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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
The perennial yuletide favorite “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was introduced in the 1944 MGM film Meet Me in St. Louis. It’s a bittersweet song, sung by Esther Smith (Judy Garland) to her little sister Tootie (Margaret O’Brien) at a point in the story when they think that their family is about to move to New York from their beloved home in the Gateway City. The melody was by Ralph Blane; the lyric, by Hugh Martin, began: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas, / Let your heart be light. / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight.”
But those weren’t the original words. When the songwriters first submitted their ditty to the folks at MGM, the opening lines read: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas, / It may be your last. / Next year we may all be living in the past.” But Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, her director and future husband, found them far too downbeat for this sweet family drama. So Martin changed them.
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas, / It may be your last.” Many of us in the West, surveying the landscape around us, have been intensely aware for years now of the changes that our own little corner of the world has undergone. In some places, to be sure, the changes are more dramatic than others. In Western Europe, many cities are barely recognizable; certain once-pleasant neighborhoods now considered no-go zones, while in other neighborhoods the Muslim call to prayer can be heard several times a day from the minaret of the nearest mosque.
The U.S. is not as far gone, but it’s on the way. Minneapolis, once a remarkably clean, quiet, and safe metropolis, its culture shaped by hardworking, law-abiding Scandinavians, is now a stronghold of corrupt, criminal Somalis. Meanwhile, Muslims in Plano, Texas, of all places, are building their own Emerald City a few miles to the east.
If the place you’re living in hasn’t gotten there yet, it will soon.
Some of us, as noted, are keenly aware of all this. Yet not a few of the people around us seem to be blind to these changes – or are scared to admit to noticing them.
Still others see a difference only when the Christmas season comes around. In many Western European countries, for example, while Muslim holidays are publicly commemorated with ever-increasing visibility, celebrations of Christmas are scaled back year after year. Indeed, it’s because official Christmas events in London have been more and more muted in recent years that Tommy Robinson (whom the British elites hate because he blew the whistle on Muslim rape gangs) held a public carol service on December 13. Huge crowds showed up. It was apparently enjoyed by all. But the legacy media, which have been brainwashed into condemning anything that might offend a Muslim, labeled it “controversial.”
Still, Tommy saved London – or saved Christmas in London, anyway. Paris has had no such luck. In that city, perhaps the most popular annual event of the Christmas season is the New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées. It’s been going on for six decades; last year it drew a million people. But it won’t happen this time around. Why? Because Muslim mayhem in Paris has made large outdoor gatherings of this sort increasingly dangerous.
For one thing, the Champs-Élysées, as the New York Post reported on December 13, has been transformed from a rue des rêves into a road to perdition, with throngs of young Muslim migrants streaming in every night from the suburbs to loot high-end boutiques and brawl with pedestrians and police; for another, New Year’s Eve in the City of Light has for years been a less and less pleasant experience, with nearly a thousand cars being set on fire on December 31, 2024.
Way back on October 16 came the news that Germany’s counterpart to the New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées is also saying auf Wiedersehen. This year, the midnight celebration – which is usually broadcast from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a setting that is symbolic of Western freedom – is retreating to a less resonant location in Hamburg. In this case, Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, blamed a tight budget, even though the city spends handsome amounts every year on Islamic cultural events such as “Muslim Culture Week.”
In many municipalities around the West, this seems to be becoming the rule: millions for Muslim social functions, nothing for Christianity.
In many a European city, one of the favorite destinations for holiday shoppers is the local open-air Christmas market. Alas, precisely because they’re popular with shoppers, these markets are also choice targets for terrorists. The litany of jihadist attacks on these markets in recent years is sobering. Just two examples out of many: on December 19, 2016, a truck was driven into the Christmas market at the foot of the famous Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, killing twelve people and injuring 56; on December 20, 2024, an SUV plowed into a crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing six people and injuring 338.
This year, security has been amped up at a number of the markets – with good reason. On December 12, five men – including an imam – were arrested before they were able to carry out a planned vehicular attack on a Christmas market in Bavaria. Four days later, the Daily Mail reported that a planned “major terrorist attack” on a Christmas market in an unnamed Polish city had been foiled. Poland? Hasn’t the Polish government supposedly done a magnificent job of keeping Muslims out of the country? Yes, it has. But the plotter in this case was a Lublin university student, identified as Mateusz W., who was “very fascinated by Islam” and who “wanted to commit an attack” in support of ISIS.
