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MAN ALMOST BEHEADED IN CATHOLIC OF AREA OF BELFAST - SUDAN MAN ARRESTED

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The Irish Catholic reported this week that the Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell referred to ‘racism’ as a ‘new form of sectarianism’.

In a rather unfortunate coincidental timing, the world has woken up in shock today to scenes of absolute savagery in North Belfast.

A Sudanese man has been arrested after attempting to behead an Irish man in a gruesome event captured on video.

He was only prevented from doing so thanks to the incredible bravery of individuals who intervened, with one man using a hurley to strike him across the head a number of times to stop him.

The victim is in ‘critical’ condition.

When protests occurred in City West in October last, due to a sexual assault on a child who had been in state care, there was no shortage of religious leaders to condemn the ‘thuggery’.

Will there be a similar chorus after what we have just witnessed in Belfast or are they waiting for the backlash to instead criticise those who react to such barbarity?

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From a post on Facebook. (Warning---the photo is very graphic):

"This is Stephen Ogilvie, the man who was attacked in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by Hadi Alodid, a 30-year-old Sudanese national with UK residency.

He has lost his sight and his nose so far....one eye missing and the other blind, nose cut off; he also has a slit throat, a slash on the shoulder and a puncture wound in his back ribcage.

He has been sewn up after life-saving surgery and is in an induced coma at the moment.

Take a good look at this man. See what was done to him.

This is why I have no patience left for uncivilized 3rd-world tribesmen being imported to our Western countries. I am past the point of being willing to live and let live, to co-exist, to tolerate.

As far as I’m concerned, they should be thrown out. Every last one of them. They don’t belong here.

The West isn’t perfect, heaven knows---but this level of animalistic barbarianism isn’t going to improve it, and that is a fact.

If this picture upsets you, I frankly don't care. It upsets me, too."
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UPDATE: There was update on Stephen Ogilvie (the man who survived an horrific attack from an immigrant in Belfast) last night.

The doctors said it was looking good and he was a fighter. They tried to bring him out of the coma but he didn’t do well so they had to induce him again. They’re going to try and take him out gradually to see how it goes.

His throat has had to be stapled from one side to the other, he’s lost his left eye and socket completely, he had 2 surgeries yesterday to rebuild his nose. The doctors are now focusing on the swelling in his face.

This poor fellow is going to be in for a long, long battle. He will bear the results of this horrible assault for the rest of his life---and the worst part is, he did absolutely nothing to deserve it; it was just another unhinged attack by an unhinged Muslim who was allowed to roam free by an unhinged liberal government. Keep praying for him and his family.
 
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