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Daniel Greenfield<\/a> – June 4, 2020<\/p>\n The assault on St. John\u2019s Episcopal Church by radicals and racists was the ugliest moment of the D.C. riots. Not only was the famous 204-year-old church, which every president since Madison has attended, sprayed with graffiti, but some of the thugs even tried to burn it down by starting a fire in its basement.<\/p>\n The attack and President Trump’s subsequent visit to the ‘Church of Presidents\u2019 captured the attention of a nation. But what happened to St. John’s was not an aberration. The Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots have been associated with attacks on churches and synagogues across the United States.<\/p>\n The victims of New York City\u2019s leftist riots included St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral as the venerable 142-year-old building was defaced<\/a> with obscenities and the three letters BLM for Black Lives Matter, along with \u201cGeorge Floyd\u201d and \u201cNo Justice, No Peace\u201d.<\/p>\n In Richmond, Virginia, Beth Ahabah, a 225-year-old Reform Jewish congregation, had the windows in its grand 116-year-old building smashed by rioters. The building is now covered over with plywood. St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church, a 175-year-old building, also in Richmond, was defaced with graffiti. Finally, rioters in Richmond broke the windows of the West Broad Church of Christ, an African-American congregation. They left intact the one pane of glass reading, \u201cWelcome\u201d.<\/p>\n Some of the nationwide vandalism of churches and synagogues featured generic Black Lives Matter slogans, but some had hateful messages that were specifically targeted to the houses of worship.<\/p>\n The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, a 108-year-old building, was at the center of some of the local riots, including the hit-and-run of three Denver police officers, and suffered permanent damage. The walls were also<\/a> vandalized with graffiti reading, “Pedofiles” and “God is dead”.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Daniel Greenfield – June 4, 2020 The assault on St. John\u2019s Episcopal Church by radicals and racists was the ugliest moment of the D.C. riots. 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