Islam - Current Day > Jesus' Throat Slashed on 17th Century Painting; 2/3rds of Iran's mosques closed for lack of attendance

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Germany: 17th-century painting of Jesus slashed 

across the throat with a knife

JUN 5, 2023 1:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)

Hamburg city church laments Jesus with a cut throat

translated from “Hamburger Stadtkirche beklagt Jesus mit durchschnittener Kehle,” 

Journalisten Watch, June 2, 2023

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…

Would you like to be there when this fool stands before Jesus Christ in Judgement? It won't be a baby or even a slaughtered Lamb that he will be standing before, but the Lion of Judah.

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.

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.

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Horror in two Hamburg old town churches: Oh God, they cut Jesus’ throat.

The police are investigating.

https://t.co/AZaEW3WBPh #Hamburg #Kirche @DPolGHH @BZ_NachtFloh @EKD pic.twitter.com/rvNvwatwgB

— Marco Zitzow (@MarcoZitzow) June 1, 2023

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 remain silent.

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 it will only get worse as the Muslim population in Europe increases.

Wow! But they are opening big new ones in Europe, and Europeans are paying for it.

Go figure!

Iran: Senior Muslim cleric says around 50,000 of the nation’s

75,000 mosques are closed, people aren’t attending

JUN 5, 2023 3:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

Jihad Watch

After living under Islamic law for over forty years, huge numbers of Iranians have had enough not just of the Islamic regime, but of Islam itself.

Senior Cleric Claims Religion In Iran Weak, 50,000 Mosques Closed

Iran International, June 2, 2023:

A senior Iranian cleric says around 50,000 of Iran’s 75,000 mosques are closed, showing the declining numbers of Iranians attending.

Expressing regret over the low numbers engaged in worship, Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi, who serves as the liaison between Ebrahim Raisi’s administration and the country’s seminaries, said on Thursday that the numbers are a “worrying admission” for a state built around the principles of Islam….

Emphasizing the weakening of religiosity among society and in turn, a weakening legitimacy of a government ruling by religious diktat, he said: “When people look at the output of the religion, they decide to enter the religion or leave the religion,” with reasons including “the humiliation of people in the name of religion,” “falsification of religious concepts and teachings,” and “depriving people of a decent life and creating poverty in the name of religion.”…

He's exactly right. Most Iranians are smart enough to realize that Islam has nothing real to offer.