To be sure, at least the Christmas markets are still in business. But how long will that last?
As Daniel Greenfield reported here the other day, officials in Sydney have, in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre, stifled the Christmas season in a range of ways: they’ve cancelled a New Year’s festival that was scheduled to take place at Bondi Beach, scaled back other Christmas observances, replaced colored Christmas lights at key Sydney locations with faith-neutral white lights, and quashed a traditional “Carols in the City” program. These acts of civic cowardice were spun by authorities as motivated by compassion for Jews; but as Greenfield noted, “[n]o one in the Jewish community” asked for any of this. In fact, these actions are gestures of appeasement toward the Muslim community, and they all send the same message: terrorism works.
But so it goes when you’re governed by globalists. For them, canceling a cultural event – even a beloved one with decades of tradition behind it – is far more desirable than arresting and deporting the people who threaten to blow it up. Yes, it’s fine to have all the sympathy in the world for the poor and downtrodden who want to live in your country. But if you let them pour in unvetted and on a massive scale, you’re putting their welfare ahead of that of your own citizens, and placing the latter at the mercy of newcomers from low-trust, high-corruption, high-violence societies – and, most unsettlingly, at the mercy of Muslims whose ultimate goal is political, social, and cultural dominance.
The situation is pretty straightforward. But the current leaders of countries like Britain, France, Ireland, and Australia don’t get it. Or don’t want to. They’re globalists. They think they’re broadminded, sophisticated, virtuous. Instead of accepting that their job is to do what’s best for their own citizens, they’ve decided that their job is to prioritize the welfare of foreigners whom they perceive as destitute – even if the foreigners in question are Muslim felons who despise freedom – and to serve these miscreants’ needs in the name of their citizens.
Of course, the problem with this wonderfully generous approach is that when you’re a leader who keeps closing down popular events that are building blocks of your society, what you’re doing is closing down Western civilization, one step at a time. No single step, admittedly, feels that important at the moment. So what if an annual concert on the Champs-Élysées becomes a mere memory? So what if public carol services become something parents in the future will have to tell their children about, because they’ve vanished into the mists of history? Perhaps such cultural rituals, taken one by one, can seem less than vitally important. But they’re all building blocks. And take away enough of those building blocks and the whole edifice will inevitably collapse.
And it’ll all have happened because your country’s leaders would rather be considered enlightened by the fools and cowards of today than be esteemed by their wise and brave contemporaries and thanked by posterity. They’d rather cower in their comfort zone than stand up to an obvious existential danger. They’d rather be immobilized by the fear of being called a racist – as if that slur meant anything anymore! – than contemplate the genuine fearfulness of a future life under Islam.
So enjoy your Christmas, however pared-down it may be this year. It may be your last.
Yes. You’re totally correct.
We have no end in sight.
We have to defeat the Left – which seems impossible at this point
– only G-d can save us.
Ironically, Atheism and Islam are hell-bent on destroying our civilization
and converting us into a 3rd-world s*hole,
with Atheists thinking they will carve out 2nd-world exceptions for wealthy pedophiles and crooks.
Unless we defeat them, we’re looking at spiraling down and down into a violent Mad Max, zombie apocalypse level of desperate survival followed by a thousand years of Islam …
and the end of the human species.
That, or Jesus comes to save us.
That’s our choices.
You have to hit rock bottom in the public square for people to finally get fed up and rise up.
The globalists, and Muslims, and leftists don’t seem to have a problem with the nauseating call to Muslim prayer in ever increasing places, which would appear to be an obvious violation of the globalists obsession with the violation church and state, which only exists in a letter to the Danbury Baptists from John Adams. But hey, not allowed to upset the Jihadists rights? A bigtime B.S. to that attitude.
This won’t stop until the Mohammadan vermin are deported, and wiped out, along with their leftist enablers.
How much longer will it take before our political leaders admit that we are being invaded by people who refuse to assimilate? First Islam infects then it conquers. Only a matter of time before New York looks like Paris…
Here in Europa a losing war with Russia will mean the end of the EU
“that or Jesus comes to save us”.
