Translation:

Assessment of a master builder of the Cologne Cathedral on the blaze in Paris: 
 “However, an old roof truss in a church with centuries-old wood does not burn so quickly either. The wood is of course very dry, but over time it also becomes protective. Wood is not easily flammable, it takes time. Many insulating materials burn much faster. But when wood burns, there is hardly anything to do… I am not saying that it could have been arson. But you have to assume that there was another source of ignition. Simply in such a way does not come about in the wooden roof truss such a fire. 
Instead of an overhasty euphoria about reconstruction, now is the time for fire experts ! After every fire, the first question is the cause of the fire. Is this not the case with one of Europe’s most important cultural assets ?

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/04/cologne-cathedral-master-builder-does.html

Police Aichach arrested an exhibitionist in Franz-Beck-Street on Monday morning. The man was standing at the level of the pedestrian lights to the outdoor swimming pool, directly next to the supermarket on a meadow and exposed himself opposite passing cars.He had completely lowered his pants and masturbated with one hand according to the police. To attract special attention, he raised his other arm and waved to the passing vehicles. A 42-year-old female driver stopped at the supermarket parking lot and called the police from there.Because of her good description, the fugitive exhibitionist was arrested by a patrol of the Aichach police in the immediate vicinity of the railway station. He is a 36-year-old asylum seeker from East Africa who was released the day before after serving a sentence.According to Peter Löffler, deputy head of the Aichach police department, the man spent the past four and a half years in prison, most recently in the Kaisheim prison (Donau-Ries district). He was imprisoned there, among other things, for a sexual offence. According to police, the crimes were committed in the Ingolstadt area. The 36-year-old will presumably be brought before the investigating judge on Tuesday.

https://searchlight-germany.blogspot.com/2019/04/germany-african-asylum-seeker-who-has.html

In colourful cartoon pictures (above), the YouTube videos uploaded by the Islamic Centre Iman Ali (“izia” Vienna) refer to the supposed depravity of Western society. Homosexuality allegedly is wrong and same-sex marriages bad for the continued existence of mankind, while the headscarf would also be very good for little girls. The Islamic Centre is located on a property belonging to the state of Iran in the Vienna district of Floridsdorf. As the Austrian representative of the official Iranian religious doctrine, “izia” is constantly in close contact with the Iranian embassy. The centre had recently hit the headlines because of the alleged running of a mosque (including Friday prayer), but this is not permitted in the industrial estate. According to well-informed sources, the centre is also involved in the anti-Semitic rallies for the so-called Al-Quds Day, in which small children with toy weapons and in uniform marched along in Vienna. Yesterday, the Iranian Embassy responsible for press enquiries had no comment to make on the YouTube videos.

http://www.heute.at/oesterreich/news/story/Homosexuellen-Hetze-aus-Islamzentrum-44566358

“Criticism also has its limits”, a St. Pölten judge tried to explain to a defendant from the district of Tulln, who was accused by the public prosecutor Patrick Hinterleitner of having put all members of Muslim religious affiliation on the same level as terrorists and criminals on his generally accessible Facebook profile. “I am a victim of Islam. I am an oriental Christian and in 2014 my wife and three children barely escaped beheading in Iraq. Since then I have been writing critical articles about Islam,” the 61-year-old told the local newspapers before the trial. The accused, who speaks of Islamic knifemen and rapists among other things, said that he felt that he had been turned from victim into perpetrator. Since then I have been writing critical articles about Islam,” the 61-year-old told the local newspapers before the trial. The accused, who speaks of Islamic knifemen and rapists among other things, said that he felt that he had been turned from victim into perpetrator. Through his alleged generalizations he was also targeted by the officials of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the fight against terrorism, since his postings were not only globally accessible to his alleged 5,000 Facebook friends, mostly from Austria, but far beyond that. “I understand the background to such statements,” the judge said with reference to the life of the man in Iraq, “but parts of it are already massively generalizing”. 
He finally offered the respectable, confessed man a punishment in the form of a fine totalling 600 euros. It took time for the 61-year-old man to agree to this, although the proceedings against him would be discontinued after the fine had been paid and he would not have been convicted. If convicted, he could face imprisonment for up to three years. Following the pronouncement of the sentence, he was again given a detailed explanation as to why, above all, the generalization in his contributions, as well as the chosen spreading of these criminal consequences implicate. Nevertheless, he finally said: “If we recognize Islam as a religion, we automatically recognize Mohammed’s death sentence against all believers of other faiths”. 

