Swedish Christians can’t imagine why.
Raymond Ibrahim Twice over the course of four days, an 800-year-old church in Stockholm was firebombed. On Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, several Molotov cocktails were hurled at the 12-century Spånga church, located in a Muslim majority area.
According to the church’s pastor, “the alarm was triggered when a window was smashed and flammable liquid thrown at the front gate and one of the windows. However, the fire was quickly put out by the police, who used a powder extinguisher.”
The same church had been fire-bombed just four days earlier, on Jan. 20, 2021: two explosives were hurled at and smashed through the church windows, and another was hurled at the church gate.
Moreover, according to one report,
Spånga parish has been subjected to attacks on several previous occasions. In December 2018, an explosive device was detonated in the same parish. No one was convicted for the blast.
Hailing from the 12th century, the Spånga Church is one of the oldest in the Swedish capital. It is located on the outskirts of Tensta and is flanked by Rinkeby, both notorious for their heavy presence of immigrants (about 90 percent of the population)… Both areas are dominated by immigrants from Muslim countries and are formally classified as “particularly vulnerable” (which many consider to be a palatable euphemism for a “no-go zone”) due to failed integration and major problems including unemployment, rampant crime and Islamic extremism.
Attacks against churches have become a familiar sight in Sweden. Last year alone, a number of churches, mostly those in troubled suburban [i.e., heavily Muslim migrant] areas, were subjected to various types of attacks and vandalism, including those in Gottsunda, Uppsala and Rosengård, Malmö.
Actually, attacks on churches have become “a familiar sight” all throughout Western Europe, wherever there is a notable Muslim/migrant presence. In France, which has one of if not the largest Muslim populations in the Western world, two churches are reportedly attacked every day.
Along with arson attempts, typically—and rather with diabolical intent—altars are desecrated, crucifixes broken, statues mocked and/or beheaded. In one instance, vandals plundered and used human excrement to draw a cross on the Notre-Dame des Enfants Church in Nimes; consecrated bread was found thrown outside among garbage.
One week later, vandals desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur; they mangled the arms of a crucified Christ in a mocking manner and an altar cloth was burned.
The same situation prevails in Germany, which also has an immense Muslim population. In Bavaria and the Alps alone, some 200 churches have been attacked and many crosses broken: “Police are currently dealing with church desecrations again and again,” one November 2017 report noted before adding, “The perpetrators are often youthful rioters with a (Muslim) migration background.”
Despite all these telltale signs, Christian leaders in Sweden have responded with the usual cluelessness. “I do not know why anyone would want to do this,” said the church’s pastor, Jerker Alsterlund.
Perhaps because their religion teaches them to see and treat churches as “dens of iniquity … worse than bars and brothels”?
Other Christian leaders responded by compounding their cluelessness; they projected their own Christian principles onto those who follow a distinctly different set of principles: “It is a deeply unempathetic person without love and respect who did this,” said MP Anders Österberg, previously vice chairman of Spånga-Kista parish.
Unlike Christianity, which teaches “empathy” and “love and respect” for the “other,” Islam teaches hate and contempt for the non-Muslim, the “infidel,” who is referred to as an animal in the Koran, the Islamic holy book that further commands Muslims to hate and oppose all non-Muslims—“even if they be their fathers, sons, brothers, or kin” (Koran 60:4; 58:22).
Even so, “An attack on a religious building is a violation of values deeply rooted in human identity,” said Björn Cedersjö of the Swedish Christian Council.
Once again; failure to step outside oneself and one’s religious (in this case, Christian) principles and appreciate the worldview of another set of principles—those of Allah and his prophet: to Muslims, only mosques are “religious buildings.” All other temples—Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu—are, as aforementioned, places where the worst forms of evil are propagated. Why? Because, unlike secular buildings and institutions, non-Muslim places of worship deal with the divine and, in so doing, contradict the teachings of Allah.
Has anyone atheist ever complained or protested about moslames killing Christians or burning down churches EVER? I get the feeling they SUPPORT the moslames burning down churches and killing Christians. It’s almost as if they get a visceral thrill at the moslames doing what they wish they could.
Weren’t Swedes taught, back in school, about the Christian Crusades against invading, attacking, and stealing Muslims in medieval times? Islam is still the evil, bloodthirsty beast it always was, because of no separation between mosque and state.
No longer part of the curriculum.
I can only imagine the islamic propaganda that’s taught as fact in US public schools or universities or colleges.
I have a whole category dedicated to “Islam in public schools.” You can scroll through the links here to see all the propaganda being shoved down American students throats:
https://barenakedislam.com/category/islam-in-public-schools/
I have a different definition of peace.
The Muslim attacks are not only dirty, demonic attacks on our churches, but vicious, satanic attacks on all Christians, Christianity and the Bible. It is a MASSIVE Attack on my King, my Beautiful Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Muslims hate Jesus because Jesus is the complete opposite of excessively cruel warlord Mohammad. Muslims HATE Jesus Christ because Jesus is Kind, Merciful, Compassionate, PURE, HOLY and ABSOLUTELY GOOD. Muslims hate Jesus because every day in Jesus’ earthly ministry, Jesus healed the sick, cast out demons, made the deaf to hear, the blind to see, the mute to speak and the paralyzed to walk.
Throughout Jesus’ ministry, He called men and women, boys and girls to repentance.
Jesus preached in the Bible, Matthew 5:5-9
5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.
6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Nothing to see here….keep moving….nothing to see here…..these events have nothing to do with islam…..Dont be islamophobic…..its discrimination if you ask questions……main stream media never lies…..georgie soros is your friend……embrace cultural enrichment……islam is the religion of peace……lets have candle light vigils and sing kumbaya….Did I hit all the talking points?????
Yes.
If we worshiped the same God, then this miscreants wouldn’t commit these acts and treat these houses of worship with respect (yes, laughable that muslims would respect anything not associated with islam). What more evidence needed that their allaaahhh is not the same as our God.
If you let scorpions into your house, they will sting you.
Get used to it because it will get way way worse. The left will bring all of them to us and our politicians are helping them by silencing us and using our taxmoney to finance this betrayal. Anyone who says something is a nazi and the medien with their antifa friends will silence you…promise. The churches are a sighn of the people and the christian church is weak and pityfull and is just waiting for the absolutuion . The more that come the more will happen and here in Germany they give away churches so that they can become mosques and here they even allow and force against our wishes the musslim song from the towers of our churches. I myself have left the church back in 1988 because i saw this comming. Soon you will be able to expierience all of that too because your biden and harris will see to it…..have fun.
Dear Daniel, You may have left the church, but NEVER leave Jesus! Keep Jesus in your heart and life every hour of every day! God loves you and cares about you Daniel, more than you can ever imagine!
The EU, Merkel and other European and British leaders HATE the HOLY ONE. These wicked leaders will never stand up for goodness, kindness and compassion, but only the opposite.
Our hope is the Biblical promised return of Jesus Christ in great glory and power. Every eye shall see Him.
God keeps all His promises as shown by hundreds of fulfilled Bible prophecies.
This musslime behavior will not stop until all European Men Grow Some Balls and start burning 10 mosques for evey Church & Synagogue. I real[y think that it is way too late, only a coordinated attack on every mosque will do.