardless of whether or not it was an act of terrorism.

Radiance3

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I have no doubt that Muslims in Europe and all over the world are secretly raising their butts, saying "allaho akbar." Praise allah.

Radiance3

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All terrorism in France and all over Europe are done by your Muslim friends.

bahmer

He believes that all of the Muslims are peaceful and law abiding.Either the Chinese laws and the implementation of those laws has those Chinese Muslims scared witless or these are a different breed of Muslims than are in the rest of the world. The Muslims that we all know and read about are the ones that would not think twice about destroying Notre Dame Cathedral and setting it on fire.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

My Muslim friends live in China...

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

I believe no such thing... Critical reading!

Chinese laws are most excellent when it comes to keeping the "radical" in line...

I doubt you know any Muslims...

bahmer

But being an American I do realize why the American government brought about the Marines and that was to protect our ships from being invaded by Muslims. I also realize that your nice Muslims would let our ships pass if we paid those Muslims huge amounts of money or a bribe as one would call it to allow our ships to pass without incident. You can go on and on about your nice friendly Muslims in China but we are living in America and we have regrettably elected 2 Muslims to our congress and by the way that they are acting I really don't want or need any of the Muslims for my friends either. I personally would rather deport all of the Muslims out of America and back to wherever they came from and then put up a law to not only restrict but in some cases refuse entry to some groups of Muslims. As they say the friendly Muslims may not cut off your head if they decide to take over your country but they will hold your feet while the radical Muslim cuts off your head.

Big dog

Well said.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Amen and Amen...

Night Bahmer...