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Pakistan? Iraq? Turkey? Might as well be, these days it’s Vienna.
The police presence around St. Stephen’s Cathedral is all the greater on Christmas Eve. Heavily armed police with submachine guns watch over anyone who enters the Vienna landmark. Occasionally individuals are fished out. Eleven police buses, including a Cobra vehicle and a bus with extended surveillance cameras, are parked on the forecourt; each vehicle has space for six security officers. From this point of view, dozens of police officers – most of them with protective vests and long guns – are guarding the area. An explosives dog is waiting to be deployed.
A police helicopter circles over the city center. There is no further progress at the Christmas market on Rathausplatz…
In the afternoon and evening hours, when the children’s mass and later the Christmas mass take place in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, entrance controls should be increased even further.
A number of Muslims were arrested for reportedly planning attacks on churches.
A swarm of migrants from the Muslim world flooded Europe and this is now the new normal and not just in Vienna.
The threat of terrorism is higher than it has been for a long time, says North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul. Nevertheless, one should not give up going to church at Christmas out of fear. The CDU politician appeals: “Celebrate Christmas.”
North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul appealed to people not to forego visiting church at Christmas for fear of an attack. “Caution is the order of the day. We know: The threat of terrorism is higher than it has been for a long time and our Christian holiday rituals are of course also a target for Islamist terrorists,” the CDU politician told the German Press Agency in Düsseldorf on Sunday.
“But we are not defenseless. Our authorities use all their findings to protect us as best as possible. The measures in Cologne now show this,” emphasized Reul and added: “My appeal: go to church, celebrate Christmas. Fear is the currency of terrorists. We mustn’t add value to them.”
Fear is the currency of terrorists, but it’s not an unreasonable fear. The only way to deal with it is to do something about it. The alternative is to live with terror.
After all the security measures around Cologne Cathedral, Christmas mass with Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki took place on Christmas Eve
The 67-year-old thanked the security forces for their special and unexpected commitment over Christmas.
In the past two days, the police officers had “turned the cathedral upside down,” so to speak, making church services possible there, he said at the start of Christmas mass after midnight in the cathedral.
Those attending church services will continue to be screened before entering the church in the next few days
People don’t have to live this way. It’s a choice.
After the worrying news that there were arrests in Vienna due to planned attacks at Christmas, the Vienna FPÖ state party leader Dominik Nepp spoke out.
Nepp calls for an immediate change of course in migration policy. “We need to take tough action against Islamists and 2024 must be the year of mass deportation of illegal and criminal migrants. The left-wing politics of false tolerance is a danger to the life and limb of the peaceful population. People have the right to live here in security and peace.”
This is Christmas. This is Christmas under the shadow of Islam.
Can Americans assemble as militias to defend their communities without fearing infiltration and opportunistic prosecution by blindly partisan activists?
No. The Federal Bureau of the Inquisition would infiltrate them, accuse the members of attempting to kidnap Wretched Whitmer and kick their doors in at 3:00 am.
Like the Roman Empire, after the Barbarians started crossing the borders.
The difference is, the barbarians wanted to emulate the Romans( so I have read….!) And both Romans and Goths were pagan.
The barbarians emulated some aspects of Rome but they defaced all the statues and temples, poisoned water supplies, lit Rome on fire and just generally did as much damage as possible.
This is not an attempt to protect Christians or any normal holiday activities. It’s an excuse to advance the police state and normalize a state of terror. both from the administrative state and from the foreign, hostile population brought in by the administrative state.
You have completed the circle, and all now makes sense. Bravo!
I kinda doubt it.
As Black Pigeon Speaks used to say, this is “vibrant enrichment.”
Colorado is introducing wolves back into the state despite exorbitant costs and threats to livestock and sensitive wildlife populations. The ballot initiative was accompanied leftist suppression of opposing voices, even the commission that has been studying the effect of wolves for many years – and would oppose the initiative.
Introducing Muslims in Christian or Jewish lands is the same thing.
In both cases we’d probably be better off with rabid hyenas. They’re less dangerous and you could kill them without repercussions.
In Medieval Europe, wolves used to invade small towns, kill people and drag them off into the surrounding forests. The islamopithecines were even worse, of course.
Well it only took them 330 years.
Hope everyone here has a wonderful and joyous Christmas.
The islamic cowards did not ruin my Christmas, the family all came and we all had a wonderful time.
Every person I met as I walked the dogs was greeted with a merry Christmas and each one returned the same.
Islam lost here.
Merry Christmas!
Mine went well, too. No islamopithecines in sight, not even in the trash cans.
Why not REPEAT in every article the involvement of Soros in financing and or orchestrating all these anarchic Pro-Hamas, / terror,, antisemitic protests that are designed to make people submit to their tactics?
By an odd coincidence, Vienna is one of the first cities I know of where some Jews displayed Christmas trees, starting back in the late 18th and early 19th century. Some didn’t, of course, even though there’s absolutely nothing idolatrous about them. They don’t even have hands to hold anything! Besides, some Rabbis declared statues OK so long as they weren’t holding candles, orbs(?,) or some such. And a Star of David could be placed on top as easily as the Christian Star of Bethlehem, and often is. Ever since then there have been Rabbis who approve of a secular Christmas and those who don’t.
Does your family celebrate the secular aspects of Christmas, Daniel? You know, the festive as in cheerful but not a festival, which secular Christmas definitely is not, but a tree, decorations, gift exchanges and of course, egg nog or hot toddies for the adults?
I also know many Jews consider gift exchanges just fine on the 24th instead of the 25th of December. A lot of Christians exchange gifts on Christmas Eve too, although not for religious reasons.
Most atheists celebrate Christmas even though they tend to hate Christianity but they’re not the best example of rectitude.
I’m just curious. I’ve had friends who complained because their parents didn’t give them presents as kids. Just so you know, I think every American should celebrate Christmas but if some people don’t want to, they don’t want to. No big deal.
I was hoping to run into a moslem this Christmas so I could say “Merry Christmas” just to set them off but that’s a whole different subject. No such luck.
Deport all Muslims, citizens or not, from the West. Islam is antithetical to everything America and the west stands for.
Islam continues to attack the Christian world for over 1400 years after Christianity was established peacefully in the middle east 600 years before militant and political islam was spawned from hell.