Islamist knifemen forced priest, 84, to kneel and filmed his death as they slit his throat: Hollande says ‘France is at war with ISIS’ after jihadists storm French church during Mass chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’
Priest had throat cut while another hostage is fighting for life after knifemen burst into Normandy church at 9am
Reports that one of the attackers shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they launched attack at Gambetta Church near Rouen
Vatican has condemned the ‘barbaric’ killing of the 84-year-old priest and an anti-terror investigation is underway
ISIS claim responsibility for the atrocity while Francois Hollande says France is ‘at war’ with the terror group
One of the attackers lived locally and had electronic tag having been jailed in France for trying to travel to Syria
French authorities revealed this afternoon that they have arrested a third man in connection with the attack
By PETER ALLEN IN FRANCE and JULIAN ROBINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 03:55 EST, 26 July 2016 | UPDATED: 10:31 EST, 26 July 2016
The ISIS barbarians who stormed into a church in Normandy filmed themselves butchering an elderly priest after forcing him to the ground at the altar, it has emerged.
The 84-year-old priest, named as Jacques Hamel, had his throat cut while a nun is critically injured in hospital following the raid which saw five people held hostage by ISIS assailants shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
The two killers were ‘neutralised’ by marksmen as they emerged from the building, which is now being searched for explosives. French president Francois Hollande said France is ‘at war’ with ISIS while the terror group has claimed responsibility for the killing.
One of the men who stormed into the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen during mass was a local man, who was being monitored by electronic tag after being jailed for trying to join fanatics in Syria.
This afternoon it emerged that the murdered clergyman was deputising while the parish priest was on holiday. French authorities say they have arrested a third man in connection with the attack.
It comes as it emerged that the building was one of a number of Catholic churches on a terrorist ‘hit list’ found on a suspected ISIS extremist last April.
There are also reports that one of the attackers was a local resident who was under electronic tag surveillance having been jailed in France for trying to travel to Syria in 2015. His bail terms allowed him to be unsupervised between 8.30am and 12.30pm – the attack happened between 9am and 11am.
France at war AFTER priest killed.
WTF took them so long.
You can always count on the French.
people wake up, we need to fuck them up now.
war war war
Islam. Religion of peace.
yeah it’s bull shit.
Not for nothing, but France’s streets and countryside ran red with the blood of Catholic priests and faithful from 1793 to 1796. Have TheRidgewoodBlog.net users heard of the Vendee Genocide? Part 1 of Ann Barnhardt’s multipart video series describing this dark chapter in the history of Western civilization can be found at:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BVBeyZ1Cq0k
The French Revolution, occurring prior to the birth of Karl Marx, can’t properly be described as Marxist. However, it is appropriate to describe it as protomarxist. The chaotic stew that was the French Revolution clearly gave rise to the basic concepts and tenets of Marxism. It can therefore be recognized as the progenitor of all the brutality and murder brought by Marxism and communism in the 20th century with which most Americans are familiar.
Yes, just as Planned Parenthood, too, is an organization of “peace.”
Peace, that is, once we have sufficiently reduced, through every brutal form of prenatal abortion that can be devised, the “populations that we don’t want to have too many of,” as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg described them in a rare moment of ideological honesty.
https://mobile.wnd.com/2009/07/103457/#wwIg3KP1mZLPkvM1.99
It’s a guerilla war, very hard to defeat.
If we sat down and negotiated with them what would they want…?
Very hard to win a guerilla war after inviting the guerilla’s to live in your neighborhood.
Part 4 of Barnhardt’s lecture begins to explain the ultimate, seemingly unspeakable horrors committed by the Bleus in the Vendee. This is Western civilization, Christian in origin, brutally and enthusiastically killing its own for the sin of failing to pledge blind fidelity to the secular governing power then bent on destroying mother Church in France.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ztlNj8rWviI
Vendée French call for revolution massacre to be termed ‘genocide’
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By Henry Samuel in Paris
1:25PM GMT 26 Dec 2008
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It was one of the most infamous episodes of the bloody French Revolution.
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In early 1794 – at the height of the Reign of Terror – French soldiers marched to the Atlantic Vendée, where peasants had risen up against the Revolutionary government in Paris.
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Twelve “infernal columns” commanded by General Louis-Marie Turreau were ordered to kill everyone and everything they saw. Thousands of people – including women and children – were massacred in cold blood, and farms and villages torched.
