Islamization of Ireland > Do Muslims want alcohol out of Ireland? Good luck with that!

 

Ireland: Muslim sets fire to pub owned by

Conor McGregor

Aug 13, 2025 12:00 pm By Robert Spencer22 Comments

“O you who believe, strong drink and games of chance and idols and divining arrows are only an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. Leave it aside so that you may succeed.” (Qur’an 5:90)

Footage shows moment suspected Islamic extremist allegedly sets fire to

Conor McGregor’s pub

by Michael O’Toole and Nicola Donnelly, DublinLive, August 11, 2025

(thanks to The Religion of Peace):

This is the shocking moment a suspected Islamic extremist is alleged to have set fire to the front of a pub owned by Conor McGregor.

CCTV footage of the incident from an external camera at The Black Forge Inn in south Dublin shows a male, dressed all in black, pouring what is believed to be a flammable liquid at the entrance of the €2million pub. In the 33-second footage released by McGregor the male then stands back and appears to light a match and throws it on the ground. Flames and smoke then appear at the front of the pub while the male is then seen running away.

Last Friday, a suspected Jihadi was arrested by detectives from the Garda’s main anti-terror outfit the Special Detective Unit, or SDU, as part of the investigation into the July 25 arson attack on Mr McGregor’s Black Forge Inn in south Dublin.

The male was taken out of a prison in Leinster last Friday afternoon on a so-called section 42 warrant – a required judicial approval to take an inmate out of jail. The suspect was held for 24 hours and he was released without charge on Saturday evening and returned to the custody of the Irish Prison Service….

A spokesman said: “The individual was released without charge on Saturday evening. Investigations are ongoing.”…

The man is currently before the courts over an alleged serious assault – but we cannot identify that incident for legal reasons. But we can reveal that SDU are now involved in both investigations and are examining the theory that both were linked to Islamic extremism….

Islam - Current Day > ISIS Terrorist Arrested for Torture in Italy; Maldives Police Arrest 14 Islamic Jihadists; Afghanistan Implements Full Sharia Law; House Fire Kills 21 in Gaza

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Terrorism, Italian foreign fighter arrested in Brescia:

radical ideological adherence to Islamic jihad

Translated from “Terrorismo, foreign fighter italiano arrestato a Brescia: radicale adesione ideologica alla Jihad islamica,” 

Leggo, 

November 12, 2022

A 28-year-old Italian foreign fighter, but of Moroccan origin, was arrested in Brescia on charges of “kidnapping and personal injury, aggravated by having used torture and acted with cruelty as well as by the purpose of terrorism and racial hatred.”

The Brescia Police carried out the precautionary custody order in prison for Samir Bougana (28 years old born in Gavardo, but originally from Morocco), issued by the Brescia investigating judge at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office. 

In 2019, he was taken in Kobane (Syria), where he was in a state of capture by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, by officials of the Digos of Brescia and of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police, following an operation conducted in close connection with Aise, FBI and Syrian authorities and arrested for participation in association with terrorist purposes, as, after a radical ideological adhesion to Islamic Jihad which began in Italy and completed in Germany, he left for Syria where he had become an operative of the self-styled Islamic State.

The sentence

In July 2020, the Brescia Court sentenced him to 4 years of imprisonment, which was then confirmed on appeal.

The subsequent investigations, also conducted internationally, found a turning point in the exchange of information between the Italian and German authorities which revealed how the foreign fighter himself could also have been responsible for torture and abuse against at least two people, including a teenager, who refused to fight for ISIS and are currently taking refuge in Germany.

Decisive testimony

Decisive in this sense was the testimony, collected in Dusseldorf by the prosecutor of the investigations and by officials of the Central Directorate of the Prevention Police and of the Digos of Brescia, of one of the victims of torture, which was inflicted by the Italian-Moroccan foreign fighter: in showing the scars of the torture suffered, the witness also told of torture perpetrated with electric shocks against Kurdish detainees belonging to the Yazidi minority in order to force them to convert to Islam.

Maldives Arrests 14 For Alleged Islamic State-tied Bomb Plot

Police in Maldives have arrested 14 people allegedly working with foreign Islamic extremists

to carry out a bombing in the tiny archipelago state, police said.

