Europe: Allah Takes over Churches, Synagogues
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by Giulio Meotti • May 22, 2016 at 5:00 am
- In the Dutch province of Friesland, 250 of 720 existing churches have been transformed or closed. The Fatih Camii Mosque in Amsterdam once was the Saint Ignatius Church. A synagogue in The Hague was turned into the Al Aqsa Mosque. In Flanders, in place of a famous church, a luxury hotel now stands. Catholic arches, columns and windows still soar between menus and tables for customers.
- "The French will not wake up until Notre Dame becomes a mosque." — Emile Cioran, author.
- Germany is literally selling its churches. Between 1990 and 2010, the German Evangelical Church closed 340 churches. Recently in Hamburg, a Lutheran church was purchased by the Muslim community.
- "History teaches us that these transformations are rarely innocent." — Bertrand Dutheil de La Rochère, assistant to Marine Le Pen.
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The
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul was the grandest cathedral in the Christian
world, until it was captured and converted to a mosque by the Muslim
Ottoman Turks in 1453. The Middle East is full of churches and
synagogues turned into Islamic sites. Today, every traveler in a modern
European city can notice the new mosques being built alongside abandoned
and secularized churches, some converted into museums. (Image source:
Antoine Taveneaux/Wikimedia Commons)
Last
year, at the famous Biennale artistic festival in Venice, Swiss artist
Christian Büchel took the ancient Catholic Church of Santa Maria della
Misericordia and converted it into a mosque. The church had not been
used for Christian worship for more than forty years. Büchel decorated
the baroque walls with Arabic writing, covered the floor with a prayer
rug, and hid the crucifix behind a prayer niche indicating the direction
of Mecca, the holy city of Islam. It was a provocation.
But
everywhere else in Europe, the practice of Islam really is outstripping
Christianity, while Jews are leaving -- not only France but the old
continent -- en masse.
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