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In the city of Nantes, the Revolutionary commander Jean-Baptiste Carrier disposed of Vendéean prisoners-of-war in a horrifically efficient form of mass execution. In the so-called “noyades” –mass drownings – naked men, women, and children were tied together in specially constructed boats, towed out to the middle of the river Loire and then sunk.
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Now Vendée, a coastal department in western France, is calling for the incident to be remembered as the first genocide in modern history.
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Residents claim the massacre has been downplayed so as not to sully the story of the French Revolution.
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Historians believe that around 170,000 Vendéeans were killed in the peasant war and the subsequent massacres – and around 5,000 in the noyades.
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When it was over, French General Francois Joseph Westermann penned a letter to the Committee of Public Safety stating: “There is no more Vendée… According to the orders that you gave me, I crushed the children under the feet of the horses, massacred the women who, at least for these, will not give birth to any more brigands. I do not have a prisoner to reproach me. I have exterminated all.”
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Two centuries on, growing calls from local politicians to have it declared a “genocide” have sparked intellectual debate.
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“There was in the Revolution a clearly stated programme to wipe out the Vendéean race,” said Philippe de Villiers, European deputy and former presidential candidate for the right-wing traditionalist Movement for France (MPF) party.
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“Why did it take place? Because a people was chosen to be liquidated on account of their religious faith. Today we demand a law officially declaring it as a genocide; we demand a statement from the president; and recognition by the United Nations.”
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Mr de Villiers – who opposes Turkish entry into the EU – was in Armenia last month, where he compared the Vendée of 1794 to the 1915 massacres of Armenians. In neither case, he said, “have the perpetrators admitted their fault or asked forgiveness of the victims”.
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The bloody events of the Vendée were long absent from French history books, because of the evil light they shed on the Revolutionaries. However, they were well known in the Soviet bloc. Lenin himself had studied the war there and drew inspiration for his policies towards the peasantry.
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According to the historian Alain Gérard, of the Vendéean Centre for Historical Research, “In other parts of France the revolutionaries killed the nobles or the rich bourgeoisie. But in Vendée they killed the people.
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“It was the Revolution turning against the very people from whom it claimed legitimacy. It proved the faithlessness of the Revolution to its own principles. That’s why it was wiped out of the historical memory,” he said.
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While today nobody denies that massacres took place, some historians argue they cannot be called “genocide” as there were excesses on both sides in what was a civil war, and they do not fit the UN criteria of killings based on ethnic or religious identity. “The Vendéeans were no more blameless than were the republicans. The use of the word genocide is wholly inaccurate and inappropriate,” said Timothy Tackett of the University of California.
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For Mr Gérard, the massacres were clearly “a deliberate policy on the part of the authorities”.
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For Mr de Villiers, an aristocrat whose family seat is in the Vendée, genocide does indeed apply as his forebears were killed for religious reasons: they had rebelled to protect their priests, who refused to swear an oath to the new constitution.
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“It’s the rare case of a people rising up for religious reasons. They did not rebel because they were hungry, but because their priests were being killed,” he said.
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“It is my burden – and my great honour – to defend the Vendée to the end of my days. The Vendée is not just a province of France, it is a province of the spirit. If today we enjoy the freedom to worship the way we choose, it is largely down to the sacrifice of those who died here.”
Is there a point to any of this ? lol
ISIS and its adherents have now boldly, and symbolically) struck in Normandy, France, where American GI’s came ashore to bring the fight to an earlier group of zealots bent on global political domination. This not far from the Vendée region, which pinkwas the scene of horrid anti-Catholic savagery by secular Europeans over 200 years ago. Before that time, France as a nation enjoyed a strong Catholic identity. With the events in Vendée at the end of the eighteenth century it forcibly and deliberately shed that identity and, together with it, its sense of morality, its spiritual heritage, and national integrity. If it does not rededicate itself soon to its ancient faith, and finally reconcile itself to mother Church, its large and growing muslim population, sensing weakness, will permanently radicalize and run roughshod in a bid to dominate and take over the entire country. It goes without saying that in that case, adherents of other faiths will be left to the tender mercies of Sharia law. Heretical protestantism will be of no avail if a reinforced Catholicism does not win the day against these 7th century, no-account, Lucifer-inspired barbarians.
If secular humanism is allowed to finish hollowing out Western society, Islam will waltz right in, unopposed, and conquer us from the inside.