Written By

Associated Press Television News

15th November, 2022 13:31 IST

Police in Maldives have arrested 14 people allegedly working with foreign Islamic extremists to carry out a bombing in the tiny archipelago state, police said.

The suspects had been working with the Islamic State group and apparently planning an attack with the intent of killing many people, Uswath Ahmed, the nation's counterterrorism head, told reporters Monday night. He did not elaborate.

He said the suspects were arrested last Friday in three locations in the country and 13 homes were raided.

Maldives is known for its pristine beaches and expensive island resorts, but there has been a rise in religious extremism in recent years. The Sunni Muslim nation of 500,000 people had the highest number of people per capita fighting in foreign wars.

The country's former president and current Parliament speaker Mohamed Nasheed was critically injured in a bike bomb attack near his home last year. Nasheed is known to be a liberal, pro-West politician.

It was just a matter of time.

Afghanistan: Supreme leader orders full implementation

of Sharia, including public executions, stonings, amputations

NOV 16, 2022 9:00 AM 

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS

Sharia is divine law in normative Islam. The brutality and extreme human rights abuses that are being perpetrated in Afghanistan (and in other Sharia jurisdictions) is in full accordance with Sharia, despite the routine branding of critics of Islam.

Under the Sharia:

Hudud crimes (apostasy, revolt against the ruler, theft, highway robbery, adultery, slander, and drinking alcohol) carry penalties that include the amputation of hands and feet, flogging, and death.

In addition, Sharia is well known to be abusive to women. The Taliban, which is infamous for its treatment of women, is fully justified by Islamic law.

Some examples from the Quran:

Quran (4:34) “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them.”

Quran (33:33) “And abide quietly in your homes…” Women are confined to their homes except when they have permission to go out.

(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.

(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also declared that “Turkey has nothing that contradicts Taliban beliefs.”

Afghan supreme leader orders full implementation of sharia law

Agence France-Presse, 

November 14, 2022:

Afghanistan’s supreme leader has ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law that include public executions, stonings, floggings and the amputation of limbs for thieves, the Taliban’s chief spokesperson said.

Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted on Sunday that the “obligatory” command by Haibatullah Akhundzada came after the secretive leader met with a group of judges.

Akhundzada, who has not been filmed or photographed in public since the Taliban returned to power in August last year, rules by decree from Kandahar, the movement’s birthplace and spiritual heartland.

The Taliban promised a softer version of the harsh rule that characterised their first stint in power, from 1996-2001, but have gradually clamped down on rights and freedoms.

“Carefully examine the files of thieves, kidnappers and seditionists,” Mujahid quoted Akhundzada as saying. Those files in which all the sharia [Islamic law] conditions of hudud and qisas have been fulfilled, you are obliged to implement. This is the ruling of sharia, and my command, which is obligatory.”

Mujahid was not available on Monday to expand on his tweet.

Hudud refers to offences for which, under Islamic law, certain types of punishment are mandated, while qisas translates as “retaliation in kind” – effectively an eye for an eye.

Hudud crimes include adultery – and falsely accusing someone of it – drinking alcohol, theft, kidnapping and highway robbery, apostasy and rebellion.

Qisas covers murder and deliberate injury, among other things, but also allows for the families of victims to accept compensation in lieu of punishment. (ie Blood Money).

Islamic scholars say crimes leading to hudud punishment require a very high degree of proof, including – in the case of adultery – confession, or being w
itnessed by four adult male Muslims.

Since last year’s takeover, videos and pictures of Taliban fighters meting out summary floggings to people accused of various offences have appeared frequently on social media.

On several occasions the Taliban have also displayed in public the bodies of kidnappers who they said were killed in shootouts.

There have also been reports of adulterers being flogged in rural areas after Friday prayers, but independent verification has been difficult to obtain.

21 Palestinians killed in house fire in Gaza, Israel offers assistance

21 Palestinians killed in house fire in Gaza, Israel offers assistanceDeadly house fire in Gaza, Nov. 17, 2022.

(Twitter/Joe Truzman/Screenshot)

“Israel will be do the right thing to help the residents of Gaza who were harmed,

in order to save lives,” Defense Minister Gantz tweeted.