He has already come to save us. Nex time He comes will be o take up His own, lead us up to be with Him in eternity, then roll up this big old dirtball like a scroll. Meanwhile He has given us our marching orders.
T thse intevesd I recommend gettng a bible *not mormon or jehovah’s witness translations) and turn to the Book “the acts o the apostles”. A more accurate title would be “some acts o some apostles”. Thats he story o the remaining eleven o His closest cowards and how they were radically changed then set about building His kingdom spreading hroughout the the known world. They had to deal with the jewish and roman tyrannies, both o which hated and despiseed everything to do with Jesus. and/or His people. Moslems had not yet been invented, but the romans and jews did a bang-up job (though ultimately unsuccessphul) trying to destroy every aspect o Jesus and/or His people. In two milennia they have been utterly been unsuccessphul.
And nothing has changed since those days. Nor will it ever. All but one o His original eleven ex=-cowards were martyred . Many o us today have been and will be. But He has promised that as we persevere “this gospel (good news) will be spexvead thvoughout the whole earth and then The End will come.. when He retuvns to take His Own home,and the rest will be rolled up like a scroll. That group will include all the mozzies. and any other similar distraction that may come later on.
Putting atheists in the same category as terrorists is insane, as atheists have not been killing people like muslims and communists have.
This is what happens when you feed the crocodile, And hope it would not et you.
ladys around you —-> www.wifelive.club
This identical spambot comment by pakistani bot farm operative “Alice” appears on numerous FPM articles lately all with the identical words “wifelive.club” which sounds like AI porn — “Alice” needs to be blocked.
Islam is riding the cultural Marxist bus. When it reaches its destination it will murder the Marxists and destroy their culture.
Exactly. Just like Khoemeni did in Iran ounce the communists helped him get into power. He executed them all.
They’ll certainly destroy feminist/homosexual aspects of wokeness.
“Gays for Palestine” will be reflecting on their own stupidity on the way down off a building. Feminists will be wearing potato sacks, and trans-frauds will no longer be in women’s sports (they’ll be dead & there’ll no longer be woman’s sports.)
But not all muslims reject communism as evidenced by Mandami & the Kurds. But effeminate punks like Mandami won’t last & Kurds here are too few.
Muslim sects will turn on each other over their emerging power grab, just as the Soviets & Jacobins did.
Cordial fools like the Bush family (that brought us Somalis in ’91) will find out their safe-havens are no longer exclusive retreats.
Kennebunkport, Hollywood, Martha’s Vineyard, Malibu, etc will wake up to that jarring “call to prayer” garbage.
I believe the Marxists will kill Islam as it has done so many times in taking over countries from coalition members- like there crocodile offering to take you across the river. just look at all the communist countries currently and even countries that managed to avoid them with great difficulty.
Why would they hate Christmas because they have the birth of Jesus as well in the Koran. Their mistake is that they say he wasn’t the one on the cross etc etc. Easter should be their vampire reaction lol
Muslims hate Christmas because they say “Allah” had no son and to say he did is ultimate blasphemy. They also hate fun, joy, happiness, beauty, etc. What an odious species they are. The bane of human history.
Great article. Bruce Bawer and everyone at FPM have been documenting the truth from the start — thank you for doing this (at such risk). What’s coming next will be nightmarish but there’s great comfort in knowing that others saw and spoke the truth even if only a very few rogue dissidents listened and understood. Such brave truth telling also helps hidden solitary dissidents to fortify our Inner Emigration psychological interior fortress for survival amidst the chaos all around us .
I once wrote (selfishly) that living through and partaking whole hog of the civilizational decadence of the late 20th century was fun (and for me when young it was!). But living through the civilizational collapse of the 21st century is the saddest thing in the world. It’s like watching everyone around you die while they’re still alive.
This, at Gateway Pundit all while FPM defends Christian’s?
This, at Gateway Pundit all while FPM defends Christian’s?
One rotten apple in the barrel spoils them all.
The globalists and European imperialists ignore this simple truth.
This mold is entering America thanks to an insulated political class.
Several countries are fighting for the lead in the international Islamopandering derby.
But britain is winning.