For ISIS to kill and behead a priest while he is presiding over the sacrifice of the Mass, and force petrified parishioners, now hostages, to endure a Muslim service said by these savages right then and there in Arabic at the now-desecrated altar, how can this be endured without sudden, violent retribution?
Catholic Priest: Christians Have A Moral Duty To Defeat Terror
GALI TIBBON/AFP/Getty
by DONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
28 Jul 2016
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A Catholic priest has called for Christians to take a stand against Islamic terror, arguing that pacifism in the face of mortal danger is immoral and un-Christian.
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On Monday, Europe, already reeling from a wave of Islamic terrorist attacks in France and Germany, was again shocked by the beheading of a Catholic priest near Rouen in France in an apparent ritual sacrifice of some kind.
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Responding to the attack, Pope Francis expressed his “pain and horror for this absurd violence, with the strongest condemnation for every form of hatred and prayer for those affected,” and is reported to have prayed that God would “inspire in all thoughts of reconciliation and brotherhood”.
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Meanwhile Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen, said: “The Catholic Church can take up no weapons other than those of prayer and brotherhood among people of goodwill.” He asked the people of his diocese “not to give in to violence,” but instead “become apostles of the civilization of love”.
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But writing for LifeZette.com, Father George Rutler, the pastor of St. Michael’s church in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, argues that not only is such pacifism immoral, it is the Christian duty to protect both oneself and other innocents from violent aggressors.
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Referring to Jesus’s exhortation, found in Matthew 5:39 – “But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.” – Fr. Rutler says that this isn’t an instruction to engage in pacifism, as so many European Christians appear to believe.
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“Turning the other cheek is the counsel Christ gave in the instance of an individual when morally insulted: Humility conquers pride. It has nothing to do with self-defence,” he says.
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Arguing rather that pacifism is therefore a corruption of the virtue of peace, Fr. Rutler continues: “As racism distorts race and sexism corrupts sex — so does pacifism affront peace.
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“To shrink from the moral duty to protect peace by not using force […] is not innocence — it is naiveté.”
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He points to the Catholic Catechism, which directs Catholics to engage in legitimate self-defence as part of the duty to love ourselves as we do our neighbours.
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Paragraph 2263 of the Catechism reads: “The legitimate defence of persons and societies is not an exception to the prohibition against the murder of the innocent that constitutes intentional killing.”
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The next continues: “Love toward oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality. Therefore it is legitimate to insist on respect for one’s own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow.”
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And illustrating the requirement for Christians to protect other innocents from aggressors, especially Christians in a position of responsibility, such as a father for his family or a national leader, the Catechism continues: “Legitimate defence can be not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others.
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“The defence of the common good requires that an unjust aggressor be rendered unable to cause harm. For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility.”
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In previous centuries, Fr. Rutler, says, this would not have been controversial.
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“Saint John Capistrano led an army against the Moors in 1456 to protect Belgrade. In 1601, Saint Lawrence of Brindisi did the same in defense of Hungary. As Franciscans, they carried no sword and charged on horseback into battle carrying a crucifix. They inspired the shrewd generals and soldiers, whom they had assembled through artful diplomacy, with their brave innocence.
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“This is not obscure trivia: Were it not for Charles Martel at Tours in 732 and Jan Sobieski at the gates of Vienna in 1683 — and most certainly had Pope Saint Pius V not enlisted Andrea Doria and Don Juan at Lepanto in 1571 — we would not be here now. No Western nations as we know them — no universities, no modern science, no human rights — would exist.”
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The tragedy of our times, Fr. Rutler argues, is that the West has grown complacent, and in doing so has lost touch with its Christian roots.
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“The dormancy of Islam until recent times, however, has obscured the threat that this poses — especially to a Western civilisation that has grown flaccid in virtue and ignorant of its own moral foundations.
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“On the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, there were over 60 speeches, and yet not one of them mentioned ISIS.
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“Vice has destroyed countless individual souls, but in the decline of civilizations, weakness has done more harm than vice. ‘Peace for our time’ is as empty now as it was when Chamberlain went to Munich and honour was bartered in Vichy.”
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The question before us, therefore, is whether Western civilisation has drifted so far away from its Christian foundations that not only does it no longer recognise the need to vigorously defend our civilisation, it also cannot name the threat.
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“The priest in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvrary in Normandy, France, was not the first to die at the altar — and he will not be the last,” says Fr. Rutler.
