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Like much of Western Europe, the home of the European Union, Brussels, Belgium, has a large, growing, and restive Muslim migrant population. And so when the Christmas season rolled around this year, Brussels’ far-left, multiculturally minded leaders were in a quandary. Every year, the city sets up a Nativity scene, but in recent years, the problem of what to do about Muslims in the city who believe that representation of the human form is a serious sin becomes more vexing.
This year, Brussels top dogs decided on what seemed to be an ingenious solution to the problem: they’d set up a Nativity scene as usual, but this time, the figures would have no faces, thus allowing them to skirt the Islamic prohibition on a technicality. Their attempt to please the native Christians as well as the new Muslim arrivals fell flat, however: Belgian Christians hated the faceless display, and faces or no, Muslims destroyed it.
It might have worked. Have you ever walked through a museum and wondered why so many ancient statues have the noses broken off, and paintings have the eyes scratched out? Of course, some of the damage took place unintentionally with the passage of time, but some of it also occurred because to deface, literally, the face of the image was sufficient in Islamic law to render it no longer a representation of the human body, and thus no longer a temptation to idolatry.
This is what has happened with the Sphinx’s nose, which was destroyed not by Napoleon’s troops in target practice (as goes the common story), but by the Muslim precursors of the Islamic State. As The History of Jihad explains, contrary to many legends surrounding the monument’s missing nose — with harm from Napoleon’s cannon being among the most popular myths — the Sufi Muslim Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr actually destroyed the nose in the 14th century, in order to prevent Egyptian peasants from worshiping the Sphinx.
Likewise, in Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, historian and journalist Robert D. Kaplan repeats uncritically what he likely heard from local Muslims: that the icons in the local churches he visited had their eyes scraped off because the superstitious local Christians had taken them to mix in health potions. It is, however, absolutely inconceivable that Orthodox Christian believers, even the most ignorant and superstitious, would desecrate their own sacred icons in this way. What really happened is that the icons had no eyes because Muslim invaders scraped them off, so as to destroy the image as a representation of the human form.
In Brussels, in any case, the backlash was immediate. The European Conservative reported on Nov. 28 that the faceless Nativity scene “strips the nativity of its spiritual meaning and turns it into a political statement.”
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WPM says
So savages are superstition of paints and statues of human form done in a dignify way offend or somehow threaten their pagan moon god ?Why not especial many of these human forms are in building (especial churches or museums ) avoid going into these places? Why is this always about the non-Moslems changing ,or appeasing , or submitting to Islamic law .If someone does not drink does that give him the right to close all bars ,or ban the sale of alcohol in western society ? Maybe it is time to stop appeasing wild savages who “get sexual emergencies” are offended with simple harmless western cultural practices to assimilate or leave, If a dog cannot be house broken do you let it spend time in your house to soil it no you keep it outside .If it is dangerous lock it up or put it down this cultural Islam breeds mad dogs .Their so call Islamic cultural cannot be tamed or curtailed why import its practicing savages into western society to soil it ,attack it ,kill it ?
Luchtpint says
Giving in to Islam is a fool’s game. If you give a little, muslims will demand more. And you can keep this going until you inevitably get flayed alive.
You get fleeced. There’s absolutely no point in appeasing Islam.
Tony says
Actually, Islam is deceitful, totalitarian, and terroristic where the Muslims destroy every Non-Muslim civilization as taught by Allah in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:14; 98:6-7, etc.). As the spiritual seed of the Serpent(Genesis 3:15), Islam’s Muslims make up any reason to destroy the Non-Muslim society.
DEGENERATE ISLAM IS ANTICHRIST, AHISTORICAL, DECEITFUL, MILITARISTIC, AND POLITICAL against the USA Constitution and Western Laws to conquer and to subjugate Non-Muslims using MUSLIM-TERRORIST-CRIMINAL-GANG ENTERPRISES with ISLAMIC LAW(SHARIA) and with CONTINUOUS, TERROR PROPAGANDA from Islam’s Qur’an to make Islam supreme(Qur’an 3:28, 54; 7:99; 8:30, 60; 16:106, etc.).