After the “invaders” finally “broken” and “conquered” America, then they will be living in a hell hole, which they have turned America into, then what ?
In an ideal world, it would be announced that if a Muslim so much as sneezes wrong at a Christmas celebration every mosque within 100 miles will be leveled. But we don’t want to offend the demon worshipers.
When immigrants force the citizens of Any Country to alter their lives to remain safe , the immigrants must be repatriated to their country of origin. Too bad for the few who would gladly assimilate but you’re known by the company you keep. End of discussion.
When Forgners come here then demands the whole Naton must change the way we live to suit their needs then that’s the Time we send them to live with the Useless Nations and moved the whole lot to either Moscow or Beijing
This is the result of how the islamic loving Luciferian Globalists allowed satanic islam to attack America on 911…
Which led to the fake War on Terrorism… which led to spreading satanic worshiping muslims around the world… under the guise of persecution…
It was all planned… to spread satanic islam everywhere…
Blah Blah Blah senor tough guy.
This is about the one millionth time you have told that tired a$$ useless warning from that worn out cue card of yours.
How about getting off your a$$ and actually get into the fight instead trying hard to be an anti-jihad do nothing shmuck.
And you’re supposed to be one of the “very elect” appointed by God. Says who…..you? Well, you were always good for a laugh.
I’m not sure what you mean by doing something? Like what? What you do… by using your position at your satanic fake church to “Chase female Tail” so you can “Get Laid”? <<< Is that your idea of doing something?
Or… do you mean worshiping the fake god allah, as your satanic fake church teaches, so you can appease the muslims?
You're so messed up…
Also… the "Very Elect" means not being deceived during the End Times.
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Yes… I repeat basically the same thing… because there are new people coming here that need to hear what's going on in the world…
Thus… if that bothers you… move along… and more importantly… denounce your satanic fake church…
I certainly would not tell you what I am doing to prepare for what is coming. You wouldn’t listen anyway because you are just so pleased with yourself.
You are a do nothing scare mongering fraud who thinks that prattling on about satan this and that is accomplishes anything. No one is listening to you. But you think the world is listening. They aren’t. That is how F.O.S. you are.
You once criticized me for suggesting people “read a book.” I have had folks contact me for my suggestion that they do some reading. I even told them which book to read. And now they are prepping. What are you doing? My guess is nothing except for pretending to be some sort of fraud holy man. You are so “chickensh*t” you can’t even give up the name of your sect Mr. Barely Erect
Well, I would be embarrassed too. Yeah douche, I think I figured it out. It wasn’t that hard. And yeah, your passive aggressive B.S. is going to get a lot of fools killed.
And no, I won’t denounce my church because, unlike you, I belong to an actual nationwide church. And if ELCA didn’t exist I would belong to the Missouri Synod.
You don’t have a real church, do you. Maybe you should denounce what passes for your fake church.
I don’t understand The Jews have never been a Problem during Christmas, so why are we against them instead of the troublemakers. I don’t get it.
The Jews are ALWAYS a problem –YEAR-ROUND! –to those with darkened hearts, minds and souls. For the record, many, many Jews, secular and devout, who embrace and enjoy the celebration of Christmas all around them. Just ask Dennis Prager! But in the dark pit of Ignorance and Loathing, Jews are always the perpetual, convenient scapegoat. These haters should dread The Day…!
A powerful heartfelt communication by Mr. Bawer. I love Christmas, and when I read about the various retrenchments in European celebrations, dark shadows are enveloping my emotions. Please Lord my God help the weenies running those European countries to understand the threat to their very humanity by militant Islam. They must resist. They must use their police and military power to FIGHT BACK!!
I’m pretty sure that the Left is in accord with Ebeneezer Scrooge on the subject of Christmas:” If I had my way, every idiot with “Merry Christmas” on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.”
Where once was Europe, now is Eurabia. The U.S. are well on their way in that direction, too; Canada and Australia are already there. A handful of brave European and Latin American leaders who have not sold their souls are the ones we must support. What starts against the Jews never ends there, as the forbidden Christmas celebrations clearly show.
We need Esther 8: 11 for Christians:
“11 By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives—to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions, 12 on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 13 A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province and published for all people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.”
At the recent COP-30 they had their own False Idol and False God to Worship the Jagdron