The details, Ibrahim confirms, come from the nation’s Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, which notated 2,339 incidents of church desecrations in Greece between 2015 and 2020.
That’s during a time when Greece was being flooded with “migrants from the Islamic world,” he reported.
According to the Greek City Times, “There appears to be a correlation between the increase in illegal migration and the incidents of attacks on Greek Orthodox religious churches and religious spaces during the five year period which occurred during the peak of the migration crisis.”
In 2020 alone, there were “385 incidents against Christian churches and buildings, including ‘vandalism, burglary, theft, sacrilege, necromancy, robbery, placement of explosive devices and other desecrations,’” the report said.
While few incidents have made the headlines in English-language reporting, one egregious case came last year when “Muslim migrants entered into and utterly desecrated a small church. Proud of their handiwork, they videotaped portions of the incident and uploaded it on TikTok. It shows a topless migrant dancing to rap music as he walks towards and inside the church. The next clip shows the aftermath: devastation inside the church, with smashed icons and the altar overthrown.”
The year before, “Muslim migrants ransacked and transformed a church into their personal toilet. This public restroom was once the St. Catherine Church in Moria, a small town on the island of Lesvos, which was flooded with migrants who arrived via Turkey,” the report said.
That report said, “As a deeply religious society, these attacks on churches are shocking to the Greek people and calls to question whether these illegal immigrants seeking a new life in Europe are willing to integrate and conform to the norms and values of their new countries.”
In fact, residents there no longer feel safe, the report said.
In another attack, “in 2016, the Church of All Saints in Kallithea near Athens was set aflame by ‘Arabic speakers’ — historically conscious Greeks see a continuum in the Islamic targeting of their churches.”
The pattern is a common one for Muslims moving (continued)
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