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“In his old age, the priest embodied a civilisation that has been betrayed by a generation whose hymn was John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ — that there was neither heaven nor hell but ‘above us only sky’ and ‘all the people living for today’. When reality intrudes, they can only leave teddy bears and balloons at the site of a carnage they call ‘inexplicable’.”
A Catholic Caught Between Jihad and the Agenda
By Beverly Stevens, REGINA editor, July 27, 2016
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ISIS has made its intentions clear: “the Christian community… “will not have safety, even in your dreams, until you embrace Islam. We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women….”
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It happened yesterday, but it could have been the 700’s. Yesterday, Pere Jacques Hamel, an octogenarian pinch-hitting for a vacationing parish priest in Normandy’s beautiful city of Rouen, was forced to kneel before the altar where he was saying Mass, and martyred.
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Only a couple of old nuns and two parishioners were present to see this gentle servant of God beheaded by blood-stained jihadis. Two hundred years of aggressive secularism has had its effect. France today is a proudly secular state run almost exclusively by leftists; few French people attend Mass outside of the traditionalist Catholic community, which is astonishingly large and strong, though a secret outside of France.
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This martyrdom is of course only the latest in a series of Islamist outrages that almost now daily attack the civilized world. In 2015, France endured more than 800 attacks on Christian places of worship and cemeteries – most unreported.
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It is a dismal, infuriating pattern: early reports surface on the internet, filmed by someone with a smartphone. The mainstream media scrambles to report on what almost everyone on Facebook already knows.
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Then, the disinformation begins. No one knows for certain who wielded the guns, the knives, or the bombs which eviscerate the innocent. The police do not jump to conclusions. The rumour mill starts to grind. Not Islamists, no. Possibly right-wingers, dressed in hobnailed boots? Or frustrated homosexuals, with ‘identity issues’? How about deranged ‘haters’ unaccountably set on the mass murder of strangers?
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Finally, someone locates the Youtube or the Facebook Page where the now-deceased Jihadis openly boast of their murderous intentions. Most news outlets, mysteriously, do not give these revelations much play, preferring to focus instead on inane starlets attacking political candidates, or football, or kitten videos — indeed anything but the threat that is daily thrusting its long snout into the breathing space of just about everyone on the planet.
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Why is this? Allahu Akbar does not fit the Narrative. In the view presented by the mainstream media across the West, almost without exception, we are governed by good, decent men and women who only want to promote global trade and peaceful relations. In a word, ‘Coexist’. These powerful men and women are just like us, the governed. They have children, even grandchildren. They live modest, decent lives. They are ‘public servants.’ They are against ‘hate’ and ‘judging’ we are solemnly assured, until of course Wikileaks reveals otherwise.
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Most people are too busy to focus on this. We all want to believe that all is basically well, that these events are tragic anomalies, that everything is under control. When the furor dies down, we will all go back to our lives. As a Catholic, I will go back to my rosary and my Mass. I will ‘coexist’ of course, what choice do I have?
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That the West’s political elites know this–and bank on it as the source of their power–is clear. Politics as usual goes on in service of this agenda. Payments are made into bank accounts. Police in America will be targeted and executed by thugs paid out of slush funds. Less spectacular attacks on women with children in the streets of Frankfurt or Paris or Peoria will go unreported. School curricula will be changed to reflect the new world order. Anyone questioning this will be ostracized, placed on ‘extremist’ list. Public toilets will be gender -neutral. Children will be trafficked for the tastes of those who can pay for it. Victims be damned.
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Meanwhile, in the political arena, gargantuan egos collide, seemingly impervious to the fact that the ‘little people’ now have a window into their world, far beyond what we used to see in their apparently-controlled media.
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Today, the little people see the corruption, the double-dealing, the selling of favors, the gambling with our children’s lives. We understand that the mainstream media is also for sale. But most frighteningly of all, we see that our Western leaders are fiddling while Rome burns.
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I think I speak for many millions when I say that I do not want the dystopian future all this portends. I do not want to live sandwiched between two forms of dhimmitude: Koran or Agenda-driven.
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I think we can all take a healthy lesson from the experience of David Cameron, the once-powerful UK Prime Minister who by fiat imposed gay ‘marriage’ on that nation, and who was ignominiously swept aside by a tidal wave called ‘Brexit’ just a few short weeks ago.