https://www.meinbezirk.at/tulln/c-lokales/islamkritiker-knapp-der-enthauptung-entgangen_a3337257

A Turkish father from Duisburg, who is said to have forced his four oldest children to work on his illegal marijuana plantation, has had to answer in court since Tuesday.If the children refused, they are said to have been brutally punished. When part of the harvest dried up, the children were accused of drinking his urine. He is said to have dragged his 18-year-old daughter to the toilet and poured urine over her. There is also talk of beatings with a wooden slat and a baseball bat. Enis C. is said to have even held a pistol to the forehead of his son (43 y.o, altogether six children) and thereby said: “I hate you, I would like to shoot you, but you have no life insurance”. The reason for the threat is said to have been that the boy had connected the electrical cable incorrectly and a fire broke out.At the start of the trial, the defendant has not yet commented on the allegations. The defendant’s family had contacted the police themselves in July 2018. After that, the Duisburg House of the Turk was searched immediately.Professionally operated cannabis fields and numerous weapons – including pistols, revolvers and a Kalashnikov – were discovered on three floors. The guns were hidden behind roof panels and in the leg of a billiard table.Once the 43-year-old is said to have even prevented one of his daughters from attending school so that she could continue working on his plantation. When she refused, he is said to have strangled her neck for 30 seconds.
Another time he is said to have hit so brutally that one of the girls almost fainted. But that’s not even all the accusations.Enis C. is also said to have sexually abused his then six-year-old daughter! According to the public prosecutor’s office, the 43-year-old owned three properties in Germany. A marijuana plantation was also to be built in at least one other house. To whom the defendant sold the drugs is unclear according to the prosecution.

https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/duisburg-vater-soll-kinder-zu-arbeit-auf-drogenplantage-gezwungen-haben-61285126.bild.html

The cause of the tragic Notre Dame Cathedral fire remains under investigation. Although authorities so far are treating the fire as an accident, rather than as an act of terror, Islamists have wasted no time celebrating what happened as a major defeat for the “Crusaders.”

A jihadist media group linked to ISIS carried an image of the iconic 850 year-old cathedral on fire next to their warning, “Wait for the next.” In truth, we do not have to “wait for the next.” During the last three years, as the migrant population coming to Europe from the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa rose dramatically, so has the number of attacks on Christian churches and religious symbols. “Countless churches throughout Western Europe are being vandalized, defecated on, and torched,” Raymond Ibrahim has reported in an article published by Gatestone Institute. He noted that “in European regions with large Muslim populations, there seems to be a concomitant rise in attacks on churches and Christian symbols.” And we must not forget the July 2016 attack against Fr. Jacques Hamel, who was killed by two young Islamists in the middle of mass at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray church. They slit the priest’s throat while screaming “Allahu Akbar.” ISIS claimed responsibility. 

The vicinity of Notre Dame itself has been the scene of prior Islamist crimes. On June 6, 2017, an Algerian-born journalist named Farid Ikken, who had moved to France on a student visa, attacked a police officer with a hammer outside the Notre Dame Cathedral. He reportedly shouted “c’est pour la Syrie” (“this is for Syria”) during the attack and then claimed he was a soldier of the caliphate.

On September 4, 2016, a car containing seven canisters of gas and pages with Arabic writing was found parked near Notre Dame. Three female jihadists were reportedly planning to blow up the car outside the cathedral, but the plot was foiled in time.

