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2006-05-23 Europe

France: Illegal migrants occupy St Merri Church

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Posted by tipper 2006-05-23 09:33|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-05-23 10:02|| 2006-05-23 10:02|| Front Page Top

#2 "Or else!"

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-05-23 10:04|| 2006-05-23 10:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-05-23 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 asking tentatively ...

how many churches in France still ARE places of worship?

Posted by lotp 2006-05-23 10:18|| 2006-05-23 10:18|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-05-23 10:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-05-23 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't they have bingo nights any more ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-05-23 11:21|| 2006-05-23 11:21|| Front Page Top

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