Sanija Ameti, a now-former city councilor, has resigned after publishing a video of herself shooting a print of the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus on Instagram. Ameti, who had been a leader of the Green Liberal Party (GLP) in Zurich, Switzerland, is an immigrant from a Bosnian Muslim family, and claimed she did not realize the Christian image had religious significance.
Few people believe the Bosnian did not know what she was shooting at, and the GLP has expelled her in response to public outrage. She has also lost her job at a public relations consultancy. However, she seemingly remains co-president of Operation Libero, an anti-populist activist organization whose current focus is on subsuming Switzerland into the European Union (EU).
Christian symbols and statuary are increasingly being targeted by radical Muslims, migrants, and the far-left in multicultural Western Europe. For instance, a statue of Mother Mary at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Wembley, London, was destroyed in August amid anti-immigration demonstrations and Muslim and far-left counter-demonstrations.
Later the same month, the 800-year-old Heggen church in Vikersund, Norway, was defaced with graffiti stating “kill whites.”
Such incidents are most prevalent in France, with 2021 estimates suggesting one mosque was being opened and one Christian building or monument destroyed every two weeks.
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