Deceitful Allah affirms Non-Muslims as enemies of Allah while Muslims continuously undermine a society from within using their man-made Qur’an with lies, obfuscation, and deceit(Qur’an 3:54; 7:99; 8:30; 60:4, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels[Non-Muslims] were your clear enemies.” Allah expects all Muslim believers to war against all non-Muslims until the unbelievers convert to Islam or face a violent torment. Corrupt Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims.
Islam is a delusional, indoctrinating, cancerous fraud because there is NO MECCA, NO MUHAMMAD, and NO Qur’an in the 7th century AD in Saudi Arabia despite the Muslim Standard Islamic Narrative claims; the Deceitful House of Islam is founded on propaganda, lies, intimidation, and deceit where Islam’s 1400-year traditions are based on fallacy and myth including a more than 300-year gap with no documented history. Hence, NEVER give money to Islamic Countries, Islamic Organizations, Mosques, Islamic Schools, etc. because your are funding your ultimate destruction. Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence.
Islam’s Muslims are to be Seditionist Terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Again, Islam is a FACTITIOUS IDEOLOGY and CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION despicably fabricated over time into the 21sth century, and there is NO PEACE only genocidal obliteration with Islam and its deceitful Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 8:39: 9:5, 29, 111; 11:119; 32:13, etc.).
ALLAH claims MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than serpentine Allah in Islam’s Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Islam, its Mosques, its Schools, its Sharia Courts, its Organizations, etc. are Terrorist-Criminal Enterprises of hatred and enmity against all Non-Muslims as totalitarian Islam, the House of Satan, islamizes the society with impunity(Qur’an 5:14; 9:5, 29, 111, etc.). As taught from Islam’s Qur’an, Islam should be banned for its incitement, funding, and promotion of violence, terrorism, hatred, human trafficking, and discrimination against women, children, and Non-Muslims.
Allah stirs hatred against Christians until the resurrection day as Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 60:4.
Condor says
Satanist politicians are using Islam to destroy Christianity and western nationalism in order to establish a one world government, one world economy, one world religion, and the rise of the “Son of Perdition.”
somehistory says
And there is one *source* for all of the evil….he “walks about like a roaring lion, seeking to devour”….and he’s after every person. (The Apostle Peter)
somehistory says
I had never read nor heard of the so-called superstitious Christians who were said to have scraped off the eyes of the paintings. That is so absurd.
muzzies and their cohorts want to destroy Christianity and believe they can do it by destroying Christmas celebrations. In Africa in so many places, there may be nothing in the way of Nativity displays. In Africa, they go after the living humans and massacre tens of thousands.
In richer places, they go after the displays such as in Brussels. The goal is the same.
Jesus Christ defeated his many enemies. He “conquered the world” and He promised His disciples that we could do the same. “Take courage” He said, “In the world, you are having tribulation. But take courage, I have conquered the world.”
gravenimage says
Iconoclasm was a pretty small movement in Christianity–and some obsessive early image-hating Protestants–did not last. Would that you could say the same about bans on images in Islam.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Dear Brussels
Why put on a nativity scene at all?
⮞ You’re no longer the capital of Belgium, but the capital of the EU, which is a secular, progressive super-bureaucracy. In short, you don’t believe in anything Christian, so why do it?
⮞ You’re not even a real country. You were separated from Holland by the Habsburgs so that Catholics alone could have practiced their faith freely. Well, today’s Catholic church is a secular joke, and even if it wasn’t, see above – you’re no longer even Christian
So just ban all these nativity scenes, and save your celebrations for Ramadan, instead of Decembers. It shifts every year
jerry glenn says
Belgium surges in the European Islamopandering derby.
OLD GUY says
Infidels can never appease islam. All non-Islamic people are considered their enemy. The followers of Islam will destroy all other religions representations and slaughter those who will not convert.
These political people who want to appease muslims for their vote are trading all other religions safety and rights off. If these islamic followers destroy other peoples property put them in jail and or deport them.
gravenimage says
Why Brussels Put Up a Faceless Nativity Scene, and Why Everything Went Wrong
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Pandering to Muslims does not work–it just emboldens them.