By Associated Press

November 17, 2022

A fire that broke out on Thursday evening in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 21 people, the territory’s Hamas rulers said, in one of the deadliest incidents in recent years outside the violence stemming from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The blaze erupted on the third floor of a three-story building in the crowded Jabaliya refugee camp, according to the terrorist group.

The Civil Defense in Gaza, which is run by Hamas, attributed the cause of the fire to gasoline that was being stored in the building. It was not immediately clear how the gasoline ignited. Officials said an investigation was underway.

Flames were seen spewing out of the windows of the burning floor as hundreds of people gathered outside on the street, waiting for fire trucks and ambulances.

Gaza, ruled by Hamas and under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade, faces a severe energy crisis. People often store cooking gas, diesel and gasoline in homes in preparation for winter. House fires have previously been caused by candles and gas leaks.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered condolences to the families of the dead and declared Friday a day of mourning.

Hussein Al-Sheikh, a senior Palestinian Authority official, called on Israel to open its border crossing with Gaza to allow for the evacuation of those injured who need advanced medical care to Palestinian hospitals in Israel.

“The State of Israel and the security establishment express sorrow for the heavy disaster in Gaza,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz tweeted, adding that the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has offered humanitarian assistance in the evacuation of hurt civilians.

“Israel will be do the right thing to help the residents of Gaza who were harmed, in order to save lives,” he stated.

It is not unusual for Israel to open its hospitals to Palestinians, even Palestinian terrorists. But you will never see that reciprocated.

Islam - Current Day > Illegal Driver Kills 3 Israeli Children; Fire in Tyre Refugee Camp - Hamas Armory; Muslim Director Abandons Islam

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3 Israeli children killed by Palestinian driver

December 5, 2021

The funeral. (Nadav Goldstein/TPS)

The head of the Samaria Council Yossi Dagan called on the government to improve the roads in Judea and Samaria after years of under-budgeting.

By Aryeh Savir/TPS

Halleli, Tov Roi, and Malachi Meudad, three Israeli children who were killed in a car accident in Samaria on Friday afternoon, were laid to rest on Saturday night together at the cemetery in Rehovot, as their two parents were still hospitalized in critical condition.

An Arab driver from the Palestinian Authority driving without a license, who was driving a car that was not licensed and was supposed to be off the road, made a U-turn at an illegal point on the road near the Ofarim Junction, colliding with the Meudad family’s car.

The father, Yaniv, and mother Hodaya, who was pregnant, are hospitalized in serious condition The father’s condition stabilized slightly over the weekend but he is still on life support. The boy Tov Roi, 3, was killed immediately. His sister Halleli, 6, passed away on Saturday. Their brother, who died at birth on Saturday, was named Malachi.

The rabbi of Nof Ayalon, Gideon Binyamin, said during the funeral that “there are no words, nothing to say. Something that has no explanation. These children are now going to the heavens, will be under the Kisseh Hakavod (chair of honor), will learn, will give a lot of strength to the parents who, with God’s help, will be healed.”

The head of the Samaria Council Yossi Dagan called on the government to improve the roads in Judea and Samaria after years of under-budgeting.

 

Dagan said that “in the midst of the Festival of Lights [Chanukah], such a great light is extinguished, the whole family of Samaria and the whole nation of Israel mourns with the families. The heart is broken for the tender children, all the people of Israel pray for the healing of the hospitalized parents.”

Dagan noted that “in recent years there has been some improvement but many roads still do not meet any minimum standards. The lack of enforcement and deterrence against drivers from the Palestinian Authority, many of whom drive vehicles that are not supposed to be on the road and without a license, is a situation that needs to change immediately for the benefit of all passengers on the road.”

Massive fire, explosions rock Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

10 Dec, 2021 20:56

A rescue team's vehicle is seen at the Palestinian camp where an explosion took place in Tyre, Lebanon

on December 10, 2021. © Reuters / Ali Hankir

A large fire, followed by multiple explosions, has erupted at a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. The incident was reportedly centered at a weaponry stockpile allegedly belonging to the Hamas militant group.

