Man Decapitates Virgin Mary Statue in New York City

Celebrate diversity, right?

A marvelous display of New York City’s vibrant diversity took place early Sunday morning in Queens, and those who are close to the matter say that this kind of thing happens with increasing frequency. Isn’t that wonderful?

There are, of course, always naysayers, and so the racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” who run the New York Post framed their story this way: “A godless, hammer-wielding maniac vandalized a statue of the Virgin Mary outside of a Queens house of worship, in what diocese officials said was the latest in a series of vandalizing attacks against the church.

Well, that’s one way to look at it. But did the New York Post’s hidebound, ethnocentric editors ever consider the possibility that the man whom they call a “godless, hammer-wielding maniac” was actually a fearless warrior against idolatry?

The Qur’an, that inexhaustible source of wisdom and insight for all those who aren’t incurably chauvinistic and “Islamophobic,” tells us that the patriarch Abraham excoriated his father in no uncertain terms for preferring his idols to Allah: “Indeed, we are guiltless of you and all that you worship besides Allah. We have done with you. And there has arisen between us and you hostility and hatred forever, until you believe in Allah alone.” (60:4)

Might this alleged “maniac” in Queens simply have wanted to express that sacred hostility and hatred by destroying a source of idolatry? See the video here. The hearty young man who does the deed certainly looks as if he could be one of the city’s newly-arrived Mamdani voters, fresh off the plane from Yemen or Afghanistan or Pakistan and ready to express his beautiful faith in a new setting.

The Post, unable to accept the Even Newer York that the city’s Marxist Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani is bravely forging, grumpily reported that “cops said the blasphemous desecration happened around 1:40 a.m. on Sunday at St. Rita’s Roman Catholic Church in Dutch Kills.” In “video provided by the Diocese of Brooklyn, which also covers Queens,” what the Post calls “a masked creep in shorts and a T-shirt” is seen “hopping a fence into the church’s yard.”

Then “the footage shows the heathen whacking the Mother of God with a hammer, knocking the statue so hard against the wall that its head fell off, and then running away.” Also, “diocese officials said at least three other instances of property damage at the same church were recorded so far this year.”

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.

The perpetrator here could have been a leftist who hates the Roman Catholic Church for standing against abortion and other forms of killing, but remember also that jihadis have a taste for beheading, as per the Qur’an (see 8:12 and 47:4).

Either way, enemies of Judeo-Christian Western civilization were certainly behind this. The haters of Judeo-Christian civilization now live among us in large numbers, and are determined to purify our benighted land of such sins as idolatry (as they see it). The establishment political left continues to blandly assert that peaceful coexistence is not only possible, but assured, and that the real problem is the right-wing “Islamophobes.” Yet their jihadi allies are not interested in compromise or coexistence. They want dominance, and they want the destruction of Judeo-Christian Western civilization.

There is no meeting them halfway on this. Either we stand for our own traditions, beliefs, and practices, or we surrender them. Authorities who are trying to appease them today will discover that appeasement is only a prelude to total capitulation, which is clearly what the hammer-wielding maniac in Queens and his friends are demanding.