Posted on 11/05/2025 4:55:48 AM PST by MtnClimber
In the German town of Overath (North Rhine-Westphalia), this year’s Christmas market has been cancelled. The cost of protecting visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the organizer’s budget. The city refuses to cover the expenses. A capitulation to Islamism.
It wasn’t long ago that Christmas markets were among the social highlights of the year. Whether in small towns or major cities -- they were meeting points for friends and family, for mulled wine, sausages, and quiet conversations wrapped in winter’s cold and early darkness.
Places of Togetherness
There was this special peaceful coziness. A place where community was celebrated -- joyful, calm, and without fear. A tradition that brought people closer together.
What would urban life be without safe and regular gatherings in public spaces? A wasteland. A dystopia.
These moments -- when people could pause, breathe, and let the soul drift for a moment -- have become scarce in Germany’s public life. Since 2015, since Angela Merkel’s open-border decision, Europe has entered its own Michel Houellebecq moment.
The mass influx of young men from predominantly Islamic countries has deeply shattered the population’s sense of security.
The Loss of Carefreeness
And in this increasingly tense atmosphere, just when Chancellor Friedrich Merz touched a sore point by speaking about the changing face of cities, a manufactured storm of outrage erupted against him.
Even after deadly Islamist attacks -- Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz in 2016 with 12 victims, the Solingen festival stabbing in 2023 with three dead, or the car ramming attack at the Magdeburg Christmas market last year -- Germany still refuses to confront militant Islam pressing into Europe.
The aggressive rejection of any criticism within Islamic circles points to the core problem: Islam never passed through the crucible of Enlightenment like Christianity did. Christianity’s claws were cut
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Merkel knew who they were when she let the muslims in.
All According to Plan
Destroying the Christian Church in
Western Society for the coming
New World Order of Daniel 7:23
sad, the small town European cities Christmas villages are wonderful with their little hand made gifts.
Perhaps. Yet in mohamedan countries, like Iran, Christianity, or rather, belief in Yeshua as Lord and Savious, is growing. Such growth is often through mohamedans receiving dreams and visions of Yeshua.
The ones that come to the West, often see decadence and evil in the populace of so called ‘Christian’ countries. Hard for those dreams and visions to ‘catch’, when the so called ‘Christians’ around them, are so un-Christ like.
Islam is cancer, which slowly kills the affected organism.
There is something to what you say. The decline and fall of Christendom has had consequences that reverberate through the culture.
The deconstruction of th EU carries on apace. What was unique & precious has been destroyed by hordes of invaders ushered in by EU leaders such as Merkel.
None of the uniqueness mattered to them, only the creation of a bureaucratic state that they could control in the most granular degree. Individual freedom, lives, individual Nations were grist for their mills. In fact they ground the EU nations into dust.
It remains to be seen whether the human spirit can rise from the dust and reclaim the heritage of member nations.
I agree with you. When you take God out of your life, it allows evil to take His place. I see a world that is forgetting God and living in human pride. No more relying on prayer and faith but on the works of man. It’s not pretty.
Many studies have shown that children of Muslim immigrants are, in general, more radical than their parents. So this problem will only get worse.
Europe needs to draw a line in the sand. Or as Doc Holiday said to Johnny Ringo, “I’m your huckleberry.”
But of course Europe won’t do that. Islam takes one step forward. Europe takes two steps back. It’s not hard to predict the outcome here.
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When Muslims take over a community, it reverts to the stone age. Soon, all the woman will be forced to wear a burqa.
All part of the islamic plan.
I have heard from some missionaries that Christianity is making some real inroads against Islam, but right now with the publicity being what it is, it is often hard to see this. As the old saying goes...bad news goes around the world faster than good news can get it’s pants on.
Coming to a city near you.
Meanwhile, in America, the Christmas season in the year 2025 began on Halloween day.
Hello Islam
Goodbye Germany
Hello Islam
Goodbye Christianity
> When Muslims take over a community, it reverts to the stone age. Soon, all the woman will be forced to wear a burqa. <
You’re not that far off. Muslims believe that women who are not covered according to Shariah Law are little more than whores. So it’s okay to rape them.
This is why there are so many rapes in Oslo, Norway. Have the authorities cracked down on their Muslim immigrants?
No. Instead they advise Norwegian women to start dressing more modestly.
Thanks for posting, Yes, submit, convert or die. EU becomes I slam. Civilizations annihilated.
No local Christmas Market this year, not in that German town. What a shame for many reasons, one being that traditionally,Germans and other Germanic cultures, have been among the best craftsman and functional artists in the world.
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