The fire erupted at the Burj el-Shemali camp located just outside the southern Lebanese city of Tyre late on Friday. The camp is the second-largest settlement of 12 Palestinian refugee camps scattered across the country.

Unverified footage from the scene circulating online shows a building engulfed in flames, with a subsequent explosion sending a massive mushroom-shaped plume of smoke into the air. The shockwave apparently broke windows in buildings nearby as well.

Several smaller explosions were also heard during the blaze, another video from the scene purports to show.

The fire prompted an evacuation of nearby buildings, with multiple emergency crew deployed to battle the flames.

The building affected was reportedly housing a weaponry depot, run by Hamas. Several people were killed and injured as a result of the incident, the state-funded National News Agency reported, without giving an exact tally.

How is it that Hamas was allowed to create a weapons depot in a heavily residential area. What madness is that? I fear the death toll will ring for several days.

It seems like one disaster after another for the Lebanese. How much of it is the fault of Hamas?

India: Muslim film director leaves Islam over Muslims

celebrating death of Indian general

DEC 11, 2021 12:00 PM 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

The celebration of the death of the perceived enemies of Islam, which ensues virtually every time one of those enemies dies, was too much for one Muslim.

“Malayalam director Ali Akbar quits Islam protesting against Islamists celebrating the death of CDS General Bipin Rawat,” OpIndia, December 10, 2021:

Renowned Malayalam director Ali Akbar has announced that he is leaving Islam protesting against those who had celebrated the tragic death of CDS General Bipin Rawat. Ali Akbar revealed this on Facebook, where he also stated that he and his family will have no religion henceforth.

Might as well throw the baby out with the dirty bathwater.

Ali Akbar had earlier posted a video on Facebook criticizing the Islamists who mocked the death of CDS Bipin Rawat. Akbar’s account was suspended for a month after the video received hateful comments on the platform. The director then opened another account and declared that he was leaving Islam. Akbar said, “Within five minutes of speaking out against those who put up emojis, the account was blocked. I can not accept it, I can not agree with it, so I’m leaving my religion. I or my family no longer have a religion. That is the decision.”

Ali Akbar further said that from now on he will be known as Ram Singh. “Ramasimhan is a person who was killed while sticking to the culture of Kerala. Tomorrow Ali Akbar will be called Ram Singh. That’s the best name,” he said. Ramasimhan and his family were butchered by Islamists for converting to Hinduism from Islam in 1947. Ramasimhan, his brother Dayasimhan, Dayasimhan’s wife Kamala, their cook Raju Iyer and other members of the family were brutally butchered by Islamist Jihadists in Malaparamba, Malappuram district on 2nd August 1947, just two weeks before the independence.

Ali Akbar informed that he took the decision to quit Islam after discussing the matter with his wife. ‘I am throwing away the dress I was born with’, he said.

Now, try and find a new dress without a target on your back. Good luck with that.

Islam - Current Day - Explosions in Mogadishu; Fire at Brit Migrant Center; Danish Sermon Laws Generate Backlash

Major blast rocks Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, gunfire reported

31 Jan 2021 15:21

At least one large explosion has occurred in Somalia’s capital city Mogadishu. The blast, said to have happened near a popular hotel, was reportedly followed by intense gunfire.

The incident occurred in the capital city on Sunday. Imagery circulating online shows a large plume of white smoke and dust emitting after the blast.

While there has been no official word on the explosion, local media reports have suggested the blast occurred at the popular Hotel Afrik, located to the north of the city’s international airport. The explosion was followed by intense gunfire, Reuters reported.

The first blast was reportedly followed by up to two more powerful explosions. So far, no information on potential casualties or damage has emerged.

“There must be casualties because the militants first started the attack with a suicide car bomb against the wall,” a police spokesman Sadik Ali told Reuters, revealing that multiple people have been evacuated safely from the hotel. “The operation still goes on, casualties will be known later.”

