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Muslim Immigrants Smash & Urinate on Virgin Mary Statue in Italy
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | january 18, 2015 | jim hoft

Posted on 01/18/2015 4:30:55 PM PST by lowbridge

A man was kneeling in prayer before the statue of the revered Madonna, with the photograph of a loved one in hand, in the small chapel of St. Barnabas in Perugia (Italy), when he was attacked by five “immigrants.”

The first thing they did was rip the photo from his hands.

Next they unleashed their hatred against the image of the Virgin Mary. They broke the statue to pieces and then urinated on it.

Don Scarda, pastor of St. Barnabas, said the event was led byfive “foreigners.” By the time police arrived at the chapel, the unidentified attackers had already fled.

The incident has caused a stir among locals. Some have lambasted Pope Francis who is accused of appeasing immigrants—mostly Muslims—to wild extremes. Earlier he had said that “Migrants, through their own humanity, cultural values, expand the sense of human brotherhood.”

Although the Diocese condemned the act of sacrilege against the Madonna statue, it also followed the Pope’s lead by absolving Islam of any responsibility for what happened.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anticatholicbigotry; islam; italy; muslimworld
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To: 9thLife

I’d do something more.


61 posted on 01/18/2015 7:52:21 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: 9thLife

Wars are won also by vi et armis


62 posted on 01/18/2015 7:54:22 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: workerbee

Hmm, you seem so certain of what is in Protestants’ hearts (even putting words in their mouths), while it is in fact you that is the first one on the thread to try to and turn the conversation towards interdenominational bickering.


63 posted on 01/18/2015 7:54:56 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: lowbridge

Not the first Italians has suffered under Mulims:

The massacre of Otranto 1480”

http://www.antisharia.com/2011/07/26/800-italian-men-beheaded-in-otranto-in-1480-for-refusing-islamby-the-turks-with-the-approval-of-sultan-mehmet-ii/


64 posted on 01/18/2015 7:58:15 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Boogieman

But these scum are worse than the moneychangers in the temple who were whipped by Christ. They have more than defiled a House of Prayer, they have defiled the Mother of God.


65 posted on 01/18/2015 7:58:41 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Boogieman

I don’t see the word enemy.

In Matthew He says love your enemies.

Where does He say forgive your enemies?


66 posted on 01/18/2015 8:00:08 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

He told us forgive those who sin against us. That includes friends and enemies, does it not?

Is there some special exemption where God will forgive us still, if the ones we do not forgive are our enemies? No, there is no such exemption given.


67 posted on 01/18/2015 8:28:59 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: dforest

Actually, several years ago Muslims too over the Holy Sepulcre church in Jerusalem and they urinated all over the building. Defecated too, I believe.


68 posted on 01/18/2015 8:29:20 PM PST by Gumdrop
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To: Steelfish

“But these scum are worse than the moneychangers in the temple who were whipped by Christ.”

What does it matter how bad their sin was, when it comes to the question of forgiveness? Is there some bar set by God, so that if a sin falls below it, we do not need to forgive it?

“They have more than defiled a House of Prayer, they have defiled the Mother of God.”

I am quite certain they did nothing of the sort, since Mary passed out of this mortal realm millenia ago, and where she is now, they could not hope to touch her.


69 posted on 01/18/2015 8:38:02 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: lowbridge

It seems to me that all of western civilizations problems can be traced mostly to the Mid East. The birth place of our main religious groups. We are coming to the point where we will all be killing for God. How can we possibly loose by doing that? Everyone will get a free ride to heaven no mater which side you are on. After all, don’t all the Gods promise that? (reht.) I don’t see a bright future for my grandchildren. All religious confrontations will eventually boil over, and when they do, they will be coming our way, so dig in, and be prepared.


70 posted on 01/18/2015 8:38:06 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (2016 a Clinton/ Gore ticket?? The RNC better come up with some Winners this time.)
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To: Boogieman

While you’re at it, recite the Ten Commandments, especially the one about graven images.


71 posted on 01/18/2015 8:53:18 PM PST by Henry Hnyellar
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To: lowbridge

This is how they treat people who have provided them with a refuge.

Satan’s spawn.


72 posted on 01/18/2015 9:08:07 PM PST by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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To: Palio di Siena

Don Corleone, please pick up the courtesy phone. Thank you.


73 posted on 01/18/2015 10:44:07 PM PST by deputytess (Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might.)
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To: lowbridge
I am an American whose president doesn't represent me and sides with my enemy.

As a Catholic am I now in that same position?

74 posted on 01/18/2015 10:59:47 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: lowbridge

Remember what the palis did to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem? We need a Crusader Pope, Bible in one hand and a sword in the other, not the squish we have now.


75 posted on 01/18/2015 11:10:36 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: workerbee
Wish we had an HONEST show of hands of those FReepers giggling and high-fiving the muzzies for this one.

Charlie Hebdo routinely published comparable anti-Christian blasphemy, and according to some freepers, we are all supposed to say we are one with Charlie.

76 posted on 01/19/2015 1:12:56 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Obama: Europe Shouldn’t Respond w/Hammer to Muslim Terrorism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3248204/posts


77 posted on 01/19/2015 1:34:34 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Vermont Lt
LOL! Sure wish there was something/someone to strike that fear in the Muslims.
78 posted on 01/19/2015 3:22:23 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Boogieman
forgive

All right then, if some vigilante mows down those moslems with an uzi, we should forgive him.

79 posted on 01/19/2015 4:47:59 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Mastador1

The catholics will do nothing because their leader, the pope, condonse the activity because he is a wimp


80 posted on 01/19/2015 4:54:32 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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