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| France: Illegal migrants occupy St Merri Church |
| 2006-05-23 |
| Shades of "Camp of the Saints" The French capital seems to have been contaminated by the same phenomenon which has already stricken Belgium. According to the representative of a French union defending illegal migrants, Bahija Benkouka, a group of people, claiming the regularisation of their situation, occupied Sunday evening the St Merri Church. The non-regularised protestors also claim (want?) the cancellation of Sarkozy's project law on immigration which was approved on Thursday by the French parliament. The contacts between the church's priest and the group's representative Benkouka have not yet yielded any results. St Merri's occupiers have probably followed the example of the illegal migrants who, after occupying Saint-Boniface Church in Belgium's Ixelles Commune, have been granted regularisation. The Saint-Boniface Church example was followed in several Belgian cities, namely Brussels, Cherleroi, Mons, Namur, LaLouvière, Gand, Anvers and Verviers. Now, the arm-twisting occupation seems to have been adopted outside Belgium. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Don't they have bingo nights any more ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-05-23 11:21 |
| #6 All this to say that the dechristianization of France (and probably Europe, though I'm not knowledeable about that) is quite real. We ARE post-christian. All we've got left is the religion of the Human rights, and the worship of the State, which has phagocyted the Nation. France is dead, all that's left is the Republic. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-23 10:28 |
| #5 In 2003 about 1/3rd of the french declared themselves atheist. Only 12% are praticing christians (mostly catholics, who went from 70+% in the 80's to about 50% now), but only 2% among young people. Many churches are thus empty and unused; a increasingly common practise is to... you guessed it, convert them into mosques by renting the building for a symbolic euro or an equivalent way. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-23 10:25 |
| #4 asking tentatively ... how many churches in France still ARE places of worship? |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-05-23 10:18 |
| #3 The French capital seems to have been contaminated by the same phenomenon which has already stricken Belgium. Nope, nope. Occupying churches (and desecrating them in the process) is SOP since at least a decade and the occupation of the Saint-Bernard church, during which the illegals were forcibly removed; after the outcry, both the authorities and the church dare not use force anymore (and besides, many leftist priests are actually complicit). Of course, all this is done by pro-immigration groups organized by the trotskysts (and paid by the taxpayers' money, since they are subsidized bt the gvt), with the support of the showbizness "elites" and the msm (for example, they've won the battle of words, as they're not called "illegals" or "cladestines" anymore, but only "sans-papiers"/"documentless people"). Even the Saint-Denis church, the resting place of french kings was occupied that way, this is such a dire symbol. Only time a mosque was occupied like that (this was organized by the mrap islamo-leftist "antiracist" org, funny given their orientations), police was called as soon as possible, and the illegals were forcibly evicted right away. I remember having a catholic priest comment on tv on why mosques were evacuated while churches remained occupied, and he told that "it was obvious, mosques were places of worship"!!! Nice dhimmi. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-23 10:13 |
| #2 "Or else!" |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-05-23 10:04 |
| #1 "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-05-23 10:02 |