Some media outlets have already pinned the blame for the apparent terrorist attack on Al-Shabaab – a local hard-line Islamist militant group that has ties to Al-Qaeda. The group’s militants have repeatedly attacked various targets across the capital in the past, including some of its hotels frequented by local political and business elite. However, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

British authorities arrest 5 after fire at center for asylum seekers

By Christen McCurdy

British Secretary of State for the Home Department Priti Patel, shown here in September 2020, said a fire set at a center for asylum seekers was deeply offensive to British taxpayers. Photo by Andy Rain/EPA-EFE

Jan. 30 (UPI) -- British authorities say five men have been arrested after a fire at a center where asylum seekers are being held.

According to Kent Police, one man was held on suspicion of assaulting a security guard and four in connection with a Friday fire at Napier Barracks, a decommissioned military barracks that houses an estimated 300 to 400 people seeking asylum in Britain.

No injuries were reported.

Officials said the barracks remained "calm" Saturday, and police said they are working with other authorities to "establish the full circumstances and identify any individuals involved."

Britain's Home Office, which oversees immigration and security in the country, said there had been a disturbance at the site after asylum seekers objected to not being moved from the site after a COVID-19 outbreak.

The outbreak infected at least 120 people, and the charity Care4Calais wrote on Facebook Friday that many residents are still "very sick" with the virus."

"They appear to have been completely abandoned by the authorities," without food, drink or heating, Care4Calais wrote.

The charity has called for the closure of the facility, and at least one community leader in Folkestone, the southeast England port community where the barracks is located, has asked that residents be moved to hotels.

"One building has been virtually destroyed, but there is no intention to remove the people from the site," said Folkestone council leader David Monk.

He also said he never believed it was a good idea to put a large group of young men in one place, saying, "It is not a surprise to me that tensions have eventually overridden common sense."

British Secretary of State for the Home Department Priti Patel wrote on Twitter Friday that the fire is "deeply offensive to the taxpayers of this country who are providing this accommodation while asylum claims are being processed."

"This site has previously accommodated our brave soldiers and army personnel -- it is an insult to say that it is not good enough for these individuals," Patel wrote. "I am fixing our broken asylum system, and will be bringing forward legislation this year to deliver on that commitment."

Patel doesn't sound the least bit empathetic toward the migrants. Considering her grandparents emigrated to Uganda, and her parents emigrated to Britain, that's a little surprising.

Denmark sermons law could stifle free worship, warns C of E bishop

Robert Innes says proposed translation law could have affect

on religious freedoms across Europe

The Anglican community in Denmark centres around the early 19th-century Church of St Albans in Copenhagen’s Churchill Park. Photograph: Reuters Staff/Reuters

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Sun 31 Jan 2021 13.07 GMT

The liberties of the centuries-old community of Anglicans in Denmark are being threatened by a draft law requiring all sermons to be translated and submitted to the state, the Church of England’s bishop in Europe has said.

Robert Innes, whose diocese stretches across mainland Europe, has written to the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, expressing his alarm at what he describes as an “overly restrictive” bind on freedom of expression.

The “several-hundred strong” Anglican community in Denmark centres around the early 19th-century Church of St Albans in Copenhagen’s Churchill Park, designed by Arthur Blomfield in the style of an English parish church.

Denmark’s parliament is expected to debate the legislation, known as the law on sermons in languages ​​other than Danish, in the coming days, after the government said it was necessary to curb the growth of Islamist extremism.

Innes told the Guardian he feared the law, if backed in the Danish parliament, the Folketing, would be replicated elsewhere in Europe at a time when religious minorities were generally finding their freedoms being encroached upon.

“I am sure it comes from a genuine concern about the security of the estate and the monitoring of all religious minorities who might be perceived as a security risk,” Innes said. “I share the ambition of the Danish government to ensure safety and security and the desire that all religious organisations in Denmark conduct their act peacefully but to require translation of sermons into the national language goes too far. It goes in a concerning anti-liberal direction.

Oh no! Not anti-liberal!!

The government has said the aim of the law is to “enlarge the transparency of religious events and sermons in Denmark, when these are given in a language other than Danish”.