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It’s high time the little people of the world take a lesson from the little people of England. There is good precedent for this. Once upon a time in 1215 AD, a group of English Catholic nobles imposed something called the “Magna Carta” on a tyrannical king with an agenda, the beginning of ‘power to the people’.
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While we still have any power at all, who do we elect to lead us in these dark and troubling times? Here’s a clue: whatever country you are in, ask yourself who the media hates, and then ask yourself why. Is it because they are such high-minded shamans, with a global view that is far superior to us mere mortals? Or is it for other, more pragmatic reasons?
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I will say it in the ancient Roman Catholic language that those old nobles wrote their ‘Great Charter’ in 900 years ago: Requiescat in pace, pere Jacques Hamel. Ora pro nobis.
I’m convinced that the Devil raised up Islam to be nothing other than a counterfeit distorted caricature of the Church simply in order to shut Catholics up about the rights of Christ so that nobody draws a comparison between the Church and Islam.
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The State should be a Catholic Confessional State!
– What? Like the Islamic State?
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Women should dress modestly!
– What? They should wear a burka and niqab?
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The husband is the head of his family!
– What? And treat women like the Muslims do?
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Homosexuality is immoral!
– What? Are you going to toss them off of buildings too?
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We should pray the Liturgy of the Hours and the Divine Office.
-What? Should we bow down on carpets too?
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The priest and laity should all face East at the Mass!
– What? Should we also face Mecca too?
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The State’s laws should be subject to Christ the King.
– What? What happened to freedom?
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States should recognize the true religion and put restrictions on non-Catholic and anti-Catholic practices and seek to convert them.
– What? Like the Shariah Law? Are you going to kill people if they refuse?
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And so on and so forth…
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All this is why Islam is liberal secular society’s best friend. It keeps the Catholics from talking. We can’t be compared to those savages! How about we side with the precious US Constitution? Religious Freedom! Everyone is equal! Let’s all get along! See? We’re not like them! There is no God but the Masonic Deist God and America is its prophet! Blessings be upon her!
Current commentary elsewhere (Get back to Christian roots, Western Society!):
“[T]he other day, a senior Cardinal in Rome, Raymond Burke, gave an astonishing interview to the Religion News Service. He stated that “there is no question that Islam wishes to govern the world” and “criticised Christian leaders who “simply think that Islam is a religion like the Catholic faith.” That is not true, Cardinal Burke insists, for if Muslims become a majority in any country they “have the religious obligation to govern that country.” Burke says there are already “little Muslim states” within France and Belgium that are no-go areas for the police and are run, essentially, by local Muslims for the local Muslim population. Burke insists that the only way for Europe to withstand the relentless onslaught of Islam is “to return to its Christian roots.”
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“I do not know if Cardinal Burke means that post-Christian Europeans must somehow persuade themselves to become Believers again, or if he means instead that Europeans must again recognize that Europe is a child of Christianity, whatever those on the wilder shores of multiculturalism may claim, and that the failure to do so has weakened Europe’s sense of itself and its ability to withstand this relentless Muslim onslaught that has no end. But it is Burke’s bold diagnosis, and not his putative cure, that matters most. His text and tone are different from what we are used to hearing from present-day Christian clerics, so few of whom are inclined to publicly recognize unpleasant truths about Islam. Surely Europeans ought not be too quick to deny the Christian roots of Western civilization or, when they don’t deny those roots outright, to accommodatingly pretend that Islam too, is owed so much. Just remember that shameful rewriting of history by Jacques Chirac, when he insisted that “Europe owes as much to Islam as it does to Christianity.”
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“I wonder if Cardinal Burke, so highly placed in Rome, would have made his welcome remarks without discussing the subject with others still higher up in the Vatican, perhaps even with the Pope, and whether his statements might even have received the Pope’s tacit approval, a way to have the outspoken Cardinal Burke (one of the Church’s “conservatives”) express what Pope Francis now wants expressed, but for the moment doesn’t think he should be the one to do it. This, of course, is only a hope, likely forlorn, for the Pope’s “humanitarian” insistence that European countries take in still more Muslim immigrants, and his chastising of those – like Poland, which he will be visiting this week – that don’t, seems fixed in amber. But, on the off-chance that Cardinal Burke’s statements constituted a trial balloon for a harder Catholic line on Islam, may it long remain on high to receive the attention it deserves. Let’s now see how the other clerics respond, whether they remain eager to distance themselves from such remarks, or whether Cardinal Burke’s observations embolden others, and reduce the mcmanuses to a suitable silence.”