More than 1000 attacks on Christian churches, crucifixes, icons, and statues were registered in France alone in 2018, according to a German news site referenced by Mr. Ibrahim. In February of this year, nine churches were desecrated in France during an 11-day period. Mr. Ibrahim described some truly disgusting examples of desecration that occurred this past February and March. In one example he described, “Vandals plundered Notre-Dame des Enfants Church in Nîmes and used human excrement to draw a cross there; consecrated bread was found thrown outside among garbage.” In another example, “Vandals desecrated and smashed crosses and statues at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, and mangled the arms of a statue of a crucified Christ in a mocking manner.”

Also, last month, a Pakistani immigrant, who had arrived in France quite recently, allegedly tried to burn down the organ of the Saint-Denis basilica and destroyed some stain glass. The year before, pro-migrant activists alongside illegal migrants had stormed this same basilica to protest changes in France’s asylum law.

Germany has experienced a similar pattern of attacks on churches and holy objects, with four separate churches vandalized and/or torched in March alone. “Before Christmas 2016, in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany, where more than a million Muslims reside, some 50 public Christian statues (including those of Jesus) were beheaded and crucifixes broken,” Mr. Ibrahim reported.

Some of the perpetrators are not shy about their motivation. A German report quoted by Mr. Ibrahim stated: “Crosses are broken, altars smashed, Bibles set on fire, baptismal fonts overturned, and the church doors smeared with Islamic expressions like ‘Allahu Akbar.'”

European government leaders and the mainstream media have been in denial about the Islamist source of many of the attacks. Instead, they try to kill the messenger. They brand as racists and Islamophobes those who point out that the rising number of Islamist attacks on Christian churches and religious symbols in Europe tracks the dramatic increase of migrants from Muslim-majority terrorist-prone countries.

Some French authorities are blaming what they call “militant secularism” for the church attacks in their country. That is patently absurd. Militant Islam, which teaches hatred of Christians and Jews, is the driving ideology behind many of the attacks. And the attacks are not just occurring in “secular” Europe or in Muslim countries in the Middle East where Christians are becoming a dwindling, persecuted minority. Last January, for example, there was a double bomb attack on a Catholic church in the Philippines, which killed at least 18 people. ISIS claimed that “two martyrs of the Islamic state carried out a double suicide attack.” Approximately 80 percent of the Philippine population is Roman Catholic. The Catholic Church still plays an important role in Philippine life. “Militant secularism” is not being used as a convenient excuse for the church attack by Philippine government authorities.

In 2017, a propaganda video was released by ISIS militants in the Philippines threatening the life of Pope Francis, and showing a church set on fire as well as the destruction of statues of Jesus, Mary and St. Joseph. “After all their efforts, it would be the religion of the cross that would be broken,” the narrator said as a church in flames was displayed.

In Nigeria, which is split between a majority-Christian south and a majority-Muslim north, the ISIS-linked Boko Haram terrorist group and other Muslim terrorists have slaughtered Christians and burned churches. More than 6,000 Christians were killed or maimed by Islamist terrorists during 2018 alone. “We are deeply concerned by religious violence in Nigeria, including the burning of churches and the killing and persecution of Christians,” President Trump said during a joint press conference at the White House in April 2018 with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who is himself a Muslim and has condemned the attacks but done little to stop them. “It’s a horrible story,” President Trump added. The horrible story is continuing in 2019.

Islamists justify their murder of Christians and desecration of churches, as well as their murder of Jews and desecration of synagogues, by pointing to verses in the Koran. One example is found in Koran (9:29): “Fight against Christians and Jews until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.”

We may not know what really caused the Notre Dame fire for quite some time. Terrorism cannot be entirely ruled out just yet, although investigators presently believe the fire started accidentally. We do know, however, that Islamists have targeted Notre Dame, the Vatican, and churches all over the world repeatedly in the past. Their jubilation at what happened this week to an enduring symbol of the Christian faith reveals the depth of their hatred for anything symbolic of Judeo-Christian values and of Western civilization. They will kill and destroy anything they consider infidel whenever they are given the chance. That is who they are. Our answer must be to value life, protect freedom, stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before us, and rebuild.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273515/jihad-against-churches-joseph-klein