There is a growing level of concern at a perceived rise of Islamist extremism among the 270,000 Muslims who live in Denmark. Most of the sermons preached in mosques are in Arabic. But Innes said the Danish government should be working with religious organisations rather than resorting to a “negative and legalistic” attack on the rights of minority groups.

The bishop said it was unclear whether the law would require translations to be sent to the government before or after being given, but that in either case it was an impractical and illegitimate constraint.

He said: “Preachers don’t always write full text of their sermons, they might write notes. They might preach extempore as the archbishop of Canterbury sometimes does and there are questions of idiom and nuance which requires a high level of skill in translation of course. It is a high bar. It is a skilled art and it is an expensive skill as well.”

A range of European churches have also voiced their concerns, including the Evangelical Lutheran church in Denmark, the Lutheran World Federation, the Roman Catholic Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union, and the Conference of European Churches.

Innes said there was a worrying trend towards impinging on minority groups across Europe. “There is a wide sense of concern about this. I am genuinely concerned at what I detect to be a growth of an anti-liberal government legislation and freedom of religion threats in Europe as a whole.

“This is not an isolated incident. I do think that we need to be alert to the encroachment on our freedom to practice our religions. Little by little, minority groups are being treated with increasing suspicion.

Hmmmm. Gosh, I wonder why?

“For example, in Switzerland our clergy have been informed that they can’t work part time, they can only work full time, because there is a suspicion at what they might be doing in the other half of their time. In France, minority religious groups are required to have their accounts subject to a particularly invasive investigation and to re-register as religious associations every five years.

“I think overall there is a suspicion of people using languages that are not the native languages of the country concerned and that is in contravention of the article 9 of the convention of freedom of thought, comment and religion, which does guarantee for people to manifest their own religion and belief in worship teaching practice and observance, which must include the freedom to worship in your maternal tongue.”

'To worship in your maternal tongue'! To inspire jihad is something else altogether. I am quite sure that the Danish gov't is not worried about the Church of England being insurrectionist. Islam is something else. Far-right extremists are also something else, although fairly few and far between.

The gov't cannot force only Islam to subject their sermons to review, so must include all churches. However, I don't think the system will work as written sermons may differ substantially from spoken sermons. Do you think a Jihadi cleric is going to give you an honest interpretation of his call to arms? Don't be rediculous! 

Better for churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples to provide a video of every sermon, sermonette, spoken in their church. The gov't can do the translating if the paid reviewers feel there is something wrong in the video.

War on Christianity - Torches Another Ancient Cathedral in France

Nantes: Arson suspected in fire at

Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Cathedral

The blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ

A fire at the cathedral in the French city of Nantes is believed to have been started deliberately, prosecutors say.

Three fires were started at the site and an investigation into suspected arson is underway, Prosecutor Pierre Sennes said.

The blaze destroyed stained glass windows and the grand organ at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral, which dates from the 15th Century.

It comes a year after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

But the local fire chief said the fire in Nantes had been contained and was "not a Notre-Dame scenario".

"The damage is concentrated on the organ, which appears to be completely destroyed. The platform it is situated on is very unstable and risks collapsing," Laurent Ferlay told reporters.

The cathedral roof had not been touched by the blaze, he said.

President Emmanuel Macron has reacted, tweeting: "After Notre-Dame, the St Peter and St. Paul Cathedral is in flames. Support to the firefighters who are taking all the risks to save the Gothic jewel."

The fire began in the early morning, with massive flames visible from outside the building. More than 100 firefighters brought it under control after several hours.

Mr Sennes said the national police would be involved in the investigation and a fire expert was travelling to Nantes

"When we arrive at a place where a fire has taken place, when you see three separate fire outbreaks, it's a question of common sense, you open an investigation," he said.

Newsagent Jean-Yves Burban said he heard a bang at about 07:30 local time (05:30 GMT) and saw flames when he went out to see what was happening.

"I am shook up because I've been here eight years and I see the cathedral every morning and evening. It's our cathedral and I've got tears in my eyes," he told Reuters.

This is not the first fire at the cathedral. It was damaged by Allied bombing in 1944, during World War Two, and then in 1972 its roof was largely destroyed.

It was rebuilt 13 years later with a concrete structure replacing the wooden roof.

In 2015 a huge fire destroyed part of the 19th Century basilica of Saint-Donatien in Nantes.

2 Members of All-Female Islamic Terrorist Cell Sentenced to 25+ Years for Botched 2015 Notre Dame Bombing

It could have been anybody who set that fire - a lunatic, a few screwed-up kids. My guess is either anarchists or Islam. Will we ever find out?

37 Dead, Dozens of Children Missing after Tragic Mall Blaze in Russia’s Kemerovo

Please pray for these children

© 42.mchs.gov.ru

As rescuers continue to search the burned-out shopping mall in the city of Kemerovo, many have been frantically trying to reach their relatives, including children who were in the mall’s cinema or play area when the fire started.

At least 11 children are among the victims of the blaze, with the death toll now exceeding 30, according to sources in the emergency services, cited by Russian news agencies.

Some 69 people, including 40 children, were said to be missing after the fire in the shopping mall.

The fire, which broke out on Sunday afternoon, was finally contained some 12 hours later, after engulfing some 1,600 square meters. The building sustained severe damage, its roof and floors partially collapsing.

Some 43 people were injured in the blaze, according to the emergency services, and 37 remain hospitalized.

Syrian Refugee Jailed for 10 Years in Estonia After Setting Wife on Fire

The New Normal - Estonian Style

View of Estonia's capital Tallinn © Peter Seyfferth / Global Look Press

A court in Estonia has sentenced a Syrian refugee to 10 years’ imprisonment for setting fire to his wife in front of their young daughter, as well as subjecting her to months of abuse.

On Friday, Judge Merle Parts pronounced her sentence on 20-year-old Kovan Mohammad at the Harju County Court. Mohammed, who arrived in Estonia with his family from Greece last year, had been charged with assault causing severe bodily harm, as well as physically abusing his 22-year-old wife throughout their relationship.

On March 7, wanting to teach his wife a “lesson,” Mohammed used gasoline to set her alight in front of their young daughter at their apartment in the Lasnamäe district of Tallinn, local media reports. After calling an ambulance herself, the wife had to spend five months in hospital and go through six operations, as well as spending two months in a coma. Nearly 70 percent of her body was covered in burns.

Mohammed pleaded guilty to putting his wife through physical abuse, including hitting her with a wooden slat, but claimed the incident on March 7 was an accident. However, the court heard he took the time to go out and buy gasoline and also watched videos of burnings over the internet, as well as searching for the best ways to punish a woman. He was found guilty of both charges, but his lawyer Alar Neiland says he intends to appeal.

Mohammed’s wife, who was released from hospital in August, has now moved into a new apartment with their child.

10 years is not nearly long enough. He should have been convicted for traumatizing the child, for not calling an ambulance, and for setting a fire in an apartment building endangering the lives of everyone in that building. Those acts deserve 10 years on their own.

This is Muslim insanity!

7 Migrants Charged with Attempted Murder After Homeless Man Nearly Set on Fire

German prosecutors say suspects came to Berlin as asylum seekers from Syria, Libya

CBC News 

The Schoenleinstrasse subway station in Berlin is pictured in this 2010 file photo.

German police have charged seven males between ages 15 and 21 with attempted murder

after they allegedly tried to set a homeless man on fire in the subway station early

Sunday morning. (Tobias Kleinschmidt/dpa via Associated Press/file photo)

Police have charged seven young migrants with attempted murder after they allegedly tried to set a homeless man on fire in a Berlin subway station, Germany's broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports.

The 37-year-old was sleeping on a bench in the Schoenleinstrasse subway station at around 2 a.m. Sunday. Passersby extinguished the paper that he apparently had used to cover himself, and a train driver used a fire extinguisher to prevent the flames from spreading.

The man, who was intoxicated, was unhurt.

Six of those charged turned themselves in Monday evening and the seventh was arrested after authorities released surveillance camera pictures and video footage of them in a subway train, German police said Tuesday.

They're all male and between 15 and 21 years old. Six are from Syria and one is from Libya, and all came to Berlin as asylum seekers, according to prosecutors.

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